This increase in undergraduate students has had a knock on effect, and seen more graduates applying for higher-level study.
In 2014, hedge fund executive Kenneth Griffin, who began trading securities as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1980s, set a record with a $150m gift.
Born in County Waterford, Ireland, Richardson read history at Trinity College, Dublin, as an undergraduate, before postgraduate study at UCLA and a doctorate at Harvard.
He laid about Chris Anderson's airy invocation of internet connectedness as though critiquing a disappointing undergraduate essay.
The Coventry of the 21st century is a very different beast from the institution that Latham joined as an undergraduate.
Sheridan made A-level choices designed to get her on the right track, choosing chemistry, biology and German, only to discover later that she had been "slightly misinformed" as the handful of undergraduate degrees in forensic science all required mathematics.
You don't need a forensic scientist degree to get into the profession, but an undergraduate science degree is an important starting point, and gaining professional scientific experience is also extremely beneficial.
Aberto holds an MA in Media and Communication Studies and a BA in Political Science and, as an undergraduate, was Chief Editor of the Italian edition of cafebabel.com.
"Schools ought to be thinking about what environment is going to best support a student to thrive through their degree," she explains, drawing on her own experience of completing an undergraduate course at Nottingham before starting a postgraduate degree at Oxford.
Three Oxford University students who say they were sexually assaulted are preparing to write about their harrowing ordeals for the first time, inspired by a fellow undergraduate who penned a defiant open letter to her attacker.
Bennett's wholly correct assertion that there was genuine civic pride in such achievements was brought home to me when, as an undergraduate, I applied for an extra year of grant from Leeds education department.
