Change in demand for health-related undergraduate studies in Spain during 2015-2021: a temporal series study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The expansion of higher education is a worldwide phenomenon. To our knowledge, there are no studies analyzing the trends in demands of enrollment in health-related studies in Spain. Therefore, the objective was to analyze the change in demand (the number of requests for enrollment divided by the number of offered places) for undergraduate health-related studies in Spain during the period 2015-2021 as well as compare the change by region in the pre (2015-2019) and pandemic (2020-2021) period.

Methods

This is an observational (ecological type) study with temporal series analyses using data from public (non-for-profit) higher education institutions from the Integrated University Information System. For the analysis by region, we calculated the demand of all twelve

SUBMITTER: Jerez-Roig J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10638917 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature