Bath suffers 'very significant' drop in student applications

Could the lack of subject choice be a factor?

Just guessing, but perhaps Internationals will be less familiar with the university and googling about it will find concerns about VC pay and "governance".

How would this mean a disproportionate drop in applicants since last year, given the subjects offered haven't changed?

Well, if subjects like Law and History/whatever else Bath doesn’t offer are becoming more popular,

Are they becoming more popular?

Unable to confirm, I just looked at what the rankings were in the UK for the field of study I'm interested in, and then compared it with the Spiked! rankings. What I can say is that when I reached out to the University of Bath for more information in regards to what qualifications they'd want, they were entirely unhelpful/borderline useless, so I decided not to bother with them.

This sort of happened to me. I had applied to bath and I asked them a very specific question about entry requirements. They gave me a non-answer so I asked again. They gave me another non-answer so I switched to another university. Part of me thinks their lack of money means they have a small administration team.

This sort of happened to me. I had applied to bath and I asked them a very specific question about entry requirements. They gave me a non-answer so I asked again. They gave me another non-answer so I switched to another university. Part of me thinks their lack of money means they have a small administration team.

Lack of money? They have an operating surplus of 7%.

I was suggesting it as a possibility based on the fact compared to its 'main competitors' Birmingham, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter and UCL, It has the lowest budget by a considerable amount (couldn't find Loughborough). (half the budget of the first three, £100 mil less than Exeter and a sixth of UCL, £1 Billion less). Also it's endowment is one of the lowest in the UK (not that relevant I know). When contacting other uni's they have people specifically to hunt down the answer I need, maybe it's a tenuous link to budget, but from experience, Bath have a low-level administration.

But perhaps that lepidoptera will need to be pulled out of Bath's cranial covering.

I It has the lowest budget by a considerable amount.

Lepus? Leporidae?

Of course it does:

Bath 16,150, £260.6 million
Birmingham 33,800, £625.6 million
Bristol 21,900, £565,8 million
Exeter 22,100, £371.5 million
UCL 37,100, £1.36 billion
Warwick 25,600, £557 million

See the correlation?

I understand the implied relationship. However, Warwick, UCL and Bristol clearly don't fit into this. Half and half actually proves there's no correlation at all.

Also bath's financial support is really bad compared to Warrick, Manchester and Birmingham which all have 2 grand bursaries for low income households but Bath only has 9 total 1 grand bursaries. I mean there are a lot of schemes you can get on (as there are at Manchester and Birmingham) with companies but I don't really wanna do those.