Academic Excellence

Students & Graduates

Undergraduate and postgraduate students in the West Midlands

University	All Undergraduates	All postgraduate students
Aston	7,155	2,415
Birmingham City	19,760	4,390
Univ of Birmingham	18,030	10,210
Sub Total	44,945	16,110

Coventry	16,825	3,540
Keele	9,035	2,380
Staffordshire	12,680	3,055
Warwick	19,750	8,695
Wolverhampton	17,545	3,760
Worcester	6,175	1,590
Sub Total	82,020	23,020

_{Source: Students in Higher Education Institutions 2007/08
Copyright: Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited, 2009
Reproduced by permission of the Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited
HESA cannot accept resonsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived from the data by third parties.}

The total student population is in excess of 166,000 within the nine West Midlands universities. 37% of these students are enrolled at the three universities in Birmingham alone.

Around 35% of the region's young people now go to university, with many remaining locally to study

Qualifications Obtained.

University	First degrees	Higher degrees
Aston	7,105	715
Univ of Birmingham	15,890	2,840
Birmingham City	12,385	805
Sub Total	35,380	4,360

Coventry	12,505	960
Keele	5,690	480
Staffordshire	8,560	630
Warwick	11,260	2,385
Wolverhampton	12,520	610
Worcester	3,735	145
Sub Total	54,270	5,210

Total graduates in Birmingham and the West Midlands

University	All qualifications
Aston	2,520
Univ of Birmingham	9,095
Birmingham City	8,485
Sub Total	20,100

Coventry	5,880
Keele	3,255
Staffordshire	4,570
Warwick	7,535
Wolverhampton	6,740
Worcester	2,295
Sub Total	30,275

There were a total of over 20,000 graduates for the academic year 2007/2008 within the three universities in Birmingham.

Within the nine universities in the West Midlands, there were a total of over 50,000 graduates for the same academic year.

_{Source: Students in Higher Education Institutions 2007/08
Copyright: Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited, 2009
Reproduced by permission of the Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited
HESA cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived from the data by third parties.}

A 5 year £3.5 million initiative is currently running, aimed at attracting and retaining graduates to the region has been launched and is being led by Aston University. The project involves a number of key local universities and will focus primarily on the following clusters:

Transport technologies
Specialist business and promotional services
Information and communication technologies
Medical technologies

Click here to view the full press release

Skill Levels

In Birmingham 37.9% of the workforce is qualified to NVQ 3 level and above, while those in employment with NVQ 4 level qualification and above is 22%.
_{Source: Annunal Population Survey 2005}

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