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Graduate Admissions Office Statistics For Admissions in 2017/18

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Contents

Notes .........................................................................................................................2 Summary ....................................................................................................................3 Admissions statistics by School and Fee Status .........................................................4 Admissions statistics by School and HESA status ......................................................5 Admissions data by Citizenship ..................................................................................6 Admissions data by Part Time Studies .......................................................................8 Admissions data for continuing students ....................................................................9 Admissions data by Gender ..................................................................................... 10 Admissions data by Disability ................................................................................... 11 Admissions data by Ethnicity .................................................................................... 12 Admissions data by College Membership ................................................................. 13 Appendix

Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Department or Faculty ................ 14 Historical admissions data 2010/11 – 2017/18 by fee status ......................... 20

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1. These statistics refer to applications for admission in the academic year 2017/18, as of 19 July 2018. The only courses relevant to these Graduate Admissions Office Statistics are the courses listed in the table below. For application data on other University of Cambridge graduate courses please contact the relevant admitting authority:

Institute of Continuing Education (MSt) www.ice.cam.ac.uk/ Judge Business School (MBA, eMBA and MFin) www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/home/ Faculty of Education (PGCE) www.educ.cam.ac.uk/

Statistics on general student numbers can be found here: www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/planning/sso/studentnumbers/

2. The application cycle for each term ends on the Division of Term: 3.

Admit Term Division of Term date

Michaelmas 2017 9th November 2017

Lent 2018 13th February 2018

Easter 2018 21st May 2018

4. Confirmation figures show those applicants who received confirmation of their place after

satisfying all their conditions set out in the offer stage, and who then subsequently took up their places on the course. Applicants who were confirmed but subsequently did not take up their University place are excluded.1

5. Home/EU/Overseas fee status is defined only at the point of offer as this classification is dependent on a variety of factors that require independent assessment based on the UKCISA guidelines. For the purpose of estimating numbers of applicants within fee status categories who did not receive an offer, the fee status has been assessed based on primary citizenship only. Applicants with islands or refugee fee status have been included for this broad reporting purpose as Overseas.

6. Research and Taught programmes are categorised as follows:

7. Research Taught Courses

Certificate of Postgraduate Studies (CPGS) Graduate Diplomas

Doctor of Education (EdD) Master in Law (LLM)

Doctor of Business (BusD) Master of Corporate Law (MCL)

Doctor of Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Master of Advanced Study (MASt)

Doctor of Medicine (MD) Master of Education (MEd)

Masters of Letters (MLitt) Master of Music (MMUS)

Masters of Research (MRes) Master of Philosophy (MPhil)2

Masters of Science (MSC)

PhD Probationary (NOTAF)

Not To Be Registered programme (NTBR)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

1 As of 14 August 2018 there were 66 applicants confirmed for admission who did not subsequently

arrive at the start of term. 2 A small number of MPhil courses are research MPhils. For the purposes of this report they are

classified as taught courses.

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Summary

The data has been prepared by Graduate Admissions Office for the Board of Graduate Studies (BGS) and Post-Graduate Admissions Committee (PAC) and are intended to provide a statistical analysis of applications, offers and confirmations3 Table 1.1 Applications, offers and confirmations by School and Fee Status

The total number of applications is 21,776 (16,628)4, a 30.96% increase.

The total number of conditional offers is 6,844 (6,450), a 6.11% increase.

The total number of confirmation is 3,801 (3,525), a 7.83% increase.

The research programmes to one year programmes application ratio approximately 2:3

By Fee Status5 (percentage of total applications): o Applications: Overseas: 13,702 (63%), Home: 4,325 (20%), EU: 3,749

(17%) o Offers: Overseas: 3,430 (50%), Home: 1,911 (28%)

EU: 1,504 (22%) o Confirmations: Overseas: 1,581 (42%), Home: 1,334 (35%), EU: 886

(23%)

Table 1.2 Percentage of total applications by School:

Humanities & Social Sciences: 41%

Technology: 19%

Physical Sciences: 15%

Arts & Humanities: 11%

Clinical Medicine: 6%

Biological Sciences: 6%

University Partner Institutions: 2% Table 1.3-1.4 Applications and Confirmations by Citizenship

The largest number of applications come from UK citizens, followed by Chinese and American citizens

The top 25 citizenships made up 77.64% of total applications

UK citizens alone made up 19.86% of total applications. Table 1.6 Applications, offers and confirmations for continuing students

1,028 applicants applied to continue their graduate studies. This is 6.03% less than the previous year.

