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Higher education statistics

Statistics about higher education (HE) including student enrolments and qualifications, and staff employed at HE providers.

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From:
Department for Education
Published:
19 September 2013
Last updated:
19 February 2026
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  1. Added 'Higher education staff statistics UK: 2024 to 2025' to 'Staff at higher education'.

  2. Added 'Higher education student enrolments UK: 2024 to 2025' to 'Higher education enrolments and qualifications'.

  3. Added 'Higher education staff statistics UK: 2023 to 2024' and 'Higher education student enrolments UK: 2023 to 2024'.

  4. Added higher education enrolments and qualifications from 2016 to 2023.

  5. Added 'Higher education staff statistics UK: 2022 to 2023'.

  6. Added 'Higher education staff statistics UK: 2021 to 2022'.

  7. Added a new section, Longitudinal destinations of higher education leavers.

  8. Added 'Performance indicators in HE: employment of leavers 2015 to 2016' to the performance indicators list.

  9. Created new group for statistics on destinations of higher education leavers and added new SFR on destinations of leavers in the 2015 to 2016 academic year.

  10. Added 'HE performance indicators including APs: 2015 to 2016' to collection.

  11. Added 'Performance indicators: non-continuation rates 2015 to 2016'.

  12. Higher education student enrolments and qualifications obtained in the UK - 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014

  13. Performance indicators in higher education in the UK 2012 to 2013: second tranche added

  14. Adding 'Higher education: destinations of UK and other EU domiciled leavers from HE 2012 to 2013'.

  15. Higher education statistics: user engagement event findings added

  16. Added link to the publication of 'Higher education student enrolments and qualifications obtained for 2012 to 2013'.

  17. First published.

Higher education enrolments and qualifications

Annual statistics produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Staff at higher education

Annual statistics produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency

Performance indicators

Annual statistics produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Destinations of higher education leavers

Longitudinal destinations of higher education leavers

Useful information about higher education in the UK

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