More students from ethnic minority backgrounds studying for degrees
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} More students from ethnic minority backgrounds are studying for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, data reveals. In total, more than a quarter of UK students were from ethnic minority backgrounds in 2020/21, one percentage point higher than the previous year. The proportion of students from ethnic minority backgrounds on taught masters programmes had also gone up, with 27% of masters students coming from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, compared with 24% the previous year. In postgraduate research programmes, for example students studying for a phD, the proportion of ethnic minority students is just over one in five, a rise of four percentage points on the previous year, according to Higher Education Statistics Agency data.
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