Metadata
| Category: | Demographic and social statistics |
| Area: | Education |
| Survey / data collection: | Enrollment at faculty |
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| Reference metadata |
| 1. Contact |
| 2. Metadata update |
| 3. Statistical presentation |
| 4. Unit of measure |
| 5. Reference period |
| 6. Institutional mandate |
| 7. Confidentiality |
| 8. Release policy |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity |
| 11. Quality management |
| 12. Relevance |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability |
| 17. Data revision |
| 18. Statistical processing |
| 19. Comment |
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| 1. Contact Vrh | |
| 1.1. Contact organization: | Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Department for Education, Culture and Justice |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | IV Proleterske 2, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro |
| 2. Metadata update Top | |
| 2.1. Metadata last certified: | |
| 2.2. Metadata last posted: | 24 December 2025 |
| 2.3. Metadata last update: | 26 September 2025 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top | |
| 3.1. Data description: | Data on enrolled students are a result of regular statistical surveys obtained by two ways: a part of data via individual statistical forms, and a part via administrative way (from all accredited higher education institutions in Montenegro. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | National Classification of Education (harmonized with the International Standard Classification of Education - ISCED 2011). |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Education sector. |
| 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions: | Higher education is provided by universities and higher education institutions that are licensed and accredited in accordance with the Law on Higher Education. Higher education is acquired in Montenegro at universities and other institutions, which can be established as public and private. The University realizes its activity through: faculties, art academies, institutes and colleges, as organizational units. The University is an autonomous institution which, in carrying out its activities, unifies educational, scientific and research and artistic work, as part of a unique higher education process. The Faculty is a scientific-teaching higher education institution that develops scientific-research work as the basis of teaching activity. Faculty of Arts and Academy is a teaching and art institution of higher education that develops artistic creativity, scientific research work and performs teaching in appropriate fields. The study program is the basic unit for classification of higher education with defined structure and number of ECTS credits which provide the individual with the learning outcomes necessary for gaining knowledge, skills and competences for the field of work from the level of higher education defined in the national framework of qualifications and issuing a diploma. The status of the student is obtained by enrolling in the appropriate study program. A student can have a status of a budget funded or self-financing student. Study programs are divided into study years and semesters. The study year is organized in two semesters: winter and summer. Basic studies in Montenegro are organized and implemented in accordance with the study rules based on the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) and the principles of the Bologna Declaration, implemented as applied or academic. Basic studies in the applied study programs for acquiring the diploma of applied basic studies last for three study years (180 ECTS credits). Basic studies at academic study programs for acquiring a diploma of academic basic studies last for at least three academic years, ie at least 180 ECTS credits, or up to the number of credits envisaged for the enrolled study program. The integrated academic study programs are: medicine (360 ECTS), dentistry (360 ECTS), pharmacy (300 ECTS), architecture (300 ECTS) and teacher education (300 ECTS). Study programs are divided into academic years and semesters. The academic year is organized into two semesters: winter and summer. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Reporting units are all higher education institutions established or conducting classes in Montenegro, regardless of their status, established in accordance with the Law on Higher Education (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 044/14 of 21.10.2014, 052/14 of 16.12.2014, 047/15 of 18.08.2015, 040/16 of 30.06.2016, 042/17 of 30.06.2017, 071/17 of 31.10.2017, 055/18 of 01.08.2018, 003/19 of 15.01.2019, 017/19 of 19.03.2019, 047/19 of 12.08.2019, 072/19 of 26.12.2019, 074/20 of 23.07.2020, 104/21 of 30.09.2021, 086/22 of 03.08.2022, 125/23 od 31.12.2023, of 033/24 of 10.04.2024, 088/24 of 13.09.2024). |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Enrolled undergraduate students (winter semester of the academic year), not including students who have acquired the status of an apsolvent. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | The survey results have been regularly published in the Statistical Yearbook of Montenegro from 1962. |
| 3.9. Base period: | Not relevant. |
| 4. Unit of measure Top | |
| Number of students who enrolled the basic studies. | |
| 5. Reference period Top | |
| Data refer to the academic year. | |
| 6. Institutional mandate Top | |
| 6.1. Legal acts and other agreements: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19 and 23/25) defines provisions for collection, processing, and dissemination of data. The Law provides to the Statistical Office legal powers to collect and access the data necessary for the implementation of Programme and Annual Plan. The Law gives a priority to the use of administrative data and right of access to individual data that are a result of survey of other official statistical producers. As a supplement to the legal provisions, the Directorate for Statistics has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the University of Montenegro as the owner of administrative data. |
