At the time of annexation of Bukovina, education in this territory was only at the initial stage of development, the most important school being the Theological Academy of Putna. The education system in Bukovina developed especially in the last decades of Austrian rule, when there were opened primary schools in almost all localities of Bukovina, were instituted several secondary schools in cities, and in Czernowitz was created a university in German language. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Bukovina had a developed education system, and approx. 96% of school-age children were attending school. On the eve of the war, 564 primary schools were operating in Bucovina (219 Ukrainian, 190 Romanian, 97 German, 15 Polish, 4 Hungarian and 39 mixed), attended by approx. 110 thousand students. At that time in Bukovina there were also 13 secondary schools for boys with a number of 6,108 pupils, and several high-schools for girls, with approx. 1,400 pupils, two real schools, a vocational school, two institutions for preparing of teachers for both sexes. The most important institution in Bukovina was the University of Czernowitz, which activated with three faculties, and in 1913 was attended by 1,129 students.