The above pie chart is the demonstration of the data about why the students in the uk select a particular university. There are two pie charts for two different time periods , 1997 and 2007. This helps us compare the parameters in 1997 to that of the 2007.
The major change what we can observe from the data is that in 1997 , over 19% of students chose the university based on the amount of good sports and social life it is awarding to the students. In 2007 this percentage dropped to a very low of 6% that is a difference of nearly 13%.The second most changed parameter is the distance of student’s parental home , this has increased over the years. This paramter has seen over 12% of growth over the last 2 decades which indicates that students are preffering universities closer to their parental homes.
The Major factor of why the particular student chooses an university still remains somewhat the same.The students prefer the university that offers the suitable degree for them and that remains almost unchanged since 1997. Along with suitiable courses , The quality of teaching has also remained somewhat constant through the last 20 years. This indicates that people back in the day and today too chose universities based on good teaching and the suitiable degree that the university offered.
Another parametr that has not changed drastically is the quality of resources that the university offers , These three factors the teaching quality , the suitable degree and the quality of resources makeup the majority of the factors that the students look at before selecting any university and these three choices seem to be the most important choices.