Students
- Full-time enrolments total 3,648 with the remaining 16,407 choosing short full-time, block release, part-time, evening and weekend, work based, or open learning as a study option.
- 40% of students are in permanent or temporary employment.
- More than 50% of the student population is aged 25 years or older.
- The student body is 53% female and 47% male.
- 4,300 International students come from 116 countries with more than 2,100 of these coming from outside the EU.
- 1 in 10 of the working age population is enrolled in Scotland’s Colleges.
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