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Cambridge acceptance rate
Offer and success rates for UK undergraduate entry, with the definition, the cycle year and the official source on every figure.
Cambridge acceptance rate in one paragraph
In the 2025 cycle (October 2025 entry), 21.7% of Cambridge applicants received an offer: 4,893 offers divided by 22,513 applications. The success rate, 3,669 acceptances divided by applications, was 16.3%. Source: University of Cambridge, Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycle, Table 1.1, published 18 May 2026.
Last reviewed 3 November 2026. UK undergraduate entry only. 45 rows below. Download the CSV.
All courses, by cycle
Whole-university undergraduate applications, offers and acceptances for every cycle we hold.
| Cycle (entry year) | Applications | Offers | Offer rate | Acceptances | Success rate | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22,513 | 4,893 | 21.7%offers / applications | 3,669 | 16.3%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable 1.1, published 18 May 2026 |
| 2024 | 22,153 | 4,760 | 21.5%offers / applications | 3,632 | 16.4%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2024 cycleTable (subject) |
| 2023 | 21,445 | 4,553 | 21.2%offers / applications | 3,557 | 16.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2023 cycleTable (subject) |
| 2022 | 22,470 | 4,238 | 18.9%offers / applications | 3,544 | 15.8%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2022 cycleTable (subject) |
| 2021 | 22,795 | 4,260 | 18.7%offers / applications | 3,660 | 16.1%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2021 cycleTable (subject) |
| 2020 | 20,426 | 4,710 | 23.1%offers / applications | 3,997 | 19.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2020 cycleTable (subject) |
| 2019 | 19,359 | 4,694 | 24.2%offers / applications | 3,528 | 18.2%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2019 cycleTable (subject) |
| 2018 | 18,378 | 4,559 | 24.8%offers / applications | 3,465 | 18.9%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2018 cycleTable 1.1 |
| 2017 | 17,189 | 4,485 | 26.1%offers / applications | 3,497 | 20.3%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2017 cycleTable 1.1 |
| 2016 | 16,750 | 4,307 | 25.7%offers / applications | 3,457 | 20.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2016 cycleTable 1.1 |
| 2015 | 16,431 | 4,253 | 25.9%offers / applications | 3,449 | 21.0%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2015 cycleTable 1.1 |
| 2014 | 16,752 | 4,220 | 25.2%offers / applications | 3,448 | 20.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2014 cycleTable 1.1 |
| 2013Offers are not in the table we hold for this cycle, so no offer rate is shown. | 16,185 | n/a | n/a | 3,371 | 20.8%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2013 cycleTable 1.1 |
Cycle is the October entry year. Each rate is the count in the row divided as the definition beside it says. Click a source to open the official document.
By subject, 2025 cycle
Applications, offers and acceptances for each subject in the 2025 cycle.
| Subject | Cycle (entry year) | Applications | Offers | Offer rate | Acceptances | Success rate | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic | 2025 | 54 | 32 | 59.3%offers / applications | 22 | 40.7%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Archaeology | 2025 | 84 | 40 | 47.6%offers / applications | 22 | 26.2%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Architecture | 2025 | 562 | 93 | 16.5%offers / applications | 65 | 11.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | 2025 | 89 | 52 | 58.4%offers / applications | 38 | 42.7%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | 2025 | 541 | 92 | 17.0%offers / applications | 77 | 14.2%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Classics | 2025 | 107 | 61 | 57.0%offers / applications | 52 | 48.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Classics (four-year course) | 2025 | 84 | 56 | 66.7%offers / applications | 35 | 41.7%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Computer Science | 2025 | 1,739 | 163 | 9.4%offers / applications | 128 | 7.4%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable 1.1, published 18 May 2026 |
| Design | 2025 | 148 | 36 | 24.3%offers / applications | 26 | 17.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Economics | 2025 | 1,647 | 195 | 11.8%offers / applications | 164 | 10.0%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Education | 2025 | 155 | 54 | 34.8%offers / applications | 34 | 21.9%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Engineering | 2025 | 3,263 | 392 | 12.0%offers / applications | 335 | 10.3%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable 1.1, published 18 May 2026 |
| English | 2025 | 652 | 241 | 37.0%offers / applications | 192 | 29.4%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Geography | 2025 | 379 | 139 | 36.7%offers / applications | 99 | 26.1%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| History | 2025 | 631 | 241 | 38.2%offers / applications | 172 | 27.3%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| History and Modern Languages | 2025 | 118 | 50 | 42.4%offers / applications | 45 | 38.1%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| History and Politics | 2025 | 332 | 68 | 20.5%offers / applications | 49 | 14.8%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| History of Art | 2025 | 141 | 41 | 29.1%offers / applications | 31 | 22.0%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Human, Social, and Political Sciences | 2025 | 1,230 | 236 | 19.2%offers / applications | 173 | 14.1%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Land Economy | 2025 | 661 | 112 | 16.9%offers / applications | 78 | 11.8%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Law | 2025 | 1,654 | 291 | 17.6%offers / applications | 232 | 14.0%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Linguistics | 2025 | 126 | 52 | 41.3%offers / applications | 38 | 30.2%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Mathematics | 2025 | 2,032 | 555 | 27.3%offers / applications | 258 | 12.7%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Medicine | 2025 | 1,530 | 307 | 20.1%offers / applications | 270 | 17.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable 1.1, published 18 May 2026 |
