Jennifer Dwyer

Head of Admissions and Access Service

2013 INTAKE

University NI & EU (MaSN) plus GB intake in quota controlled subjects of 3641 against a target of 3615 (0.7% overshoot)

Year on year increase of 150 NI and EU students following additional 190 in 2012 (340 or 10.5% over two years)

81.5% of MaSN A-level entrants met or exceeded the conditions of their offers. Small decrease from 2012 accounted for by increase in asking grades, the additional MaSN places available and the reduction in the top grades awarded at A-level

Total intake to undergraduate degrees – 4630 including Nursing & Midwifery, Theology, GB and International

Nursing and Midwifery

First intake through UCAS

Applicants admitted to highest preference for which they were eligible

Non A-level entrants exceed A-level entrants

Average tariff score increased by 36 points

NATIONALLY

Total applicants up by +3.8%

Total applications up by +4.2%

NI applicants down by -0.2%

NI applicants to NI institutions up by +0.3%

Total applicants to NI institutions up by +2.9%

2014 - POSITION AT UCAS ADVISORY CLOSING DATE

QUEEN’S

Total applicants up by +1.3%

Total applications down by -0.14%

NI applicants to Queen’s down by -2.2%

NI applications to Queen’s down by -2.3%

UCAS APPLICANT STATISTICS

Context:Demographic changeDecreases in applicants/applicants to Nursing expectedDecrease in applications from NI applicants to higher tariff institutions of -8% but increase to lower tariff institutions of +4%

Domicile % Change 2012-2013 % Change 2013-14 excluding Nursing &

Midiwfery

% Change 2013-14 including Nursing &

Midwifery

NI +25.8 -1.4 -2.2

Great Britain +7.1 +8.1 +7.4

EU +34.5 +13.4 +1.8

Overseas +26.7 +55.2 +54.0

Total +23.7 +3.2 +1.3

QUEEN’S POSITION AT CLOSING DATE

2014 INTAKE TO QUEEN’S

Target intake

MaSN NI & EU plus GB quota controlled 3585 (3641) ie -1.5%Nursing (all fields) 401Midwifery 35

Limited Changes to Entrance RequirementsLaw AAA to AABAccounting AAA to AABBusiness Management AAB to ABBNursing BCC/CCC to BBC/BCCChemical Engineering - differential offers

Drama – interview post offer

Name change – Product Design & Development becomes Product Design Engineering

Foundation Degree in Product Design & Development discontinued Progression to Aeronautical, Mechanical and Product Design Engineering possible from Engineering Foundation Degree

Figures in brackets = actual intake in 2013

DECISIONS TO DATE

Paperlight Processing 77.2% of decisions made Increase in applications processed against same date last year Social Work and Nursing & Midwifery account for 60.6% of those outstanding English with Creative Writing GCSE/AS-level threshold for offers (some examples)

  2013 2014 (to date)Medicine 37 points 37 points + 4 A grades at AS in

Year 13.Dentistry 28 points 28 pointsActuarial 29 points 30 points (29 holding)Accounting Average to 7B at GCSE 1A + 5B or AAB at ASLaw Average to 6B at GCSE Average to 6B at GCSE or BBB at

AS-levelMEng GCSE – 6B GCSE - 6BMidwifery GCSE – 5B including Maths and

ScienceGCSE – 5B including Maths and Science

* Points for Medicine & Dentistry include UKCAT score

APPLICATIONS TO INDIVIDUAL SUBJECT AREAS

Trend towards vocational subjects not as prevalent this year

Significant variations in applications to different Schools

Highest increases in applications (NI & EU) to:

Business Information Technology +34.2%Business Management +28.5%Criminology +16.4%Law +15.1%Accounting +8.7%Electrical & Electronic Engineering +7.1%

Some flexibility likely in August for number of reasons but position will not be uniform – all qualifications will be taken into account

NURSING & MIDWIFERY2014-15 ENTRY

4838 applications from 2707 applicants (average 1.8 choices)

2427 applications for Nursing (all fields) – (-7.9% after +45.6 increase for 2012)

604 applications for Midwifery (-31.3% after +34.0% increase for 2012)

Small overlap between N&M and other degree programmes (202 applicants)

Shortlisting for interview (increased to 1500+ for Nursing all fields)

Interviews and decisions

Future plans

MEDICINE & DENTISTRY – NI, EU & GB APPLICANTS Dentistry – 111 interviewed

77 offers made

Medicine – 648 interviewed372 offers made (375 in 2013)Second time MMI performancePilot SchemeNI applicants – higher success rates. Account for 49.7% of applicants

but 62.9% of offers made

Medicine – further breakdown (NI, EU & GB applicants)

NI Overall

Applicants 440 886

Interviewed 356 (80.9%) 648 (73.1%)

Offers 234 (65.7%) 372 (57.4%)

% Applicants made offers 53.2% 41.9%

ADMISSIONS POLICY

A-level Environmental Technology

Double Award Science – changes to grading

New UCAS tariff

Qualification size x grade bands

AS-level change

Changes to GCSE and A-level qualifications

Differences between England and Northern Ireland

Portability

QUESTIONS