Revealed: The unis with the lowest drop out rates

Zero per cent? Do they have giant magnets or something?


Sure, there are some unis basically nobody wants to stay at. That’s great, but at the other end of the scale there are unis with a crazy 0 per cent drop out rate.

The great and good only care about one battle, though. Cambridge beats Oxford by a mere 0.2 percentage points, meaning you’re fractionally less likely to leave Cambridge once you get there.

From Bath and Durham, to Exeter and St Andrews, the full ranking reads like a list of unis which parents would disown you for dropping out of, never to speak of you at another dinner party.

Check out the 25 unis with the lowest drop-out rates below:

Source: HESA non-continuation data, % of 2017/18 entrants no longer in HE

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