T Level and T Level foundation year entrant data 2024 to 2025
Published 21 March 2025
Applies to England
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Data
Entrants to T Levels
25,508 learners started T Levels in the 2024 to 2025 academic year, up from 16,085 in the year before – a 59% increase.
Table 1: Entrants to T Levels split by T Level route and pathway, 2024 to 2025
| Route | Pathway | Year rolled out | Number of entrants in 2024 to 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture, Environmental and Animal Care | Agriculture Land Management and Production | 2023 to 2024 | 656 |
| Agriculture, Environmental and Animal Care | Animal Care and Management | 2024 to 2025 | 1,281 |
| Business and Administration | Management and Administration | 2022 to 2023 | 2,399 |
| Construction | Building Services Engineering for Construction | 2021 to 2022 | 1,576 |
| Construction | Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction | 202 to 2021 | 1,880 |
| Construction | Onsite Construction | 2021 to 2022 | 347 |
| Creative and Design | Craft and Design | 2024 to 2025 | 136 |
| Creative and Design | Media, Broadcast and Production | 2024 to 2025 | 600 |
| Digital | Digital Business Services | 2021 to 2022 | 71 |
| Digital | Digital Production, Design and Development | 2020 to 2021 | 2,054 |
| Digital | Digital Support Services | 2021 to 2022 | 741 |
| Education and Early Years | Education and Early Years | 2020 to 2021 | 4,880 |
| Engineering and Manufacturing | Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing | 2022 to 2023 | 2,026 |
| Engineering and Manufacturing | Engineering, Manufacturing, Processing and Control | 2022 to 2023 | 659 |
| Engineering and Manufacturing | Maintenance, Installation and Repair for Engineering and Manufacturing | 2022 to 2023 | 868 |
| Health and Science | Health | 2021 to 2022 | 3,772 |
| Health and Science | Healthcare Science | 2021 to 2022 | 136 |
| Health and Science | Science | 2021 to 2022 | 365 |
| Legal, Finance and Accounting | Accounting | 2022 to 2023 | 644 |
| Legal, Finance and Accounting | Finance | 2022 to 2023 | 169 |
| Legal, Finance and Accounting | Legal Services | 2023 to 2024 | 255 |
| Total[footnote 1] | 25,508 |
Entrants to T Level foundation year
9,228 learners started a T Level foundation year (TLFY) in the 2024 to 2025 academic year, up from 6,900 in the year before – a 33% increase.
Table 2: Entrants to T Level foundation year split by T Level route, 2024 to 2025
| Route 2 | Year rolled out | Number of entrants in 2024 to 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture, Environmental and Animal Care | 2023 to 2024 | 313 |
| Business and Administration | 2022 to 2023 | 1,570 |
| Construction | 2020 to 2021 | 1,104 |
| Creative and Design | 2024 to 2025 | 258 |
| Digital | 2020 to 2021 | 1,375 |
| Education and Early Years | 2020 to 2021 | 1,352 |
| Engineering and Manufacturing | 2022 to 2023 | 1,098 |
| Health and Science | 2021 to 2022 | 2,133 |
| Legal, Finance and Accounting | 2022 to 2023 | 25 |
| Total | 9,228 |
Methodology and data sources
The number of entrants was generated from the compulsory returns of:
- individualised learner records (ILR) – administrative datasets completed by education providers on students aged 16 or over at further education providers
- schools census pupil level data – information on the participation and personal characteristics of pupils in state schools, collected by the Department for Education
To be identified as a T Level entrant, a learner must have started a learning aim that corresponds to a T Level programme (programme type 31) and that is either in the:
- ILR as a generic programme aim (learning aim reference ZPROG001), or
- SC as a T Level technical qualification aim
To be identified as a T Level foundation year entrant, a learner must have started a learning aim that corresponds to the T Level foundation year programme (programme type 30) and that is a T Level foundation year aim.
Table 3 sets out the full list of learning aims covered.
Learners may be linked to more than one learning aim. For both T Level and TLFY entrants, the:
- earliest start date must be between 1 August and 31 July of the academic year of interest.
- learner must have been enrolled on a T Level for at least the threshold number of days to be eligible for funding – for T Levels, this is 6 weeks (42 days)
- learner must be funded as a 16 to 19 student, or a 19 to 24 student with an education, health and care plan (EHCP)
- learner must have a valid unique learner number (ULN)
Table 3: Learning aim references and titles used to identify T Level and TLFY entrants
| Learning aim reference | Learning aim reference title |
|---|---|
| ZPROG001 | Generic code to identify ILR programme aims |
| 60358294 | T Level Technical Qualification in Education and Early Years |
| 60358300 | T Level Technical Qualification in Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction |
| 60358324 | T Level Technical Qualification in Digital Production, Design and Development |
| 60369012 | T Level Technical Qualification in Digital Support Services |
| 60369024 | T Level Technical Qualification in Digital Business Services |
| 60369115 | T Level Technical Qualification in Building Services Engineering for Construction |
| 60369176 | T Level Technical Qualification in Onsite Construction |
| 60369899 | T Level Technical Qualification in Science |
| 6037066X | T Level Technical Qualification in Health |
| 6037083X | T Level Technical Qualification in Healthcare Science |
| 61000079 | T Level Technical Qualification in Accounting |
| 6100008X | T Level Technical Qualification in Finance |
| 61001115 | T Level Technical Qualification in Management and Administration |
| 61005162 | T Level Technical Qualification in Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing |
| 61006920 | T Level Technical Qualification in Maintenance, Installation and Repair for Engineering and Manufacturing |
| 61009714 | T Level Technical Qualification in Engineering, Manufacturing, Processing and Control |
| 61022263 | T Level Technical Qualification in Legal Services |
| 61029336 | T Level Technical Qualification in Agriculture Land Management and Production |
| 61040915 | T Level Technical Qualification in Craft and Design |
| 61040927 | T Level Technical Qualification in Media, Broadcast and Production |
| 61041580 | T Level Technical Qualification in Animal Care and Management |
| ZTPR0001 | T Level foundation year – Agriculture, Environmental and Animal Care |
| ZTPR0002 | T Level foundation year – Business and Administration |
| ZTPR0003 | T Level foundation year – Catering and Hospitality |
| ZTPR0004 | T Level foundation year – Education and Childcare |
| ZTPR0005 | T Level foundation year – Construction |
| ZTPR0006 | T Level foundation year – Creative and Design |
| ZTPR0007 | T Level foundation year – Digital |
| ZTPR0008 | T Level foundation year – Engineering and Manufacturing |
| ZTPR0009 | T Level foundation year – Hair and Beauty |
| ZTPR0010 | T Level foundation year – Health and Science |
| ZTPR0011 | T Level foundation year – Legal, Finance and Accounting |
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The sum of the table is greater than the total. This is because 7 learners spent more than 6 weeks either on more than one T Level or at multiple providers. ↩