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University of Essex

Colchester · Higher Education Institution

Action plan

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The register records this sponsor as Subject To Action Plan. That is a statement of what the register says, not a prediction about the licence.

An action plan is a corrective measure for a breach short of a serious breach. While one is in force UKVI may limit the sponsor’s CAS allocation, including to zero, and a sponsor is expected to tell its students how the plan affects them. What this means in practice →

Do students finish, and where do they go?

Office for Students

Continuation

2019–2022 · 4,660 students

Still studying, or already qualified, one year and 15 days after starting.

InternationalExpected for this provider's intake: 88.3% — what the OfS calculates a provider like this should achieve, given the students it admits90.8%All studentsExpected for this provider's intake: 89% — what the OfS calculates a provider like this should achieve, given the students it admits89.3%OfS threshold: 80% — the regulatory minimum for continuation, the same for every provider. Falling below it can put a provider's registration in question

Solid line 88.3%: expected for its intake · Dashed line 80%: the OfS minimum, the same for every provider

International students: Continuation is above the level expected for this provider's intake

Completion

2016–2019 · 4,600 students

Qualified within four years and 15 days of starting.

InternationalExpected for this provider's intake: 89.5% — what the OfS calculates a provider like this should achieve, given the students it admits93.4%All studentsExpected for this provider's intake: 88.8% — what the OfS calculates a provider like this should achieve, given the students it admits90.4%OfS threshold: 75% — the regulatory minimum for completion, the same for every provider. Falling below it can put a provider's registration in question

Solid line 89.5%: expected for its intake · Dashed line 75%: the OfS minimum, the same for every provider

International students: Completion is above the level expected for this provider's intake

Progression

2019–2022 · 5,330 students

In managerial or professional employment, further study, or other positive activity 15 months after finishing. The OfS does not produce this measure for international graduates — the cohort is too small to benchmark — so it describes UK-domiciled leavers only.

UK graduatesExpected for this provider's intake: 71% — what the OfS calculates a provider like this should achieve, given the students it admits71.6%OfS threshold: 60% — the regulatory minimum for progression, the same for every provider. Falling below it can put a provider's registration in question

Solid line 71%: expected for its intake · Dashed line 60%: the OfS minimum, the same for every provider

UK graduates students: Progression is above the level expected for this provider's intake

International studentsAll students (UK graduates, for progression)Bars run 0–100%

Source: Office for Students, student outcomes data dashboard, Open Government Licence v3.0. Full-time students. English providers only. How to read these figures →

What students say about being here

NSS 2026

There is no single satisfaction score here because English providers are no longer asked one — the overall satisfaction question was dropped from the survey in England after 2022 and kept in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The seven themes below are what the survey now reports.

1,582
students responded · 67.3%
How well does the students' union (association or guild) represent students' academic interests?
81.8%
How well communicated was information about your university/college's mental wellbeing support services?
84.0%
During your studies, how free did you feel to express your ideas, opinions, and beliefs?
89.6%

Bars run 0–100%, so bar length is the score. The vertical mark is the score expected of this provider given its intake — the survey publishes no test of whether a gap to it is real, so none is claimed here. Click a theme to see the questions it is built from.

Source: Office for Students, National Student Survey 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Final-year undergraduates only — taught masters students are not surveyed. International students are: the survey’s eligibility rules turn on course type and stage, not domicile, so these scores include the views of the students you would be sending. How to read these figures →