This updated edition of "Higher Education in England: Key Facts" provides a statistical overview of key sector trends and developments in 2016. Using the most recent data, it draws together key findings from a range of reports published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) over the past year to provide a robust, accessible evidence base. The first chapter reports on data on entrants to undergraduate courses. The numbers of full-time United Kingdom (UK) and other European Union (EU) entrants in 2015-16 were estimated to be 404,000, an increase of about 4 per cent on the previous year. Entry to postgraduate courses is considered in Chapter 2. The number of UK and other EU entrants to taught postgraduate courses was estimated to have fallen slightly, by 0.8 per cent between 2014-15 and 2015-16, although entry numbers have been broadly stable at around 75,000 for the past four years. The next chapter describes the UK-domiciled student population in higher education in England with regard to ethnicity, sex, age, disability and social background. The distribution of students across subjects is described in Chapter 4. Approximately three-quarters of all undergraduate students are studying subjects in the arts, humanities and social sciences, while almost one in four postgraduate students is studying a business-related subject. Chapter 5 shows that provision in the English sector is evolving. For the first time in 2015-16, those universities that require students to have high Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) tariffs had more undergraduate entrants than those with low UCAS tariffs. The number of undergraduate entrants to high-tariff universities increased by 7.2 per cent between 2014-15 and 2015-16. For the first time, the report includes information on the higher education workforce. Chapter 6 shows that the number of people employed in universities increased by almost 10,000 in 2014-15, and is now almost 300,000. Chapter 7 of the report focuses on university research. Research income to English higher education institutions from grants and contracts increased in 2014-15, largely due to increases in funding from research councils and the EU government. The final chapter considers the financial health of the higher education sector in England. The latest data returned to HEFCE, which relates to the year ending July 2015, indicates that overall finances are stable, with the sector reporting an operating surplus. The following are appended: (1) Additional data; and (2) Abbreviations.