The institutional structure of the education system is crucial for understanding
the educational inequalities. Kosovo is a young country and its education system is
undergoing major reforms. Hence, studies and research in the impact that the
educational system arrangement has on inequalities barley exist. The main goal of this
thesis was to understand the institutional setting of pre-university education system in
Kosovo and its impact in inequalities, especially in terms of labour market outcomes,
social status outcomes and educational outcomes. After evaluation of Kosovo‟s
education system along standardization and stratification dimensions introduced by
Allmendinger, in the widely known typology for educational inequalities, Kosovo‟s preuniversity
education resulted to be highly standardized and highly stratified. Thus, the
quality of education provision is uniform for all the students, which is reflected in their
similar educational outcomes in PISA test. However, the students are stratified in
different tracks, which influence and restrict their future outcomes in labour market and
their status in the society.