Eurostat · 2025

Studying in Slovakia: do graduates get work?

90% of recent graduates are employed, which ranks Slovakia 15 of 34 European countries. It hosts 54 students from abroad.

Graduates in work90%+0.1 vs European median
Degree holders 25–3436%of the age group
Public spend per student€9,785tertiary, per year
International students54studying here

What this tells a student deciding on Slovakia

A high graduate employment rate means the labour market absorbs new graduates quickly — the single most useful signal when you cannot see salaries. Slovakia sits above the European median on this measure.

Public spending per student is the closest thing Europe has to a teaching-quality figure. It is not a fee: what an international student pays is set by each university and by your nationality, and no European body publishes it centrally. That is why these pages do not quote a price — and why the US and Canadian pages on this site do.

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Slovakia: common questions

Do graduates find work in Slovakia?
90% of recent graduates aged 20–34 are employed and no longer studying (2025), ranking Slovakia 15 of 34 European countries.
How many international students go to Slovakia?
54 students came from abroad to study at tertiary level (2024).
How much does Slovakia spend per student?
€9,785 a year of public money per tertiary student (2023). Where the state spends heavily, domestic tuition is usually low — international fees are set separately.
Can you tell me what a degree in Slovakia costs?
Not from official European data — Eurostat publishes no tuition series, and fees differ by university, programme and nationality. Check the university page directly; for the US and Canada we do publish exact fees, because those governments release them.

Source: Eurostat. Figures are national and cover all institutions; they are not university-level measures.