Higher Education - Student enrolments

In 2018/19 there were 31,475 enrolments in the four universities in the North East LEP area
The Universities of Newcastle and Northumbria the highest number of enrolments 32% and 28% respectively, whilst Durham and Sunderland had 22% and 18% respectively.
The subjects with the highest number of enrolments were:
- Business and administrative studies
- Subjects allied to medicine
- Social studies
- Biological sciences
These are provided by all four universities but there are other subjects that are particularly provided by one or two of the universities:
- Engineering and technology (Newcastle)
- Creative arts and design (Northumbria)
- Languages (Durham and Newcastle)
- Education (Durham and Sunderland).

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Last updated:
16/02/2021

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North East LEP

Source: HESA (2020) HE qualifiers by HE provider and subject of study 2018/19 - https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-19

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Last updated:
16/02/2021

Published by:
North East LEP

Source: HESA (2020) HE qualifiers by HE provider and subject of study 2018/19 - https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-19

In 2018/19, the English Core City LEPs featured broadly the same trends in the percentage of students enrolling in subjects.

Business and administrative studies, Social studies and Subjects allied to medicine were all the most popular subjects in the West Midlands, North East and Leeds.
As the graph shows the West Midlands have the highest amounts of students in most subjects (57, 945 enrolled)
The North East and Greater Manchester have similar representations of subjects across all fields
Other well represented subjects across the English Core Cities are Education, Biological sciences, Engineering and technology and Social studies.