Higher Education Data Portal
The Informatics Higher Education Data Portal is a project of Informatics Europe created with the goal of providing our members, the Informatics academic community, policymakers, industry and other stakeholders a complete and reliable picture of the state of Informatics (Computer Science, Computing, IT, ICT) higher education in Europe. Informatics Europe empowers our community by providing the precise and objective information that is indispensable for understanding the field and making informed, effective policy decisions in Europe.
What is Available?
This portal presents a wealth of fundamental data including:
- Statistics of students enrolled and degrees awarded at Bachelor's, Master's and PhD level, including gender distribution in absolute numbers and percentages, both at Research Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences.
- Academic salaries reported at the level of PhD Candidate, Postdoctoral Researcher and several Professor ranks in selected countries (available only to Informatics Europe members).
Beyond the statistics, a range of qualitative data that supplements and complements the statistics is presented, including:
- Subjects (Study Programmes): list of terms identifying Informatics study programmes in each country.
- Institutions: list of universities and academic units offering Informatics higher education in each country, including University names, Department/Faculty/School/Institute names and direct hyperlinks to their websites.
- Higher Education Systems: description of the higher education system in each country.
- Academic Positions & Titles: comparative analysis of some key academic positions - PhD Candidate, Postdoctoral Researcher and Professor – and corresponding employment details in selected countries.
Notes on the information provided:
The data behind
The full dataset which powers the Data Portal, consisting of 12 years of data from over 20 countries, is the only one of its kind in Europe. The focus on Informatics, and the central role played by data curation makes it unique, reliable and relevant. A sample set of the first 5 years is publicly available, the download of the full dataset is available for Informatics Europe members.
Data is collected from national sources across Europe and annually updated in December. A considerable amount of time and effort is spent in carefully analysing and screening the raw data. Consulting with academics, active and knowledgeable in the field in their countries is an integral part of our data curation process. This quality control allows us to publish statistics that indeed represent what we, as a community, understand and recognize as Informatics higher education landscape in Europe.
The different national languages and semantics of the terms used to define the discipline in different countries was also carefully considered. In previous years, the data has been shared with the community through the annual publication of the report series “Informatics Education in Europe: Institutions, degrees, students, positions, salaries – Key Data” which can be downloaded from the Data Analysis and Reporting working group pages.
Is Your Country Missing or Outdated?
If you find that the data for your country is not available in the Data Portal, or that it is inaccurate or outdated, please get in touch with us. We work with our members to identify reliable sources of correct data, gather the needed data points using a streamlined process and questionnaire, and finally to clean and integrate the data into the Portal. Your help in this ongoing process is greatly appreciated.