HC Deb 09 March 1966 vol 725 cc605-6W
Mr. Biffen

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the universities in Great Britain, showing the number of undergraduates in each in October, 1965, and giving a list of the faculties in each university.

Mr. Prentice

The number of full-time undergraduate students in each university and college on the University Grants Committee list in October, 1965, have been provisionally counted as follows:

ENGLAND
Battersea 1,420
Birmingham 4,389
Birmingham (College of Advanced Technology) 1,886
Bradford 2,104
Bristol 3,971
Bristol (College of Science and Technology) 971
Brunel 858
Cambridge 7,907
Chelsea 751
Durham 2,095
East Anglia 693
Essex 327
Exeter 2,045
Hull 2,727
Keele 1,138
Kent 422
Lancaster 700
Leeds 5,782
Leicester 1,941
Liverpool 4,500
London 19,173
Loughborough 1,590
Manchester 5,451
Manchester (College of Science and Technology) 1,868
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 4,282
Northampton 1,744
Nottingham 3,099
Oxford 7,559
Reading 2,292
Salford 2,181
Sheffield 3,890
Southampton 2,348
Sussex 1,746
Warwick 340
York 897
Total ENGLAND 105,087
WALES
Aberystwyth 1,747
Bangor 1,622
Cardiff 2,400
Swansea 2,230
National School of Medicine 225
Lampeter 228
Welsh College of Advanced Technology 893
Total WALES 9,345
SCOTLAND
Aberdeen 3,514
Edinburgh 6,719
Glasgow 6,411
Heriot Watt 941
St. Andrews 3,482
Strathclyde 3,975
Total SCOTLAND 25,042
Total GREAT BRITAIN 139,474

On the second part of the Question, I would refer the hon. Member to the latest Annual Returns published by the University Grants Committee (Command 2778), Table 5. More detailed information could only be obtained by consulting the regulations published by each university.