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In 2012/13 there were 425,265 non-UK domiciled students studying at UK HE providers. This was a fall in numbers from 435,235 the year before following a continuous year-on-year rise since HESA started collecting data in 1995. Unsurprisingly the highest numbers of students came from the world's two most populous countries, China and India.

HESA is excited to confirm its commitment to respond to the 'New Information Landscape' that is emerging from the work of the Higher Education Data and Information Improvement Programme (HEDIIP). Our aim is to deliver an updated and improved approach for HESA's collection and dissemination of UK-wide, comprehensive data and information resources about higher education.

10% of full-time first degree students studied on sandwich courses in 2012/13. However sandwich courses were less popular with female students. 7% of female students studied on sandwich courses compared with 12% of male students.

In 2012/13 7,275 students started HE level chemistry courses at UK HE providers. 42% of those students were female and 20% were from outside the UK.

In the last five years at least 780 qualifiers from Agriculture and related subjects were in employment overseas six months after graduating.

HESA is pleased to present the annual official statistical overview of higher education in the United Kingdom (UK) for the year 2012/13. This is the latest edition in a series that was initiated by the then Department for Education in 1993. It is a National Statistics publication.

The publication aims to present a comprehensive set of statistical information about a range of aspects of the UK higher education sector.

The HESA publication Higher Education Statistics for the United Kingdom 2012/13 is released today. This National Statistics publication gives a statistical overview of higher education (HE) in the 2012/13 academic year including data from HESA and other statistics producers. Commentary, summary tables and charts are provided in the free online introduction.

HESA publication 'Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Institutions 2012/13' released. The publication, released on Thursday 24 July 2014, provides extensive coverage of the 2012/13 DLHE survey.

Indicators for employment of leavers are published today on the HESA website.

The full tables show the indicators for every HE institution in the UK alongside their benchmark. Summary tables showing statistics for the whole UK can be found here.

This Statistical First Release (SFR) has been produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), in collaboration with statisticians from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Welsh Government (WG), the Scottish Government (SG) and the Department for Employment and Learning Northern Ireland (DEL(NI)). It has been released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. The SFR provides details of the destinations of UK and other European Union domiciled leavers from higher education (HE) who obtained qualifications in higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United Kingdom (UK), during the academic year 2012/13. The data presented draws on the 2012/13 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey and presents time series analysis relating to 2011/12 when the revised DLHE survey was introduced.