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Student Data

Statistical First Release 142 - Overview of 2008/09 student data.
Includes the following tables which contain data for 2004/05 to 2008/09:

Table 1 All students by level, mode and domicile.
Table 2 First year students by level, mode and domicile.
Table 3 Students by mode, level and subject area.
Table 4 UK domiciled, first year students domicile, location of institution, mode and level of study.
Table 5 Qualifications obtained by level, mode and domicile.
Table 6 Class of first degree by gender and mode of study.
Table 7 Qualifications obtained by level, gender and subject area.

Free online data tables - Downloadable Excel tables showing student numbers for each year 1996/97 to 2008/09
by Institution
Subject of study
Qualifications
Disability
Ethnicity

Performance Indicators - by institution - for data on:

Non-continuation rates
Widening Participation

Press Releases

Press Release 144 - EU and non-EU domicile students - countries of domicile.

Publications

Students in Higher Education Institutions contains 72 detailed data tables of student statistics.
Read the Introduction online

heidi - the online database has tables of student and qualifiers data by institution
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External sources

Participation Rates in Higher Education are published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. and the Department for Children, Schools and Families. The latest Participation Rates information can be found here: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/participation_rates_in_higher_education_-_academic_years (external website) 

Further Education data is collected and published by The Data Service (external website)

Staff Data

Statistical First Release 143 - Summary of all staff by mode of employment and gender. Summary of academic staff by gender, source of salary, academic employment function, professorial status and terms of employment.

Free online data tables
All staff by institution

Summary of academic staff  

Press Release 147 - Academic staff by terms of employment

Publications
Resources of Higher Education Institutions
contains 46 detailed data tables of staff statistics.
Read the Introduction online

heidi - the online database has tables of staff data by institution
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Older data

Detailed information for all data streams is available through the Publications Archive . This section contains free versions of all HESA publications from 1994/95 to 2002/03

Some HE data for the years 1972/73 to 1993/94 is available from the UK Data Archive . This is not HESA data.


Destinations Data 2008/09 (latest)

Press Release 151 - More first degree graduates entering further study. 

Free online data tables - destinations of leavers by Mode of study, Level of qualification, domicile and gender (2002/03 to 2008/09) 

Performance Indicators - by institution - percentage of graduates from each institution who entered employment or further study.

Statistical First Release 148 - an overview of the 2008/09 destinations survey results.
Includes the following tables which contain data for 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09:

Table 1 - full-time leavers by level of qualification and gender
Table 2 - part-time leavers by level of qualification and gender
Table 3 - first degree graduates by subject area and gender
Table 4a - occupation of full-time first degree graduates entering employment in the UK by country of institution and subject area
Table 4b - industry of full-time first degree graduates entering employment in the UK by country of institution and subject area
Table 5 - UK domiciled first degree graduates entering full-time paid employment in the UK by country of institution, mode of study and salary
Table 6a - full-time UK domiciled leavers entering UK employment by location of study and location of employment
Table 6b - full-time UK domiciled leavers entering UK employment by domicile and location of employment

Download all the tables in Excel format

Publications

Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Institutions contains 63 detailed data tables of DLHE statistics.

Destinations of Leavers Longitudinal Survey

This survey, undertaken in 2009, asked a sample of graduates what they were doing three and a half years after graduation.

Full report (PDF) - activities of 2004/05 graduates 3.5 years after graduating

Press Release 140 - Career progression of 2004/05 graduates  

Finance data

Free online data tables
Income and expenditure by institution 2006/07 to 2008/09
Sector level income and expenditure 1993/94 to 2008/09

Press Release 145 - Income and Expenditure of UK HE sector 2008/09

Publications

Resources of Higher Education Institutions contains 14 data tables of staff statistics.
Read the Introduction online

Finance Plus - this CD product contains the entire HESA finance statistics return tabulated in Excel spreadsheets.

heidi - the online database has tables of income and expenditure data by institution
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External sources

Financial Statements are published by all HE institutions. Most institutions' published accounts are linked to from the British Universities Finance Directors Group website here: http://www.bufdg.ac.uk/resources/statements/?a=cm (external website)

Business and Community Interaction

Press Release 145 - Summary results of the 2008/09 HE-BCI survey

Publications

Resources of Higher Education Institutions contains 7 data tables of HE-BCI results.
Read the Introduction online

Finance Plus - this CD product also contains the quantitative results of the HE-BCI survey.

External sources

The full report on the HE-BCI survey is published by HEFCE here: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2010/10_14/ (external website)