63.04% received conditional offers and 55.09% of those were confirmed.

Table 2.1-2.3 Applicants by Gender, Disability and Ethnicity

45.85% of applications were from females – up 0.03% on the previous year

46.38% of total confirmations were female – down 0.64% on the previous year

7.44% of applicants declared a disability.

55.67% of applicants declared non-white ethnicity.

3 Applications withdrawn within the terms of the 14 day cancellation policy are excluded from these

statistics. 4 Figures in Italics are for Graduate Admission in 2016/2017. 5 See Note 7 on page 6 - Fee Status classification.

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Admissions data in terms of School and Fee Status

Table 1.1 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by School and Fee Status6 for 2017/18 admission

6 See Note 7 on page 6 - Fee Status classification.

School Applications Offers

Success Rates Confirmations Success Rates

Home EU Overseas Total Home EU Overseas Total Apps to Offers Home EU Overseas Total

Offers to Confs

Research

Arts & Humanities 231 136 448 815 134 70 128 332 41% 55 32 45 132 40%

Biological Science 235 154 335 724 105 84 129 318 44% 73 47 60 180 57%

Clinical Medicine 180 125 387 692 73 47 56 176 25% 65 43 33 141 80%

Humanities & Social Sciences 301 305 1092 1698 162 141 316 619 36% 88 68 149 305 49%

Physical Sciences 475 365 674 1514 181 132 166 479 32% 132 79 75 286 60%

Technology 177 251 866 1294 88 117 263 468 36% 68 82 127 277 59%

University Partner Institutions 80 89 186 355 22 28 27 77 22% 22 26 26 74 96%

Sub-total 1679 1425 3988 7092 765 619 1085 2469 35% 503 377 515 1395 57%

% of Sub-total 24% 20% 56% - 31% 25% 44% - - 36% 27% 37% - -

1 year

Arts & Humanities 507 239 865 1611 259 80 248 587 36% 167 52 121 340 58%

Biological Science 114 90 288 492 32 25 57 114 23% 28 20 28 76 67%

Clinical Medicine 95 61 554 710 43 20 95 158 22% 37 11 38 86 54%

Humanities & Social Sciences 1376 1119 4836 7331 639 438 1278 2355 32% 470 215 570 1255 53%

Physical Sciences 261 350 1080 1691 74 173 316 563 33% 62 103 131 296 53%

Technology 288 461 2071 2820 97 148 341 586 21% 65 108 172 345 59%

University Partner Institutions 5 4 20 29 2 0 10 12 41% 2 0 6 8 67%

Sub-total 2646 2324 9714 14684 1146 884 2345 4375 30% 831 509 1066 2406 55%

% of Sub-total 18% 16% 66% - 26% 20% 54% - - 35% 21% 44% -

Grand Total 4325 3749 13702 21776 1911 1503 3430 6844 31% 1334 886 1581 3801 56%

% of Grand Total 20% 17% 63% - 28% 22% 50% - - 35% 23% 42% - -

More detailed information on Applications and Confirmations by Departments or Faculties can be found in the Appendix.

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Admissions data in terms of School and HESA definition

Table 1.2 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Research and Taught HESA definition for 2017/18 admission

Success Rates

Success Rates

School Applications Offers Apps to Offers Confirmations Apps to Offers

Research Taught Research Taught Research Taught Research Taught Research Taught

Arts & Humanities 815 1611 332 587 41% 36% 132 340 40% 58%

Biological Science 724 492 318 114 44% 23% 180 76 57% 67%

Clinical Medicine 692 710 176 158 25% 22% 141 86 80% 54%

Humanities & Social Sciences 1698 7331 619 2355 36% 32% 305 1255 49% 53%

Physical Sciences 1514 1691 479 563 32% 33% 286 296 60% 53%

Technology 1294 2820 468 586 36% 21% 277 345 59% 59%

University Partner Institutions 355 29 77 12 22% 41% 74 8 96% 67%

Total 7092 14684 2469 4375 35% 30% 1395 2406 57% 55%

Grand Total 21776 6844 31% 3801 56%

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Admissions data in terms of Citizenship

