Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Higher education Audience in Belgium

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Higher education in Belgium — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Higher education has an estimated audience of 1,915,655 people in Belgium.

Higher education has an estimated audience of 1,915,655 people in Belgium. 57.2% are female, 42.8% are male, average age 40.4. Top brand affinities: University, College, Master's degree, Academic degree, Doctor of Philosophy.

Top brand affinities include University, College, Master's degree, with strongest over-indexing on University (1.91× the country average).

Demographically, the Higher education audience skews more female with an average age of 40.4, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Travelling, Social Media Usage.

The typical Higher education fan in Belgium is more female, around 40.4 years old, with strong Travelling tendencies and a notable affinity for University.

Category: Business & Career · Type: Topic

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-13.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Higher education profile in Belgium.

Audience size
1.9M
in Belgium
Gender
57.2%
42.8% male
Age
40.4
average years
Country rank
#357
Topic in Belgium
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-63%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Higher education fans

57.2% are female, 42.8% are male, average age 40.4.

Fig. 02

Gender split

57.2%
Female
42.8%
Male
Demographic split for Higher education audience in Belgium
MetricValue
Female57.2%
Male42.8%
Average age40.4
Estimated audience size1,915,655
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 40.4
average years
Age distribution of the Higher education audience in Belgium
Age bracketShare%
16-1919%
20-2920%
30-3916%
40-4919%
50+26%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.5%

of the worldwide Higher education audience comes from Belgium.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Higher education
CountryShare
United States19.1%
Brazil5.3%
India4.3%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Higher education audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Higher education audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01CollegeBusiness & Career1.93×
02UniversityBusiness & Career1.91×
03Graduate schoolBusiness & Career1.81×
04Faculty (division)Business & Career1.78×
05TOEICBusiness & Career1.74×
06Université catholique de LouvainBusiness & Career1.73×
07Academic degreeBusiness & Career1.69×
08Ghent UniversityBusiness & Career1.68×
09Doctor of PhilosophyBusiness & Career1.67×
10DiplomaBusiness & Career1.63×
11Postgraduate educationBusiness & Career1.62×
12Private schoolKids & Family1.62×
13Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenBusiness & Career1.62×
14Business educationBusiness & Career1.59×
15Women in the workforcePolitics & Society1.59×
16Google NewsNews1.57×
17University of OxfordBusiness & Career1.57×
18Continuing educationBusiness & Career1.55×
19Undergraduate educationBusiness & Career1.54×
20Master's degreeBusiness & Career1.51×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Higher education audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Higher education audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
TravellingTHRILL1.01×
Social Media UsageJOY0.99×
Pet OwnershipJOY0.99×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Higher education audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER0.74×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.83×
Design AffinityPREMIUM0.83×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Belgium who actively search for Higher education. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Belgium. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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