Band 6+: the pie charts below shows the different types of cources, which were followed by the students during the years of 1984,1994 and 2004.

The pie charts illustrate the proportion of students enrolled in various types of course at Salisbury college in 1984, 1994 and 2004.

Overall, while face-to face courses were the most common choice in all years, the reverse was true for correspondence and mixed media courses. Moreover, face-to-face courses stood out among other categories with consistently higher figures in each year, despite a decline in the final year.

In 1984, face-to-face courses were the most prevalent course, attracting 67% of students. Correspondence course was the second common choice, involving quarter proportion of all students, whereas mixed-media course enrolled the smallest percentage of people. As for 1994, although the figure for face-to-face courses declined slightly to 53%, it still remained the most popular course among students. There were almost the same figures on the percentages of mixed-media and correspondence courses. Notably, online courses emerged for the first time, accounting for 12% of total.

Looking at 2004, while face-to-face courses experiences a slight decrease, a significantly increase was observed in the percentage of online courses, 35%. Mixed-media courses witnessed a notable growth, however correspondence courses decreased markedly, involving the least percentage of students.