Table 1.3 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by declared citizenship7 for 2017/18 admission

7 Figures based on declared primary citizenship only.

Country [previous year ranking]

Applications Offers Confirmations Success Rates

Number % Number % Number % Apps to Offers

% change

from 16/17

Offer to Confs

% change

from 16/17

1 [1] United Kingdom 4325 19.86% 1911 27.92% 1334 35.10% 44.18% -4.93% 69.81% 1.92%

2 [2] China 3129 14.37% 600 8.77% 319 8.39% 19.18% -3.50% 53.17% 3.90%

3 [3] USA 2054 9.43% 967 14.13% 430 11.31% 47.08% -4.69% 44.47% 2.59%

4 [4] India 1202 5.52% 246 3.59% 102 2.68% 20.47% -8.34% 41.46% 2.89%

5 [5] Germany 745 3.42% 345 5.04% 194 5.10% 46.31% -4.01% 56.23% -7.69%

6 [7] Italy 470 2.16% 184 2.69% 91 2.39% 39.15% -7.77% 49.46% -4.09%

7 [6] Canada 463 2.13% 181 2.64% 74 1.95% 39.09% -0.77% 40.88% -5.23%

8 [13] Nigeria 416 1.91% 35 0.51% 14 0.37% 8.41% -4.34% 40.00% 1.54%

9 [8] France 379 1.74% 125 1.83% 71 1.87% 32.98% -9.03% 56.80% -6.58%

10 [12] Singapore 329 1.51% 135 1.97% 58 1.53% 41.03% 0.76% 42.96% 0.26%

11 [9] Australia 310 1.42% 162 2.37% 70 1.84% 52.26% 0.93% 43.21% -5.49%

12 [-] Kenya 287 1.32% 24 0.35% 11 0.29% 8.36% - 45.83% -

13 [14] Pakistan 281 1.29% 44 0.64% 15 0.39% 15.66% -3.61% 34.09% -

14.56%

14 [10] Greece 275 1.26% 101 1.48% 71 1.87% 36.73% -1.19% 70.30% 7.66%

15 [11] Hong Kong 259 1.19% 73 1.07% 46 1.21% 28.19% 0.19% 63.01% 5.87%

16 [15] Korea, Republic of 243 1.12% 57 0.83% 34 0.89% 23.46% -0.72% 59.65% -6.26%

17 [20] Spain 227 1.04% 89 1.30% 50 1.32% 39.21% -10.79% 56.18% -

10.49%

18 [-] Zimbabwe 202 0.93% 8 0.12% 2 0.05% 3.96% - 25.00% -

19 [18] Malaysia 202 0.93% 60 0.88% 30 0.79% 29.70% -4.02% 50.00% -6.90%

20 [17] Poland 199 0.91% 67 0.98% 46 1.21% 33.67% -15.47% 68.66% 8.19%

21 [19] Netherlands 195 0.90% 97 1.42% 63 1.66% 49.74% -2.33% 64.95% 11.54%

22 [-] Ghana 185 0.85% 26 0.38% 6 0.16% 14.05% - 23.08% -

23 [16] Ireland 182 0.84% 91 1.33% 56 1.47% 50.00% 6.91% 61.54% -2.56%

24 [21] Egypt 176 0.81% 25 0.37% 12 0.32% 14.20% -3.71% 48.00% -

14.50%

25 [-] South Africa 170 0.78% 59 0.86% 37 0.97% 34.71% - 62.71% -

Rest of EU 1077 4.95% 404 5.90% 244 6.42% 37.51% -8.58% 60.40% -0.76%

Other Overseas 3794 17.42% 728 10.64% 321 8.45% 19.19% -10.18% 44.09% -3.16%

Total 21776 6844 3801 31.43% - 55.54% -

This table lists the country of declared primary citizenship with the 25 highest numbers of applications, and their corresponding confirmation rates. There is some changes to the list of top 25 countries from last year with Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana and South Africa joining and Mexico, Thailand, Brazil and Taiwan leaving the list. There is a significant drop in the success rate of applications to offers for Poland (21) and offers to confirmations for Egypt (24). 7 Figures based on declared primary citizenship only.

