Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of students who have graduated with a degree in video games in each year since 2010.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects and publishes statistics on enrolments and qualifications obtained at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Latest statistics refer to the academic year 2016/17.

The table below shows the numbers of first degree qualifiers in computer games subjects for each year since 2012/13. Information on the number of qualifiers in these subjects has been available since the introduction of the third version of Joint Academic Coding System (JACS3) in 2012/13, hence figures cannot be provided for any year prior to that.

Full-person-equivalent[1] First Degree qualifiers in computer games subjects

UK HEIs

Academic years 2012/13 to 2016/17

[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] Qualifiers in Games (principal category I6 of the JACS), which includes Games, Computer games programming, Computer game design and Computer games graphics. This code is only available since the introduction of JACS3 in 2012/13. More information on JACS codes can be found at the following link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/jacs.