The available data for higher education students in each higher education institution in the UK are shown in the table. These data are based on self-assessment by students and may differ from the number of students diagnosed as dyslexic. Information on further education students, broken down by institution, who are diagnosed as dyslexic is not held centrally.
Full-time and part-time HE students in the UK as at December 1997 |
Students who reported themselves as having dyslexia |
Institution |
Number of students |
The Open University |
404 |
Cranfield University |
30 |
Royal College of Art |
6 |
College of Guidance Studies |
0 |
Institute of Advanced Nursing Education |
0 |
Bishop Grosscreste College |
15 |
Bretton Hall College of Higher Education |
17 |
Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education |
138 |
Central School of Speech and Drama |
13 |
Chester College of Higher Education |
30 |
Canterbury Christ Church College of Higher Education |
49 |
University College of Ripon and York St. John, North Yorkshire |
34 |
College of St. Mark and St. John |
30 |
Darlington College of Arts |
16 |
Edge Hill College of Higher Education |
33 |
Falmouth College of Arts |
53 |
Harper Adams Agricultural College |
55 |
Homerton College |
15 |
Kent Institute of Art and Design |
74 |
King Alfred's College, Winchester |
64 |
Liverpool Institute of Higher Education |
60 |
The London Institute |
78 |
Loughborough College of Art and Design |
6 |
University of Luton |
211 |
Nene College |
69 |
Newman College |
3 |
North Riding College |
12 |
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication |
5 |
Roehampton Institute of Higher Education |
99 |
Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama |
14 |
Royal Academy of Music |
4 |
Royal College of Music |
7 |
Royal Northern College of Music |
3 |
Southampton Institute |
235 |
St. Martin's College |
35 |
St. Mary's College |
16 |
Trinity and All Saints College |
1 |
Trinity College of Music |
1 |
Westminster College |
19 |
Surrey Institute of Art and Design |
36 |
Worcester College of Higher Education |
31 |
Anglia Polytechnic University |
71 |
Bath College of Higher Education |
34 |
Bolton Institute of Higher Education |
72 |
Bournemouth University |
155 |
The University of Brighton |
148 |
The University of Central England in Birmingham |
161 |
The University of Central Lancashire |
49 |
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education |
117 |
London Guildhall University |
139 |
Coventry University |
192 |
University of Derby |
233 |
The University of East London |
39 |
The University of Greenwich |
154 |
The University of Hertfordshire |
242 |
The University of Huddersfield |
38 |
The University of Humberside |
117 |
Kingston University |
133 |
Leeds Metropolitan University |
165 |
Full-time and part-time HE students in the UK as at December 1997 |
Students who reported themselves as having dyslexia |
Institution |
Number of students |
Liverpool John Moores University |
150 |
Manchester Metropolitan University |
170 |
Middlesex University |
188 |
De Montfort University |
77 |
The University of Northumbria at Newcastle |
134 |
The University of North London |
134 |
Nottingham Trent University |
215 |
Oxford Brookes University |
245 |
University of Plymouth |
230 |
University of Portsmouth |
171 |
Sheffield Hallam |
175 |
South Bank University |
75 |
Staffordshire University |
33 |
The University of Sunderland |
87 |
The University of Teesside |
122 |
Thames Valley University |
54 |
The University of the West of England, Bristol |
291 |
Chichester Institute of Higher Education |
47 |
The University of Westminster |
66 |
Wimbledon School of Art |
22 |
The University of Wolverhampton |
109 |
Gwent College of Higher Education |
61 |
The North-East Wales Institute of Higher Education |
14 |
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education |
63 |
University of Glamorgan |
50 |
Swansea Institute of Higher Education |
24 |
Trinity College, Carmarthen |
0 |
University of Abertay, Dundee |
21 |
Edinburgh College of Art |
36 |
Glasgow School of Art |
32 |
Moray House Institute of Education |
12 |
Northern College of Education |
4 |
Queen Margaret College |
33 |
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama |
9 |
St. Andrew's College of Education |
4 |
The Scottish College of Textiles |
10 |
The Robert Gordon University |
57 |
University of Paisley |
63 |
Glasgow Caledonian University |
57 |
Napier University |
95 |
Aston University |
45 |
The University of Bath |
40 |
The University of Birmingham |
112 |
The University of Bradford |
65 |
The University of Bristol |
43 |
Brunei University |
124 |
The University of Cambridge |
57 |
City University |
88 |
The University of Durham |
79 |
The University of East Anglia |
82 |
The University of Essex |
56 |
The University of Exeter |
125 |
The University of Hull |
72 |
The University of Keele |
31 |
The University of Kent at Canterbury |
120 |
The University of Lancaster |
36 |
University of Leeds |
255 |
University of Leicester |
76 |
The University of Liverpool |
98 |
Birkbeck College |
59 |
Goldsmith's College |
61 |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine |
26 |
Institute of Education |
0 |
Kings College London |
104 |
London Business School |
1 |
London School of Economics and Political Science |
9 |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
1 |
Queen Mary and Westfield College |
57 |
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine |
6 |
Royal Holloway, University of London |
48 |
The Royal Veterinary College |
3 |
St. George's Hospital Medical School |
1 |
The School of Oriental and African Studies |
12 |
Full-time and part-time HE students in the UK as at December 1997 |
Students who reported themselves as having dyslexia |
Institution |
Number of students |
The School of Pharmacy |
0 |
United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas's |
20 |
University College London |
84 |
Wye College |
17 |
London University—Senate institutes |
1 |
Loughborough University of Technology |
117 |
The University of Manchester |
90 |
The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
128 |
The University of Nottingham |
166 |
The University of Oxford |
103 |
The University of Reading |
113 |
The University of Salford |
116 |
The University of Sheffield |
91 |
The University of Southampton |
241 |
The University of Surrey |
69 |
The University of Sussex |
57 |
The University of Warwick |
62 |
The University of York |
48 |
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology |
44 |
University of Edinburgh |
262 |
University of Glasgow |
122 |
University of Strathclyde |
90 |
University of Aberdeen |
110 |
Heriot-Watt University |
62 |
University of Dundee |
106 |
University of St. Andrews |
73 |
The University of Stirling |
8 |
Scottish Agricultural College |
36 |
St. David's University |
61 |
The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth |
71 |
University College of North Wales, Bangor |
177 |
University of Wales College of Cardiff |
81 |
University College of Swansea |
36 |
University of Wales College of Medicine |
11 |
Welsh College of Music and drama |
16 |
Queen's University of Belfast |
44 |
The University of Ulster |
98 |
The University of Wales, Registry |
0 |
Westhill College |
23 |
Writtle College |
44 |
Northern School of Art and Design |
35 |
Northern School of Contemporary Dance |
12 |
Cumbria College of Art and Design |
3 |
Total |
12,860 |