FO_26-168 Nursing student completers

Date of response: 07 August 2026

We have now considered your request of 23 July 2026 for the following information:

Please can you supply information on all students who began nursing degree courses in the academic year 2022-2023, regardless of which month your university’s academic year begins. If your institution only has four-year pre-registration nursing degree courses, please state so and give us the figures instead for beginning their degree in 2021-2022.

If a student has stepped off from their studies or otherwise taken a break leading to their failure to complete their course within the expected three-year timeframe, 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 2022-23 (this includes any cohorts that began their studies in spring 2023 as well as those who at any point in the academic year, not only those that began in September)? [If your institution only has four-year pre-registration nursing degree courses, please state so and give us the figures instead for beginning their degree in 2021-2022]

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 2024-25? (this includes those cohorts that completed in winter 2025 or spring 2026 if they began their course in spring 2023) [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 2024-25 but had previously stepped off programmes that started prior to 2022-23]

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.

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