Department for Education written question – answered at on 4 October 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students have graduated with archaeology-based degrees in each of the last ten years.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects and publishes statistics on enrolments and qualifications obtained at UK Higher Education Institutions. Latest statistics refer to the academic year 2017/18. Statistics on qualifications obtained by subject areas are available in Table 19 of their Open Data pages:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-19.
The number of first-degree qualifiers from archaeology-based subjects has been provided in the table.
Academic year | Forensic & Archaeological Sciences | Archaeology | Combined Total |
2008/09 | 1,710 | 905 | 2,615 |
2009/10 | 1,710 | 880 | 2,590 |
2010/11 | 1,755 | 900 | 2,655 |
2011/12 | 1,940 | 920 | 2,860 |
2012/13 | 1,890 | 900 | 2,790 |
2013/14 | 1,920 | 905 | 2,825 |
2014/15 | 1,570 | 750 | 2,320 |
2015/16 | 1,640 | 870 | 2,510 |
2016/17 | 1,645 | 815 | 2,460 |
2017/18 | 1,650 | 830 | 2,480 |
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