Figure 3b - HE student enrolments (including on AP designated courses) by level and HE provider type 2014/15 to 2018/19

• Title: HE student enrolments at HE, FE and designated courses at alternative providers by level of study, HE provider type, mode of study and country of provider
• Reference ID: SB255 Figure 3b
• Location: UK
• Academic years: 2014/15 to 2018/19
• Data source: HESA
• Sourced from: Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2018/19
• Data source link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb255/figure-3b
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• Disclaimer: Please note that this data includes rounded totals. Caution must be taken when importing into a pivot table so as not to double count.
• 2014/15 total: 2,505,510    
• 2015/16 total: 2,519,930    
• 2016/17 total: 2,564,470    
• 2017/18 total: 2,598,890    
• 2018/19 total: 2,629,435
• Last updated: 29 January 2020

Notes

HE providers includes The University of Buckingham, which although an AP, has submitted data through the HESA Student record since 2004/05.

Figures for FE providers in England were provided by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). Counts have been derived from the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) and include students who were enrolled in higher level study at providers regulated by both the Office for Students (OfS) and Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). Students enrolled in community or workplace based learning (including traineeships that were not a full programme aim or apprenticeships) have been excluded from the figures. For enrolments where information on mode of study was unavailable, students with 450 or more planned learning hours have been classified as full-time, and those with under 450 planned learning hours have been classified as part-time.
A notable reduction has been observed in learners enrolled for higher education at further education providers in 2018/19. This is partly due to some providers transferring from the further education to the higher education sector and reporting their HE provision elsewhere.

Figures for FE providers in Wales were supplied by the Welsh Government for 2014/15 - 2015/16. The mode of learning for FE data in Wales in 2014/15 – 2015/16, is determined directly from the new Learning Programme Code field. From 2016/17, HE students registered at FE providers in Wales were returned to the HESA student record.

Figures for FE providers in Scotland were supplied by the Scottish Funding Council, and cover Scotland's Colleges. In Scotland there is some overlap in the reporting of student enrolments by HEIs and Colleges where both the HEI and College share responsibility for the student. SFC estimates the number of these associate students to be around 1,500.

Figures for FE providers in Northern Ireland were supplied by the Department for the Economy Northern Ireland (DfE(NI)).

From 2016/17, APs with degree awarding powers were required to return data about students on Masters taught designated courses. In 2017/18 all providers in the record were required for the first time to return postgraduates on both taught and research courses. Care should be taken when making comparisons over time. Some increases in numbers at APs are a result of increases in coverage of the data collected, rather than a true reflection of the total number of students at APs.