This is shown by new statistics from Statistics Sweden about the transition between upper secondary school and post-secondary education. Post-secondary education includes higher education and higher vocational education, as well as special courses at folk high schools and arts and culture courses.

Among those who graduated from upper secondary school in the spring of 2020, 45 percent of the foreign-born women commenced post-secondary education during the following academic year. The corresponding proportion among native-born women were 34 percent. Among men, a lower proportion study further. 32 percent of the foreign-born men continued with post-secondary education compared to 26 percent of the native-born men. The difference between foreign- and native-born remains even after considering the pupils final school grades. There is a higher proportion of foreign-born than native-born pupils who study further regardless of grades in the grading system.

After graduating from upper secondary school, many students chose to work for some year. It is more common among native-born pupils than foreign-born. Therefore, the differences in proportions among foreign- and native-born decreases slightly in a comparison after three and five years after graduating upper secondary school. Whether this will also be the case for those who graduated 2019/20 remains to be seen.