§ Mr. Michael Cocksasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list the number of full-time students at each British university for the years 1961 to 1973, respectively.
§ Mr. RaisonThe provisional numbers of full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in universities in October 1973 as recorded by the University Grants Committee are given in the following table. The numbers for 1972 and for 1971 can be found in the OFFICIAL REPORT for Wednesday 14th March 1973, Vol. 852, c.364, and Thursday 13th April 1972, Vol. 834, c. 204–206 respectively. The numbers for previous years are published in "Statistics of Education", Volume 6.
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1973 Universities Undergraduates Postgraduates Total Aberystwyth … … … 2,254 546 2,800 Bangor … … … 1,913 623 2,536 Cardiff … … … 3,037 684 3,721 Lampeter … … … 386 11 397 Swansea … … … 2,656 671 3,327 Welsh National School of Medicine … … … 479 46 525 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 1,940 275 2,215 Total Wales … … … 12,665 2,856 15,521 Total England and Wales … … … 163,716 41,518 205,234
Aberdeen … … … 4,649 563 5,212 Dundee … … … 2,450 316 2,766 Edinburgh … … … 8,249 1,402 9,651 Glasgow … … … 7,732 754 8,486 Heriot-Watt … … … 2,061 205 2,266 St. Andrews … … … 2,671 403 3,074 Stirling … … … 1,945 182 2,127 Strathclyde … … … 4,856 813 5,669 Total Scotland … … … 34,613 4,638 39,251 Total Great Britain … … … 198,329 46,156 244,485