Students at Trevelyan College are more likely to study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects than any other faculty, a Freedom of Information Request has found.

365 out of the College’s 975 students belong to the Science Faculty. Out of these 310 are undergraduate students, 35 postgraduate, and 20 part-time. These figures are rounded to the nearest five so may be higher.

Whilst undergraduate and postgraduate students are most likely to study Science, the most popular faculty for part-time students is the faculty of Social Sciences and Health, with 40 students.

Mathematical Sciences is the most popular degree subject, with 65 members of Trevelyan College studying it. This is followed by Law, with 60 students, and Modern Languages & Cultures, Natural Sciences, and Physics all with 55 students.

The most popular postgraduate research degree is Physics, with 10 students. For part-time students, however, the most popular degrees are Archaeology and Finance, with 15 students each.

The least popular degree subjects are Liberal Arts, Music, and Sport, with 10 students apiece.

Whilst Trevs is known as a “musical” college, less than five postgraduate students, no part-time students, and only ten undergraduate students study Music as a degree.

Colleges at Durham University include students from all subjects. When you receive an offer from Durham University, you are asked to rank colleges in order of preference. During the college allocation process, the University uses the distribution of students across different subjects as a way of determining what college you’re allocated to. Subject distribution across colleges is supposed to reflect the distribution across the wider University.

In spite of this, some colleges have reputations of different subjects – Trevs is known to be musical, Collingwood sporty, and John’s theological. However, this doesn’t necessarily reflect the actual make-up of degree distribution.

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