 There are more Christians who have attained a bachelor's degree or higher academic degrees than the median Israeli population.The rate of students studying in the field of medicine was higher among Christian Arab students than that of all other sectors.In 2013, Arab Christian students were also the vanguard in terms of eligibility for higher education, as the Christian Arab students had the highest rates of receiving Psychometric Entrance Test scores which make them eligible for acceptance into universities, data from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics show that 61% of Christian Arabs were eligible for university studies, compared to 50% of Jewish, 45% of Druze, and 35% of Muslim students.