Statistics on doctorate holders

Statistics on doctorate holders present data on PhD graduates from Greek universities

1,685

new PhDs in 2019

52.3%

Women new PhDs outnumber men in 2019

23.3%

of PHDs completed their doctoral studies in 5 years

Distribution of PhD graduates, by Higher Education Institute, 2018

In 2018, most PhD students graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Distribution of PhD graduates, by sex and field of Research and Development, 2018

In the fields of Agricultural Sciences, Humanities, Social sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences the majority of 2018 PhD holders were women (58.6%, 57.8%, 53.8% and 52.1%, respectively), while men outperform in the other fields (Engineering and Technology, Natural Sciences).