Fact Book

Explore the 5 year trends for our different cohorts of students.

Undergraduate

  2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
Full time* 13,846 14,114 14,412 14,592 14,855
Part time* 128 157 150 155 152
Distance*          
Total* 13,974 14,271 14,562 14,747 15,007

*excluding Visiting and ACE students

Postgraduate

  2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
Full time* 3117 3,342 3,860 3973 3764
Part time* 1,417 1,792 2,535 2410 2493
Distance* 154 169 173 182 158
Total* 4,688 5,303 6,568 6,565 6,415

*excluding Visiting and ACE students

Visiting

  2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
Undergraduate 1,480 1,387 188 1045 1224
Postgraduate 32 31 24 41 39
Total 1,512 1,418 212 1086 1263

Overall Totals

  2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
Undergraduate Total (including visiting) 15,454 15,658 14,750 15,792 16,231
Postgraduate Total (including visiting) 4,720 5,334 6,592 6,606 6,454
Adult Continuing Education (ACE) 1,720  1,658  795  1,797  1,701 
Overall Total 21,894 22,650 22,137 24,195 24,386

Postgrads as a percentage of total

  2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
% excl visiting 25.15% 27.09% 31.08% 30.08% 29.95%
% incl visiting 23.40% 25.41% 30.89% 29.76% 28.44%

PhD

  2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
Full time PhD 934 977 988 1081 1130
Part time PhD 129 112 134 154 150
Total 1005 1089 1122 1235 1280

Taught Postgraduate

  2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23*
Full time 1,985 2,211 2,720 2,727 2,634
Part time 1,234 1,642 2,348 2,200 2,686
Distance 154 169 173 182 244
Total 3,373 4,022 5,241 5,109 5,564

*2022/23 Taught Postgraduate includes ACE and Visiting

Key

  • Source: UCC Data Warehouse
  • All headcount figures are based on student enrolment on the 1st of March unless otherwise stated.
  • Overall Total: These figures are the total number of students registered on ITS, UCC's current student records system.
  • ACE: Adult Continuing Education

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