The Times: University students ditch arts degrees and opt for medicine

New medical schools have opened, allowing 12,000 students to start medical degrees last autumn

The arts degree is in steady decline as medicine, computing and engineering soar in popularity, university entry figures show today.

Fewer than 7,000 students were accepted for English degrees last year, a decrease of a third in the past decade. History enrolments fell by a fifth to 12,870 and there were 3,830 modern language acceptances, more than a third lower than in 2011.

Ucas, the university admissions service, said that its figures showed a significant shift towards technology-based degrees, law and business.

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The government has promoted Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), an approach that seems to have paid off. Since 2011 enrolment in computer science degrees has increased from about 20,000 to 30,000, and engineering from 26,000 to more than 31,500.

New medical schools have opened, allowing 12,000 students to start medical degrees last autumn, a third higher than ten years ago. Higher demand for nursing was also recorded.

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