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Table 1.4 Total Confirmations by Top 25 Citizenship8 in descending order

8 Figures based on declared primary citizenship only.

Country Confirmations % of Total

Confirmations

United Kingdom 1334 35.10%

USA 430 11.31%

China 319 8.39%

Germany 194 5.10%

India 102 2.68%

Italy 91 2.39%

Canada 74 1.95%

France 71 1.87%

Greece 71 1.87%

Australia 70 1.84%

Netherlands 63 1.66%

Singapore 58 1.53%

Ireland 56 1.47%

Spain 50 1.32%

Hong Kong 46 1.21%

Poland 46 1.21%

South Africa 37 0.97%

South Korea 34 0.89%

Malaysia 30 0.79%

Austria 26 0.68%

Hungary 26 0.68%

Portugal 23 0.61%

Cyprus 20 0.53%

Sweden 20 0.53%

Romania 20 0.53%

Rest of EU 109 2.87%

Rest of Overseas 381 10.02%

Total confirmations: 3801

Table 1.4 lists the Top 25 countries by confirmation. This table differs from Table 1.3 in terms of focus on ranking by total number of confirmations received by citizenships. Some countries in the top 25 in terms of applications have not been as successful in terms of confirmation compared to last year (Cyprus, Mexico, Hungary, Romania, Thailand and New Zealand).

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Admissions data in terms of Part-Time Studies

Table 1.5 Applications, Offers, and Confirmations for Part-time Studies for 2017/18 admission

The total number of part time applicants is up 32.40% from the previous academic year and the number of confirmations has increased by 15.38%.

Success Rates

Success Rates

Schools Applications Offers Apps to Offers Confirmations Apps to Offers

Arts & Humanities 26 12 46.15% 12 100.00%

Biological Science 16 5 31.25% 5 100.00%

Clinical Medicine 30 10 33.33% 9 90.00%

Humanities & Social Sciences 323 218 67.49% 187 85.78%

Physical Sciences 5 2 40.00% 2 100.00%

Technology 21 7 33.33% 5 71.43%

University Partner Institutions 2 0 0.00% 0 0.00%

Total 423 254 60.05% 220 86.61%

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Admissions data in terms of continuing students9

Table 1.6 Applications, Offers, and Confirmations for continuing students for 2017/18 admission

Success Rates

Success Rates

Schools Applications Offers Apps to Offers Confirmations Offers to

Confs

Arts & Humanities 164 127 77.44% 59 46.46%

Biological Science 62 38 61.29% 16 42.11%

Clinical Medicine 38 22 57.89% 16 72.73%

Humanities & Social Sciences 414 300 72.46% 161 53.67%

Physical Sciences 208 78 37.50% 49 62.82%

Technology 127 78 61.42% 51 65.38%

University Partner Institutions 15 5 33.33% 5 100.00%

Total 1028 648 63.04% 357 55.09%

The total number of students choosing to continue their graduate studies at Cambridge has risen by 1.48% on the previous academic year. The success rate for getting a conditional offer has risen by 1.57%

9 A continuing student is an applicant who is currently, or has previously been, registered as a graduate student at Cambridge on a PhD, MPhil, MRes, MSt, MASt, LLM,

MCL, MMus, MEd, or Graduate Diploma and is continuing on to further graduate study.

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Admissions data in terms of Gender

Table 2.1 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Gender for 2017/18 admission

Success Rates

School Applications Offers Apps to Offers

Female Male Other Total Female Male Other Total Female Male Other

Arts & Humanities 1268 1158 0 2426 448 471 0 919 35.33% 40.67% 0.00%

Biological Science 667 549 0 1216 229 203 0 432 34.33% 36.98% 0.00%

Clinical Medicine 826 576 0 1402 204 130 0 334 24.70% 22.57% 0.00%

Humanities & Social Sciences 4797 4232 0 9029 1601 1373 0 2974 33.38% 32.44% 0.00%

