University drop-out rate

This table shows the percentage of students not continuing their courses at UK universities in 2006-07 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	8.6
Total England	8.3
Anglia Ruskin	11.4	12.7
Aston	4.8	6.6
Bath Spa	6.3	12.2	+
Bath	3.3	4.7
Bedfordshire	12.6	12.4
Birmingham City	12.3	10.9
Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies	6.8	11.4	+
Birmingham	5.1	4.9
Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln	4.3	8.1
Bolton	21.7	13.8	-
Arts Institute at Bournemouth	6.7	9.6
Bournemouth University	7.3	9.6
Bradford	11.2	10.4
Brighton	8.1	9.1
Bristol	3.5	3.6
Brunel University	8.5	9.3
Buckinghamshire New University	10.2	12.4
Buckingham	5.4	13.2
Cambridge	1.2	4.5	+
Canterbury Christ Church University	10.3	10.2
Central Lancashire	14.1	11.5
Central School of Speech and Drama	2.7	8.2	+
Chester	10.7	9.4
Chichester	5.4	9.9	+
City University	11.3	9.7
Conservatoire for Dance and Drama	7.7	9.7
Courtauld Institute of Art	6.8	3.7
Coventry	10.9	10.6
University College for Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone, Rochester	9.6	10.4
Cumbria Institute of the Arts	8.0	9.8
Dartington College of Arts	8.1	9.6
De Montfort	9.6	10.0
Derby	12.8	13.8
Durham	2.6	4.3
East Anglia	7.4	6.1
East London	12.8	13.9
Edge Hill	13.0	10.4
Essex	7.6	8.0
Exeter	3.5	5.2
University College Falmouth	7.5	10.3
Gloucestershire	7.4	9.8
Goldsmiths College	9.2	8.9
Greenwich	7.4	12.3	+
Harper Adams University College	8.6	9.6
Hertfordshire	8.6	10.5
Huddersfield	10.8	10.9
Hull	6.4	8.7
Imperial College London	2.8	3.0
Keele	6.2	7.1
Kent	6.8	8.4
King's College London	5.1	5.0
Kingston	9.3	10.6
Lancaster	4.7	5.5
Leeds College of Music	5.2	7.6
Leeds Metropolitan	8.7	10.7
Leeds	5.7	5.0
Leeds Trinity and All Saints	10.8	9.6
Leicester	6.1	5.6
Lincoln	8.1	9.5
Liverpool Hope	12.1	10.7
Liverpool John Moores	11.3	9.0
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts	2.5	9.5	+
Liverpool	4.8	5.6
University of the Arts, London	8.0	8.9
London (Institutes and activities)	12.5	5.0
London Metropolitan	13.7	13.2
London South Bank	12.8	14.0
London School of Economics and Political Science	4.9	3.2
Loughborough	4.2	6.4
Manchester Metropolitan	11.1	10.0
Manchester	4.7	4.7
Middlesex	13.0	12.4
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	3.9	4.7
Newman College of Higher Education	10.9	10.7
Northampton	12.1	11.1
Northumbria at Newcastle	8.8	9.5
Norwich School of Art and Design	5.5	10.0	+
Nottingham	4.1	4.2
Nottingham Trent	6.7	8.4
Oxford Brookes	9.2	8.6
Oxford	1.2	2.7
University College Plymouth St Mark and St John	10.1	10.8
Plymouth	7.8	10.1
Portsmouth	6.9	9.0
Queen Mary and Westfield College	9.0	6.7
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication	6.6	10.7
Reading	4.9	6.1
Roehampton	13.1	10.1
Rose Bruford College	8.2	9.3
Royal Academy of Music	0.0	6.1
Royal Agricultural College	3.6	8.8
Royal College of Music	3.0	8.3
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College	5.1	5.6
Royal Northern College of Music	0.9	8.2	+
Royal Veterinary College	5.2	2.4
St George's Hospital Medical School	1.1	4.7	+
St Martin's College	11.8	9.6
St Mary's University College, Twickenham	8.0	9.9
Salford	13.6	10.8
School of Oriental and African Studies	8.3	6.9
School of Pharmacy	2.5	5.5
Sheffield Hallam	7.5	9.4
Sheffield	3.6	4.8
Southampton Solent	12.6	11.4
Southampton	3.7	5.5
Staffordshire	12.8	11.1
Sunderland	15.6	11.2	-
Surrey	6.6	7.7
Sussex	7.5	6.3
Teesside	11.4	11.6
Thames Valley	14.6	13.8
Trinity Laban	5.3	9.3
University College London	3.5	4.6
Warwick	3.6	3.7
West of England, Bristol	9.4	9.7
Westminster	12.7	11.4
Winchester	8.9	9.3
Wolverhampton	14.5	11.7
Worcester	9.5	10.7
Writtle College	16.7	13.2
York St John	8.7	8.7
York	4.0	4.0
Total Wales	9.5
Aberystwyth	6.1	7.6
Bangor	7.6	8.8
Cardiff	5.1	6.0
Wales Institute, Cardiff	11.9	10.0
Glamorgan	17.5	12.9	-
Wales, Lampeter	9.3	12.9
North-East Wales Institute of Higher Education	15.6	12.8
Wales, Newport	11.9	11.6
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama	6.6	8.1
Swansea Institute of Higher Education	13.6	11.8
Swansea	6.5	8.0
Trinity College, Carmarthen	10.5	9.5
Total Scotland	10.1
Aberdeen	10.4	7.3	-
Abertay Dundee	7.9	11.4	+
Bell College	24.4	12.9	-
Dundee	10.3	7.6
Edinburgh College of Art	4.7	10.7	+
Edinburgh	4.6	4.4
Glasgow Caledonian	12.7	11.3
Glasgow School of Art	1.9	6.4	+
Glasgow	7.4	5.5
Heriot-Watt	9.4	8.1
Napier	17.9	12.1	-
Paisley	17.1	11.7	-
Queen Margaret , Edinburgh	14.3	10.2	-
Robert Gordon	9.4	8.7
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama	7.2	9.6
St Andrews	2.0	3.7
Stirling	6.6	7.4
Strathclyde	11.2	6.8	-
UHI Millennium Institute	24.0	16.5	-
Total Northern Ireland	11.3
Queen's University of Belfast	7.5	6.8
St Mary's University College	5.2	7.0
Stranmillis University College	2.2	7.0	+
Ulster	15.2	10.0	-
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency Ltd