2. This publication covers the majority of Organisation for Economic
higher education provision in the UK. Co-operation and Development
The data is derived from a variety of (OECD)
sources; please see the Annexe. Tel +33 1 45 24 82 00
For further information: Web www.oecd.org
Email webmaster@oecd.org
Universities UK
Tel +44 (0)20 7419 4111 Department for Business, Innovation
Web www.universitiesuk.ac.uk and Skills (BIS)
Email info@universitiesuk.ac.uk Tel +44 (0)20 7215 5000
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/ Web www.bis.gov.uk
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Higher Education Statistics Agency Scottish Funding Council (SFC)
(HESA) Tel +44(0) 131 313 6500
Tel +44 (0)1242 255 577 Web www.sfc.ac.uk
Web www.hesa.ac.uk Email info@sfc.ac.uk
Email information.provision@hesa.ac.uk Department for Employment and
Universities and Colleges Admissions Learning (DELNI)
Service (UCAS) Tel +44 (0)28 9025 7777
Tel +44 (0)1242 222 444 Web www.delni.gov.uk
Web www.ucas.ac.uk Email info@delni.gov.uk
Email stats@ucas.ac.uk
3. Contents
Students
Acceptances to UK higher education institutions, Higher education students in the UK
2009-2011 5 by country of institution, 2010-11 11
Higher education participation rates, Non-UK domiciled students at UK higher
1998-2011 6 education institutions, 2010-11 12
Students by subject area at UK higher Trends in higher education student
education institutions, 2010-11 7 enrolments at UK higher education
institutions, 1994-95 to 2010-11 13
Full-time and part-time higher education
students by level of study at UK higher education Staff
institutions, 2010-11 8
Academic staff at UK higher education
Higher education students by domicile institutions, 2010-11 14
and level of study at UK higher Salary of academic staff at UK
Contents
education institutions, 2010-11 9 higher education institutions, 2010-11 15
Higher education qualifications awarded at UK
higher education institutions, 2010-11 10
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4. Contents
Finance Annexe
Income and size of UK higher education Sources 21
institutions, 2010-11 16
Caveats 22
Institutional income from non-EU domiciled
students 1994-95 to 2010-11 and non-EU Abbreviations 23
domiciled student numbers 17
Income of UK higher education institutions,
2010-11 18
Expenditure by UK higher education, 2010-11 19
Public expenditure on higher education as a
percentage of GDP, 2008 20
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5. Acceptances to UK higher education institutions, 2009-2011
(Full-time undergraduate only)
Acceptances as
Acceptances a proportion
of applicants
2009 2010 2011 2009 2010 2011
Men 218,185 220,085 221,876 76.6% 71.7% 72.3%
Women 263,669 267,244 270,154 74.3% 68.4% 68.7%
% women 54.8% 54.8% 54.9%
UK applicants 425,063 424,634 431,235 78.1% 72.4% 73.2%
EU applicants 23,807 25,607 26,701 60.3% 54.1% 54.2%
Non-EU applicants 32,984 37,088 34,094 58.8% 58.7% 55.4%
% non-UK
Students
domiciled 11.8% 12.9% 12.4%
Source: UCAS (2009-2011) 5
6. Higher education participation rates, 1998-2011
60
55
Participation rate (%)
50
45
40
35
30
1998-99
1999-00
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
HEIPR: English domiciled Higher Education Age Participation Index (NI)
17-30-year-old students students aged under 21
Students
Scottish HEIPR: Scottish domiciled
API Scottish domiciled students
16-30-year-old students
aged under 21 - Discontinued
* Due to a change in underlying data for England,a discontinuity has been introduced from 2006-07 onwards.
6 Sources: DIUS, BIS, Scottish Executive, DELNI (2012)
7. 0
100,000
200,000
Business 300,000
Health allied
subjects
Education
Social studies
Source: HESA (2012) Students
Biological studies
Arts and design
Engineering
Languages
Combined
subjects
Computing
History
Physical studies
Law
Medicine &
dentistry
Architecture
Mass
communication
Students by subject area at UK higher education institutions, 2010-11
Mathematics
Agriculture
Postgraduate
Veterinary
Undergraduate
science
7
Students
8. Full-time and part-time higher education students by level of study at UK
higher education institutions, 2010-11
UG PG research PG taught Total
1,912,575 103,860 484,860 2,501,295
29,080 235,235
74,780
545,245
249,625 823,950
1,367,330
Mode of study
Full-time 1,677,345
Part-time
Students
8 Source: HESA (2012) Students 4.2%
76.5% Shown at 5% 100%
9. Higher education students by domicile and level of study at UK higher
education institutions, 2010-11
First Other Postgraduate Postgraduate
Total
degree undergraduate research taught 2,501,290
1,464,080 448,495 103,860 484,855
29,230 61,100
10,550
114,670 19,550
134,660 298,110
69,770
418,395 13,530 36,265 130,115
313,930
1,279,640 2,073,065
Domicile
UK
EU
Students
Non-EU
Source: HESA (2012) Students 9
4.2%
10. Higher education qualifications awarded at UK higher education
institutions, 2010-11
UG qualification
PG qualification
Undergraduate
Other higher
Foundation
Postgraduate
Doctorate
degree
degree
degree
Other
Other
PGCE
Mode of First
study
Full-time 330,715 46,335 17,600 122,405 19,620 14,575 16,375
Part-time 38,295 67,730 9,705 40,125 1,595 33,755 3,705
Students
Totals 369,010 114,065 27,305 162,530 21,215 48,330 20,080
10 Source: HESA (2012) Students
11. Higher education students in the UK by country of institution, 2010-11
150
150 100
100 50
50 0
Scotland
0
N. Ireland
1,000
150
UG Full-time* 100 500
UG Part-time
50
0
Students
PG Full-time*
0 England
PG Part-time Wales
*Full-time and sandwich course students
and those on a study-related year out
Source: HESA (2012) Students 11
12. Non-UK domiciled students at UK higher education institutions, 2010-11
Other EEA
1%
Other Europe
European Union countries 4.0%
excluding UK
North 30.4%
America Asia
6.1% 43.4%
Middle East
6.1%
Africa
Up to 1% 8.6%
1-5% South
5-10% America
0.9%
30-40% Australasia
40-50% 0.6%
Students
UK
12 Source: HESA (2012) Students
13. Trends in higher education student enrolments at UK higher education
institutions, 1994-95 to 2010-11
Percentage change
1994-95 2009-10
to to
1994-95 2009-10 2010-11 2010-11 2010-11
Undergraduate 1,231,988 1,914,710 1,912,580 55.2% -0.1%
Full-time 44.4% 2.5%
Part-time 91.3% -6.1%
Postgraduate 335,325 578,705 588,720 75.6% 1.7%
Full-time 139.0% 3.9%
Part-time 35.5% -0.6%
Students
All students 1,567,313 2,493,415 2,501,300 59.6% 0.3%
Source: HESA (2012) Students 13
14. Academic staff at UK higher education institutions, 2010-11
The percentages reflect the proportion of academic staff in the relevant column.
