Talk:List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment

message: Uhm, according to this page, the University of Plymouth has 27,500 students, yet the University of Plymouth article states that it has "over 30,000" students. Where do people get their information from?  Janipewter — Preceding undated comment added 12:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbers of students

message: Only postgraduate, full-time undergraduate and HND students on UCAS-recognised courses are counted.
And yet the top institution is the Open University which has very few full time undergraduates and I'd be astounded if the PGs are making up the difference!
The Higher Education Statistics Agency has freely available online data and also covers institutions like Birkbeck, University of London which have very few full time UGs - the most recent data is at http://www.hesa.ac.uk/holisdocs/pubinfo/student/institution0405.htm. Would this be a better source to use? Timrollpickering 14:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Data used 

message: 19/10/07 - Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea are no longer part of the University of Wales — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.194.94 (talk) 19:28, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: University of Wales update

message: Technically, not all of the institutions listed here are universities, so the title is somewhat misleading. Would it be better to use higher education institutions? Cordless Larry (talk) 13:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the problem is that by college, I think most British people understand further education college (whereas in other parts of the world it has different connotations). How about List of UK higher education institutions, with a redirect from List of UK universities? Cordless Larry (talk) 19:18, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

text: List of universities in the United Kingdom includes other HEIs, but under different headings. This could be another option. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:05, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Not all are universities

message: How about a list of uk universities by annual turnover.  That would be really interesting.  I think this info is available on their website in their annual reports.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.173.81 (talk) 08:24, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Turnover

message: This needs updating - it's 3 years out of date. I might do it if/when I get time. MikeJamesShaw (talk) 12:48, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 2012 Update

message: As has been said v. out of date, also format means if one person wants to update with more recent info, they cannot as it entails changing all the ranks, is there an easier way to do that ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xyphoid (talk • contribs) 18:58, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  format 

message: This list is outdated since it uses data published by HESA for 2011/12. 
I would recommend waiting for the release of 2013/14 data, which is due February 2015. Is there an easier way to update the list than actually checking and updating each line manually?
Also there may be newer student numbers on specific University pages available, because Universities tend to publish their student numbers more quickly then HESA.
JonaZ (talk) 00:14, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: , I have updated to 2013/2014 data. And yes, if you organise the spreadsheet to the same way the table looks on Wikipedia (i.e. add rankings), simply copy and paste to excel2wiki.net. You can create footnotes in a seperate column on Excel then use the & function to combine the number of students and footnote into one cell. You can also set up columns either side of the name of institution column containing the brackets for wikilinks and again use the & function to combine it into one cell. This is by far the most efficient way to update data tables on Wikipedia. Hope that helps and feel free to ask me questions. In regards to university pages, I'd prefer to wait until the HESA publish data, since some universities will have different years and that makes the data far less comparable. Jolly Ω Janner 21:17, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  List outdated 

message: UoB's own wikipage says it is ranked 4th largest. And there is no entry against rank 4. B3cccy (talk) 20:10, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Good spot . It looks like the page was vandalised by an anonymous user in June, who deleted Birmingham. I've reinstated it. Robminchin (talk) 02:09, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of Birmingham seems to be missing 

message: University of Wales and Heythrop College are now defunct institutions and should be removed from he list. University of London (Institutes and activities) is not clear, what does it indicate?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GS-216.1993 (talk • contribs) 08:56, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Both Wales and Heythrop are still shown as having students enroled in the latest HESA data, which is the source for this page. This is because the data lags behind by a year or two, so in the year to which the take refers they were not defunct. University of London (institutes and activities) refers to the central institutes and activities of the University of London, as distinct from the colleges. Robminchin (talk) 20:38, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defunct institutions and UoL 

message: :Some administrators and editors are deliberately deleting and missing out numbers of collegiate federal University of London. Let me put this in perspective,  UOL is 17 member institutions (former constituent colleges) [that gave UOL degrees from 1836 to 2008] and three central academic bodies. University of Oxford  is made up of thirty-nine semi-autonomous constituent colleges, six permanent private halls, and a range of academic departments and University of Cambridge is  made up of 31 semi-autonomous constituent colleges and over 150 academic departments, faculties and other institutions organised into six schools.
:How is it Oxford and Cambrige have numbers put up and UOL missing? Even old data (upton 1 or 2 yrs old is fine) as long as the article has source and approved external link to verify the information. The negative bias against UOL is pathetic.
:— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:201:4005:90c2:f913:1d0f:ac6f:5c6f (talk) 15:22, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbers and data missing for University of London