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Degree attainment by socioeconomic background: UK, 2017/18 to 2020/21
New experimental statistics show disparities in degree attainment between most and least deprived areas narrowed during COVID in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but widened in Wales.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2021/22
Annual first release of student enrolment and qualifications data for 2021/22.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2020/21
Annual first release of student enrolment and qualifications data for 2020/21.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2019/20
Annual first release of student enrolment and qualifications data for 2019/20.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2018/19
Annual first release of student enrolment and qualifications data for 2018/19. Updated on 29 January 2020 with data from Alternative Providers.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2017/18
Annual first release of student enrolment and qualifications data for 2017/18.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Higher Education Student Statistics: Alternative Providers, 2016/17 - Summary
HESA's experimental Official Statistics publication, Higher Education Student Statistics: Alternative Providers, 2016/17 is published as an open data release. It covers students on specified courses at alternative providers - higher education providers who do not receive recurrent public funding and are not included in HESA's other student data releases. For the first time, this release includes data on the totality of HE provision in the UK, including publicly funded HE providers, alternative providers, and HE level study at Further Education Colleges.
Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2016/17 - Summary
The first release of HESA’s official student enrolment data for 2016/17 shows an increase in the number of students in higher education, a decline in part-time students, and over a quarter of first degree graduates gaining a first.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Higher education undergraduate student enrolments and qualifications obtained at alternative providers in England 2015/16
This Statistical First Release (SFR) provides details of undergraduate student enrolments and qualifications obtained at APs in England that have successfully completed the designation process for the academic year 2015/16.
Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0Higher education student enrolments and qualifications obtained at higher education providers in the United Kingdom 2015/16
The first release of student data for the academic year 2015/16 shows that 2,280,830 students were enrolled at HE providers in 2015/16, an increase of 0.7% on last year's figure. The number of first year students from outside the EU fell for the second year in a row. 742,730 HE qualifications were awarded and 24% of first degree graduates gained a first class honours classification.
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