asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students are registered at each university in Great Britain for the academic year 1974–75.
The provisional numbers of full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in universities in October 1974 as recorded by the University Grants Committee are given in the following table. No figures are yet available for part-time students.
| PROVISIONAL AUTUMN ENROLMENT OF FULL-TIME STUDENTS, OCTOBER 1974 | |||
Universities
| Undergraduates
| Postgraduates
| Total
|
Universities
| Undergraduates
| Postgraduates
| Total
|
| Aston | 3,397 | 816 | 4,213 |
| Bath | 2,828 | 366 | 3,194 |
| Birmingham | 3,629 | 1,701 | 7,330 |
| Bradford | 3,193 | 626 | 3,819 |
| Bristol | 5,477 | 943 | 6,420 |
| Brunel | 1,835 | 377 | 2,212 |
| Cambridge | 8,915 | 2,001 | 10,916 |
| City | 1,845 | 294 | 2,139 |
| Durham | 3,441 | 608 | 4,049 |
| East Anglia | 2,956 | 402 | 3,358 |
| Essex | 1,627 | 427 | 2,054 |
| Exeter | 3,136 | 653 | 3,789 |
| Hull | 3,456 | 469 | 3,925 |
| Keele | 1,937 | 319 | 2,256 |
| Kent | 2,331 | 348 | 2,679 |
| Lancaster | 2,951 | 563 | 3,514 |
| Leeds | 7,538 | 1,984 | 9,522 |
| Leicester | 2,934 | 752 | 3,686 |
| Liverpool | 5,939 | 1,075 | 7,014 |
| London Graduate School of Business Studies | — | 189 | 189 |
| London University | 25,725 | 9,867 | 35,592 |
| Loughborough | 2,944 | 454 | 3,398 |
| Manchester School of Business Studies | — | 123 | 123 |
| Manchester | 8,102 | 1,842 | 9,944 |
| University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology | 2,341 | 1,036 | 3,377 |
| Newcastle | 5,182 | 1,134 | 6,316 |
| Nottingham | 4,744 | 1,088 | 5,832 |
| Oxford | 8,489 | 3,012 | 11,501 |
| Reading | 4,055 | 1,068 | 5,123 |
| Salford | 3,294 | 444 | 3,738 |
| Sheffield | 5,601 | 1,207 | 6,808 |
| Southampton | 4,024 | 973 | 4,997 |
| Surrey | 2,387 | 401 | 2,788 |
| Sussex | 3,102 | 935 | 4,037 |
| Warwick | 2,914 | 387 | 3,301 |
| York | 2,204 | 488 | 2,692 |
| Total England | 156,473 | 39,372 | 195,845 |
| Aberystwyth | 2,297 | 598 | 2,895 |
| Bangor | 2,027 | 646 | 2,673 |
| Cardiff | 3,393 | 692 | 4,085 |
| Lampeter | 447 | 24 | 471 |
| Swansea | 2,527 | 660 | 3,187 |
| Welsh National School of Medicine | 498 | 46 | 544 |
| University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology | 2,091 | 295 | 2,386 |
| Total Wales | 13,280 | 2,961 | 16,241 |
| Total England and Wales | 169,753 | 42,333 | 212,086 |
| Aberdeen | 4,776 | 526 | 5,302 |
| Dundee | 2,390 | 339 | 2,729 |
| Edinburgh | 8,148 | 1,423 | 9,571 |
| Glasgow | 7,877 | 764 | 8,641 |
| Heriot-Watt | 2,064 | 248 | 2,312 |
| St. Andrews | 2,844 | 249 | 3,093 |
| Stirling | 1,880 | 157 | 2,037 |
| Strathclyde | 4,985 | 950 | 5,935 |
| Total Scotland | 34,964 | 4,656 | 39,620 |
| Total Great Britain | 204,717 | 46,989 | 251,706 |