SNIDetailed Group

SNI 85.400—Tertiary education

Detailed Group · Svensk näringsgrensindelning (2025)

Where 85.400 sits

  1. Q Education
  2. 85 Education
  3. 85.4 Tertiary education
  4. 85.40 Tertiary education
  5. 85.400 Tertiary education

What 85.400 includes

  • Provision of higher academic courses, professional courses and vocational courses and the award of bachelor's, master's or equivalent level degrees.
  • Includes education at state and private universities and colleges: Short training programs, usually based on practical learning suitable for work in a particular profession and in preparation for entry into the labor market or another higher education program
  • First-level educational programs, for those who have completed upper secondary education, leading to a first undergraduate degree
  • Second-level education programs for applicants who have qualified with at least a first undergraduate degree
  • Broad master's degree with courses that are open to applicants who have completed upper secondary education and that lead to qualification for a second-level education program
  • Research-level education, which is open to applicants who have completed at least a first-level education program and which leads to a doctoral degree
  • Research study programmes at a third level (for doctoral students) to which applicants are admitted who have completed at least a level two educational programme and which lead to a level three degree
  • The training can be arranged full-time or part-time.
  • Short higher education programmes that are more practical and vocationally oriented at ISCED-P 2011 level 5
  • Higher vocational and professional education at ISCED-P 2011 level 6 and ISCED-P 2011 level 7
  • Education in performing arts schools for higher education
  • Adult or further education programs that are equivalent in terms of content complexity to the education already reported at this level
  • Rent yourself out as a teacher to universities and colleges (not to the police academy or vocational college)

What 85.400 excludes

  • Non-formal education, see 85.5

Example activities

  • national defense university
  • economics education, at university and college
  • the college of gymnastics and sports studies
  • higher education, administrative professions
  • higher education, archaeology
  • higher education, astronomy
  • university teaching, atomic physics
  • university teaching, biology
  • college teaching, dance
  • higher education, computer science and systems science
  • higher education, computer science
  • higher education, economics
  • higher education, pharmaceutical biosciences
  • university teaching, pharmaceutical chemistry
  • university teaching, physics
  • university teaching, physiology
  • university teaching, physiological chemistry
  • higher education, genetics
  • university teaching, geochemistry
  • higher education, geology
  • higher education, geriatrics
  • higher education, humanities
  • higher education, information professions
  • higher education, journalism

85.400 in other systems

ANZSICAustralia · New Zealand
CNAESpain
HSICHong Kong
ICNEAChina
ISICUnited Nations (global)
JSICJapan
MSICMalaysia
NACEEuropean Union
NAFFrance
NAICSUnited States
NAICS CanadaCanada
SICUnited States (legacy)
SSICSingapore
UK SICUnited Kingdom

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