Some elite universities in England continue to admit just a fraction of their student body from within their own region, analysis reveals, while other institutions in Northern Ireland and Scotland have little if any intake from outside their borders.
Figures provided to Times Higher Education by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show that 50 per cent of UK first-degree full-time students were attending university within their own region in 2021-22.
This was down slightly from the year before, but there were wide variations across the 158 institutions included in the data.
Just 10 per cent of UK students at the University of Durham were from the north east of England – down from 10.5 per cent in 2020-21 and the lowest proportion of any UK institution.
