Mr. Alan W. WilliamsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish a table giving the number of applicants per place on offer in higher education establishments in all major subject areas in September 1993.
§ Mr. BoswellInstitutions decide within the resources available to them how many students in any given subject area to admit. The ratio of home applications to acceptances/admissions through the Universities Central624W Council on Admissions and the polytechnics central admissions systems respectively for entry in autumn 1993 is shown.
Subject UCCA1 2 Rate of applications to acceptances PCAS1 2 Rate of applications to admissions Medicine and dentistry 10.3 : 1 — Topics allied to medicine 12.4 : 1 11.5 : 1 Biological sciences 8.0 : 1 10.8 : 1 Agriculture and related subjects 7.2 : 1 3.6 : 1 Physical sciences 6.1 : 1 7.6 : 1 Mathematical sciences 6.6 : 1 5.1 : 1 Engineering and technology 6.6 : 1 5.3 : 1 Architecture, building and planning 11.1 : 1 5.6 : 1 Social science 10.2 : 1 10.4 : 1 Business and administration 11.3 :1 7.6 : 1 Mass communication and documentation 20.8 : 1 11.0 : 1 Languages and related studies 7.6 : 1 11.6 :1 Humanities 6.8 : 1 11.6 : 1 Creative arts 13.0 : 1 11.7 : 1 Education 11.6 : 1 12.0 : 1 Combined subjects 8.9 : 1 6.5 : 1 Total 8.8 : 1 8.3 : 1 Source of data:
UCCA—Table 7 and Figure 5 from the UCCA 31st report 1992–93.
PCAS—PCAS statistical supplement 1992–93 due to be published by UCAS in June 1994.
Notes:
1 For 1993 entry some 48 per cent. of all applicants to higher education through UCCA and PCAS applied to both schemes. Their applications to acceptances/admissions are included in both columns.
2 The average number of applications per applicant is 4.2 and 3.5 for UCCA and PCAS respectively. The division of the ratios in each column by the average number of applications per applicant gives an approximate measure of the ratio of the numbers of applicants in each subject area to the numbers accepted or admitted.