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Exclusive: These are the Bournemouth Uni degrees with the most drop outs

Business studies topped the rankings


More than 400 students at BU dropped out before completing their degree last year, The Tab Bournemouth can reveal.

It was Bournemouth University's Faculty of Management that suffered the highest amount of drop outs last academic year.

The data, released after a Freedom of Information request, shows how over 150 students left in the 2016-2017 academic year in that faculty alone.

The Faculty of Health and Social Sciences had the fewest drop outs out of all faculties.

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The sizes of the faculty affected the percentage rates

Business students and Psychology students topped the polls with the highest number of drop outs, 34 and 24 students respectively.

10 courses had no drop outs at all, including Law, Product Design and English.

In total, 412 students left the uni last year, compared to 475
in the 2015-2016 academic year.

Here's a full breakdown of the top 20 courses with high drop out rates

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Even though in terms of numbers Business and Psychology topped the table, in terms of percentage of students that dropped out, Clinical Exercise Science was significantly ahead of the others.