At the end of the 2019–20 academic year, nearly 80,000 Turkmen pupils graduated from high school.  As of the 2019–20 academic year, 12,242 of these students were admitted to institutions of higher education in Turkmenistan.  An additional 9,063 were admitted to the country's 42 vocational colleges. An estimated 95 thousand Turkmen students were enrolled in institutions of higher education abroad as of Autumn 2019.