- Filename
- table1_1.csv
- Geographic levels
- National
- Time period
- 2019/20 to 2025/26
- Content
- This national level table contains number of new entrants to ITT by subject and characteristics for postgraduates. This table covers 2019/20 to 2025/26 (2025/26 is provisional, previous years are revised).
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown | Characteristics |
| itt_subject | ITT subject |
| trainee_number | Number of trainees |
| trainee_percentage | Percentage of trainees |
Footnotes
- STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
- EEA national relates to individuals from within the European Union, European Economic Area or those included in the single market - this includes Swiss nationality. The UK is not included in these figures.
- Others includes media and communication studies, social studies, citizenship and psychology.
- Percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%
- Business studies: includes economics
- Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
- Physical Education: includes dance.
- Data was extracted on 10 November 2025
- Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
- Figures for 2025/26 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2024/25 and all previous years have been revised.
- Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
- Sex other: Sex was previously reported as gender. This has been updated as it was previously mislabelled. From 2021/22, trainees who chose not to provide data on sex have been included in an 'unknown' category. Prior to this they were included in 'other'.
- Data from 2021/22 does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
- Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
- Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
- Previously excluded self-funded trainees are now included in trainee numbers from 2019/20 academic year onwards. Please see methodology for more details.