FOI_25-209 Nursing students enrolled

Date of response: 18 July 2025

We have now considered your request of 10 July 2025 for the following information:

Please can you supply information on all students who began nursing degree courses in the academic year 2021-2022, regardless of which month your university’s academic year begins.

If a student has stepped off from their studies, or otherwise taken a break in the academic year we have asked for completion rates for, please count this as a non-completion.

PLEASE NOTE THE REQUEST FOR ALL FIELDS OF NURSING TO BE INCLUDED, AS DETAILED AT QUESTION 3.

Question 1. How many undergraduate students began three-year pre-registration nursing degree courses [in any field of nursing] at your university in the academic year 2021-22 (this includes any cohorts that started in September 2021 or January 2022)? [If your institution only has four-year pre-registration nursing degree courses, please state so and give us the figures for students completing their degree at the same end point i.e. 2023-2024]

Question 2. How many undergraduate students completed this three-year pre-registration nursing degree course [of any field of nursing] in the expected time frame at your university in the academic year 2023-24? [If a student has stepped off from their studies, or otherwise taken a break in the academic year, please count this as a non-completion. Please don’t include figures for nursing students who completed their studies in 2023-24 but had previously stepped off programmes that started prior to 2021-22]

Question 3. As well as providing an overall total of nursing students who began and completed these courses, please also supply the same information on starters and completers but broken down into nursing field of study, eg; ‘Mental Health Nursing’ students; ‘Adult Nursing’ students; ‘Learning Disability Nursing’ students; ‘Children’s Nursing’ students.

Our response: