Degree classification - Is a 2.1 the new 2.2?

[Plutonium]

Please help settle this argument between DH and I.
All our friends kids who graduated in the last 5yrs or so have all got either a 2.1 or a first class. When I went to uni, most people got a 2.2, a fe odd got a 2.1. A first class was as rare as hens teeth. I was telling DH that there was more academics stress now for Dd because everything’s has revved up several notches and she’ll have to be aiming for 2.1 unlike our time. DH said it’s all nonsense that most people get a 2.2 and a 2.1 is very rare. DH isn’t the most up to scratch with academic expectations /pressures in schools etc and just thinks everything is the same as when we went to school/university. I told him most graduate schemes now expect a 2.1.

I’ll be delighted if he is right. But what do you think?

Highest proportions of first-class degrees in mainstream universities (2016).

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Imperial College London 41.8%
University of Surrey 41.2%
University College London 35.6%
University of Dundee 34.8%
University of East Anglia 34%
University of Oxford 33.2%
King's College London 31.9%
University of Cambridge 31.7%
University of Bath 30.8%
University of Salford 30.4%

I graduated 6 years ago as a mature student, did a mathematics degree.

I’d say roughly about 5% on my course got a first (including me) about 60% 2:1 30% 2:2 and the rest 3rds.

sexnotgender

That's interesting, nearly a third of all maths graduates end up with a first and mathematics consistently awards the most first of all degree subjects. Highlights how much between university variation there is.

Wow. 1/3 of my year at UCL did NOT get firsts! That’s a huge number!