UCAS Figures on English, Media Studies and History


We are aware that interrogating the UCAS website for statistics is not the easiest or most enjoyable of tasks, so we have presented here some highlights relevant to English, using Media and History as comparators. A few notes of caution however:

• UCAS figures do not include postgraduates or part-timers

• The figures presented here do not include those on joint or combined programmes

• The basis for the subject categories was amended in 2002, so caution must be exercised in comparing figures with 2001 and earlier.

For these reasons, there are likely to be differences between figures presented in the UCAS data and those presented by HESA.

All Applicants and All Accepts by Subject and Gender 2001-2003. Source: UCAS

Notes:

• The total number of accepts for English was almost the same in 2003 and 2002, although Media Studies saw a rise of almost 14% (4735 in 2003; 4155 in 2002) and History saw a small fall.

• Women represent almost 73% of accepts for English in 2003 (50% for Media and 51% for History)

• English has the lowest percentage of accepts to applicants, although it is broadly similar to History. Media has more accepts than applicants.

• Figures not represented in the table indicate that 96% of English students are home students, 2% are from the EU and 2% from other overseas.

  Men Applicants Accepts Women Applicants Accepts Total Applicants Total Total accepts
as %age applicants
English              
2003 2690 2335 6919 6228 9609 8553 89.0
2002 2583 2291 6730 6252 9313 8543 91.7
2001 2382 2168 6493 5932 8875 8100 91.3
Media
Studies
             
2003 1918 2386 2225 2349 4143 4735 114.3
2002 1669 1979 2177 2185 3846 4155 108.0
2001 1471 1738 1781 1729 3252 3467 106.6
History              
2003 4465 4131 4329 4271 8794 8402 95.5
2002 4223 4086 4440 4413 8663 8499 98.1
2001 3624 3261 3217 2997 6841 6258 91.5

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Newsletter Issue 7 - November 2004

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