Open data and official statistics
We publish data on all aspects of the UK higher education sector. This includes information about:
Students
Entrants, qualifiers and total numbers
Staff
Demographic and contract characteristics
Graduates
Survey results showing the activities of recent graduates
Finances
Income, expenditure and financial statements of HE providers
Business and Community Interaction
Intellectual property, services and engagement
Estates Management
Environmental information
UK Performance Indicators
Widening participation, non-continuation, and rates of employment/further study.
Publications archive
Published HESA statistics since 1996
Upcoming data releases
Schedule of statistical publications
About HESA open data
Data published on the HESA website is free to copy, use, share, and adapt for any purpose. HESA open data is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. You must give appropriate credit (HESA, www.hesa.ac.uk), provide a link to the licence, and indicate if any changes have been made.
We want our data to be as useful, and useable, as possible. If you have feedback on our open data releases please let us know. And if you come across great uses of HESA data we'd love to hear about them - please email [email protected].
We have an Open Data Strategy in which we set out our commitments to the principles of open data.
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