Information technology, logistics and nutrition technology – in these industries in the future we see the largest number of students of vocational schools and technical schools in Poland. These fields of study were chosen by the greatest number of people in the last four years. It was checked which professions were the most crowded in secondary education.
Over the past few years, the number of students in Poland has varied between 4.9 and 5 million. About 1.6 million of them are students of secondary schools. Of those who choose their secondary school, every second decides to continue their education in a technical or vocational school.
The analysis of Bankier.pl, based on data provided by the Ministry of Education and Science, shows that the largest number of students in the last four years chose fields of study related to IT, logistics, nutrition and economics.
IT technician is by far the most popular field of study among secondary school students. From 2018, nearly 100,000 regularly attended classes with this profile. students, which is almost twice as high as the second place in the classification of the most numerous fields of study, i.e. logistics technician. The podium ends with the nutrition technician and catering services technician. In turn, the fourth and fifth places belong to the fields of economics technician and passenger vehicle mechanics.
List of students attending vocational schools in 2018-2022 for the most popular professions |
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| No. | Profession name | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
| 1. | IT specialist | 99 040 | 115 719 | 110 136 | 105 982 |
| 2. | Logistics technician | 42 026 | 56 520 | 57 807 | 59 026 |
| 3. | Technician of nutrition and catering services | 47 742 | 55 166 | 52 394 | 50 779 |
| 4. | Techniques economist | 39 393 | 46 251 | 43 695 | 41 180 |
| 5. | Car mechanic | 25 274 | 34 100 | 35 184 | 36 451 |
| 6. | Cosmetic service technician | 30 731 | 29 696 | 32 779 | 35 511 |
| 7. | Hospitality technician | 26 661 | 32 601 | 30 699 | 29 272 |
| 8. | Administration technician | 26 369 | 26 040 | 32 915 | 33 093 |
| 9. | Occupational health and safety technician | 22 790 | 23 793 | 28 597 | 32 094 |
| 10. | Cook | 21 216 | 26 405 | 26 329 | 26 920 |
| 11. | Mechatronics technician | 20 647 | 26 327 | 25 787 | 25 236 |
| 12. | Hairdresser | 17 071 | 23 841 | 25 444 | 25 963 |
| 13. | Construction technician | 19 743 | 23 255 | 21 678 | 21 164 |
| 14. | Medical tutor | 18,500 | 19 145 | 21 116 | 21 890 |
| 15. | Masseur technician | 16 186 | 15 223 | 17 519 | 20 965 |
| 16. | Electrical technician | 13 934 | 18 322 | 18 344 | 18 901 |
| 17. | Mechanical technician | 13 974 | 17 329 | 16 709 | 16 402 |
| 18. | Seller | 11 974 | 16 295 | 17 161 | 17 969 |
| 19. | Hairdressing technician | 11 916 | 16 143 | 16 677 | 16 988 |
| 20. | Graphic and digital printing technician | 5 682 | 12 422 | 16 330 | 17 554 |
| 21. | Veterinary technician | 11 236 | 12 839 | 11 755 | 12 563 |
| 22. | Electronics technician | 11 426 | 13 061 | 12 111 | 11 589 |
| 23. | Sales technician | 9 286 | 11 076 | 11 246 | 11 294 |
| 24. | Technician of advertising organisation | 16 361 | 13 207 | 8 793 | 3 935 |
| 25. | Landscape architecture technician | 7 723 | 10 905 | 11 179 | 12 285 |
| 26. | Technician of photography and multimedia | 4 054 | 9 241 | 13 092 | 14 919 |
| 27. | Accountancy technician | 15 705 | 8 714 | 5 655 | 5,994 |
| 28. | Confectioner | 6 861 | 9 216 | 9 660 | 10 303 |
| 29. | Electrician | 5 807 | 8 840 | 9 568 | 10 386 |
| thirty. | Tourist service technician | 13 206 | 10 849 | 7 125 | 3 368 |
| 31. | Technician of agricultural mechanisation | 6 349 | 7 905 | 7 769 | 7 880 |
| 32. | Locksmith | 5,489 | 7 037 | 6 720 | 6 390 |
| 33. | ICT technician | 5 935 | 6 899 | 6,446 | 5 851 |
| 34. | Automotive vehicle electromechanic | 5 051 | 6 689 | 6 607 | 6 770 |
| 35. | Technician surveyor | 5 862 | 6 726 | 6 132 | 6 244 |
| 36. | Carpenter | 6 068 | 8 092 | 8 036 | 8 289 |
| 37. | Farmer technician | 4 583 | 5 527 | 5 007 | 4 795 |
| 38. | Analyst technician | 3 965 | 5 161 | 5 061 | 4,985 |
| 39. | Dental assistant | 4 739 | 3 331 | 4 059 | 5 513 |
| 40. | Food technology technician | 3 273 | 4 210 | 4 238 | 4 282 |
| 41. | Pharmaceutical technician | 4 525 | 2 276 | 3 750 | 4 685 |
| 42. | Fitter of networks, installations and sanitary devices | 1 506 | 3 958 | 3 991 | 4 073 |
| 43. | Technician of physical protection of persons and property | 3 753 | 3 215 | 2 844 | 3 068 |
| 44. | Mechanic-operator of agricultural vehicles and machines | 2 556 | 3 301 | 3 344 | 3,466 |
| 45. | Bricklayer plasterer | 2 406 | 3 087 | 2 863 | 2 703 |
| 46. | Agribusiness technician | 2 480 | 2 602 | 2 373 | 2 232 |
| 47. | Baker | 1 729 | 2 112 | 2 115 | 2 112 |
| 48. | Environment protection Technician | 1 305 | 1 846 | 1 989 | 2 232 |
| 49. | Waiter | 1 957 | 1 438 | 1 118 | 1,076 |
| 50. | Underground mining technician | 716 | 754 | 620 | 477 |
| * graduates of profiled vocational and artistic education, in NKJO and in teacher training colleges and colleges of social service employees were omitted | |||||
| Source: Bankier.pl study based on data from the Ministry of Education and Science | |||||
When it comes to the fields that have been gaining popularity in recent years, the logistic technicians, occupational health and safety technicians, hairdressers and profiles related to photography, i.e. graphics and printing techniques, as well as photography and multimedia techniques, are worth mentioning here. Over the course of four years, this type of class gained several thousand more students.
On the other hand, professions, which are less and less interesting for young people, recorded a clear decline. From 2018, several times fewer students decided to study accounting techniques, tourism service techniques or advertising organisation techniques.
Certainly, part of the decline is influenced by the generally lower number of students attending Polish schools. According to the data of the Central Statistical Office, in the school year 2009/10 in total over 5.6 million children studied. Over the last 13 years, this number has gradually decreased to 4.9 million.
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Source: Bankier
