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Higher Education Statistics for the UK 2007/08

Release date: 24 September 2009

Higher Education Statistics for the UK serves as a quick reference guide to high-level data on all aspects of higher education in the UK.

The product is published in conjunction with the Government Statistical Service and is a National Statistics product. A wide variety of data is presented from all of our data streams and other organisations' streams. Much of this data is shown at sector level.

Data from the Student Loans Company on student support provision and information on participation and graduate rates for 30 countries sourced from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and data from the Labour Force Survey are included.

  • Table 0a: Total higher education level students in the UK
  • Table 0b: Students studying wholly overseas by location of institution, type and level of provision
  • Table 1: All students at UK HE institutions by domicile, level of study, mode of study and institution
  • Table 2: All students at UK HE institutions by mode of study, level of study, location of institution and domicile
  • Table 3: All students at UK HE institutions by location of institution, level of study, mode of study, age group and gender analysed by first years and all years
  • Table 4: All students at UK HE institutions by location of institution, subject area, level of study and mode of study
  • Table 5: UK domiciled Initial Teacher Training (ITT) first years, all years and qualifications obtained at UK HE institutions by location of institution, gender and domicile
  • Table 6: Undergraduate first years at UK HE institutions by location of institution, gender, mode of study and domicile
  • Table 7: Highest qualification on entry of first year students to first degree courses at UK HE institutions by location of institution and mode of study
  • Table 8: Qualifications obtained at UK HE institutions by level of qualification obtained, location of institution and subject area
  • Table 9ai: Destinations of leavers who obtained qualifications through full-time study by activity, level of qualification obtained, gender and age on completion
  • Table 9aii: Destinations of leavers who obtained qualifications through part-time study by activity, level of qualification obtained, gender and age on completion
  • Table 9b: Leavers from UK HE institutions who obtained first degrees and entered employment in the UK by Standard Occupational Classification, mode of former study and subject area
  • Table 10: Admissions statistics - summary of the UCAS scheme, 1994-2008 entry
  • Table 11a: Home applicants and acceptances through UCAS by gender and subject group, 2007/2008 entry
  • Table 11b: Home applicants and acceptances through UCAS by gender and ethnic group 2008 entry
  • Table 11c: Home applicants and acceptances through UCAS by gender and disability 2008 entry
  • Table 12a: Accepted home applicants by region of accepting institution, region of domicile of home applicants to UCAS, 2007 entry
  • Table 12b: Accepted home applicants by region of accepting institution, region of domicile of home applicants to UCAS, 2008 entry
  • Table 13: All staff (excluding atypical) at UK HE institutions by location of institution, mode of employment, activity, source of basic salary, academic employment function, grade and gender
  • Table 14: Atypical staff at UK HE institutions by location of institution, activity and gender
  • Table 15: Recurrent income of UK HE institutions by location of institution and source of income
  • Table 16: Expenditure of UK HE institutions by location of institution and type of expenditure
  • Table 17a: Student Finance Awards to Student Support Scheme Students in England: Academic years 2003/04 to 2008/09 (provisional)
  • Table 17b: Fee and Maintenance expenditure for Welsh domiciled statutory Student Support Scheme Students and EU students studying in Wales: Academic years 2003/04 to 2008/09 (provisional)
  • Table 17c: Estimated eligibility and take-up of Maintenance Loans in England: Academic years 2001/2002 to 2008/09 (provisional)
  • Table 17d: Eligibility and take-up of Maintenance Loans by Welsh domiciled students: Academic years 2002/2003 to 2008/09 (provisional)
  • Table 18: UK domiciled students at UK HE institutions by level of study, major source of tuition fees and country of domicile
  • Table 19: Higher education: participation and graduation rates 2006
  • Table 20a: Percentage of UK population with higher education qualifications by age and gender over time
  • Table 20b: Percentage of UK population with postgraduate qualifications by age and gender over time
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