Part 3 Methodology
The data is sourced from the Equality, diversity and student characteristics data from the Office for Students (OfS), published on 7th June 20225
The OfS adopts the following methodology:
When statistics are split by subject, students studying more than one subject are partially counted for each subject. For instance, a student studying half English and half history would be counted as 0.5 in each subject
Counts have been rounded to the nearest 10
In addition, counts and proportions are suppressed where there are fewer than 25 students in the category shown
Data on Religion and Belief are sourced from: (1) The Higher Education Statistics Agency's (HESA's) Student record, and (2) the HESA's Student Alternative (SA) record (formerly known as the Alternative Provider record)
Detailed subject areas are grouped into broad areas in the following way:
