More than ************ students were enrolled in higher education in Mexico in the academic year 2023/24. Of these, the largest quantity of students – over ******* – were registered in universities or other higher education institutions in Mexico City. The second Mexican federal entity with most students enrolled in higher education was the state of Mexico, with over ******* people.

In the academic year 2023/2024, there were ***** higher education institutions or schools in operation in Mexico. Most of them were based in the state of Mexico, Mexico City, Puebla, and Veracruz, all of them with at least *** higher education institutions each.

Mexico City is the federal entity with the highest number of teachers and professors in higher education in Mexico. In the academic year 2023/234, about 95,100 teachers worked in higher education institutions in the Mexican capital, which represented over 19 percent of all teaching staff in higher education in the country. Teachers were counted as many times as the number of work centers to which they were assigned. The largest number of higher education students in Mexico are enrolled in the country's capital.

In the academic year of 2022/2023, the Mexican state with the highest drop-out school rate for under-graduates was Sinaloa with 12.9 percent. Following with the second highest states were Coahuila and Nayarit with 11.7 and 11.5 percent, respectively. The state with the smallest drop-out share was Jalisco with 1.1 percent.

In the Mexican city of Guadalajara the educational attainment with the highest population share was people with an undergraduate degree with ** percent. Followed by high school with **** percent and people with a middle school degree with **** percent. Less than **** percent of people in Guadalajara have a doctorate degree.

The average degree of schooling in Colima increased by 0.5 years (+5.25 percent) in 2020. With 10.05 years, the degree thereby reached its highest value in the observed period. Notably, the degree continuously increased over the last years.For more insights about the average degree of schooling consider different countries: In 2020, in comparison to Colima, the degree in Tabasco was lower, while it was higher in Mexico City.