Arts and humanities among highest drop-out rates in 2020-21

Of those that 'dropped out', female students were more likely to be in education (46%) after one year compared to with male students (36%).

More than 40% of students who did not progress into the second year of their higher education degree went back to do another course within a year, new data shows.

Arts and humanities and social sciences, journalism, and information had the largest cohort of dropped-out students who were in neither employment nor education after one year.