Students: Public Transport
(asked on 13th October 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make and estimate of the number of domestic students commuting to university campuses in each of the last five years.
The Office for Students Size and Provision dashboard offers the closest approximation of commuter students available. It shows the proportion of full-time undergraduate entrants (domestic and international) that were local to their higher education (HE) provider prior to entry has remained around one in four between 2018/19 and 2021/22.
Number of students entering HE that were local to their HE provider prior to entry | ||
Full-time, undergraduate degrees only | ||
All domiciles | ||
English providers only | ||
Academic year | Number | % (where home address and study location are known) |
2018/19 | 127,490 | 25.5% |
2019/20 | 136,410 | 25.8% |
2020/21 | 148,940 | 27.0% |
2021/22 | 138,600 | 25.4% |