The proportion of higher educational institutions offering training programmes in the sector nationally declined in 2017/18 and there were just 41 programmes on offer in England, the National Youth Agency reports.
There were no courses on offer at all in the East of England, and just one undergraduate course in the North East, the NYA found.
The NYA suggests this this may be mitigated by an increasing number of settings offering distance learning courses.
While the same number was recorded as in 2016/17, the response rate was higher this year, suggesting a continued downward trend since a peak in courses in 2010/11.
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