Interactive figures
Charts
Figures built while researching UK higher education finance. Each opens as a standalone interactive page.
These were produced during the analysis behind The 2026 Reckoning and Regulated to Fail. They are working figures rather than published exhibits: useful for seeing the shape of a problem, and superseded in places by the fuller, fully sourced versions in the report and on regulatedtofail.com.
Sector finances
Sector financial sustainability model, 2026-2035
Consolidated projections for sector income, costs and surplus under central forecasts.
Open the chart →The demographic wave and its financial consequences
Domestic demand, international recruitment and cost growth modelled together to 2035.
Open the chart →University cash flow across the year
How fee income, payroll and supplier payments fall across a university's financial year.
Open the chart →University expenditure projections, 2026-2035
Where sector costs are heading, broken down by category.
Open the chart →Where a university's money comes from and goes
An interactive Sankey diagram of income and expenditure for an average UK university.
Open the chart →Fees and funding
Capped fees against a market rate
What undergraduate fees would be if the cap tracked costs, and what the gap has cost.
Open the chart →The future of UK university fees
Scenarios for the fee cap and their consequences for institutional income.
Open the chart →The value of a degree: costs against returns
Graduate earnings premia set against the cost of study and the public subsidy.
Open the chart →UKRI funding flows by subject
An interactive explorer of research council allocations across disciplines.
Open the chart →International students
Global international student flows
Where internationally mobile students come from and where they go.
Open the chart →Global study difficulty index
An expanded index combining visa, cost and work-rights barriers by destination.
Open the chart →International student visa difficulty index
Comparative difficulty of obtaining a student visa across competitor destinations.
Open the chart →The compliance reality
What international student compliance data does and does not show.
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