Academic Excellence

Students & Graduates

Undergraduate and postgraduate students in the West Midlands

University	All Undergraduates	All postgraduate students	Total
Aston	7,030	2,530	9,560
Birmingham City	19,470	4,390	23,860
Birmingham	18,480	11,935	30,415
Sub Total	44,980	18,855	63,835

Coventry	16,430	2,875	19,305
Keele	8,950	3,400	12,350
Staffordshire	11,795	3,395	15,190
Warwick	20,375	9,940	30,315
Wolverhampton	18,935	4,535	23,470
Worcester	6,140	1,610	7,750
Sub Total	82,625	25,755	108,380

_{Source: Students in Higher Education Institutions 2006/07
Copyright: Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited, 2008
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.}

There is a total Higher Education student population of nearly 173,000 within the nine West Midlands universities. Over 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	1,530	615
Birmingham	5,335	2,825
Birmingham City	2,795	800
Sub Total	9,660	4,240

Coventry	3,025	945
Keele	1,475	585
Staffordshire	2,345	560
Warwick	3,110	2,570
Wolverhampton	3,270	565
Worcester	930	120
Sub Total	14,155	5,345

Total graduates in Birmingham and the West Midlands

University	All qualifications
Aston	2,205
Birmingham	9,405
Birmingham City	8,410
Sub Total	20,020

Coventry	5,050
Keele	2,655
Staffordshire	4,430
Warwick	7,105
Wolverhampton	6,325
Worcester	2,215
Sub Total	27,780

There were a total of over 20,000 graduates for the academic year 2006/2007 within the three universities in Birmingham.

Within the nine universities in the West Midlands, there were a total of over 47,000 graduates for the same academic year.

_{Source: Students in Higher Education Institutions 2006/07
Copyright: Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited, 2008
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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