Some 50,000 extra students also graduated in 2012 compared to 2007, adding additional pressures.
Several further education colleges that offer higher education will take small numbers of extra students.
But universities did not receive full funding to take on these extra students.
There have been 94,000 extra students this year, reaching the highest levels since the 1970s.
Universities will get no more funding for teaching the extra students.
A total of 160 institutions will take extra students, with 19 institutions recruiting more than 200 extra students in science, technology, engineering, maths and business subjects relevant to the government's "new industry, new jobs" policy.
Hefce contributed £100m to support high-cost and vulnerable science provision in departments while extra students were recruited.
A lesson here is that the city needs to avoid the temptation of swamping a successful school with extra students.
Finding enough lecture theatres and classrooms for the extra students is an urgent and highly visible problem.
