SCIENCE: HIGHER EDUCATION
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many applications were made for (a) engineering and technology, (b) physical sciences, (c) computer science, (d) mathematical sciences and (e) biological sciences undergraduate courses at UK universities in each of the last three years. [139598]
Mr Willetts, Minister of State (Minister for Universities and Science): The information is given in the table.
| Applications(1) via UCAS to full-time undergraduate courses for specific subject groups(2) | |||
| Year of entry | |||
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |
| Engineering | 134,601 | 140,897 | 137,027 |
| Technology | 12,356 | 11,998 | 9,779 |
| Physical sciences | 91,697 | 99,305 | 98,124 |
| Mathematical and computer sciences | 136,716 | 145,173 | — |
| Mathematical Sciences | — | — | 44,224 |
| Computer sciences | — | — | 89,673 |
| Biological sciences | 215,906 | 228,104 | 217,372 |
| (1) Each applicant can submit up to five applications. (2) Subjects are allocated to subject groups using the Joint Academic Classification of Subjects (JACS). In 2012, a new version of JACS (JACS3) was introduced, which means that direct year-on-year comparisons with previous years cannot be made for all subjects. Source: UCAS | |||