I am interested to know how many (percentage) students in the UK get
each degree classification in their first degree.  Ie how many fail,
get a 3rd, 2.2, 2.1 or 1st.  Results can be from any individual UK
university (preferable not Oxford or Cambridge though), or a country
wide average.  Cheers

Dear blueincubus-ga,

The nearest statistics available to your criteria are these statistics
for Higher Education (HE) students from the Higher Education
Statistics Agency.

The table provides HE qualifications obtained in the UK by level, mode
of study, domicile, gender, class of first degree and subject area.

For 2004/2005 the results were as follows:

Total first degrees 271345 
First Class 29440 
Upper Second 122840 
Lower Second 83240 
Third Class/ Pass 18225 
Unclassified 17600 

Much more information on this link.
http://www.hesa.ac.uk/holisdocs/pubinfo/student/quals0405.htm

For earlier years.
http://www.hesa.ac.uk/holisdocs/pubinfo/stud.htm


I hope this answers your question. If it does not, or the answer is
unclear, then please ask for clarification of this research before
rating the answer. I shall respond to the clarification request as
soon as I receive it.
Thank you
answerfinder


Successful search strategy
uk degrees "league tables?, led me to a newspaper link to the site.

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Clarification of Answer by answerfinder-ga on 29 Jun 2006 09:25 PDT

Sorry, I have just noticed I quoted the full time statistics.
Part-time is as follows,

Total first degrees 35020 
First Class 3025 
Upper Second 9930 
Lower Second 9365 
Third Class/ Pass 4060 
Unclassified 8635

answerfinder-ga

Excellent thank you