Access Agreement 2018-19Access Agreement • July 24th, 2018
Contract Type FiledJuly 24th, 2018The University of Birmingham offers an inspirational student experience at a selective leading global University. We are proud of our strong outreach and retention record, which has been developed over a long period of time and places us amongst the top Russell Group institutions.
Access Agreement 2017-18Access Agreement • July 24th, 2018
Contract Type FiledJuly 24th, 2018The University of Birmingham offers an inspirational student experience at a selective leading global University. We are proud of our strong outreach and retention record that has been built up over a long period of time, and which places us amongst the top Russell Group institutions. We continue to build on this record by committing the equivalent of c. 30% of our additional fee income to an enhanced range of outreach and access activities. Over the last 5 years, the HESA performance indicators show that we have consistently recruited in the region of 76-80% of our intake from state schools and out-performed many of our peer institutions in terms of the volume and proportion of students from lower socio-economic groups. On retention, the exceptional quality of our students and the high quality of their teaching and learning environment ensures that we are able to retain a higher proportion of our intake than either the average of our peers or the majority of the English higher educati