Report shows significant increase in veterinary students
Growth in these subjects may be attributable to more non-UK students undertaking them.
Veterinary science was the university subject with the most significant increase in students between 2007 and 2018, according to new figures.
The Patterns and Trends in UK Hgher Education Report 2018, published by Universities UK, shows there was a 47 per cent increase in students over the past decade. Biological sciences and mathematics had the second (40 per cent) and third (29 per cent) greatest increase respectively.
The report notes that growth in these subjects may be attributable to more non-UK students undertaking them. In 2016-17, business and administrative studies, engineering and technology and law (25.7 percent) had the highest numbers of students taking them.
Veterinary science was one of the subjects with the lowest proportions of black and minority ethnic students (4.9 per cent), the report shows. Gender profiles varied greatly in the report, but veterinary science had the second highest overall proportions of females (77.3 per cent).
Patterns and Trends in UK Higher Education 2018, can be downloaded at universitiesuk.ac.uk
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