Discover Uni and Unistats

Discover Uni was launched in September 2019. The site is currently in public beta, which means that we actively encourage feedback and user views. Please use the contact details below to let us know what you think of the site.

About Discover Uni

Discover Uni is the official, authoritative source of information and guidance on higher education in the UK.

It is designed to support prospective students in deciding whether, where and what to study. The site replaced Unistats from September 2019.

Discover Uni provides information, advice and guidance about the different options for studying. It helps prospective students make sense of all the information out there by linking to other quality resources and explaining what they can find where. It also allows users to search for and compare information and data for individual undergraduate courses across the UK.

Discover Uni is jointly owned by the Office for Students, the Department for the Economy Northern Ireland, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Scottish Funding Council.

It includes:

Information and guidance about higher education

what higher education is and different ways to study
deciding whether to go into higher education
student finance
support with how to choose a course.

Information about courses

student views from the National Student Survey (NSS)
employment outcomes and earnings from the Graduate Outcomes (GO) survey and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset
information on professional accreditations, the number of students who continue on the course and entry qualifications held by previous entrants
graduates’ perceptions of their work after graduating
links to detailed information on providers’ course pages about course content and delivery, and fees and funding.

Information about providers

information on quality assessment and standards
direct links to provider websites and their student unions
provider name and contact information taken directly from their UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP) record.

Visit the Discover Uni website

Open data

The data on Discover Uni is called the Discover Uni dataset. This is collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) which is now part of Jisc, and is available for reuse as a downloadable dataset.

Find out more about the Discover Uni dataset on the HESA website.

Get in touch

If you have a question that’s not answered here, or to give your feedback on the website, please email us at [email protected].

Last updated 16 October 2023 + show all updates

16 October 2023: Updated to change dataset name from Unistats to Discover Uni.
09 November 2022: Minor updates on the information Discover Uni displays about providers
28 October 2021: Small updates to reflect the release of the latest data.
07 May 2021: Added information about Unistats 2021
09 November 2020: Page updated to reflect the relaunch of the Discover Uni website.

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