Students in higher education institutions, 2011/12

The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 16 February 2012.

This bulletin is based on statistics produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and follow on from the statistics previously released by HESA on 10 January 2013.

The key points from the latest release are:

• in 2011/12, there were 131,185 higher education enrolments at Welsh HEIs, showing no percentage change since 2010/11. HE enrolments by Welsh domiciled students at all UK HEIs saw a small decrease compared with 2010/11
• at Welsh HEIs, full-time enrolments increased by one per cent on 2010/11 levels and have risen year on year since 2003/04.  Part-time enrolments continued to fall and now represent 29 per cent of all enrolments (40 per cent in 2006/07)
• in 2011/12 there were 102,110 Welsh domiciled higher education enrolments at UK HEIs, showing less than one per cent fall since 2010/11. Part-time postgraduate enrolments of Welsh domiciles have fallen six per cent compared to 2010/11 but full-time postgraduate enrolments have risen slightly
• There were 22,250 qualifications obtained at Welsh HEIs, at first degree level, in 2011/12 compared to 20,780 in 2010/11, an increase of 7 per cent. First degrees accounted for 51 per cent of qualifications obtained at HEIs in Wales in 2011/12
• Wales is a net importer of full-time students. In 2011/12, there were 20,355 full-time enrolments from Welsh students to UK HEIs outside of Wales, six per cent higher than 2010/11 and 33,320 full-time enrolments of students from the UK outside of Wales to Welsh HEIs, nine per cent higher than 2010/11

Further information

StatsWales website (external link)

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3528
E-mail: post16ed.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

February 2014 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due out soon' page)