Student Population Profiles

Profiles of the student population give insight into how the provider’s population is comprised across various internal groupings, such as departments, faculties, courses, modules, and across protected characteristics, such as age or gender.

It gives providers an in-depth analysis of how the overall indicators are comprised, and identifies areas of good practice, and areas to target for improvement.

Student population profiles give providers insight into how their student population is comprised. This includes splits across the following categories:

Mode of study (Full-time, Part-time or Apprenticeship)
Level of study (Undergraduate groups, Postgraduate groups) - which align with the performance indicators
Student characteristics (e.g. Age, Disability)

Our dashboards are in a similar format to those of the OfS shape and size of provision data dashboard but show data at a more disaggregated level, i.e.

Faculty
Department
Research centre
Courses
Modules

Student Population Profile Examples

Population Profiles can be filtered by Department or faculty and detail the breakdown by characteristic, of the student population.

The first section shows the count and percentage of the population by the relevant characteristics

The second section shows the counts of students, the counts of courses, and the average number of students by course. The counts and percentages of students by year of course are also shown.

The third section shows the counts of full-time and part-time students for each of the course within a department/faculty. This section also highlights data quality issues such as full time students on part time courses.