Physical Sciences 919 2286 0 3205 278 764 0 1042 30.25% 33.42% 0.00%

Technology 1316 2797 1 4114 296 757 1 1054 22.49% 27.06% 100.00%

University Partner Institutions 191 193 0 384 41 48 0 89 21.47% 24.87% 0.00%

Total 9984 11791 1 21776 3097 3746 1 6844 31.02% 31.77% 100.00%

Success Rates

School Confirmations Offers to Confirmations

Female Male Other Total Female Male Other

Arts & Humanities 245 227 0 472 54.69% 48.20% 0.00%

Biological Science 139 117 0 256 60.70% 57.64% 0.00%

Clinical Medicine 139 88 0 227 68.14% 67.69% 0.00%

Humanities & Social Sciences 877 683 0 1560 54.78% 49.75% 0.00%

Physical Sciences 149 433 0 582 53.60% 56.68% 0.00%

Technology 176 445 1 622 59.46% 58.78% 100.00%

University Partner Institutions 38 44 0 82 92.68% 91.67% 0.00%

Total 1763 2037 1 3801 56.93% 54.38% 100.00%

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Admissions data in terms of Disability

Table 2.2 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Disability for 2017/18 admission

Success Rates

Success Rates

Disability Applications Offers Apps to Offer Confirmations Offers to Confs

A long standing illness or health condition such as cancer, HIV, diabetes, chronic heart disease, or epilepsy 161 53 32.92% 31 58.49%

A mental health condition, such as depression, schizophrenia or anxiety disorder 426 172 40.38% 114 66.28%

A physical impairment or mobility issues, such as difficulty using arms or using a wheelchair or crutches 52 16 30.77% 12 75.00%

A social/communication impairment such as Asperger's syndrome/other autistic spectrum disorder 68 30 44.12% 20 66.67%

A specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or AD(H)D 456 188 41.23% 135 71.81%

Blind or a serious visual impairment uncorrected by glasses 25 7 28.00% 3 42.86%

Deaf or a serious hearing impairment 14 2 14.29% 1 50.00%

A disability, impairment or medical condition that is not otherwise listed 161 54 33.54% 30 55.56%

Two or more impairments and/or disabling medical conditions 107 48 44.86% 30 62.50%

Information refused 150 79 52.67% 55 69.62%

No known disability 20057 6190 30.86% 3370 54.44%

Not known 99 5 5.05% 0 0.00%

Total 21776 6844 31.43% 3801 55.54%

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Applications and Confirmations in terms of Ethnicity

Table 2.3 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Ethnicity for 2017/18 admission

Success Rates

Success Rates

Ethnicity Applications Offers Apps to Offers Confirmations

Offers to Confs

Arab 678 100 14.75% 51 51.00%

Asian or Asian British - Bangladeshi 127 22 17.32% 9 40.91%

Asian or Asian British - Indian 1587 371 23.38% 175 47.17%

Asian or Asian British - Pakistani 407 78 19.16% 37 47.44%

Black or Black British - African 1692 150 8.87% 57 38.00%

Black or Black British - Caribbean 82 12 14.63% 4 33.33%

Chinese 4236 986 23.28% 516 52.33%

Gypsy or Traveller 11 5 45.45% 2 40.00%

Mixed - White and Asian 333 138 41.44% 79 57.25%

Mixed - White and Black African 102 15 14.71% 7 46.67%

Mixed - White and Black Caribbean 60 15 25.00% 9 60.00%

Other Asian background 1369 348 25.42% 161 46.26%

Other Black background 374 30 8.02% 11 36.67%

Other Ethnic background 413 131 31.72% 71 54.20%

Other Mixed background 651 209 32.10% 96 45.93%

White 9235 4073 44.10% 2416 59.32%

Information Refused 311 140 45.02% 92 65.71%

Not known 108 21 19.44% 8 38.10%

Total 21776 6844 31.43% 3801 55.54%

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Admissions data in terms of College membership10

Table 3.1 College Membership distribution for 2017/18 admission

College Research

Programmes Taught Programmes Total

Christ's College 39 64 103

Churchill College 51 75 126

Clare College 38 58 96

Clare Hall 34 77 111

Corpus Christi College 47 47 94

Darwin College 111 154 265

Downing College 44 62 106

Emmanuel College 28 49 77

Fitzwilliam College 49 80 129

Girton College 42 60 102

Gonville and Caius College 50 46 96

Homerton College 44 136 180

Hughes Hall 57 205 262

Jesus College 69 83 152

King's College 43 44 87

Lucy Cavendish College 39 109 148

Magdalene College 29 53 82

Murray Edwards College 30 46 76

Newnham College 39 65 104

Pembroke College 44 48 92

Peterhouse 36 33 69

Queens' College 52 104 156

Robinson College 29 34 63

Selwyn College 39 32 71

Sidney Sussex College 32 51 83

St Catharine's College 42 54 96

St Edmund's College 52 162 214

St John's College 36 85 121

Trinity College 52 64 116

Trinity Hall 36 33 69

Wolfson College 62 193 255

Total 1395 2406 3801

10 These statistics only show those applicants who had their admission confirmed.

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Appendix

Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Department or Faculty for 2017/18 Admission

