University dropout rate

This table shows the percentage of students not continuing their courses at UK universities in 2005-06 after one year on a full-time first degree.

Institutions are listed alphabetically by home nation.

The second figure is the "benchmark" rate set by the funding council - using a methodology contested by some.

The final column shows whether the actual percentage was above (+) or below (-) the benchmark by an amount statisticians regard as significant.

DROPOUT RATE

	Indicator %	Benchmark %	Sig.?
Total UK	7.2
Total England	6.8
Anglia Ruskin	9.4	9.9
Aston	5.6	6.1
Bath Spa	7.8	8.1
Bath	2.7	3.6
Bedfordshire (formerly Luton)	11.7	11.2
Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies	9.3	10.2
Birmingham	5.3	4.5
Bishop Grosseteste College	5.0	5.7
Bolton	18.0	11.8	-
Arts Institute at Bournemouth	5.5	9.2
Bournemouth	8.6	8.0
Bradford	7.9	8.6
Brighton	6.1	7.7
Bristol	2.2	3.1
Brunel	5.2	7.5
Buckinghamshire Chilterns College	8.1	10.2
Cambridge	-	-
Canterbury Christ Church	7.8	8.7
Central England in Birmingham	8.0	9.5
Central Lancashire	9.9	10.3
Central School of Speech and Drama	5.3	7.6
Chester	18.0	8.9	-
Chichester	6.1	8.7
City	9.8	8.4
Conservatoire for Dance and Drama	7.4	8.9
Coventry	10.3	9.6
Courtauld Institute of Art	7.5	3.3
University College for the Creative Arts	8.2	8.4
Cumbria Institute of the Arts	8.6	9.3
Dartington College of Arts	9.4	8.5
De Montfort	7.9	8.8
Derby	9.8	11.4
Durham	2.5	3.2
East Anglia	2.8	5.2
East London	12.6	12.2
Edge Hill	8.8	9.1
Essex	9.7	7.0
Exeter	2.8	5.0
University College Falmouth	5.4	7.7
Gloucestershire	6.7	8.9
Goldsmiths College	9.4	7.6
Greenwich	7.8	10.4
Harper Adams College	4.5	8.2
Hertfordshire	8.0	9.5
Huddersfield	9.2	9.0
Hull	6.4	5.6
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine	4.7	3.1
Keele	5.2	6.3
Kent	6.0	7.1
King's College London	3.2	4.2
Kingston	6.9	9.4
Lancaster	4.6	5.1
Leeds Metropolitan	7.3	9.0
Leeds	5.4	4.6
Leicester	5.2	5.1
Lincoln	7.8	8.6
Liverpool Hope	13.6	10.2	-
Liverpool John Moores	11.3	9.1
Liverpool	4.5	5.0
University of the Arts, London	7.5	6.5
London (Institutes and activities)	18.5	4.9
London Metropolitan	11.5	10.8
London South Bank	8.3	11.9	+
London School of Economics and Political Science	5.4	3.2
Loughborough	3.8	6.1
Manchester Metropolitan	11.3	9.2
Manchester	3.8	4.5
Middlesex	9.9	11.1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	3.5	4.5
Newman College of Higher Education	6.8	9.3
Northampton	12.2	9.4
Northumbria at Newcastle	8.5	8.2
Norwich School of Art and Design	5.4	9.8
Nottingham Trent	6.2	7.5
Nottingham	3.0	3.6
Oxford Brookes	6.6	7.3
Oxford	1.4	2.4
Plymouth	6.4	10.1	+
Portsmouth	7.7	9.6
Queen Mary and Westfield College	6.4	6.0
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication	7.6	9.2
Reading	4.5	5.1
Roehampton	11.9	9.0
Rose Bruford College	9.2	8.6
Royal Academy of Music	6.4	6.0
Royal Agricultural College	6.7	7.7
Royal College of Music	6.8	11.6
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College	4.8	5.4
Royal Northern College of Music	4.8	11.6
Royal Veterinary College	1.6	2.7
St George's Hospital Medical School	1.0	3.6
College of St Mark and St John	10.5	9.7
St Martin's College	11.4	8.6
St Mary's College	4.4	9.4	+
Salford	9.5	9.4
School of Oriental and African Studies	7.0	5.4
School of Pharmacy	1.6	4.8
Sheffield Hallam	6.3	8.1
Sheffield	2.7	4.0
Southampton Solent	9.2	10.1
Southampton	3.5	4.5
Staffordshire	9.5	9.4
Sunderland	13.0	9.7	-
Surrey	4.7	6.3
Sussex	6.0	4.7
Teesside	8.1	10.4
Thames Valley	12.3	12.8
Trinity and All Saints College	9.0	8.6
Trinity Laban	6.6	11.5
University College London	4.3	3.8
Warwick	2.0	3.3
West of England, Bristol	8.8	8.4
Westminster	9.2	9.5
Wimbledon School of Art	4.3	6.4
Winchester	6.4	8.3
Wolverhampton	11.6	10.4
Worcester	10.6	9.6
Writtle College	11.5	10.1
York St John	8.2	8.0
York	2.8	3.5
Total Wales	8.2
Wales, Aberystwyth	5.8	6.9
Wales, Bangor	9.0	7.3
Cardiff	4.4	4.8
Wales Institute, Cardiff	10.7	8.8
Glamorgan	16.3	12.9	-
Wales, Lampeter	5.4	9.1
Wales, Newport	10.7	10.1
NE Wales Inst of HE	14.4	11.8
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama	3.1	7.3
Swansea Institute of Higher Education	14.3	10.7
Wales, Swansea	6.1	7.3
Trinity College, Carmarthen	9.3	8.6
Total Scotland	9.0
Aberdeen	8.0	6.6
Abertay Dundee	14.7	15.2
Bell College	25.7	12.1	-
Dundee	8.8	6.7
Edinburgh College of Art	7.5	6.1
Edinburgh	3.3	3.5
Glasgow Caledonian	12.5	9.4	-
Glasgow School of Art	4.0	6.0
Glasgow	8.0	4.8	-
Heriot-Watt	7.8	6.8
Napier	15.0	10.0	-
Paisley	21.2	10.9	-
Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh	13.0	7.7	-
Robert Gordon	8.2	8.5
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama	10.7	11.3
St Andrews	1.7	3.3
Stirling	2.4	6.7	+
Strathclyde	12.0	5.6	-
UHI Millennium Institute	-
Total Northern Ireland	10.1
Queen's Belfast	6.0	6.0
St Mary's College	5.1	7.6
Stranmillis College	1.9	7.0	+
Ulster	14.4	9.7	-
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency