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Science: Higher Education

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The 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.UCAS do not hold details of the level of free school meal eligibility at each school.

Applications¹ from UK domiciled pupils to Russell Group and non-Russell Group² institutions in the UK by subject of study and type of school³, year of entry 2002-06
	Year of entry
Type of school	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
All Maintained4 Schools (including Grammar Schools)
Physics
at Russell Group Institutions	7,096	7,069	6,439	7,028	7,664
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	5,746	5,929	5,024	5,765	5,681
Total	12,842	12,998	11,463	12,793	13,345
Chemistry
at Russell Group Institutions	5,621	5,641	5,762	7,149	7,813
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	7,302	6,898	7,361	7,153	7,353
Total	12,923	12,539	13,123	14,302	15,166
Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry5
at Russell Group Institutions	4,823	4,711	4,465	4,658	4,109
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	3,758	3,810	3,987	4,197	4,039
Total	8,581	8,521	8,452	8,855	8,148
Psychology
at Russell Group Institutions	15,392	16,641	15,535	15,540	14,937
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	39,898	45,181	44,170	49,562	48,490
Total	55,290	61,822	59,705	65,102	63,427
Sports Science
at Russell Group Institutions	843	1,441	1,404	1,497	1,434
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	29,795	32,367	32,542	36,174	39,626
Total	30,638	33,808	33,946	37,671	41,060
Grammar Schools
Physics
at Russell Group Institutions	888	978	847	919	1,013
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	457	548	434	505	459
Total	1,345	1,526	1,281	1,424	1,472
Chemistry
at Russell Group Institutions	683	785	708	971	1,066
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	415	501	499	556	622
Total	1,098	1,286	1,207	1,527	1,688
Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry5
at Russell Group Institutions	798	603	701	611	527
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	310	273	365	321	312
Total	1,108	876	1,066	932	839
Psychology
at Russell Group Institutions	1,900	2,057	1,978	2,189	1,764
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	3,030	3,172	3,038	3,566	3,017
Total	4,930	5,229	5,016	5,755	4,781
Sports Science
at Russell Group Institutions	50	83	130	119	106
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	989	1,306	1,482	1,578	1,521
Total	1,039	1,389	1,612	1,697	1,627
Independent Schools
Physics
at Russell Group Institutions	1,558	1,607	1,449	1,408	1,439
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	698	882	719	708	703
Total	2,256	2,489	2,168	2,116	2,142
Chemistry
at Russell Group Institutions	1,452	1,365	1,345	1,557	1,651
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	727	748	817	834	871
Total	2,179	2,113	2,162	2,391	2,522
Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry5
at Russell Group Institutions	1,100	1,180	1,166	1,149	1,050
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	428	528	535	476	488
Total	1,528	1,708	1,701	1,625	1,538
Psychology
at Russell Group Institutions	2,984	3,480	3,242	2,891	2,461
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	3,582	3,934	3,899	3,929	3,461
Total	6,566	7,414	7,141	6,820	5,922
Sports Science
at Russell Group Institutions	130	192	252	299	268
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	2,148	2,113	2,449	2,576	2,353
Total	2,278	2,305	2,701	2,875	2,621

Acceptances from UK domiciled pupils to Russell Group and non-Russell Group² institutions in the UK by subject of study and type of school³, year of entry 2002-06
	Year of entry
Type of school	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
All Maintained4 Schools (including Grammar Schools)
Physics
at Russell Group Institutions	1,272	1,238	1,130	1,221	1,283
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	868	842	749	829	865
Total	2,140	2,080	1,879	2,050	2,148
Chemistry
at Russell Group Institutions	1,061	998	1,048	1,272	1,315
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	1,148	1,130	1,157	1,229	1,301
Total	2,209	2,128	2,205	2,501	2,616
Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry5
at Russell Group Institutions	776	721	682	787	625
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	512	579	605	683	681
Total	1,288	1,300	1,287	1,470	1,306
Psychology
at Russell Group Institutions	1,717	1,599	1,596	1,655	1,679
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	6,533	7,339	7,291	8,249	8,206
Total	8,250	8,938	8,887	9,904	9,885
Sports Science
at Russell Group Institutions	112	148	171	164	140
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	5,172	5,605	5,746	6,715	7,065
Total	5,284	5,753	5,917	6,879	7,205
Grammar Schools
Physics
at Russell Group Institutions	176	184	149	154	185
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	53	68	56	72	49
Total	229	252	205	226	234
Chemistry
at Russell Group Institutions	122	124	114	166	167
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	64	76	66	86	92
Total	186	200	180	252	259
Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry5
at Russell Group Institutions	122	84	96	101	76
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	44	40	56	47	41
Total	166	124	152	148	117
Psychology
at Russell Group Institutions	289	230	276	291	252
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	403	497	464	565	458
Total	692	727	740	856	710
Sports Science
at Russell Group Institutions	9	9	25	17	15
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	152	212	223	247	222
Total	161	221	248	264	237
Independent Schools
Physics
at Russell Group Institutions	253	250	250	219	242
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	88	112	88	100	79
Total	341	362	338	319	321
Chemistry
at Russell Group Institutions	263	252	239	290	286
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	93	100	116	120	147
Total	356	352	355	410	433
Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry5
at Russell Group Institutions	190	190	199	221	178
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	48	72	71	56	66
Total	238	262	270	277	244
Psychology
at Russell Group Institutions	359	422	427	392	357
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	540	541	556	556	490
Total	899	963	983	948	847
Sports Science
at Russell Group Institutions	29	35	33	50	37
Non-Russell Group Institutions²	323	327	356	389	391
Total	352	362	389	439	428
¹ Applicants to UCAS can submit up to six applications, in this table students have been counted once for each application they submit.
² Includes all other HE and FE institutions covered by the UCAS application system, other than Russell-Group institutions.
³ Excludes a small amount of students with an unknown school type.
4 Maintained sector institutions are comprehensive schools, further/higher education institutions, grammar schools, sixth form centres, sixth form colleges, other maintained institutions and other institutions.
5 Subject figures for Biochemistry can only be displayed as the overall group Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry.
Source:
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

142160; 461 c2032-7W

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Higher education Science

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