Key Facts and Figures 0607 - Higher Education Authority

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Social Sciences, Business & Law is the most popular discipline for postgraduate study, particularly at the Masters Degree level. The most popular PhD discipline is Science with over half of all PhD enrolments in that discipline Section 5 KEY POINTS Universities, Colleges of Education, NCAD & RCSI Social Science, Business, Law and Arts and Humanities graduates constituted 52.5% of all undergraduate output in 2006 PhD output has increased by 19% since 2005/2006 Of those achieving a first class honours bachelor degree in 2006 59% are female up from 56% in 2006 Institutes of Technology & Dublin Institute of Technology (IoTs), Private and Other Institutions In line with IoT enrolment trends, graduate output at Level 6 and 7 has been decreasing, while output at Level 8 is up almost 20% since 2005 Female IoT graduates outnumber males in all fields but Science (59% male) and Engineering (90% male); overall, 51% of IoT graduates are male While the overall cohort remains small, just over 50% of Level 10 graduates are in the Science field, down from almost 75% in 2005 SUMMARY KEY POINTS Section 6 KEY POINTS Universities, Colleges of Education, NCAD & RCSI The number of full time enrolments is in general increasing across the age spectrum. The increasing number of mature students may partly be due to increasing numbers of graduates progressing to postgraduate level. The number of mature (+23) new entrants increased by 18% between 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 NUIG remains the college with the greatest diversity of Irish students by province with 59.8% hailing from Connaught The number of international students enrolled on full-time programmes increased by 11% in 2006/2007 The greatest proportion of overseas students enrolled in the universities et al in 2006/2007 came from America North Institutes of Technology & Dublin Institute of Technology (IoTs) The number of new entrants under 19 declined by 9% between 2005/2006 and 2006/2007. Whereas the number of new entrants between 19 and 21 increased by 20% 11
The number of mature (+23) new entrants increased by 14% Only 4.6% of students attending IoTs were from outside the Republic of Ireland, in comparison to 10.4% of university et al enrolments The vast majority (69%) of these overseas students came from within the EU, though students from Asia make up the bulk (19%) of the remainder SUMMARY KEY POINTS 12
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