School

Applications Offers Confirmations

Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total

Arts & Humanities 815 1611 2426 332 587 919 132 340 472

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 17 44 61 11 25 36 6 17 23

Department of Architecture 65 235 300 23 61 84 13 37 50

Department of French 26 0 26 19 0 19 5 0 5

Department of German and Dutch 14 0 14 14 0 14 5 0 5

Department of History of Art 17 54 71 7 15 22 4 10 14

Department of Italian 15 0 15 11 0 11 4 0 4

Department of Slavonic Studies 3 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0

Department of Spanish and Portuguese 11 0 11 9 0 9 3 0 3

Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics 80 140 220 30 46 76 15 28 43

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 47 113 160 18 27 45 10 16 26

Faculty of Classics 71 123 194 36 61 97 13 36 49

Faculty of Divinity 97 122 219 44 59 103 17 30 47

Faculty of English 234 373 607 75 123 198 23 76 99

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages 22 177 199 12 94 106 3 51 54

Faculty of Music 34 77 111 12 40 52 7 21 28

Faculty of Philosophy 62 153 215 10 36 46 4 18 22

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Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Department or Faculty for 2017/18 Admission cont’d

School

Applications Offers Confirmations

Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total

Biological Science 724 492 1216 318 114 432 180 76 256

Department of Biochemistry 100 61 161 68 22 90 35 12 47

Department of Genetics 43 31 74 16 9 25 8 4 12

Department of Pathology 28 20 48 16 6 22 12 4 16

Department of Pharmacology 28 18 46 19 2 21 13 2 15

Department of Plant Sciences 206 20 226 53 4 57 38 4 42

Department of Psychology 93 102 195 43 30 73 21 21 42

Department of Veterinary Medicine 36 10 46 22 4 26 12 1 13

Department of Zoology 75 28 103 49 17 66 18 15 33

Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience 58 202 260 26 20 46 17 13 30

Wellcome Trust - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute 57 0 57 6 0 6 6 0 6

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Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Department or Faculty for 2017/18 Admission cont’d

School

Applications Offers Confirmations

Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total

Clinical Medicine 692 710 1402 176 158 334 141 86 227

Camb Inst for Medical Research 71 8 79 14 2 16 13 1 14

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute 23 5 28 13 4 17 12 2 14

Department of Clinical Biochemistry 46 8 54 16 1 17 15 1 16

Department of Clinical Neurosciences 122 63 185 23 13 36 18 11 29

Department of Haematology 10 3 13 10 3 13 10 3 13

Department of Medical Genetics 2 44 46 2 21 23 1 12 13

Department of Medicine 107 84 191 26 41 67 25 20 45

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 8 5 13 1 0 1 1 0 1

Department of Oncology 15 14 29 5 1 6 3 1 4

Department of Paediatrics 14 0 14 1 0 1 1 0 1

Department of Psychiatry 29 15 44 14 12 26 8 7 15

Department of Public Health and Primary Care 95 433 528 21 53 74 12 22 34

Department of Radiology 19 4 23 7 1 8 6 0 6

Department of Surgery 4 10 14 1 3 4 1 3 4

Faculty of Clinical Medicine 75 0 75 3 0 3 3 0 3

MRC Cancer Unit 15 10 25 9 3 12 7 3 10

MRC Epidemiology Unit 37 4 41 10 0 10 5 0 5

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Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Department or Faculty for 2017/18 Admission cont’d

