Sources and licences

Every figure in Be University Wise comes from an official source. This page lists each one, what we use it for and the licence it is published under.

Checked against official sources on 24 September 2026.

National Student Survey 2026

Published by the Office for Students on 8 July 2026, with provider-level files corrected on 27 August 2026. We use results by teaching provider for full-time first-degree students: the seven themes, overall and for 35 subject areas (the Common Aggregation Hierarchy, level 2).

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. National Student Survey data.

Discover Uni dataset

Published by HESA (part of Jisc). We use the edition published on 8 September 2026: continuation, Graduate Outcomes (graduates in professional or managerial work, or in further study, 15 months after finishing) and the UCAS Tariff points of past entrants, for full-time degree courses. Figures are credited to the provider that teaches the course.

Source: HESA, www.hesa.ac.uk. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). We have combined course-level figures into provider and subject figures.

LEO graduate outcomes, tax year 2023-24

Published by the Department for Education on Explore Education Statistics. We use the provider-level data files published with this release (the underlying data for the LEO provider level dashboard): median earnings five years after graduating, by provider and subject, for providers in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland providers are not included.

Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. LEO graduate and postgraduate outcomes. We compare each figure with the UK graduate-weighted average for the same subject.

Price Index of Private Rents

Published monthly by the Office for National Statistics. We use the latest average monthly rents for each area (August 2026 for most areas; June 2026 for Northern Ireland, whose figures are two months behind). These are official statistics in development.

Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Price Index of Private Rents.

Rules, fees and dates

Visa, fee, student finance and UCAS information comes from GOV.UK, UCAS, the Welsh Government, the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland and the Student Awards Agency Scotland. Each guide lists its own sources.

Clearing and results day

Our Clearing guides use UCAS guidance and key dates for 2027 entry, JCQ and Qualifications Scotland results days and post-results services, Ofqual guidance on reviews of marking, GOV.UK Student visa and student finance pages, UKCISA, SAAS, Student Finance Wales and Student Finance NI. Clearing figures come from UCAS end of cycle data (2025) and UCAS daily Clearing analysis (2025 and 2026). Each Clearing page lists its own sources, and UCAS remains the source for all UCAS figures. See Clearing statistics.

Our own classification

The setting of each university (city, campus, smaller city or town, collegiate, coastal) is our own description, not official data.

Data download

The figures used by the app are available as a single file: university-wise-data.json.

Commercial league tables

We link to commercial league tables but do not reproduce their results.

Photographs

The photographs of university cities and towns, and the library picture on the app's home screen, come from Geograph Britain and Ireland. Each is used under the CC BY-SA 2.0 licence and credited to its photographer under the photo. Some have been cropped to fit the page. They are illustrations only and are not endorsements by the photographers, the universities or the places shown.