| 6.2. Data sharing: | Signed agreement on cooperation with the official statistical producers: 1. Customs Administration 2. Tax Administration 3. Ministry of Finance 4. Central Bank of Montenegro 5. Trilateral agreement (MONSTAT, Ministry of Finance, and Central Bank of Montenegro) International institutions: 1. EUROSTAT 2. UN organizations 3. IMF 4. World Bank |
| 7. Confidentiality Top | |
| 7.1. Confidentiality - policy: | Articles 53-60 of the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19 and 23/25) provide a framework for protection, use, and transmission of confidential data. MONSTAT has produced two comprehensive rulebooks that cover the procedures for individual data protection as well as keeping individual records. With purpose of the meeting legal framework on functioning of security system and statistical confidentiality there was adopted the Rulebook on Keeping Statistical Data by which Manner, Time, Technical Conditions and Organization of Statistical Data Storage to Prevent Their Destroying, Misappropriation, and Unauthorized Use is Regulated as well as the Rulebook on Contents and Manner of Keeping Records on Users of Individual Statistical Data by which contents and manner of keeping records on users of individual statistical data is regular. Pursuant to the Article 59, an access to the confidential data is limited to persons performing duties and tasks of official statistical producer and up to the stage the data are necessary for official statistical production. Persons that performs duties and tasks within official statistical producers must sign the statement on respecting the principle of confidentiality. Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System is aligned with the Regulation No 223/2009 and the Regulation (EU) 2015/759 from 29 April 2015 that also regulate confidentiality provisions. The Government of Montenegro adopted the Statement on Commitment of Confidence in Official Statistics (Commitment of Confidence). |
| 7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment: | Individual information is an official secret. The data is expressed in an aggregated form. Access to confidential data of official statistics is limited to persons who perform tasks with the official statistics producer and to the extent that these data are necessary for the production of official statistics. Data is published as aggregated without an identifier. The rule of access to micro data is defined in Articles 58 and 59 of the Law on Official Statistics and the System of Official Statistics. |
| 8. Release policy Top | |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | The Law on Official Statistics and the System of Official Statistics ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No 18/12, 47/19 and 23/25) prescribes that the producers of official statistics prepare, update and publish the Calendar of publication of statistical data. It is published on the website of the Administration for Statistics no later than December 20 for the following year, for all producers of official statistics, which includes the dates of publication of statistical data. Any change in the publication date in the Calendar is announced in advance in accordance with the Procedure on unplanned revisions. |
| 8.2. Release calendar - access: | The calendar of publication of statistical data is available at the following link: http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
| 8.3. User access: | General aim of official statistical producer is to meet the needs of users, and to make an access to statistical data to users in an understandable manner, simultaneously and under the same conditions. Statistical Office is obliged to produce and disseminate official statistics in objective, transparent and professional manner, so that all users are equally treated. |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination Top | |
| Yearly - final data. | |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top | |
| 10.1. News release: | The release is published annually and is available on http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=295&pageid=75 |
| 10.2. Publications: | The Statistical Office publishes data on enrolled students ? basic studies in the following publications: Statistical Yearbook, Montenegro in figures, Women and men in Montenegro. All publications published by the Statistical Office are available at the following link:http://monstat.org/cg/publikacije.php |
| 10.3. Online database: | Not available. |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | The Law on Official Statistics and the System of Official Statistics ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No 18/12, 47/19 and 23/25) regulates the rules under which external users can gain access to individual data for research purposes. Article 58 defines the types of scientific and research organizations that can receive such data. The provision of individual data without identifiers is possible only at the written request of scientific and research institutions, for the purpose of carrying out scientific and research activities, as well as international statistical organizations and producers of statistics from other countries. The research subject signs the Agreement with the Statistical Office, as well as the Declaration on respect for the principle of confidentiality. Producers of official statistics keep special records on the users and on the purpose for which the statistical data are made available. |
| 10.5. Other: | Not relevant. |
| 10.6. Documentation on methodology: domain: | The methodological guide for higher education is available on the Monstat website: http://www.monstat.org/userfiles/file/Obrazovanje/metodologije/metodolsko%20uputstvo%20-%20%20visoko%20obrazovanje(1).pdf |
