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This new report designed for higher education course accreditors includes bespoke analysis giving a complete overview of students studying your profession at UK universities.

Expert analysts group the courses you currently accredit together and benchmark them against non-accredited comparators in key areas to aid your decision making. The accompanying scorecard offers detailed, course-level analysis using a range of metrics to support your programme accreditation strategy.

Benefits to you

As a higher education course accreditor, this can help you:

• Secure the long-term health of your profession (such as education, engineering, construction or accounting) by making data-driven course accreditation decisions
• Make sure you're working with the right universities to accredit the right courses
• Strengthen the supply chain of your subject's workforce with graduates who have the right skills
• Gain critical evidence about entry numbers, dropout rates (see screenshot below), international student recruitment, widening participation, diversity, course qualifications and post-graduation activity (including employment/study details)

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Screenshot of dashboard showing data of undergraduate and postgraduate students who dropped out during academic years between 2014-2018

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Who the accreditation report and scorecard is for

• Professional membership bodies that accredit university courses, looking to measure student performance across higher education in their chosen profession
• Accreditors who want to identify new courses or review their current portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate course accreditation
• Professional bodies looking to improve their decision-making using evidence from expert HE analysts and trusted HESA data
• Regulatory bodies that want to work with the right universities to ensure they are meeting the professional standards of their industry
   

As well as those that:

• Want a detailed overview of a chosen subject area in higher education
• Are looking for the latest trends to create better engagement policies with students studying for professions in your industry
• Are looking to expand the reach of their membership by engaging with students while they are studying to enhance their career development
• Want to understand the diversity of students studying courses at university within your profession
   

Register your interest in the accreditation report and scorecard.

HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) is the expert provider of data on the UK higher education sector, and the designated data body for England.

It collects, assures and disseminates data about higher education (HE) in the UK on behalf of statutory bodies. As the trusted source of HE data it plays a key role in supporting and enhancing the competitive strength of the sector. Collaborating with HE providers in each of the four nations to collect and curate one of the world’s leading HE data resources.

Using this knowledge and expertise HESA provides a rich, readily available resource for data users.