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Students: Science

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many and what percentage of students (a) under 21 and (b) over 21 years old studied (i) physics, (ii) chemistry, (iii) biochemistry, (iv) biological sciences, (v) psychology, (vi) sports science and (vii) other science subjects at (A) Oxbridge, (B) Russell Group institutions and (C) other higher education institutions at honours degree level in each of the last five years, broken down by socio-economic background. [149494]

Bill Rammell: The information is given in the separate 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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Accepted applicants by age group, Socio-economic group, and science subject
2002
Of which:
Physics Chemistry All Biological Sciences Molecular Biology, Biophysics & Biochemistry Psychology Sports Science Other Science subjects
No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %

Under 21

Russell Group

Higher managerial and professional occupations

526

35.2

369

29.4

1866

33.0

286

31.4

644

32.9

31

24.0

7742

35.1

Lower managerial and professional occupations

464

31.1

405

32.3

1759

31.1

273

30.0

657

33.5

49

38.0

6755

30.6

Intermediate occupations

205

13.7

187

14.9

795

14.1

129

14.2

268

13.7

17

13.2

2963

13.4

Small employers and own account workers

77

5.2

77

6.1

364

6.4

52

5.7

130

6.6

9

7.0

1442

6.5

Lower supervisory and technical occupations

57

3.8

55

4.4

234

4.1

43

4.7

64

3.3

8

6.2

807

3.7

Semi-routine occupations

115

7.7

108

8.6

441

7.8

88

9.7

136

6.9

8

6.2

1685

7.6

Routine occupations

50

3.3

53

4.2

194

3.4

39

4.3

60

3.1

7

5.4

657

3.0

Total with known occupations

1494

100.0

1254

100.0

5653

100.0

910

100.0

1959

100.0

129

100.0

22051

100.0

Unknown

69

120

418

84

124

16

1676

Non-Russell Group

Higher managerial and professional occupations

272

30.1

244

21.9

3259

22.0

118

23.6

1455

23.5

938

19.1

9545

22.3

Lower managerial and professional occupations

259

28.7

326

29.3

4784

32.2

157

31.4

1985

32.0

1634

33.3

12373

28.9

Intermediate occupations

142

15.7

157

14.1

2222

15.0

71

14.2

935

15.1

722

14.7

6151

14.3

Small employers and own account workers

49

5.4

80

7.2

1101

7.4

49

9.8

402

6.5

398

8.1

3936

9.2

Lower supervisory and technical occupations

36

4.0

80

7.2

832

5.6

30

6.0

305

4.9

324

6.6

2506

5.8

Semi-routine occupations

107

11.8

158

14.2

1727

11.6

53

10.6

734

11.8

570

11.6

5573

13.0

Routine occupations

39

4.3

69

6.2

921

6.2

22

4.4

382

6.2

321

6.5

2795

6.5

Total with known occupations

904

100.0

1114

100.0

14846

100.0

500

100.0

6198

100.0

4907

100.0

42879

100.0

Unknown

85

167

2116

79

743

855

8028

21 and over

Russell Group

Higher managerial and professional occupations

8

17.4

6

25.0

36

14.0

3

15.8

19

16.1

0

0.0

379

21.9

Lower managerial and professional occupations

13

28.3

7

29.2

74

28.8

6

31.6

38

32.2

3

30.0

474

27.4

Intermediate occupations

3

6.5

3

12.5

51

19.8

4

21.1

20

16.9

1

10.0

356

20.6

Small employers and own account workers

1

2.2

1

4.2

10

3.9

0

0.0

5

4.2

1

10.0

61

3.5

Lower supervisory and technical occupations

0

0.0

2

8.3

5

1.9

0

0.0

1

0.8

1

10.0

71

4.1

Semi-routine occupations

16

34.8

3

12.5

56

21.8

5

26.3

25

21.2

3

30.0

310

18.0

Routine occupations

5

10.9

2

8.3

25

9.7

1

5.3

10

8.5

1

10.0

76

4.4

Total with known occupations

46

100.0

24

100.0

257

100.0

19

100.0

118

100.0

10

100.0

1727

100.0

Unknown

25

34

124

14

42

7

892

Non-Russell Group

Higher managerial and professional occupations

6

9.4

13

12.9

169

7.7

2

5.6

88

8.0

45

7.4

1133

9.7

Lower managerial and professional occupations

13

20.3

19

18.8

603

27.5

8

22.2

314

28.4

164

27.0

2963

25.5

Intermediate occupations

11

17.2

21

20.8

474

21.6

9

25.0

292

26.4

101

16.6

2656

22.8

Small employers and own account workers

5

7.8

3

3.0

109

5.0

2

5.6

49

4.4

38

6.3

660

5.7

Lower supervisory and technical occupations

8

12.5

2

2.0

75

3.4

1

2.8

24

2.2

31

5.1

512

4.4

Semi-routine occupations

16

25.0

26

25.7

572

26.1

7

19.4

250

22.6

184

30.3

2758

23.7

Routine occupations

5

7.8

17

16.8

188

8.6

7

19.4

89

8.0

44

7.2

960

8.2

Total with known occupations

64

100.0

101

100.0

2190

100.0

36

100.0

1106

100.0

607

100.0

11642

100.0

Unknown

39

78

1380

48

638

365

8176

2002 total

2726

2892

26984

1690

10928

6896

97071


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