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Students: Postgraduate Education

Volume 468: debated on Monday 3 December 2007

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Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many and what proportion of postgraduate students at UK universities were from (a) the UK, (b) the EU and (c) outside the EU in each of the last five years. (167145)

Bill Rammell

[holding answer 22 November 2007]: The latest available information is shown in the following table. Figures for 2006-07 will be available in January 2008.

Postgraduate1 students in UK higher education institutions, by home domicile, 2001-02 to 2005-06

Home domicile:

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Number

UK

346,425

357,335

367,275

366,835

373,785

EU

38,635

40,880

41,385

45,810

47,035

Non EU

81,790

99,285

115,165

119,935

124,545

Total

469,850

497,500

523,825

532,630

545,370

Percentage

UK

74.4

71.8

70.1

68.9

68.5

EU

8.2

8.2

7.9

8.6

8.6

Non EU

17.4

20.0

22.0

22.5

22.8

Total

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

1 Covers students on both taught and research courses.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Numbers are on a HESA Standard Registration population basis, and have been rounded to the nearest 5. Percentages may not sum to totals because of rounding.