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Data Provider: Welsh Government Student enrolments at Higher Education providers in Wales by subject and academic year
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[Collapse]All136,355145,170149,045154,385150,680
All[Collapse]Science64,37570,03071,50571,32570,895
ScienceMedicine and dentistry3,5403,6753,7403,5253,575
Subjects allied to medicine15,82517,34518,00519,11518,445
Biological and sport sciences9,93510,55010,61510,37010,550
Psychology7,0608,1958,7208,4108,385
Veterinary sciences14595120140150
Agriculture, food and related studies1,1951,3101,2001,3401,155
Physical sciences3,3103,2603,0152,7552,785
Mathematical sciences1,6051,6851,6651,5601,675
Engineering and technology9,59010,20510,0109,6059,290
Computing7,7359,1159,7959,7559,715
Architecture, building and planning2,3152,4452,5002,4902,635
Geography, earth and environmental studies (Natural sciences)2,1202,1602,1252,2652,530
[Collapse]Non-science71,07075,13577,54083,06079,780
Non-scienceSocial sciences14,20016,48515,14014,73015,135
Law5,7506,4058,8359,4208,955
Business and management19,04520,89022,71026,67025,100
Language and area studies6,9205,6955,1504,9704,760
Historical, philosophical and religious studies4,0053,9103,8453,8854,135
Education and teaching6,2157,7457,7008,1407,885
Combined and general studies4,1753,7353,9355,2504,135
Media, journalism and communications2,3652,5252,6702,7052,720
Design, and creative and performing arts7,5857,0406,8306,5456,155
Geography, earth and environmental studies (Social sciences)810700725745800
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Metadata

Title

Student enrolments and qualifiers at Higher Education providers in Wales by subject

Last update

15 April 2025 15 April 2025

Next update

February 2026

Publishing organisation

Medr

Source 1

Higher education student record, Higher Education Statistics Agency

Contact email

HEstats@medr.cymru

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Wales

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

Statistical quality

The 2022/23 HESA Student Record was collected using a new data collection system and data model delivered by the ‘Data Futures’ transformation programme. The new system and model represented a considerable change to the collection process and there were an increased number of challenges and issues compared to previous years.

As a result, there were a greater number of quality issues with the student record data compared to previous years. Jisc, which HESA is a part of, published a quality report to provide an overview of the collection data quality and how this quality was assessed.

General description

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record

HESA collect data on students, staff and resources of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK. Further information about HESA and their data collections, including some online tables, can be found on their website www.hesa.ac.uk

Subjects are based on HESA’s Common Aggregration Hierarchy (CAH).

The science grouping contains CAH level 1 codes CAH01 through to CAH13 and CAH26 with the exception of CAH26-01-03 (Human geography). CAH26 (Geographical and environmental studies) has been disaggregated so that CAH26-01-03 (Human geography) is presented in the non-science grouping labelled as 'Geographical and environmental studies (social sciences)'. All other CAH level 3 codes within CAH26 are presented in the science grouping labelled as 'Geographical and environmental studies (natural sciences)'.

More information on CAH can be found at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/coding-manual-tools/hecoscahdata/cah

Frequency of publication

Annual

Rounding applied

All figures are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5.