Uni students?

[GPSS]

What approximate percentage of university students are aged 25 and over? Anybody know, guestimate, or able to point me in the right direction for an answer. Cheers all.

[Norbury90]

I'm 18.

HTH.

[Cas_P]

25+ not sure possibly 12% or so. The best way is to use mature students stats which is 21+. As there does not seem to be any/much stats done on 25+ alone.

This powerpoint pres might be useful. www.lsbu.ac.uk/about/documents/vc/matureStudentsUC...

HTH well at least more than the last post :P

[cobra kid]

I was 28.

[tegwin]

you having a similar thought to me? Il be 22 by the time I am ready to go to uni 27 before I finish my degree.... nearly time to retire!

[mdotd]

Depends if you're referring to undergraduates only; just finished a post grad (I'm 25) and most of the people on the course were 25+

[Landlord]

cobra kid said:

I was 28.

So was I... about 9 years ago now. I've been 34 too.

[Plotloss]

Landlord said:

cobra kid said:

I was 28.

So was I... about 9 years ago now. I've been 34 too.

Like most people my age.

I'm 36.

[The Riddler]

I'm 23 now, I plan to return to uni when I'm 25.

[The Ben]

I was 22 when I went and 26 when I left!

[Ganglandboss]

I went to uni aged 28 part time and was expecting to be one of the old farts. I was surprised to find a good 50% of the full timers were older than me.

[Monochrome]

There is a 63 year old dude on my course. He drives a volvo.

[wiffmaster]

The vast majority on my undergraduate course are 18-21 (Manchester Uni - Biology). That said there are a few older people (25 up to around 40ish) and when you get to post-grad level, it seems as if the majority are 25+. The thing I like about university that it is a great leveler. Nobody cares what your background is or how old you are, people all just seem to get along regardless.

[Jon C]

I was 36 when I started, graduated at 39. There were a couple of people older than me on the course, several 20's / 30's. My uni (Leicester) absolutely love the mature students because we could (in the main) prioritise and multi-task, we tended to be very well motivated, we were less likely to turn up to tutorials either hungover or still pissed, and we didn't attempt to get extensions on deadlines because we had had a row with our boy/girlfriends the night before.