Respecting the UK, data from the British Higher Education Statistics Agency illustrate¹ that Business & Administrative² studies are the most popular subjects (342,970).

英国高等教育统计局的数据表明，商务和行政管理是英国最热门的专业（34万2970个学位）。

 

Subjects allied³ to Medicine and Biological Sciences are the second and third (288,065 and 233,970 respectively).

医药和生物科学类专业的热度排行第二和第三，分别授出28万8065个学位和23万3970个学位。

 

Social Studies receive a warm welcome among young people as well (229,360). The 5th, 6th and 7th are respectively Creative Arts & Design (178,415), Engineering & Technology (164,975) and Education (145,445), and the differences among them are similar.

社会学专业也受到了年轻人的青睐（22万9360个学位）。第五、第六和第七名分别是创意艺术与设计（17万8415个学位）、工程与技术（16万4975个学位）和教育学（14万5445个学位），这三者的热度差别不大。

 

The other two subjects that have over 100,000 students are Computer Science (107,250) and Languages (103,545). Physical Science (95,720) is also close to this number.

攻读学生数量破10万的另外两个专业是计算机科学（10万7250个学位）和语言类（10万3545个学位）。物理学专业（9万5720个学位）的学生数量也接近10万。

 

Social Studies are more popular in the UK than in America.

社会科学在英国比在美国更受欢迎。

 

For example, UK universities are among the oldest universities that offer law courses.

举例来说，英国的大学是最早提供法学课程的大学。

 

Therefore, reflecting this long and rich tradition, UK law degrees have become very popular (and indeed highly competitive) for its students.

因此，考虑到如此悠久而丰富的传统，英国法学学位非常受学生欢迎，确实也很有竞争力。

 

Another large absolute increase can be found in Creative Arts & Design degrees.

另一个人气大涨的专业是创意艺术与设计。

 

The Higher Education Statistics Agency attributes this popularity to the increase in part-time students, among which there was a 19% increase in students studying Creative Arts & Design between 2015/16 and 2016/17.

英国高等教育统计局将其归功于非全日制学生数量的增多，2015-2016学年和2016-2017学年攻读创意艺术与设计专业的学生增加了19%。

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