International Baccalaureate Qualification
Analysis: 2005 entry
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Summary
Offers Data
25.4% of IB applicants were domiciled in the UK, 38.3% in the EU and 36.3% domiciled in non EU countries. Although 70.3% of applications from IB applicants received offers, those domiciled outside of the EU were the most successful with 73.2% of their applications receiving offers. 70.7% of IB applicants successfully gained a HE place through UCAS. Those IB applicants from the UK had the highest proportion of acceptances with 85.2% with those from non EU countries the lowest proportion with 61.0% applicants accepted.
Law and Management Studies were the most popular preferred subject lines for IB applicants. Considering preferred subject line by domicile, whilst Law, Management Studies, Medicine, Economics and Psychology all appeared in the top ten subject lines, UK domiciled IB applicants included arts and humanities in the top ten preferred subjects with those from EU and non EU countries including engineering.
88.8% of all IB applications to Mechanical Engineering received offers. The lowest proportion of offers received was for medicine with 83.2% of applications having an unsuccessful outcome. For applications to Law although 61.4% of all IB applications received offers, 72.9% of non EU applications received offers compared to 53.4% of EU applications. By using a Chi squared test, it was proved that this was statistically significant. A Chi squared test also confirmed that applications from IB applicants to Management Studies were treated differently in terms of receiving offers, dependent on where the applicant was domiciled. Applications to Medicine were also treated differently dependent on where the applicant was domiciled: 16.8% of all IB applications received offers, only 9.3% of EU IB applicants and 15.9% of Non EU IB applicants received offers compared to 28.5% of UK IB applications. Whilst this difference was statistically significant, it may be attributed to medical schools limiting the numbers of overseas students they are able to admit due to financial constraints.
50.9% of IB applications were to Pre-92 Universities/Russell Group institutions with 31.8% to other Pre-92 Universities. 59.0% of applications from non EU IB applicants were for Pre-92 Universities/Russell Group institutions. Of the 70.3% of applications from IB applicants receiving offers, 31.0% were from Pre-92 Universities/Russell Group institutions. Of all 70.7% IB applicants accepted, 49.6% were accepted by Pre-92 Universities/Russell Group institutions. Other Pre-92 Universities accepted a further 32.7% of IB applicants.
Profiling of IB and Non IB Applicants
Age
62.9% of all IB applicants were aged 18, for non IB applicants there was far more of a spread of age ranges with those aged 18 only accounting for 42.6%. There were similar proportions of those aged 19 in IB applicant populations (21.4%) and non IB applicant population (20.1%). 26.2% of non IB applicants were aged 21 or above compared to 0.4% of IB applicants. For those domiciled in non EU countries, 56.1% of IB applicants were aged 18 compared to only 16.5% of non IB applicants.
Gender
The proportion of male to female in both populations was very similar with 45.9% male applicants in IB and 45.7% male in non IB. The proportions of males and females accepted was also broadly similar between the two populations with 46.4% of male IB applicants accepted and 46.5% of male non IB applicants accepted. However for non EU applicants 46.2% of IB applicants were male but for non IB applicants this rose to 58.0% males. This was reflected in the accepted applicants for non EU countries as 57.8% of accepted applicants were male.
Disability
97.1% of IB applicants had no disability and 95.1% of non IB applicants had no disability. Learning difficulties accounted for the highest proportion of applicants with disabilities for both IB and non IB applicants (2.0% and 2.6% respectively). 98.9% of non EU non IB applicants had no disability, a higher proportion than non EU IB applicants (97.9%). Amongst accepted applicants, those from the UK were more likely to have a disability with 95.8% IB accepted applicants and 94.5% non IB accepted applicants having no disability. With 98.1% of accepted IB applicants and 98.9% of accepted non IB applicants, those from non EU countries applicants were the least likely to have a disability.
Socio-economic Status
Compared to UK domiciled non IB applicants, UK domiciled IB applicants were over represented in the socio economic classes higher managerial and professional occupations and lower managerial and professional occupations and under represented in intermediate occupations, small employers and own account workers, lower supervisory and technical occupations, semi-routine occupations and routine occupations. This position is mirrored in applications receiving offers and accepted applicants.
Ethnicity
For those domiciled in the UK 78.6% of IB applicants and 76.4% of non IB applicants were White. There were higher proportions of applicants classing themselves as Asian (9.4%) and Black (5.2%) in the non IB population compared to the IB population (6.8% and 2.2% respectively). A slightly higher proportion of those classing themselves as Mixed was present in the IB population (6.1%) compared to the non IB population (2.6%). Compared to IB accepted applicants, non IB accepted were over represented amongst the Asian and Black ethnic groups and under represented in the Mixed ethnic group.
School Type
Almost a third of UK domiciled IB applicants applied from independent schools. Just under half UK domiciled non IB applicants applied from comprehensive and further/higher education establishments. Accepted applicants mirrored the base populations with almost a third of accepted IB applicants applying from independent schools and for non IB applicants almost half of accepted applicants were from further/higher education establishments.
Region
Applicants domiciled in the EU accounted for both 38.3% of IB applicants and 38.3% of applications made by IB applicants. Those applicants domiciled outside the EU accounted for 36.3% of IB applicants and 35.9% of applications. Of IB accepted applicants 38.1% were domiciled in the EU. The distribution of non IB applicants was completely different with 85.7% UK domiciled, 9.1% domiciled in non EU countries and 5.2% domiciled within the EU. This was mirrored in non IB accepted applicants with 89.3% of accepted applicants domiciled in the UK.
Offers and Acceptances
Applications from IB applicants were more successful, with 70.3% of applications receiving offers compared to 65.8% of non IB applications. In terms of gaining a HE place, IB applicants were less successful with 70.7% of applicants accepted compared to 77.7% of non IB applicants.
AMW
January 2006
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