Universities admit twice as many BTEC students

Universities are now admitting twice as many BTEC students as they did a decade ago.

Higher education institutions have become “increasingly open” to accepting school leavers with vocational qualifications rather than traditional A-levels, a new report by Universities UK has found.

In 2008, there were 49,250 students who were offered places at British universities with vocational BTEC qualifications.

But by 2017 this had more than doubled, with more than 100,000 BTEC students winning university places, according to figures from Ucas.