28 May 2019
RECORDS MANAGEMENT SECTION
The University of Edinburgh
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Old College
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Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Ms Elizabeth Thomson
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Dear Ms Thomson
Freedom of information request
Thank you for your email of 8 May 2019 requesting admissions statistics.
The University of Edinburgh is a global university, rooted in Scotland. We are globally
recognised for our research, development and innovation and we have provided world-
class teaching to our students for more than 425 years. We are the largest university in
Scotland and in 2017/18 our annual revenue was £984 million, of which over £279 million
was research income. We have over 41,000 students and more than 15,000 staff. We
are a founding member of the UK’s Russell Group of leading research universities and a
member of the League of European Research Universities.
The University is committed to admitting the very best students who demonstrate the
potential to benefit from, and contribute to, the academic experience we offer; to that end
we seek to attract a wide range of students from different social, cultural and educational
backgrounds. We aim to operate fair, transparent and consistent admissions practices.
Details of our
admissions policy and practices are published on the University website.
We are also committed to widening access and welcome applications from students with
diverse backgrounds. Our continuing commitment to diversity plays a vital role in
ensuring the University’s success as a great civic institution. We recognise that not
everyone has an equal opportunity to demonstrate their full academic potential from their
school or college qualifications alone. For this reason, we aim to identify applicants who
could benefit from additional consideration in the admissions process. This is known as
contextual admissions, as it enables us to consider the achievements of applicants in
context.
Admissions statistics
You asked for the number of undergraduate entrants who matriculated in each academic
year from 2013/14 to 2018/19. Of these entrants, you asked how many were Scotland
domiciled, and how many Scotland domiciled entrants were from Scotland’s most
deprived backgrounds, by degree programme.
UNIVERSITY SECRETARY Ms Sarah Smith
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336
The University uses the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), the Scottish
Government’s official tool to identify areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland. It identifies
small area concentrations of multiple deprivation and ranks from most deprived to least
deprived. It uses 38 indicators across seven domains, namely: income, employment,
health, education, skills and training, housing, geographic access and crime. However,
the SIMD analyses reflect the geographic area in which an individual lives and not
necessarily their personal circumstances.
Further information about the SIMD, including
how it can and cannot be used, is published on the Scottish Government website. Our
contextualised admissions criteria therefore also includes care experience, attending a
school with low attainment/progression statistics or being eligible for a recognised
widening access programme.
Our widening participation strategy is published on our
website.
More information about participation indicators used in Scottish Higher Education
institutions is available on t
he Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and Higher Education
Statistics Agency (HESA) websites.
The SIMD analysis for applications for entry to the University of Edinburgh (and other
Scottish higher education institutions) from 2015 to 2018 are available online from the
UCAS, including ‘key technical points’ to help you understand the data.
I have provided some of the information you have requested in Tables 1 to 3 below.
Table 1: Number of undergraduate entrants to the University of Edinburgh, 2013/14 to
2018/19
Year of entry
Entrants
2013/14
5,679
2014/15
5,794
2015/16
6,007
2016/17
6,007
2017/18
6,511
2018/19
6,364
Table 2: Number of Scotland domiciled undergraduate entrants to the University of
Edinburgh, 2013/14 to 2018/19, by School
Year of entry
School or College
Entrants
2013/14
Business School
96
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences
17
Deanery of Clinical Sciences
5
Edinburgh College of Art
159
Edinburgh Medical School
116
Moray House School of Education
528
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
34
School of Biological Sciences
204
School of Chemistry
48
School of Divinity
27
School of Economics
47
School of Engineering
138
School of Geosciences
148
2
Year of entry
School or College
Entrants
School of Health in Social Science
18
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
112
School of Informatics
67
School of Law
146
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
152
School of Mathematics
49
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
122
School of Physics and Astronomy
70
School of Social and Political Science
119
2014/15
Business School
89
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences
31
Deanery of Clinical Sciences
4
Edinburgh College of Art
166
Edinburgh Medical School
97
Moray House School of Education
521
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
33
School of Biological Sciences
121
School of Chemistry
45
School of Divinity
25
School of Economics
43
School of Engineering
159
School of Geosciences
124
School of Health in Social Science
32
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
105
School of Informatics
56
School of Law
141
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
147
School of Mathematics
55
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
115
School of Physics and Astronomy
52
School of Social and Political Science
113
2015/16
Business School
83
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences
80
Deanery of Clinical Sciences
5
Edinburgh College of Art
148
Edinburgh Medical School
103
Moray House School of Education
517
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
32
School of Biological Sciences
74
School of Chemistry
51
School of Divinity
25
School of Economics
38
School of Engineering
180
School of Geosciences
143
School of Health in Social Science
31
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
113
School of Informatics
37
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Year of entry
School or College
Entrants
