Number of students in higher education in Egypt 2009-2022, by gender
In the academic year 2021/2022, out of about 3.5 million students in higher education in Egypt, over 1.78 million were men. This accounted for around 51 percent of the total number of students. In the period under review, the closest the number of women enrolled in education came to the number of men was in 2017/2018, when females comprised roughly 1.47 million, accounting for 49.2 percent of the total number of students in tertiary education in the country.