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Facts and figures

Statistics and facts about our student population, research, campus and alumni.

Factsheet

Student population

We have 21,340 students enrolled. 27% come from outside the UK, representing 152 nationalities.

We have:

  • 15,955 undergraduates
  • 5,385 postgraduates
  • 9,780 female students (46%)
  • 11,425 male students (54%)
  • 95 students who do not identify as male or female (0%)1

These numbers are based on statistics for the 2024/25 academic year from Academic Registry.

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Placements and employment

  • 64% of students who graduated from our undergraduate courses in 2023/24 chose a placement year or study abroad option
  • 92% of our full-time UK-based graduates were in high-skilled employment 15 months after leaving university. This compares to an average of 73% for similar graduates from the sector (University UK members)2
  • 70% of Bath graduates3 had a salary of £30,000 or above compared to 38% for the sector, 15 months after leaving2
  • We are one of the 20 universities most targeted by Britain’s top graduate employers in 2023-20244

Research

  • The current portfolio of research projects is valued at £194 million and consists of around 160 funders
  • In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), 92% of our research was defined as world-leading or internationally excellent
  • We have been awarded two Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education, most recently in 2011 for our 'Influential research into child poverty and support for vulnerable people'
  • Five new Bath Beacons were established at the start of the academic year 2023/24. These Beacons will empower the research community to tackle major global challenges

Campus

  • In the last decade, we have invested over £450 million in our campus - this includes new accommodation, academic buildings, and sports facilities such as the Olympic Legacy swimming pool
  • Our library is open 24 hours a day, every day
  • The Edge, our £10.9 million arts and management building, opened in February 2016
  • We invested £4.5 million in redeveloping the former Bath police station into The Virgil Building, which features a student learning zone and hosts some of our professional services
  • In 2022, we opened the new School of Management building, which includes a 250 seat auditorium, an Employability Hub and a Behavioural Research Lab

Sport

  • Our renowned Sports Training Village (STV) – open to students, staff, and the public all year round – has indoor and outdoor facilities to accommodate a wide range of sports, gym, and fitness activities
  • Around 250 international-level athletes and more than 20 regional or national sport squads base themselves at the STV or have their national governing body (NGB) based here
  • The University is one of just eight institutions nationwide to be awarded the status of UK Sport-accredited Elite Training Centre, a title that celebrates its contribution to the preparation of elite Olympic and Paralympic athletes
  • Olympic, Paralympic, and World Champions who train at the University include:
    • Tom Dean, Kieran Bird, and Suzanna Hext (swimming)
    • Joe Choong (modern pentathlon)
    • Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver (wheelchair fencing)
    • Matt Weston (skeleton)

Alumni

  • We have over 150,000 alumni living and working in more than 170 countries around the world - find out about some of our notable alumni
  • Our alumni and friends pledged over £68 million to support our students and researchers during our Look Further campaign
  • Gifts from alumni and friends have supported over 2,500 scholarship and bursary recipients at undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD level
  • Our largest donation came from our alumnus Dr Jonathan Milner, who donated £5 million to fund the Milner Centre for Evolution

  1. Data is rounded to the nearest 5 students or supressed if the count of students drops below 2.5. Percentages derived from rounded data. 40 students chose 'prefer not to say' for gender.  ↩

  2. Data from HESA Graduate Outcomes survey 2021/22. Refers to full-time UK domiciled first degree 2021/22 graduates, who entered work in the UK, 15 months after completing their courses. Contains Higher Education Statistics Agency Data: Copyright Jisc 2024. Jisc cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by third parties from its data.  ↩

  3. Data from HESA Graduate Outcomes survey 2021/22. Refers to full-time UK domiciled first degree 2021/22 graduates, who entered full-time paid employment in the UK and with paid employment as most important activity at the time of the census, 15 months after leaving university. Contains Higher Education Statistics Agency Data: Copyright Jisc 2024. Jisc cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by third parties from its data.  ↩

  4. Data from High Fliers survey on the Graduate Market 2024. ↩

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