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Innovation, Universities and Skills

Degrees: Social Structure

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many and what percentage of students applied to study (a) physics, (b) chemistry, (c) mathematics, (d) modern languages, (e) English, (f) history and (g) psychology at (i) Oxford, (ii) Cambridge and (iii) Russell group universities from each category of socioeconomic background in the last period for which figures are available. [148123]

Bill Rammell: The latest available information is shown in the tables. The figures are taken from data collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) which are limited to students who apply to full-time undergraduate courses via the UCAS application system. The figures do not therefore cover part-time students, nor those full-time students who apply directly to higher education institutions.

Figures for Oxford and Cambridge Universities are not available because, for confidentiality reasons, UCAS do not release combinations of variables through which the data of individual institutions, or small groups of institutions, might be identifiable, beyond those already in the public domain.

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Applications from UK Domiciled Students to Russell Group/Non Russell Group Institutions in the UK by subject of study and Socio-economic Group, year of entry 2006
	Subject of study:
	Physics		Chemistry		Mathematics		Modern Languages		English		History		Psychology
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Russell Group
Higher Managerial and professional occupations	2,752	34.5	2,628	31.5	4,053	31.0	4,448	31.1	5,599	31.1	6,912	35.0	4,006	26.4
Lower managerial and professional occupations	2,482	31.1	2,553	30.6	4,007	30.6	5,316	37.1	6,296	35.0	6,748	34.2	5,144	33.9
Intermediate occupations	1,080	13.5	1,223	14.7	1,790	13.7	1,869	13.0	2,470	13.7	2,596	13.1	2,101	13.8
Small employers and account workers	393	4.9	544	6.5	858	6.6	789	5.5	1,064	5.9	1,070	5.4	1,005	6.6
Lower supervisory and technical occupations	316	4.0	366	4.4	530	4.1	400	2.8	583	3.2	557	2.8	549	3.6
Semi-routine occupations	716	9.0	766	9.2	1,305	10.0	1,075	7.5	1,382	7.7	1,321	6.7	1,634	10.8
Routine occupations	245	3.1	250	3.0	541	4.1	427	3.0	618	3.4	550	2.8	739	4.9
Total known	7,984	100.0	8,330	100.0	13,084	100.0	14,324	100.0	18,012	100.0	19,754	100.0	15,178	100.0
Unknown	1,321	—	1,377	—	2,136	—	2,109	—	2,811	—	2,756	—	3,008	—
Total	9,305	—	9,707	—	15,220	—	16,433	—	20,823	—	22,510	—	18,186	—
Non Russell Group
Higher Managerial and professional occupations	1,680	30.1	1,760	25.1	2,637	25.8	2,678	26.2	5,960	22.7	6,186	26.7	8,755	20.1
Lower managerial and professional occupations	1,767	31.7	2,133	30.4	3,199	31.3	3,560	34.8	8,628	32.8	7,598	32.8	13,468	30.9
Intermediate occupations	793	14.2	988	14.1	1,452	14.2	1,470	14.4	3,926	14.9	3,317	14.3	6,515	14.9
Small employers and account workers	270	4.8	529	7.5	691	6.8	746	7.3	1,889	7.2	1,460	6.3	3,448	7.9
Lower supervisory and technical occupations	280	5.0	393	5.6	541	5.3	374	3.7	1,203	4.6	1,059	4.6	2,207	5.1
Semi-routine occupations	570	10.2	838	12.0	1,178	11.5	983	9.6	3,091	11.8	2,419	10.5	6,363	14.6
Routine occupations	216	3.9	370	5.3	511	5.0	429	4.2	1,586	6.0	1,106	4.8	2,889	6.6
Total known	5,576	100.0	7,011	100.0	10,209	100.0	10,240	100.0	26,283	100.0	23,145	100.0	43,645	100.0
Unknown	990	—	1,501	—	2,033	—	1,811	—	5,594	—	4,348	—	11,671	—
Total	6,566	—	8,512	—	12,242	—	12,051	—	31,877	—	27,493	—	55,316	—

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