School

Applications Offers Confirmations

Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total

Humanities & Social Sciences 1698 7331 9029 619 2355 2974 305 1255 1560

Archaeology Section 37 107 144 24 69 93 12 33 45

Biological Anthropology Section 18 43 61 11 20 31 3 16 19

Centre of African Studies 0 78 78 0 24 24 0 11 11

Centre of Development Studies 163 729 892 21 125 146 12 53 65

Centre of Latin American Studies 13 34 47 8 19 27 1 12 13

Centre of South Asian Studies 0 43 43 0 27 27 0 8 8

Department of History and Philosophy of Science 48 145 193 34 70 104 17 42 59

Department of Land Economy 60 689 749 26 169 195 15 98 113

Department of Sociology 92 254 346 44 62 106 18 36 54

Dept of Politics & Int.Studies 316 1019 1335 64 215 279 29 110 139

Faculty of Economics 155 1131 1286 40 376 416 18 146 164

Faculty of Education 275 800 1075 120 382 502 70 272 342

Faculty of History 221 556 777 136 258 394 64 155 219

Faculty of Law 170 1449 1619 43 429 472 22 204 226

Institute of Criminology 43 133 176 10 71 81 7 39 46

Social Anthropology Section 87 121 208 38 39 77 17 20 37

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Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Department or Faculty for 2017/18 Admission cont’d

School

Applications Offers Confirmations

Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total

Physical Sciences 1514 1691 3205 479 563 1042 286 296 582

British Antarctic Survey, NERC 43 0 43 5 0 5 5 0 5

Department of Chemistry 242 81 323 98 25 123 66 18 84

Department of Earth Sciences 91 4 95 33 2 35 20 1 21

Department of Geography 54 163 217 20 37 57 9 25 34

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy 108 113 221 55 30 85 24 17 41

Department of Physics 418 342 760 146 79 225 79 35 114

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics 254 434 688 53 206 259 45 103 148

Dept of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics 200 492 692 43 161 204 24 79 103

Institute of Astronomy 96 45 141 23 17 40 13 12 25

Scott Polar Research Institute 8 17 25 3 6 9 1 6 7

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School

Applications Offers Confirmations

Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total Research Programmes

Taught Programmes

Total

Technology 1294 2820 4114 468 586 1054 277 345 622

Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology 184 273 457 75 62 137 47 39 86

Department of Computer Science and Technology 133 326 459 44 97 141 28 59 87

Department of Engineering 873 1078 1951 337 206 543 194 136 330

The Judge Business School 104 1143 1247 12 221 233 8 111 119

University Partner Institutions 355 29 384 77 12 89 74 8 82

Animal Health Trust, Newmarket 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0

Babraham Inst, BBSRC 14 0 14 6 0 6 6 0 6

Camb Crystallographic Data Centre 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

European Bioinformatics Institute 9 0 9 6 0 6 6 0 6

MRC Biostatistics Unit 24 0 24 7 0 7 7 0 7

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 36 11 47 12 1 13 11 1 12

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 215 0 215 24 0 24 24 0 24

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit 19 6 25 9 1 10 8 0 8

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 27 12 39 13 10 23 12 7 19

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Applications, Offers and Confirmations from academic year 2010/11 – 2017/18 by fee status

The % column shows the percentage difference with the previous year.

Year Applications Conditional Offers Confirmations

Home EU Overseas Total % Home EU Overseas Total % Home EU Overseas Total %

2010/11 1,693 3,387 8,460 13,540 - 1,627 1,370 3,133 6,130 - 1,051 851 1,433 3,335 -

2011/12 2,876 2,733 8,720 14,329 5.83% 1,610 1,294 2,986 5,890 -3.92% 1,058 810 1,395 3,263 -2.16%

2012/13 3,059 2,920 9,394 15,373 7.29% 1,602 1,285 3,237 6,124 3.97% 1,039 808 1,500 3,347 2.57%

2013/14 3,227 2,801 9,769 15,797 2.76% 1,716 1,356 3,257 6,329 3.35% 1,184 797 1,606 3,587 7.17%

2014/15 3,351 2,986 9,715 16,052 1.61% 1,762 1,501 3,227 6,490 2.54% 1,137 876 1,517 3,530 -1.59%

2015/16 3,491 3,051 9,914 16,456 2.52% 1,784 1,424 3,290 6,498 0.12% 1,228 856 1,472 3,556 0.74%

2016/17 3,699 3,200 9,839 16,738 1.71% 1,805 1,492 3,200 6,497 -0.02% 1,250 922 1,447 3,619 1.77%

2017/18 4,325 3,749 13,702 21,776 30.10% 1,911 1,503 3,430 6,844 5.34% 1,334 886 1,581 3,801 5.03%