What proportion of students fail or drop out?
A small number of students may transfer between courses, both to and from Chemistry (perhaps up to 4% students will make some change), but the number of Chemistry students who fail and/or drop out of the university is very small indeed – typically, around 4.5 per cent each year. As recently published in The Times Good University Guide 2011, “York has one of the lowest drop-out rates in the country”. Our student feedback regularly places us as one of the top Chemistry departments in the UK for teaching according to the National Student Survey (NSS).
