Higher Education: North East
(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of students studying at Russell Group Universities came from (a) Sunderland and (b) the northeast of England.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on students enrolled at UK higher education institutions (HEIs), including information on the location of each student’s permanent home address before they started their course (known as “domicile”). Across all English HEIs, 0.3% of students enrolled in the academic year 2015/16 were domiciled in the Sunderland local council area and 3.4% were domiciled in the North East region.
The following table details the numbers of students who were enrolled at the 24 Russell Group universities in the UK, in the academic year 2015/16 who were domiciled in the Sunderland local authority area, the North East region and England respectively, broken down by level of study.
Enrolments by level of study, for selected domiciles
Russell Group in the UK
Academic Year 2015/16
Domicile prior to study | Postgraduate | Undergraduate | Total |
Sunderland (local authority) | 255 | 755 | 1,005 |
North East (region) | 3,920 | 9,985 | 13,905 |
England | 83,855 | 269,580 | 353,430 |
All domiciles | 192,515 | 416,795 | 609,305 |
Source: HESA Student Record 2015/16
Counts in tables have been rounded to the nearest 5 so may not sum exactly to totals.
Russell Group membership as at July 2016
Overall, 0.2% of students enrolled at Russell Group universities were domiciled in the Sunderland local authority area, and 2.3% domiciled in the North East region as a whole.