Less than 20 per cent of student at Warwick are working class

No Russell Group uni has more than 30 per cent


A report by independent researchers HESA the leading experts in UK University data collection and analysis has revealed that Warwick only has 19.3 per cent students from working class backgrounds.

Exeter, Bristol and St Andrews all had less than 15 per cent of working class students and Oxford and Cambridge have 10 per cent and 10.2 per cent respectively.

Coventry, our rival university has 41.7 per cent of students from working class backgrounds.

Second year Philosophy student Max Connelly-Webster has said: ‘It’s strange that a University like Warwick which prides itself on being modern and progressive still has such a “traditional” intake of students, it’s 2016 and yet there’s still a class divide at Universities across the UK”.

Whilst third year Sociology student Georgina Miklosz added “the problem isn’t just Warwick’s admissions biases, it’s deeper than that. It’s about the education system and our attitudes towards education as a whole”.