What is the income of HE providers?
On this page: Income and expenditure summary | Research grants and contracts | Tuition fees | Income sources | Funding body grants
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, part way through the 2019/20 academic year. Depending (among other factors) on the financial year end of each provider, there may have been varying impacts of the pandemic on individual providers’ financial data for 2019/20 into 2021/22.
Changes to regulation mean that the finance data from 2018/19 onwards differs in several respects from previous years' data. Expand this box for more information.
HESA has collected and published financial statements data and associated analysis for the UK HE sector for over twenty years. During this time, HE financial data was relatively homogeneous in many respects, with financial years naturally following the pattern of the academic year. Changes to the regulation of HE in England have seen a broadening and diversification of HE provider types, and consequently a re-evaluation of appropriate collection and publication strategies.
From 2018/19 onwards the Office for Students (OfS) collected data from English providers as part of its Annual Financial return. Note that the OfS do not collect data from further education colleges and sixth form colleges under the primary regulation of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). The data collected by the OfS has been ingested by HESA and integrated with the data for HE providers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. All tables contain a filter to allow for analysis by month of financial year end.
Providers for 2015/16 and 2016/17 academic years are all reported assuming a financial year end date of 31 July. As such, these dates will not appear in the tables.
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For 2020/21, the following providers have not yet been included as they have not yet finalised their data or their data was finalised after the cut off for publication: University of Buckingham.
For 2021/22: University of Buckingham, Heriot-Watt University, Raindance Educational Services Limited, Central School of Ballet Charitable Trust Limited(the), National Centre for Circus Arts, Coventry University, Inchbald School of Design, Lamda Limited, Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, Spurgeon's College, University of Northampton, The, University of Keele, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of Chester, Leeds Conservatoire, The University of Law Limited, Multiverse Group Limited, Paris Dauphine International, New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering, University Centre Peterborough.
Data for these providers will be included in a future update to this release.
Tables on this page show the income of higher education providers broken down by source.
Providers in 2015/16 and 2016/17 were not required to report financial year end dates, these dates will not appear in the tables. From 2017/18, where a provider has changed its financial year end, it can mean that it appears twice or not at all within certain academic years. Where applicable, table grand totals will contain all provider values for the academic year.
Chart 1 - Income of HE providers by location, category and academic year (£ millions)
Academic years 2014/15 to 2021/22
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Income and expenditure summary
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Table 1 - Consolidated statement of comprehensive income and expenditure
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Research grants and contracts
Use the radio buttons to select income source (research councils or other). Data is displayed for the cost centre indicated in the HESA cost centre drop-down box. For a total of all cost centres select '207 Total research grants and contracts'.
Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Table 5 - Research grants and contracts - breakdown by source of income and HESA cost centre
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Tuition fees
Click the radio buttons to see further breakdowns by mode of study (full-time/part-time) and level of study (undergraduate/postgraduate).
Table 6 - Tuition fees and education contracts analysed by HE provider, domicile, mode, level, source
Academic years 2016/17 to 2021/22
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Income sources
Use the radio buttons to see detail for research grants and contracts, other income, and donations and endowments.
Table 7 - Income analysed by source
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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Funding body grants
Higher education funding is a devolved matter. Each UK administration funds its higher education providers differently and this is reflected in the different information included in this table.
Table 7C - Funding body grants
Academic years 2015/16 to 2021/22
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