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Foundation Degrees

Answer

The data for all three tables below cover English-domiciled foundation year students studying at approved fee cap English higher education (HE) institutions and further education (FE) colleges.

The data is currently unpublished and is based on internal department analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data. As such, figures are rounded to the nearest five in line with the following HESA guidance: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/about/regulation/data-protection/rounding-and-suppression-anonymise-statistics.

The price group data for the 2018/19 academic year is not directly comparable to price group data for the following academic years because of a change in the system for classifying subjects from the 2019/20 academic year onwards.

The number of students enrolled onto one-year foundation courses is shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Full-person equivalent of foundation year entrants studying one-year courses at HE institutions and FE colleges in England since the 2018/19 academic year.

Academic Year	Number of students undertaking a one-year foundation year course
2018/19	35,995
2019/20	43,395
2020/21	53,590
2021/22	69,325

The number of foundation year students studying in each of the different price groups since the 2018/19 academic year is shown in Table 2.

Table 2: Full-person equivalent of foundation year entrants at HE institutions and FE colleges in England since the 2018/19 academic year shown by price group.

	Academic Year
Price Group	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22
A	0	0	0	0
B	9,315	10,585	9,510	11,260
C1.1	2,220	2,450	2,700	2,900
C1.2	2,475	2,470	2,860	3,160
C2	4,870	7,105	9,440	10,905
D	15,065	20,785	29,070	41,090

The number of students studying a foundation year in a business and management or social sciences degree for each academic year since 2018/19 is shown in Table 3.

Table 3: Full-person equivalent of foundation year entrants studying business and management and social science degrees at HE institutions and FE colleges in England since the 2018/19 academic year.

Academic Year
Subject	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22
Business and management studies	8,900	13,600	23,420	35,585
Social sciences	3,855	6,265	6,345	6,915

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL8637

Session

2022-23

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Foundation degrees

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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