Table 1.
Characteristics of students admitted to medical degree programmes, 2002-6
| Traditional courses | Graduate entry courses (n=2948) | Pre-medical courses (n=480) | Foundation courses (n=325) | All courses (n=34 407) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All universities (n=30 654) | Established universities (n=28 136) | New universities (n=2518) | |||||
| Sex: | |||||||
| Male | 12 311 (40) | 11 286 (40) | 1025 (41) | 1238 (42) | 156 (33) | 123 (38) | 13 828 (40) |
| Female | 18 343 (60) | 16 850 (60) | 1493 (59) | 1710 (58) | 324 (68) | 202 (62) | 20 579 (60) |
| Age (years): | |||||||
| Mean | 19.2 | 19.0 | 21.5 | 25.5 | 22.2 | 20.9 | 19.8 |
| Median (IQR) | 18 (18-19) | 18 (18-19) | 19 (19-23) | 24 (22-27) | 20 (18-24) | 19 (18-20) | 18 (18-19) |
| Range | 17-51 | 17-51 | 17-51 | 20-51 | 17-46 | 17-51 | 17-51 |
| Ethnicity*: | |||||||
| White | 21 415 (70) | 19 459 (69) | 1956 (78) | 2462 (84) | 405 (84) | 73 (23) | 24 355 (71) |
| Mixed | 971 (3) | 890 (3) | 81 (3) | 82 (3) | 11 (2) | 14 (4) | 1078 (3) |
| Other | 519 (2) | 486 (2) | 33 (1) | 16 (1) | 7 (2) | 16 (5) | 558 (2) |
| Black Caribbean | 86 (0.3) | 80 (0.28) | 6 (0.24) | 14 (1) | 2 (0.4) | 8 (3) | 110 (0.3) |
| Black African | 602 (12) | 536 (2) | 66 (3) | 53 (2) | 6 (1) | 86 (27) | 747 (2) |
| Black other | 33 (0.1) | 29 (0.10) | 4 (0.16) | 1 (0) | 1 (0.2) | 3 (1) | 38 (0.1) |
| Pakistani | 1342 (4) | 1252 (4) | 90 (4) | 68 (2) | 9 (2) | 34 (11) | 1453 (4) |
| Bangladeshi | 288 (1) | 268 (1) | 20 (1) | 15 (1) | 1 (0.2) | 32 (10) | 336 (1) |
| Indian | 2917 (10) | 2778 (10) | 139 (6) | 112 (4) | 8 (2) | 18 (6) | 3055 (9) |
| Chinese | 720 (2) | 704 (3) | 16 (1) | 25 (1) | 7 (2) | 4 (1) | 756 (2) |
| Other Asian | 1265 (4) | 1199 (4) | 66 (3) | 53 (2) | 8 (2) | 29 (9) | 1355 (4) |
| Not known | 496 (2) | 455 (2) | 41 (2) | 47 (2) | 15 (3) | 8 (3) | 566 (2) |
| Parental occupation: | |||||||
| Higher managerial-professional | 12 528 (41) | 11 715 (42) | 813 (32) | 801 (27) | 141 (29) | 24 (8) | 13 495 (39) |
| Lower managerial- professional | 7615 (25) | 6934 (25) | 681 (27) | 614 (21) | 129 (27) | 73 (23) | 8433 (25) |
| Intermediate occupations | 2949 (10) | 2677 (10) | 272 (11) | 256 (9) | 57 (12) | 40 (13) | 3301 (10) |
| Lower supervisory-technical | 576 (2) | 533 (2) | 43 (2) | 15 (1) | 7 (2) | 7 (2) | 604 (2) |
| Routine occupations† | 522 (2) | 478 (2) | 44 (2) | 18 (1) | 6 (1) | 15 (5) | 562 (2) |
| Semiroutine occupations‡ | 1730 (6) | 1573 (6) | 157 (6) | 215 (7) | 25 (5) | 51 (16) | 2026 (6) |
| Small employers-own account workers | 1227 (4) | 1123 (4) | 104 (4) | 40 (1) | 20 (4) | 14 (5) | 1302 (4) |
| Not stated | 3507 (11) | 3103 (11) | 404 (16) | 989 (34) | 95 (20) | 88 (28) | 4684 (14) |
*Original UCAS dataset noted over 20 different ethnic groups based on National Census descriptors, here compressed into these 12 groups for ease of analysis.
†Examples include HGV/van driver; cleaner; bar staff.
‡Examples include postal worker, security guard, receptionist.