Upper Secondary Education Systems

This dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of upper secondary education systems, covering students’ pathways from entry through completion and beyond. It explores how students transition from lower to upper secondary education, including transition rates, assessment and progression criteria, guidance and counselling, and the characteristics of entrants. It also examines how upper secondary programmes are organised across countries, including initial and adult education and general and vocational pathways. It also presents graduation requirements, assessment methods, completion rates and trends across cohorts, as well as students’ status by the end of the theoretical duration of their programmes, including progression, retention and dropout patterns. Finally, it follows students beyond upper secondary education, examining their transitions to further education, the labour market and other destinations, as well as the factors associated with these pathways.