Application statistics
One of the questions most frequently asked about applying to Cambridge is ‘what are my chances of getting in?’ For example, you may want to know how many applicants normally apply to a given College for a given subject.
The first thing to stress at this point is that Cambridge’s admissions process involves a strong element of cross-College moderation through our pool system. This is designed to ensure, as far as possible, that applicants in a given year are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged by the level of applications to their chosen College. Despite application numbers varying considerably each year, our system does mean that success rates are very similar from College to College. This is because the pool results in many students (788 in the case of the 2011 cycle) receiving an offer from a College other than the one they applied to, or were allocated to through the open application system.
View statistics for overall applications and admissions
Download statistics for subjects by College
Download statistics for Colleges by subject
Further application and admissions statistics
The University of Cambridge publishes Undergraduate Admissions Statistics each year, statistics for the 2011 cycle can be downloaded below or viewed online from our Publications download area.
Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2011 cycle
Undergraduate Admissions Statistics relating to previous admissions cycles can be found in the Reporter Special Issues.
CamDATA: course information and statistics
Application statistics along with information about first destination statistics of graduates, teaching quality and degree classification results can also be found on the CamDATA website: www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/camdata/.