The number of students starting undergraduate engineering courses at UK colleges and universities in 2009 is way above last year's figures, according to a report issued by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), which has been tracking these numbers since 1993. Aerospace engineering admissions rose by 20.7% to 2,016; mechanical by almost 12% to 5,757; electronic/electrical by 3.7% to 4,654; and civil by 3.2% to 4,432. Admissions to undergraduate physics programmes rose by 7% to 3,559. UCAS had earlier reported that applications for admission in all programmes were up for the year by 9.7% over 2008 numbers.
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