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you ever thought of dropping out of uni? You throw the phrase around when you’re about seven weeks behind in your lectures but for a lot of people
Have you ever thought of dropping out of uni? You throw the phrase around when you’re about seven weeks behind in your lectures but for a lot of people, their course, their uni or just university in general isn’t for them and do genuinely end up dropping out.
Well, The Complete University Guide 2025 ranks all universities on continuation, AKA the percentage of first-year students who finish their degrees or transfer to another course or uni. In other words, the percentage of students who don’t drop out.
The Russell Group university with the least number of dropouts is Cambridge, once again topping yet another ranking. 99 per cent of Cambridge students finish their degrees, leaving just one per cent of students to drop out. With an average of 4,300 first-year students, this means around 43 students drop out each year.
But the Russell Group with the highest dropout rate is Queen Mary University of London, which is also the lowest-ranking Russell Group overall. QMUL has a five per cent dropout rate which, given the average number of first-year students, is around 300 each year.
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