Most popular fields of study in 2025

The field a student picks shows what young people want to study. The chart ranks the ten fields with the most students in first-degree programs of higher education in 2025, counting state and non-state institutions together.

Business and administration is the most popular field, with 15,150 students. Social and behavioral sciences (8,318) and education (8,227) follow, then healthcare (7,480) and information and communication technologies (7,426).

These ten fields together had 70,116 of the 78,897 students in 2025. Engineering is tenth, with 2,224 students.