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Creating Prosperity: the role of higher educationin driving the UK’s creative economy36Table 4.0: Creative economy-related courses 2008/09Number of courses %Computing science 1,532 30%Media studies, publishing and journalism 1,450 29%Marketing 1,338 26%Creative art and design 326 6%Engineering and technology 207 4%Architecture, building and planning 201 4%Total 5,054 100%Source: UCASNote: includes all course types4.66 From 2002/03 to 2006/07 the number of students in the creative subjects increased year on year,following the same pattern for students of all subjects (Figure 4.1). However, in 2007/08 bothencountered a negative change before recovering again in 2008/09.Figure 4.1: Number of students in creative economy-related subjects 2002/03–2008/09400,0002,450,000395,0002,400,000390,0002,350,000385,0002,300,000380,0002,250,000375,0002,200,000370,0002,150,000365,0002,100,000360,0002002–032003–042004–052005–062006–072007–082008–092,050,000Creative economyAll subjectsSource: HESA4.67 Looking in more detail, it is at once apparent that the decrease in the number of creative economystudents over the period from 2005/06 to 2008/09 can be attributed to falling numbers in computingscience. On the other hand, growth in architecture, creative arts and design and communicationsstudies has continued (Figure 4.2, over).4.0 Higher education’s contribution