GRADUATE Admissions Statistics
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P a g e | 0 Graduate Admissions Office Statistics For Admissions in 2016/2017 0 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 – 2017/17 by fee status .................................... 16 Cover photo: “ Cover photo: “Happy in class?” by Reut C is Licenced under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 1 Notes for Information: 1. These statistics refer to applications for admission in the academic year 2016/2017, as of the 29 November 2017. 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: Admit Term Division of Term date Michaelmas 2016 9th November 2016 Lent 2017 13th February 2017 Easter 2017 21st May 2017 3. 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 4. 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. 5. Research and 1 Year programmes are categorised as follows: 6. Research 1 Year Courses Certificate of Postgraduate Studies (CPGS) Graduate Diplomas Doctor of Education (EdD) Master in Law (LLM) Doctor of Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Master of Corporate Law (MCL) Doctor of Medicine (MD) Master of Advanced Study (MASt) Masters of Letters (MLitt) Master of Education (MEed) Masters of Research (MRes) Master of Music (MMUS) Masters of Science (MSC) Master of Philosophy (MPhil)2 PhD Probationary (NOTAF) Not To Be Registered programme (NTBR) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 1 As of 16th November 2016 there were 54 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 one year courses. 2 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 confirmations2 Table 1.1 Applications, offers and confirmations by School and Fee Status The total number of applications is 16,628 (16,456)3, a 1.0% increase The total number of conditional offers is 6,450 (6,498), a 0.7% decrease The total number of confirmation is 3,525 (3,556), an decrease of 0.9% The research/1 year programmes application ratio is 1: 2 For applications by Fee Status4: Overseas: 9,745 (59%) Home: 3,710 (22%) EU: 3,173 (19%) For offers by Fee Status: Overseas: 3,176 (49%) Home: 1,809 (28%) EU: 1,465 (23%) For confirmations by Fee Status: Overseas: 1,441 (41%) Home: 1,207 (34%) EU: 887 (25%) Table 1.2 Applications and Confirmations by HESA classification ‘Research’ and ‘Taught’ Research: 9,188 applications, 43% offers made and 24% were confirmed Taught: 7,440 applications, 34% offers made and 18% were confirmed. Table 1.3-1.4 Applications and Confirmations by Citizenship The largest number of applications, again, come from UK citizens, followed by Chinese and American citizens The top 25 citizenships made up 81% of total confirmations and UK citizens alone made up 22% - down from 31% in 2013/14 but 1% higher than 2014/15 and 2015/16. Table 1.6 Applications, offers and confirmations for continuing students 1,094 applicants applied to continue their graduate studies. This is 8% lower than the previous year. 68% received conditional offers and 55% of those were confirmed. Table 2.1-2.3 Applicants by Gender, Disability and Ethnicity 46% of applications were from females – up by 1% from the previous two academic years. 47% of total confirmations were female. 9 % of applicants declared a disability. 53% of applicants declared non-white ethnicity. 2 Applications withdrawn within the terms of the 14 day cancellation policy are excluded from these statistics. 3 Figures in Italics are for Graduate Admission in 2015/2016. 4 See Note 3 on page 2 - Fee Status classification. 3 P a g e | 4 Admissions data in terms of School and Fee Status Table 1.1 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by School and Fee Status5 for 2016/17 admission School Applications Offers Success Rates Confirmations Success Rates Research Home EU Overseas Total Home EU Overseas Total Apps to Offers Home EU Overseas Total Offers to Conf Arts & Humanities 218 135 372 725 124 67 121 312 43.03% 50 33 47 130 41.67% Biological Science 179 165 232 576 73 82 111 266 46.18% 55 54 48 157 59.02% Clinical Medicine 136 103 169 408 65 47 58 170 41.67% 59 36 39 134 78.82% Humanities & Social Sciences 263 276 857 1,396 163 135 320 618 44.27% 76 58 128 262 42.39% Physical Sciences 434 303 474 1,211 163 129 168 460 37.99% 124 70 76 270 58.70% Technology 202 197 646 1,045 128 111 252 491 46.99% 101 75 93 269 54.79% University Partner Institutions 117 79 122 318 33 36 29 98 30.82% 32 34 21 87 88.78% Sub-Total (Research) 1,549 1,258 2,872 5,679 749 607 1,059 2,415 42.53% 497 360 452 1,309 54.20% (In percentages) 27% 22% 51% 31% 25% 44% 38% 28% 35% 1 Year Courses Arts & Humanities 487 171 643 1,301 260 81 188 529 40.66% 165 46 85 296 55.95% Biological Science 72 80 198 350 18 34 79 131 37.43% 17 22 36 75 57.25% Clinical Medicine 75 34 282 391 43 19 63 125 31.97% 31 17 28 76 60.80% Humanities & Social Sciences 1132 955 3610 5,697 586 394 1184 2,164 37.98% 390 214 547 1,151 53.19% Physical Sciences 192 292 705 1,189 83 171 291 545 45.84% 59 107 125 291 53.39% Technology 201 382 1419 2,002 70 159 304 533 26.62% 48 111 163 322 60.41% University Partner Institutions 2 1 16 19 0 0 8 8 42.11% 0 0 5 5 62.50% Sub-Total (1 Year Course) 2,161 1,915 6,873 10,949 1,060 858 2,117 4,035 36.85% 710 517 989 2,216 54.92% (In percentages) 20% 17% 63% 26% 21% 52% 32% 23% 45% Grand Total 3,710 3,173 9,745 16,628 1,809 1,465 3,176 6,450 1,207 877 1,441 3,525 % 22.3% 19.1% 58.6% 28.0% 22.7% 49.2% 34.2% 24.9% 40.9% More detailed information on Applications and Confirmations by Departments or Faculties can be found in the Appendix. 5 See Note 3 on page 2 - Fee Status classification. 4 P a g e | 5 Admissions data in terms of School and HESA definition Table 1.2 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by Research and Taught HESA definition for 2016/17 admission School Applications Offers Confirmations Research Taught Research Taught Research Taught Arts & Humanities 1,759 267 749 92 370 56 Biological Science 864 62 391 6 227 5 Clinical Medicine 488 311 202 93 151 59 Humanities & Social Sciences 3,151 3,942 1,454 1,328 770 643 Physical Sciences 1,442 958 549 456 325 236 Technology 1,147 1,900 506 518 275 316 University Partner Institutions 337 0 106 0 92 0 Sub-Total 9,188 7,440 3,957 2,493 2,210 1,315 Grand Total 16,628 6,450 3,525 5 Admissions data in terms of Citizenship Table 1.3 Applications, Offers and Confirmations by declared citizenship6 for 2016/17 admission Applications Offers Confirmations Success Rates % change from Country 15/16 for apps to offers Number % Number % Number % Apps to offers success rate Offers to conf 1 United Kingdom 3710 22% 1809 28% 1207 34% 48.76% -2.87% 66.72% 2 China 2402 14% 549 9% 267 8% 22.86% 1.06% 48.63% 3 USA 1741 10% 902 14% 375 11% 51.81% 1.09% 41.57% 4 India 766 5% 220 3% 84 2% 28.72% 0.03% 38.18% 5 Germany 624 4% 313 5% 194 6% 50.16% 0.62% 61.98% 6 Canada 420 3%