Students Pursuing Higher Education in Indonesia Saw a Downward Trend over 2020–2024
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The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Kemendiktisaintek) collects data on the gross continuation rate of higher education in Indonesia.
The gross continuation rate of higher education is the percentage of graduates from secondary education (high school/vocational school/madrasa or equivalent) who continue their education to higher education level.
During the 2020/2021 to 2024/2025 academic years, the gross continuation rate tended to decline, although it reached its highest point in the 2020/2021 academic year at 65.87%.
For the following three years, the gross continuation rate consistently decreased.
However, in the 2024/2025 academic year, the percentage of students continuing their studies to higher education rose by 1.02 percentage points compared to the previous period, reaching 49.02%.
"This increase is in line with the growth rate of new students, which reached 3.29%, exceeding the growth of high school/vocational school/madrasa graduates by 1.63%," explained Kemendiktisaintek in its report.
According to Kemendiktisaintek, this condition shows that, overall, the higher education system has an increasingly better capacity to accommodate secondary education graduates.
By region, Banten Province, Yogyakarta Special Region, and Jakarta Special Region recorded gross continuation rates above 100%, namely 155.4%, 139.2%, and 111.8%.
Conversely, Bangka Belitung Islands Province and Central Kalimantan Province had the lowest gross continuation rates in the 2024/2025 academic year, which were only 26.7% and 26% respectively.
"This difference reflects variations in access, participation, and distribution of higher education in various regions of Indonesia," revealed Kemendiktisaintek.
The data used came from the Higher Education Database (PDDikti) based on college reporting in the neo feeder application, which was retrieved by Kemendiktisaintek in December 2025.
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