Summary
This analysis reports UK and EU domiciled UCAS acceptances by intended academic year of entry through data available at the end of each cycle. To reflect student number control arrangements applicants domiciled in Channel Islands or Isle of Man (around 1,000 acceptances per cycle) are not included in this analysis. It completes the assessment of acceptances by intended entry year, country of institution and qualifications held that was first published as an interim assessment on 14 September.
Reporting acceptances by intended academic year of entry, rather than by the UCAS admissions cycle in which they were accepted, is a better guide to the likely number of UCAS acceptances starting higher education in an academic year when there have been changing patterns of deferred acceptances.
These statistics reflect the position recorded at the end of the 2012 UCAS cycle.
- UK and EU domiciled acceptances to the 2012-13 entry year are 416,300. This is a change of -53,200 (-11 per cent) compared to acceptances into the 2011-12 entry year.
- On the same basis, by country of institution:
England: 345,600, -51,100 (-13 per cent)
Northern Ireland: 9,800, +300 (+3 per cent)
Scotland: 38,600, +600 (+2 per cent)
Wales: 22,300, -3,000 (-12 per cent)
- UK and EU domiciled acceptances into the 2012-13 entry year at institutions and subject areas estimated to fall within the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) student number control arrangements are 307,000. This is a change of -48,500 (-14 per cent) compared to acceptances into the 2011-12 entry year.
- On the same basis, within this group of acceptances:
Recorded as holding entry qualifications in HEFCE's 'AAB+' set: 79,500, -13,400 (-14 per cent)
Not recorded as holding entry qualifications in HEFCE's 'AAB+' set: 227,500, -35,100 (-13 per cent)