Full-time Part-time Total
Total academic staff 118,120 63,065 181,185
Female 39% 55% 44%
Disabled 3% 3% 3%
Non UK nationality 27% 18% 24%
BME (Black and minority ethnic groups) 13% 10% 12%
Wholly institutionally financed 72% 89% 78%
Research only 29% 11% 22%
Aged 35 or under 29% 27% 28%
Staff
Aged 55 or over 15% 24% 18%
14 Source: HESA (2012) Staff
15. Salary of academic staff at UK higher education institutions, 2010-11
Female
Male
60,000
Academic staff
40,000
20,000
0
Up to £17k £17k-23k £23k-31k £31k-41k £41k-56k Over £56k
Staff
Source: HESA (2012) Staff 15
16. Income and size of UK higher education institutions, 2010-11
Income Number of students
More than £1bn More than 200,000
50,000-200,000
£500-1000m
30,000-50,000
£200-500m
25,000-30,000
£100-200m 20,000-25,000
£50-100m 15,000-20,000
10,000-15,000
£20-50m
5,000-10,000
£10-20m
1,000-5,000
Less than £10m Less than 1,000
Finance
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Total income 2010-2011 Number of students 2010-2011
Total income 2009-2010 Number of students 2009-2010
16 Source: HESA (2012) Finance
17. Institutional income from non-EU domiciled students 1994-95 to 2010-11 and
non-EU domiciled student numbers
3,000 300,000
2,500 Non-EU student numbers 250,000
*
HEI income from fees
Non-EU student numbers
2,000 200,000
£million, cash terms
1,500 150,000
1,000 100,000
500 50,000
0 0
Finance
1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-00
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
*From 2007-08 writing up and sabbatical students are
Source: HESA Finance (multiple years) no longer included in standard counts of students. 17
18. Income of UK higher education institutions, 2010-11
Total income £27.6 billion
Endowment &
investment income
1%
Other income
18%
Funding council
grants
32%
Research grants
& contracts
16%
Full-time UK
and EU fees
Non-EU 17%
Finance
Other fees and domicile fees
support grants* 11%
2%
* including non credit bearing course fees Part-time UK and EU fees 2%
18 Source: HESA (2012) Finance
19. Expenditure by UK higher education institutions, 2010-11
Total expenditure £27.2 billion
Interest and
other finance costs
Depreciation 1%
6%
Other
operating expenses Staff costs
37% 56%
Finance
Source: HESA (2012) Finance 19
20. Public expenditure on higher education as a percentage of GDP, 2008
0.0%-0.49%
0.50%-0.74%
0.75%-0.99%
1.00%-1.24%
1.25%-1.49%
Finance
1.50% and above
No data
20 Source: OECD (2011)
21. Sources
DELNI OECD (2011)
Department for Employment and Learning Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Northern Ireland Development (OECD) (2011) Education at a Glance
2011: OECD Indicators Table B2.4
DIUS/BIS
Department for Innovation, Universities and Scottish Executive
Skills (DIUS) now the Department for Business, Scottish Executive
Innovation Skills (BIS)
SFC
HESA (2012) Finance Scottish Funding Council
HESA (2012) Finance Plus 2010-11
UCAS
HESA (2012) Staff Universities and Colleges Admission Service
HESA (2012) Staff in Higher Education (UCAS), 2009-2011 data
Institutions 2010-11
Annexe
All data and further information on sources can
HESA (2012) Students
be found on our website
HESA (2012) Students in Higher Education
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/
Institutions 2010-11
highereducationinfocus
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22. Caveats
Page 11 Page 14
Full-time and sandwich course students and BME calculated from known ethnicity only
those on a study-related year out (unknown is 8.5%)
Page 12 Page 15
European Union excluding UK Salary bands are rounded
Other European Union including Non-European
Union unknown
Page 13
Writing up and sabbatical students are not
included in standard counts of students from
2007-08 onwards
Annexe
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23. Abbreviations
API PG
Age Participation Index Postgraduate
BME PGCE
Black and minority ethnic group Postgraduate Certificate in Education
EEA UG
European Economic Area Undergraduate
(EU countries plus Norway,Iceland and
Liechtenstein)
HEI
Higher education institution
HEIPR
Higher education initial participation rate
HESA
Annexe
Higher Education Statistics Agency
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