FOI_24-350 Students by accommodation type
Date of response: 24 January 2025
We have now considered your request of 23 December 2024 for the following information:
Please provide this data for the last 5 academic years: 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25.
Please could you provide the information in the form of a spreadsheet (csv or xlsx)
Question 1. The number of undergraduate students living at home with their family, caregiver or parental guardian
Question 2. The number of undergraduate students living in university owned student accommodation (halls)
Question 3. The number of undergraduate students living in privately rented house shares
Question 4. The number of undergraduate students living in purpose built student accommodation
Question 5. The number of undergraduate students living in other accommodation (please specify what the other type of accommodation is when presenting the figure(s))
Our response:
As requested, please see our response in accompanying document, our ref: FOI_24-350 Appendix A.
On this occasion it is not possible to provide all of the requested information. In line with your rights under section 1(1)(a) of the Act to be informed whether information is held, we confirm that the University does not hold any recorded information for the other type of accommodation undergraduate students are residing in (question 5). This information is not captured within our student records; therefore, we have provided the categories we do record and the figures for those.
Please note that the data held is for a student’s current accommodation type. Therefore, we'll only have high proportions in university supplied accommodation /halls of residence for students in their first year. The data provided would be historic first year numbers, and students will then typically move into 'other rented accommodation / own residence' etc in subsequent years.
For the number of students in University owned accommodation/ halls of residences, we have provided the number of students who started within halls for each of the academic years.