The most demanded degree by students who access higher education in the Canary Islands is that of Teacher in Primary Education. Thus, it represents 18.20% of all first-year enrollments that took place last academic year.
The next most requested degree was that of Business Administration and Management (8.32%), followed by engineering (6.49%), Law (6.26%) and Nursing and patient care (5.98%).
In all Spanish universities, degrees in the field of business administration and management and engineering were the most demanded by first-year students, although there are significant differences between the different territories.
About to start the course and in the absence of current data that will take time to be published, the student statistics of the Ministry of Universities reveals that of the 360,028 newly admitted students last academic year in Spanish universities -57.7% women- almost one in five (19.21%) did so in degrees in those two areas.
Specifically, 35,890, 9.96%, enrolled in degrees in the field of business administration and management and 33,305, 9.25%, in engineering.
These were the most demanded in Andalusia (9.84% of new enrollments), Aragon (17.75%), Asturias (14.54%), Cantabria (15.60%), Valencian Community (10.82%), Madrid (10.18%), Navarra (15.15%) and Basque Country (17.08%), while they were studied less in La Rioja (2.12%) and Balearic Islands (3.60%).
Degrees related to business administration and management were the most studied by newly admitted students in Balearic Islands (13.23%), Castilla y León (11.36%), Catalonia (10.43%) and Galicia (11.57%), and in all communities this field of study is among the five most chosen.
Apart from these majority preferences, primary teacher training was the most chosen by new students in Canary Islands (18.20%), Castilla-La Mancha (11.87%), Extremadura (12.56%) and La Rioja (20.04%) and other health sciences -such as diagnostic technology, optics and optometry, therapy and rehabilitation, nutrition or pharmacy- in Murcia (10.73%).
In the country as a whole, behind business administration and management and engineering, 6.97% of newly admitted university students enrolled in degrees in the field of law, 6.83% in psychology, 6.80% in primary teacher training, 5.51% in other health sciences, 4.96% in early childhood teacher training, 4.71% in computer science and 4.11% in nursing and patient care.
Compared to these areas, which attracted almost half (46.79%) of the new students, the studies with fewer students were those related to veterinary medicine (0.52%), agriculture, livestock and fishing (0.67%), tourism and hospitality (1.21%), mathematics and statistics (1.45%) and journalism and information (1.45%).
Neither sports (1.77%), economics (1.80%), medicine (2.22%), architecture and construction (2.25%) or arts (2.74%) were among the preferred ones.
