§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the religious breakdown is of students studying at(a) Queen's University Belfast and (b) the University of Ulster. [90020]
§ Jane KennedyThe latest information available relates to the 2001–02 academic year. Religion is only recorded for NI domiciled students at the NI Higher Education institutions and the breakdown of religion for the University of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast is shown in the table:
NI domiciled students enrolled on courses at Northern Ireland Higher Education institutions by religion 2001–021 Institution The Queen's University of Belfast University of Ulster Total Protestant 4,715 5,797 10,512 Catholic 6,113 8,628 14,741 Other 1,084 602 1,686 Not known/available 5,634 2,585 8,219 Total 17,546 17,612 35,158 12001–02 data is provisional Source:
HESA dataset