• There are nearly two and a half million students studying in the UK at all levels?
• That part-time students are the fastest growing cohort of students – increasing by 108% in ten years?
• That subjects allied to medicine make up the largest number of subjects studied in higher education?
• That public expenditure on higher education as a percentage of GDP is one of the lowest in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)?

Universities UK publishes two pocket-sized booklets each year covering facts such as these.

These at-a-glance stats cards crunch down key data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to provide a streamlined, authoritative overview of higher education – and unlike most statistical publications, they take just a few minutes to survey.