Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people graduated with a STEM degree in each of the last four years for which figures are available.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on students obtaining qualifications from UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The latest statistics refer to the academic year 2016/17: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01-2018/sfr247-higher-education-student-statistics/qualifications.

Information on first degree qualifiers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects from the academic year 2013/14 onwards has been provided in the table below.

First degree qualifiers¹ in STEM² subjects at UK HEIs

Academic years 2013/14 to 2016/17

Source: HESA Student Record

Notes

1. Counts are on the basis of full-person-equivalents. Where a student is studying more than one subject, they are apportioned between the subjects that make up their course.
2. STEM subjects are defined by HESA as subject groups A to K under the JACS3 classification. More information is available here: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/jacs/jacs3-detailed.
3. Figures rounded to nearest five and so the sum of columns may not add to totals.