Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 May 2023
749. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students who dropped out of university in 2022, disaggregated by university name, course family, (i.e. engineering, arts/humanities, science, and so on), stage of departure (i.e. 1st year, 2nd year, and so on) and EU vs non-EU student, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22569/23]
View answerThe information requested by the Deputy is not available.
The key source of statistics on students in higher education is the HEA's student records system (SRS) which records enrolments as at March of every academic year, giving a single point of reference. Therefore data is not available on a national level on students who leave their programme during the course of the academic year.
The HEA publishes reports on progression, which track the proportion of students registered in first year who progress to second year. The latest report, which tracks progression from entrants in 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20 academic years, reports an overall progression rate of 87% for 2017/18, 88% for 2018/19 and 91% for 2019/20 new entrants. Analysis of the data, including a breakdown by institution, can be found on the HEA's website at the following link: hea.ie/statistics/data-for-download-and-visualisations/students/progression/progression-introduction/
The HEA also publishes data on completion rates - i.e. the proportion of students who start a course in a given year and graduate within the institution they began in. The latest data published relates to students who entered higher education in 2010 and had graduated by the end of the 2017/18 academic year. A range of analyses, including analysis by institution, can be found on the HEA website: hea.ie/statistics/data-for-download-and-visualisations/progression-completion-data/completion-analysis-200809-200910-201011-entrants/
