Bristol University has more private schooled students than Cambridge

A new study by the Higher Education Statistics Agency has found that Bristol University admits fewer state school students than the University of Cambridge.

61.4 per cent of Bristol students attended a state school, just overtaken by Cambridge of whose students 61.9 per cent were state educated.

This is in stark contrast with UWE, where 93.8 per cent of students are state educated.

Overall, Bristol is the eighth worst university in the country in terms of its proportion of admissions for state school students.

UWE, on the other hand, have increased their intake of students from families with no experience of higher education.

Ranking at the 13th highest intake in the country, they claim to have “one of the largest investments in the country in widening participation”, putting in £15.6m to counteract “the challenges that under-represented groups face”.