State school participation

Queen's Belfast, does best overall

The table below shows universities in the UK ranked by the proportion of their students who come from state schools or colleges, as opposed to independent schools.

The second column of figures is the benchmark set for each institution by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), which publishes the data.

It shows the average intake which would be expected for higher education as a whole if all institutions had students with the same academic qualifications as this university and offered the same range of subjects.

The third column is how much above or below that benchmark the institution is - Hefce says an institution with an intake lower than the benchmark is doing less well than it should.

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Table of drop-out rates

Institution	State %	Bench-mark	+/-
The Queen's University of Belfast	100	80	20
University of Ulster	100	89	11
Bolton Institute of Higher Education	100	93	7
Norwich School of Art & Design	100	93	7
Ravensbourne College	100	98	2
Wimbledon School of Art	100	100	0
All Northern Ireland Institutions	100
Trinity College Carmarthen	99	93	6
University of Luton	99	93	6
North East Wales Institute	99	94	5
University of Wales College, Newport	99	94	5
Dartington College of Arts	99	95	4
The Surrey Inst of Art & Design Univ Col	99	97	2
Bishop Grosseteste College	98	92	6
Edge Hill College of Higher Education	98	92	6
University of Abertay Dundee	98	92	6
University of Teesside	98	92	6
University of Wolverhampton	98	93	5
Swansea Institute of Higher Education	98	94	4
Thames Valley University	98	95	3
Cumbria College of Art & Design	98	97	1
Falmouth College of Arts	98	97	1
Kent Institute of Art & Design	98	98	0
University of Central Lancashire	97	91	6
University of Lincoln	97	91	6
Staffordshire University	97	92	5
University College Northampton	97	92	5
University of Derby	97	92	5
University of Glamorgan	97	92	5
University of Huddersfield	97	92	5
University of Sunderland	97	92	5
Newman College	97	93	4
North Riding College	97	93	4
University of Paisley	97	93	4
Northern College of Education	97	94	3
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College	97	95	2
The London Institute	97	96	1
Glasgow Caledonian University	96	91	5
Liverpool Hope	96	92	4
St Martin's College	96	92	4
Middlesex University	96	93	3
University College Worcester	96	93	3
University of East London	96	93	3
University of North London	96	93	3
University of Salford	95	90	5
University of Central England in Birmingham	95	91	4
University of Gloucestershire	95	91	4
University of Hertfordshire	95	91	4
York St John College	95	91	4
University of Greenwich	95	92	3
University of Wales College of Medicine	94	88	6
Liverpool John Moores University	94	90	4
Canterbury Christ Church University College	94	91	3
Coventry University	94	91	3
De Montfort University	94	91	3
King Alfred's College, Winchester	94	91	3
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff	94	91	3
Anglia Polytechnic University	94	92	2
Bath Spa University College	94	92	2
Bretton Hall	94	92	2
College of St Mark & St John	94	92	2
University College Chichester	94	92	2
University of Wales, Aberystwyth	93	85	8
University of Wales, Bangor	93	87	6
Trinity & All Saints	93	88	5
Manchester Metropolitan University	93	90	3
Leeds Metropolitan University	93	91	2
Queen Margaret University College	93	91	2
University of Brighton	93	91	2
Rose Bruford College	93	92	1
South Bank University	93	92	1
Southampton Institute	93	92	1
Welsh College of Music and Drama	93	92	1
University of Strathclyde	92	85	7
Chester College of Higher Education	92	89	3
Robert Gordon University	92	89	3
Sheffield Hallam University	92	89	3
St Mary's College	92	89	3
University of Portsmouth	92	90	2
University of Surrey Roehampton	92	91	1
London Guildhall University	92	92	0
University of Westminster	92	92	0
University of Essex	91	85	6
University of Bradford	91	88	3
Bournemouth University	91	89	2
Nottingham Trent University	91	89	2
University of Stirling	91	89	2
University of Plymouth	91	90	1
All Welsh Institutions	91
University of Dundee	90	84	6
Heriot-Watt University	90	86	4
Edinburgh College of Art	90	88	2
University of Northumbria at Newcastle	90	90	0
Kingston University	90	91	-1
Napier University	90	91	-1
Central School of Speech and Drama	90	92	-2
Lancaster University	89	81	8
Keele University	89	84	5
University of Hull	89	84	5
Cranfield University	89	89	0
University of East Anglia	88	82	6
University of Wales, Swansea	88	84	4
University of Wales, Lampeter	88	85	3
Writtle College	86	82	4
Goldsmiths College	86	86	0
All UK Institutions	86
University of Glasgow	85	80	5
University of Leicester	85	80	5
University of Kent at Canterbury	85	84	1
Brunel University	85	87	-2
Cardiff University	84	80	4
Aston University	84	84	0
University of Surrey	84	86	-2
All English Institutions	84
All Scottish Institutions	84
University of Sussex	83	80	3
University of Liverpool	83	81	2
Loughborough University	83	84	-1
University of West of England, Bristol	82	88	-6
University of Sheffield	81	76	5
University of Aberdeen	81	82	-1
University of York	80	76	4
UMIST	80	83	-3
University of Bath	79	79	0
Queen Mary, University of London	79	81	-2
University of Reading	78	82	-4
City University	78	86	-8
Harper Adams University College	77	80	-3
University of Southampton	77	81	-4
University of Warwick	76	75	1
Royal Holloway, University of London	75	82	-7
Westminster College, Oxford	75	92	-17
University of Manchester	74	78	-4
University of Birmingham	74	79	-5
Homerton College, Cambridge	74	81	-7
Wye College, University of London	73	79	-6
Glasgow School of Art	72	79	-7
Oxford Brookes University	72	88	-16
University of Nottingham	71	75	-4
University of Leeds	71	77	-6
School of Pharmacy	71	84	-13
University of Exeter	69	79	-10
School of Oriental and African Studies	67	78	-11
University of Newcastle	67	79	-12
King's College London	66	76	-10
University of Edinburgh	63	77	-14
University of Durham	62	76	-14
Royal Veterinary College	61	60	1
Imperial College	60	73	-13
University of London (Institutes and activities)	59	70	-11
University of St Andrews	59	77	-18
London Sch of Economics & Political Sci	58	72	-14
University College London	58	75	-17
St George's Hospital Medical School	57	68	-11
University of Bristol	57	73	-16
University of Cambridge	52	65	-13
University of Oxford	51	67	-16