Academic year 2021/22

Higher Education Entrants and Qualifiers by their Level 2 and 3 Attainment

Data guidance

Published 25 April 2024

Description

This document describes the data included in the Higher Education Entrants and Qualifiers by their Level 2 and 3 Attainment statistical release’s underlying data files.

Coverage

This release refers only to higher education students at UK providers from academic years 2016/17 and 2021/22 in the following population:

• English domiciled
• Studying full time
• First year of study
• Studying for their first degree
• Studying for their first level 6 qualification (excluding Integrated Master’s Degree, a Foundation Degree and other level 4/5 courses, or a higher level apprenticeship in the cohort year of entry) 

File formats and conventions

‘c’ indicates that figures and percentages are suppressed because of small underlying counts of entrants

Completion rates are rounded to one decimal place

All numbers are rounded to the nearest five

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

First degree entrants by level 2 prior attainment

• Filename: new_entrants_level2_prior_attainment_201622.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2021/22
• Content:

  Number and percentage of English domiciled first degree entrants by their level 2 prior attainment, 2016/17 to 2021/22

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
entrant_count	Number of first degree entrants
percentage_entrants	Percentage of first degree entrants
priorattainment_group	Level 2 prior attainment - 1
provider_type	Type of provider - 1

First degree entrants by level 3 prior attainment

• Filename: new_entrants_level3_prior_attainment_201622.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2021/22
• Content:

  Number and percentage of English domiciled first degree entrants by their level 3 prior attainment, 2016/17 to 2021/22

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
entrant_count	Number of first degree entrants
percentage_entrants	Percentage of first degree entrants
priorattainment_group	Level 3 prior attainment - 1
provider_type	Type of provider - 1

Footnotes

1. Vocational qualifications only (e.g. BTECs, T levels)
2. Other qualifications only (e.g. apprenticeships, occupational, or other general qualifications)
3. Mixed qualifications (combination of different qualifications) 

First degree entrants by level 2 and 3 prior attainment

• Filename: new_entrants_level2and3_prior_attainment_201622.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2021/22
• Content:

  Number and percentage of English domiciled first degree entrants by their level 2 and 3 prior attainment, 2016/17 to 2021/22

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
entrant_count	Number of first degree entrants
percentage_entrants	Percentage of first degree entrants
priorattainment_group_level2	Level 2 prior attainment - 1
priorattainment_group_level3	Level 3 prior attainment - 1
provider_type	Type of provider - 1

Footnotes

1. Vocational qualifications only (e.g. BTECs, T levels)
2. Other qualifications only (e.g. apprenticeships, occupational, or other general qualifications)
3. Mixed qualifications (combination of different qualifications) 

First degree entrant completion by level 2 prior attainment for HEPs

• Filename: new_entrants3_completion_level2_prior_attainment_hep_201618.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2017/18
• Content:

  Number and percentage of English domiciled first degree entrants at HEPs that qualified within 5 years by their level 2 prior attainment, 2016/17 to 2017/18

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
entrant_count	Number of first degree entrants
percentage_qualifiers	Percentage of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years
priorattainment_groupl2	Level 2 prior attainment - 1
qualifier_count	Number of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years

First degree entrant completion by level 2 prior attainment for FEPs

• Filename: new_entrants3_completion_level2_prior_attainment_fep_201618.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2017/18
• Content:

  Number and percentage of English domiciled first degree entrants at FEPs that qualified within 5 years by their level 2 prior attainment, 2016/17 to 2017/18

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
entrant_count	Number of first degree entrants
percentage_qualifiers	Percentage of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years
priorattainment_groupl2	Level 2 prior attainment - 1
qualifier_count	Number of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years

First degree entrant completion by level 3 prior attainment for HEPs

• Filename: new_entrants3_completion_level3_prior_attainment_hep_201618.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2017/18
• Content:

  Number and percentage of English domiciled first degree entrants at HEPs that qualified within 5 years by their level 3 prior attainment, 2016/17 to 2017/18

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
entrant_count	Number of first degree entrants
percentage_qualifiers	Percentage of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years
priorattainment_groupl3	Level 3 prior attainment - 1
qualifier_count	Number of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years

First degree entrant completion by level 3 prior attainment for FEPs

• Filename: new_entrants3_completion_level3_prior_attainment_fep_201618.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2017/18
• Content:

  Number and percentage of English domiciled first degree entrants at FEPs that qualified within 5 years by their level 3 prior attainment, 2016/17 to 2017/18

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
entrant_count	Number of first degree entrants
percentage_qualifiers	Percentage of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years
priorattainment_groupl3	Level 3 prior attainment - 1
qualifier_count	Number of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years

Footnotes

1. Vocational qualifications only (e.g. BTECs, T levels)
2. Other qualifications only (e.g. apprenticeships, occupational, or other general qualifications)
3. Mixed qualifications (combination of different qualifications) 

First degree entrant completion by level 2 and 3 prior attainment

• Filename: new_entrants4_completion_level2and3_prior_attainment_201618.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2017/18
• Content:

  Number and percentage of English domiciled first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years by their level 2 and 3 prior attainment, 2016/17 to 2017/18

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
entrant_count	Number of first degree entrants
percentage_qualifiers	Percentage of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years
priorattainment_groupl2	Level 2 prior attainment - 1
priorattainment_groupl3	Level 3 prior attainment - 1
provider_type	Type of provider - 1
qualifier_count	Number of first degree entrants that qualified within 5 years

Footnotes

1. Vocational qualifications only (e.g. BTECs, T levels)
2. Other qualifications only (e.g. apprenticeships, occupational, or other general qualifications)
3. Mixed qualifications (combination of different qualifications)