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 (743 in the case of 2008-09 entry) 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

• the University as a whole
• by subject
• by College

Download statistics for subjects by College

Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Archaeology & Anthropology Architecture Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Classics Classics 4 year course Computer Science Economics Education Engineering English Geography History

History of Art Land Economy Law Mathematics Medicine Medicine Graduate Course Modern & Medieval Languages Music Natural Sciences Philosophy Politics, Psychology & Sociology Theology & Religious Studies Veterinary Medicine

Download statistics for Colleges by subject

Christ's College Churchill College Clare College Corpus Christi College Downing College Emmanuel College Fitzwilliam College Girton College Gonville and Caius College Homerton College Hughes Hall Jesus College King's College Lucy Cavendish Magdalene College

Murray Edwards (New Hall) Newnham College Pembroke College Peterhouse Queens' College Robinson College St Catharine's College St Edmund's College St John's College Selwyn College Sidney Sussex College Trinity College Trinity Hall Wolfson College

Further application and admissions statistics

Reporter

Cambridge University Reporter publishes a statistical analysis of applicant numbers in the following special editions:

• Undergraduate Admissions Statistics (October 2008) published April 2009 (www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2008-09/special/17/)
• Student Numbers 2007-08 published October 2008 (www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2008-09/special/04/).

CamDATA

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/.