Roy Bowdler: OU educates nearly one-third (31%) of the U.K.’s university-going individuals under 25.
“34% of new OU undergraduates are under 25” (source OU website). Whilst I haven’t taken the time to research the numbers further, for the OU to have nearly one-third of undergraduates under 25, seems unlikely to me?
I have done a bit of research. If the OU have 34% under 25 (out of 173,927) that equates to 59,135 students under 25. If this is 31% of the UK's university going individuals under 25 then this means there are 190,759 students under 25 (not strictly true as I have ignored post-grad students, but bear with me). Therefore out of 1,727,895 UK undergraduate students (source https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/facts-and-stats/data-and-analysis/Documents/facts-and-figures-2016.pdf) only 11% are under 25......
There is definitely something wrong with these figures.
Roy Bowdler: OU educates nearly one-third (31%) of the U.K.’s university-going individuals under 25.
“34% of new OU undergraduates are under 25” (source OU website). Whilst I haven’t taken the time to research the numbers further, for the OU to have nearly one-third of undergraduates under 25, seems unlikely to me?
I have done a bit of research. If the OU have 34% under 25 (out of 173,927) that equates to 59,135 students under 25. If this is 31% of the UK's university going individuals under 25 then this means there are 190,759 students under 25 (not strictly true as I have ignored post-grad students, but bear with me). Therefore out of 1,727,895 UK undergraduate students (source https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/facts-and-stats/data-and-analysis/Documents/facts-and-figures-2016.pdf) only 11% are under 25......
There is definitely something wrong with these figures.
