HC Deb 14 March 1969 vol 779 cc370-2W
Mr. David Howell

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, 1968, and also giving a list of the faculties in each university.

Mr. Edward Short

The provisional numbers of full-time students at undergraduate level at the beginning of the academic year 1968–69 is as follows:

University or College Full-time students at undergraduate level
Aston 2,289
Bath 1,636
Birmingham 5,088
Bradford 2,736
Bristol 5,021
Brunel 1,343
Cambridge 8,282
City 2,112
Durham 2,645
East Anglia 1,925
Essex 1,186
Exeter 2,635
Hull 3,220
Keele 1,634
Kent 1,726
Lancaster 1,655
Leeds 7,083
Leicester 2,597
Liverpool 5,236
London Business School
London University 23,021
Loughborough 1,850
Manchester Business School
Manchester University 6,453
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 2,278
Newcastle 4,582
Nottingham 3,921
Oxford 7,701
Reading 3,787
Salford 2,911
Sheffield 4,635
Southampton 3,269
Surrey 1,887
Sussex 2,778
Warwick 1,314
York 1,598
TOTAL ENGLAND 132,034
Aberystwyth, University College 1,917
Bangor, University College 1,934
Cardiff, University College 2,660
Swansea, University College 2,830
Welsh National School of Medicine 305
St. David's, Lampeter 254
University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 1,448
TOTAL WALES 11,348
Aberdeen 4,526
Dundee 2,149
Edinburgh 7,854
Glasgow 6,969
Heriot-Watt 1,758
St. Andrews 2,155
Stirling 289
Strathclyde 4,446
TOTAL SCOTLAND 30,146
TOTAL GREAT BRITAIN 173,528

Not all universities are organised into faculties. The academic structure of

each university is described in the "Commonwealth Universities Yearbook, 1968", and the broad range of subjects taught is shown in Table 19 of "Statistics of Education, 1966, Volume 6",