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All UK universities registered with the Office for Students are required to publish information relating to their undergraduate attainment.

The information published on these pages shows the number of students who attained a particular degree or other academic award, or a particular level of such an award, on completion of their course with us. These numbers are referenced by:

Gender
Ethnicity
Socio-economic background.

In this information, socio-economic background is measured by English Index of Multiple Deprivation (EIMD) quintile. Quintile 1 represents lowest and quintile 5 represents highest socio-economic status. Further information on EIMD can be found on the gov.uk website.

Our Access and Participation Plan (pdf 600kb) sets out the measures we are taking to support equality of opportunity for underrepresented groups. This includes our strategic aims relating to attainment. View a summary of the 2020-21 to 2024-25 access and participation plan (pdf 162kb).

Transparency 2023 information

Table 1a: Percentage of classified first degrees at grade 2:1 or above by characteristic for 2021-22 qualifiers

Characteristic	Characteristic split	Percentage
Ethnicity	Ethnic minorities	63%
Ethnicity	White	80%
EIMD 2019 quintile	1 and 2	70%
EIMD 2019 quintile	3 to 5	80%
Sex	Female	83.4%
	Male	70.9%
	Other	N

Table 1b: Detailed information on attainment for 2021-22 qualifiers

Mode of Study	Characteristic	Characteristic split	Headcount of classified First Degrees awarded	Percentage of classified First Degrees awarded as first class	Percentage of classified First Degrees awarded as upper second class	Percentage of classified First Degrees awarded as lower second class	Percentage of classified First Degrees awarded as third class / pass	Headcount of unclassified First Degrees awarded	Headcount of other undergraduate awards
Full-time	Ethnicity	Asian	160	20%	45%	30%	5%	N/A	N
		Black	100	10%	40%	45%	5%	N/A	N
		Mixed	170	20%	50%	25%	5%	N/A	30
		White	2640	30%	55%	15%	5%	N/A	300
		Other	40	10%	45%	40%	DP	N/A	N
		Unknown	30	20%	40%	30%	DP	N/A	N
	EIMD 2019 quintile	1	240	20%	50%	30%	5%	N/A	60
		2	470	20%	50%	25%	5%	N/A	70
		3	580	25%	50%	20%	0%	N/A	70
		4	750	25%	55%	15%	5%	N/A	90
		5	1060	30%	50%	15%	5%	N/A	100
		N/A	40	30%	45%	20%	5%	N/A	N
		Unknown	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
	Sex	Female	1690	28.8%	54.8%	14.7%	1.7%	N/A	190
		Male	1440	22.4%	48.1%	24.9%	4.6%	N/A	210
		Other	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
Part-time	Ethnicity	Asian	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
		Black	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
		Mixed	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
		White	30	25%	60%	10%	DP	N/A	70
		Other	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
		Unknown	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	50
	EIMD 2019 quintile	1	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
		2	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	30
		3	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	40
		4	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	30
		5	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
		N/A	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
		Unknown	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
	Sex	Female	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	100
		Male	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	50
		Other	N	N	N	N	N	N/A	N
Apprenticeships	Ethnicity	Asian	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		Black	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		Mixed	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		White	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		Other	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	EIMD 2019 quintile	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		3	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		4	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		5	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Sex	Female	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		Male	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		Other	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Key

N/A: Is displayed where there is no provision in a given mode or level.
N: Numerators and denominators have been rounded to the nearest 10. Where the numerator or denominator rounds to 20 or less, the data are suppressed with an "N".
DP: Data suppressed for data protection reasons. This is applied where the numerator is two or less, or differs from the denominator by no more than two students.

Data referenced in the above tables and information about the rounding and suppression of data is available for download (xlsx 35 kb).