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Oxford acceptance rate
Offer rates for UK undergraduate entry, with the definition, the cycle year and the official source on every figure.
Oxford acceptance rate in one paragraph
In the 2025 cycle (October 2025 entry), 16.7% of Oxford applicants received an offer: 3,891 offers divided by 23,329 applications. Oxford also reports 3,302 acceptances, shown here as a count, not a rate. Source: University of Oxford, Annual Admissions Statistical Report, June 2026 edition, Table 1.1, published 23 June 2026.
Last reviewed 3 November 2026. UK undergraduate entry only. 16 rows below. Download the CSV.
All undergraduate applicants, by cycle
Whole-university undergraduate applications, offers and acceptances for every cycle we hold.
| Cycle (entry year) | Applications | Offers | Offer rate | Acceptances | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23,329 | 3,891 | 16.7%offers / applications | 3,302 | Annual Admissions Statistical Report, June 2026 editionTable 1.1, published 23 June 2026 |
| 2024 | 23,061 | 3,793 | 16.4%offers / applications | 3,245 | Undergraduate Admissions Report 2026Table 1.1, published July 2026 |
| 2023 | 23,211 | 3,721 | 16.0%offers / applications | 3,219 | Undergraduate Admissions Report 2026Table 1.1, published July 2026 |
| 2022 | 23,819 | 3,645 | 15.3%offers / applications | 3,271 | Undergraduate Admissions Report 2026Table 1.1, published July 2026 |
| 2021 | 24,338 | 3,555 | 14.6%offers / applications | 3,298 | Undergraduate Admissions Report 2026Table 1.1, published July 2026 |
| 2020 | 23,414 | 3,932 | 16.8%offers / applications | 3,695 | Annual Admissions Statistical Report, June 2025 editionTable 1.1, published June 2025 |
| 2019 | 23,026 | 3,895 | 16.9%offers / applications | 3,286 | Annual Admissions Statistical Report, 2024 editionTable 1.1, published June 2024 |
| 2018 | 21,516 | 3,841 | 17.9%offers / applications | 3,310 | Annual Admissions Statistical Report, 2023 editionTable 1.1, published June 2023 |
| 2017 | 19,953 | 3,786 | 19.0%offers / applications | 3,285 | Annual Admissions Statistical Report, 2022 editionTable 1.1, published June 2022 |
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 applicant domicile, 2025 cycle
Offer rates for UK, EU and non-EU domiciled applicants in the 2025 cycle.
| Applicants | Cycle (entry year) | Applications | Offers | Offer rate | Acceptances | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK-domiciled applicants | 2025 | 14,340 | 3,006 | 21.0%offers / applications | 2,609 | Annual Admissions Statistical Report, June 2026 editionTable 1.3, published 23 June 2026 |
| EU-domiciled applicants | 2025 | 1,389 | 101 | 7.3%offers / applications | 82 | Annual Admissions Statistical Report, June 2026 editionTable 1.3, published 23 June 2026 |
| Non-EU, non-UK domiciled applicants | 2025 | 7,600 | 784 | 10.3%offers / applications | 611 | Annual Admissions Statistical Report, June 2026 editionTable 1.3, published 23 June 2026 |
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, latest cycle we hold
The Oxford subjects for which we hold official single-cycle counts of applications and offers.
| Subject | Cycle (entry year) | Applications | Offers | Offer rate | Acceptances | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 2026 | 531 | 58 | 10.9%offers / applications | n/a | Admissions feedback summary 2025-26, Computer Science and joint coursesTable 1, published January 2026 |
| Computer Science and Philosophy | 2025 | 131 | 18 | 13.7%offers / applications | n/a | Admissions statistics report 2024-25, Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Science and PhilosophyTable 1 (page 1), published January 2025 |
| Mathematics and Computer Science | 2026 | 564 | 90 | 16.0%offers / applications | n/a | Admissions feedback summary 2025-26, Computer Science and joint coursesTable 1, published January 2026 |
| Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)The department's own title for this document is "preliminary statistics". | 2026 | 1,885 | 261 | 13.8%offers / applications | n/a | PPE admissions 2025-26: preliminary statisticsSection 1, published February 2026 |
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 Oxford rates on this page are single-cycle offer rates: offers divided by applications. Oxford's course pages also publish a three-year average "successful" figure, which is admitted divided by applications. It is a different measure and these figures are not it.
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.
One university rate hides a wide spread
In the 2025 cycle the offer rate was 21.0% for UK-domiciled applicants, 7.3% for EU-domiciled applicants and 10.3% for non-EU, non-UK domiciled applicants. The applicant pools differ, so the whole-university rate does not describe any one group.
What this page does not have
- We hold official single-cycle counts for 4 Oxford subjects (Computer Science; Mathematics and Computer Science; Computer Science and Philosophy; Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)), taken from the departments' own reports. We do not yet hold a comparable table for the other Oxford courses, and we have not estimated one.
- Oxford acceptances are shown as a count. We do not calculate an acceptance rate for Oxford here, because the rate we use for Oxford is the offer rate.
- We hold no college-level Oxford figures on this page.
- Oxford publishes its own figures for each course on the course pages of the University of Oxford course listing.
How the rates are calculated
- Offers divided by applications, for a single cycle.
- Each rate is calculated from the counts in the row. Oxford and its departments publish counts; we divide.
- The subject rows come from separate departmental reports, so their cycle years differ. The year is on every row.
- 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.
- Admissions feedback summary 2025-26, Computer Science and joint courses
Oxford Department of Computer Science. 2 rows, 2026 cycle. Published January 2026. Retrieved 7 September 2026.
- PPE admissions 2025-26: preliminary statistics
University of Oxford (various departments). 1 row, 2026 cycle. Published February 2026. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Admissions statistics report 2024-25, Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Science and Philosophy
Oxford Department of Computer Science. 1 row, 2025 cycle. Published January 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Annual Admissions Statistical Report, June 2026 edition
University of Oxford. 8 rows, 2021 to 2025 cycles. Published 23 June 2026. Retrieved 7 September 2026. The same file is also cited as "Undergraduate Admissions Report 2026".
- Annual Admissions Statistical Report, June 2025 edition
University of Oxford. 1 row, 2020 cycle. Published June 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Annual Admissions Statistical Report, 2024 edition
University of Oxford. 1 row, 2019 cycle. Published June 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Annual Admissions Statistical Report, 2023 edition
University of Oxford. 1 row, 2018 cycle. Published June 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- Annual Admissions Statistical Report, 2022 edition
University of Oxford. 1 row, 2017 cycle. Published June 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
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