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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