School of Law
156
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
157
School of Mathematics
45
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
125
School of Physics and Astronomy
74
School of Social and Political Science
130
2016/17
Business School
82
College of Science and Engineering
1
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences
95
Deanery of Clinical Sciences
5
Edinburgh College of Art
125
Edinburgh Medical School
98
Moray House School of Education
551
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
31
School of Biological Sciences
54
School of Chemistry
49
School of Divinity
20
School of Economics
49
School of Engineering
143
School of Geosciences
114
School of Health in Social Science
36
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
108
School of Informatics
50
School of Law
140
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
141
School of Mathematics
43
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
102
School of Physics and Astronomy
57
School of Social and Political Science
121
2017/18
Business School
83
College of Science and Engineering
18
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences
89
Deanery of Clinical Sciences
5
Edinburgh College of Art
160
Edinburgh Medical School
103
Moray House School of Education
512
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
27
School of Biological Sciences
42
School of Chemistry
43
School of Divinity
26
School of Economics
55
School of Engineering
125
School of Geosciences
82
School of Health in Social Science
35
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
107
School of Informatics
71
School of Law
145
4
Year of entry
School or College
Entrants
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
157
School of Mathematics
59
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
109
School of Physics and Astronomy
56
School of Social and Political Science
124
2018/19
Business School
67
College of Science and Engineering
7
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences
71
Deanery of Clinical Sciences
4
Edinburgh College of Art
149
Edinburgh Medical School
88
Moray House School of Education
442
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
31
School of Biological Sciences
47
School of Chemistry
38
School of Divinity
29
School of Economics
37
School of Engineering
108
School of Geosciences
79
School of Health in Social Science
37
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
104
School of Informatics
70
School of Law
140
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
109
School of Mathematics
64
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
117
School of Physics and Astronomy
59
School of Social and Political Science
110
Table 3: Number of SIMD 20 undergraduate entrants to the University of Edinburgh, by
College
Year of entry
College
Entrants
2013/14
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
103
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
2
College of Science and Engineering
36
2014/15
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
113
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
5
College of Science and Engineering
31
2015/16
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
102
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
8
College of Science and Engineering
29
2016/17
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
115
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
16
College of Science and Engineering
21
2017/18
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
146
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
19
College of Science and Engineering
19
5
Year of entry
College
Entrants
2018/19
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
160
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
15
College of Science and Engineering
41
Table notes:
• The tables show all students who are or have been matriculated during the session
indicated, as of the snapshot date. To be consistent with the Scottish Funding
Council's approach, it includes all matriculated students with the exception of those
who within five weeks of Semester 1 commencing either withdrew, interrupted or
completed their studies.
• Domicile on entry groupings refer to the student’s area of permanent residence prior
to commencing their studies; this information is declared by the student at first
matriculation.
• The reduction in 2018/19 for Moray House School of Education reflects the decision
to no longer admit students to the MA in Primary Education. This route was replaced
by the postgraduate MSc in Transformative Learning and Teaching.
• The Scottish Government limits the number of Scotland-domiciled (and EU-outside
the UK) students that the University can admit. There are no such limits placed on
the number of students admitted from outside the EU and the rest of the UK. Intake
for these students is a matter for individual universities, based on a combination of
capacity and competition in individual subjects.
You will see that I have provided the number of Scotland domiciled entrants by School,
rather than programme, and the number of Scotland domiciled SIMD 20 entrants by
College, rather than programme. This is because breakdowns at programme level would
show very low numbers from which individual students could be identified. This would
breach the data protection principles set out in data protection legislation. The Freedom
of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 does not require us to provide this sort of information
as it is exempt under section 38(1)(b).
Information about the University’s Schools and Colleges is published on our website.
Right to review
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may ask the University to conduct a review
of this decision by contacting the University's Records Management Section in writing
(e.g. by letter or email) or in some other recorded form (e.g. audio or video tape). You
should describe the original request, explain your grounds for dissatisfaction, and include
an address for correspondence. You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to
submit a review request. The contact details for the Records Management Section are at
the top of this letter. When the review process has been completed, if you are still
dissatisfied, you may use th
e Scottish Information Commissioner’s guidance on making
an appeal to make an appeal to the Commissioner. If you do not have access to the
Internet, please let me know and I will provide a copy of the relevant web pages.
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