| 10.7. Quality documentation: | The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistical System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No. 18/12, 47/19 and 23/25) defines the commitment to quality, which ensures that producers of official statistics in Montenegro work and cooperate in accordance with international principles of quality of the statistical system. In accordance with the ESS Quality Declaration, Article 338 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, Regulations 759/2015 and 223/2009 and the European Statistics Code of Practice, the following documents are adopted: 1. Quality Strategy of the Statistical Office 2. Guide for the implementation of the Quality Strategy in the Statistical Office; 3. Implementation plan |
| 11. Quality management Top | |
| 11.1. Quality assurance: | Statistical Office has chosen the implementation of elements of TQM (Total Quality Management) model that foster development and improvement of functioning of: - Institution, - Official statistical result production, and - Individual. Within middle-term deadline, Statistical Office has chosen the TQM implementation through the following objectives: 1. Strong commitment to users and other interested parties, 2. Quality statistical processes and products, 3. Professional orientation of staff members, 4. Constant improvements, 5. Reduction of overburden of reporting units. |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | The quality was monitored through all stages of production of data, from the responsible statistician, in accordance with the specifics of the concrete research. Data collection and processing is the subject of this control. Within the framework of the organization of statistical research, certain quality aspects are part of the preparedness of the staff involved and the production of statistics. |
| 12. Relevance Top | |
| 12.1. User needs: | International users: Eurostat; World Bank; UN organisations; International Monetary Fund (IMF) National users: Ministries and other public administration bodies; Local governments and other local government bodies; Central Bank Non-governmental organizations Students; Researchers; Media. |
| 12.2. User satisfaction: | The Statistical Office has adopted the Quality Management Strategy, the Guidebook to the Implementation of the Quality Management Strategy, as well as the Plan for the Implementation of the Quality Policy. In order to measure the degree to which fulfills obligations towards users and within the new quality policy, the Statistical Office conducted User satisfaction survey. The results of the survey are available on the Statistical Office website, link: http://monstat.org/uploads/files/2.%20Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika%20ENG%20(Autosaved).pdf |
| 12.3. Completeness: | In the coming period it is necessary to improve the methodology and existing questionnaires used in the field of higher education through the application of the methodology and regulations prescribed by EUROSTAT, UNESCO and OECD, in order to ensure full international comparability. If it is possible to transfer to administrative sources of data. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top | |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | The survey is conducted on a full coverage of reporting units. Reporting units are higher education institutions in Montenegro which possess the data necessary for this survey. This way provides a high accuracy assessment. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | Since this statistical survey is conducted on a full coverage basis, sampling errors are not relevant. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Not relevant. Since the survey in the field of higher education is based on a full coverage, coverage errors are not discovered. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top | |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | The data are published in accordance with the Annual Plan of Statistical Surveys and the Statistical Release Calendar. The data shall be published on the date specified in the Statistical Release Calendar in the form of a regular annual release. Statistical Release Calendar is available on the link:http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | No deviation between the announced date in the Statistical Release Calendar and the actual date of publication. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top | |
| 15.1. Comparability - geographical: | Data on students enrolled in basic studies in Montenegro are comparable with all countries using the International Standard Classification of Education - ISCED 2011. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Data on enrolled students in basic studies, in Montenegro, are available from the academic year 1963/1964. year. Data are time-comparable. There have been no interruptions in series since the start of data collection for this statistical survey. |
| 15.3. Coherence - cross domain: | Not relevant. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Not relevant. |
| 17. Data revision Top | |
| 17.1. Data revision - policy: | Statistical Office has adopted the revision policy and it is available on the website http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1411&pageid=1411 |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | There was no data revision. Not applicable. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top | |
| 18.1. Source data: | All higher education institutions in the territory of Montenegro that have a license and accreditation for their classes, regardless of their status. |
| 18.2. Frequency of data collection: | The data are collected at the annual level. |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Data is collected in a combination. From a number of reporting units, data is collected through a statistical questionnaire by a reporting method and partly by administrative means. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not relevant. |