| Medicine (graduate course) | 2025 | 172 | 35 | 20.3%offers / applications | 28 | 16.3%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Modern and Medieval Languages | 2025 | 265 | 164 | 61.9%offers / applications | 134 | 50.6%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable 1.1, published 18 May 2026 |
| Music | 2025 | 143 | 89 | 62.2%offers / applications | 67 | 46.9%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Natural Sciences | 2025 | 2,644 | 672 | 25.4%offers / applications | 576 | 21.8%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable 1.1, published 18 May 2026 |
| Philosophy | 2025 | 223 | 71 | 31.8%offers / applications | 42 | 18.8%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Psychological and Behavioural Sciences | 2025 | 611 | 111 | 18.2%offers / applications | 79 | 12.9%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion | 2025 | 155 | 72 | 46.5%offers / applications | 51 | 32.9%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
| Veterinary Medicine | 2025 | 341 | 80 | 23.5%offers / applications | 57 | 16.7%acceptances / applications | Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycleTable (subject) |
Cycle is the October entry year. Each rate is the count in the row divided as the definition beside it says. Click a source to open the official document.
What the number does and does not mean
A rate describes a group, not you
A rate counts everyone who applied, whatever their grades and preparation. It is not the chance that a particular student receives an offer.
Read the definition beside each number
The offer rate counts offers. The success rate counts acceptances at confirmation, unconditional firm only, so it is lower. A large gap between the two means many offers did not become confirmed places. Do not swap one for the other.
Universities do not count the same way
Each university sets its own counting rules. An Oxford offer rate, a Cambridge offer rate and an Imperial offer rate are not like for like, and neither are their success rates. Compare a university with its own earlier years, not with another university.
Small numbers move the rate a lot
In a row with about 50 applications, two more offers change the rate by about 4 percentage points. Treat rates built on small counts as rough, and look at the counts in the row.
The year is the entry year
A 2025 cycle row covers applications made in autumn 2024 for entry in October 2025, though a minority defer a year. Where a department names its report by two years, such as 2025-26, the row is shown under the later year.
What is counted
Cambridge's report excludes applicants who did not submit the My Cambridge Application form.
What this page does not have
- Subject rates are for the 2025 cycle only. Earlier cycles are in the whole-university table; we have not put earlier subject tables on this page.
- We hold no college-level figures here. Cambridge colleges differ in size and in how applications are redistributed between them, so college rates need their own page and their own caveats.
- In the 2013 cycle row we hold the application and acceptance counts but not the offer count, so that row shows no offer rate.
How the rates are calculated
- Offers divided by applications. Conditional and unconditional offers both count.
- Acceptances divided by applications. Acceptances are counted at confirmation, unconditional firm only.
- Each rate is calculated from the counts in the row. Cambridge publishes counts; we divide.
- The whole-university row for each cycle comes from Cambridge's Table 1.1 where the bank holds it, and from the subject table otherwise. The two agree where both exist.
- Rates are shown to one decimal place. Every figure is an official published figure; nothing here is estimated or forecast.
Sources and years
Every figure on this page comes from one of these official documents. Rows are counted per document.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 33 rows, 2025 cycle. Published 18 May 2026. Retrieved 7 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2024 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2024 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2023 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2023 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2022 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2022 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2021 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2021 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2020 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2020 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2019 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2019 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2018 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2018 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2017 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2017 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2016 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2016 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2015 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2015 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2014 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2014 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2013 cycle
University of Cambridge (Cambridge Admissions Office). 1 row, 2013 cycle. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
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