colombia

[COUNTRY DETAILS] general enrollment ratio (GER): || 35% are enrolled in higher education.
 * population: || 44,977,758 population for 2009, according to DANE . || [[image:COLOMBia.gif caption="colombia"]] ||
 * literacy: || 92.7% of adults and 98% of youth(15-24) are literate. ||^  ||
 * higher education

36% - m 35% - f

GER is the number of pupils enrolled in a given level of education regardless of age expressed as a percentage of the population in the theoretical age group for that level of education. ||^  ||
 * spending on education: || 14.9% of government spending goes to education. Of that 12% goes to higher education. ||^  ||
 * number of universities/higher education institutions: || 275 total institutions including profession and vocational tertiary institutions.

70 out of 275 rank in the top 8,000 universities in the world. ||^  ||  20,788,818 Internet users as of Sept/2009, 46.2% of the population, according to CRT. Internet Broadband Connections: 2,184,185 broadband subscribers as of Sept/09, 4.9% of the population, according to CRT. ||^  || sources: @http://www.internetworldstats.com/sa/co.htm @http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=121&IF_Language=eng&BR_Country=1700&BR_Region=40520 @http://www.webometrics.info/university_by_country.asp?country=co [] @http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=co @http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Colombia @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia
 * rank: || Universidad Nacional de Colombia is ranked 594 in the world and 20th in Latin America. ||^  ||
 * access: || Internet Usage Statistics:
 * interesting: || # Colombia is the third-most populous country in Latin America, after Brazil and Mexico.
 * 1) In Colombia, there is not an institution such as college; students go directly into a career program at a university or any other educational institution to obtain a professional, technical or technological title. Once graduated from the university, people are granted a (professional, technical or technological) diploma and licensed (if required) to practice the career they have chosen.
 * 2) Colombia is ranked sixth in the world in the [|Happy Planet Index] (2009). ||
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