Higher Education: Admissions
(asked on 14th January 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of successful applications to UK universities were made by British people from BME communities in each year since 2010.
The latest available figures are shown in the table. The figures for 2014 entry will be published by UCAS on January 21st.
Accepted applicants from the UK to full-time undergraduate courses in the UK, by ethnic group
| Year of entry | |||||||
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||
| Numbers | % | Numbers | % | Numbers | % | Numbers | % |
Total | 424,634 | 100.0 | 431,235 | 100.0 | 407,391 | 100.0 | 434,690 | 100.0 |
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White | 331,491 | 78.1 | 333,198 | 77.3 | 308,545 | 75.7 | 328,625 | 75.6 |
Black | 27,162 | 6.4 | 29,688 | 6.9 | 30,794 | 7.6 | 32,485 | 7.5 |
Asian | 40,737 | 9.6 | 43,211 | 10.0 | 42,561 | 10.4 | 45,665 | 10.5 |
Mixed | 14,185 | 3.3 | 15,494 | 3.6 | 14,821 | 3.6 | 16,255 | 3.7 |
Other | 4,419 | 1.0 | 4,709 | 1.1 | 5,901 | 1.4 | 6,195 | 1.4 |
Unknown | 6,640 | 1.6 | 4,935 | 1.1 | 4,769 | 1.2 | 5,460 | 1.3 |
Source: UCAS