Cambridge acceptance rate
Cambridge acceptance rate
16.3%
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Cambridge acceptance rate: 16.3%. 3,669 of 22,513 applicants were accepted in the 2025 cycle, after 4,893 offers (21.7% of applicants). Cambridge calls this the success rate.
Applications
22,513
Offers
4,893
Accepted
3,669
- Applications, Cambridge's count
Practise for the interview
Cambridge's acceptance rate is 16.3%: 3,669 of 22,513 applicants were accepted in the 2025 admissions cycle, about 1 in 6.
Questions people ask
Which Cambridge subject is hardest to get into?
By Cambridge's own counts for the 2025 cycle, Computer Science: 128 of 1,739 applicants were accepted (7.4%).
How many people apply to Cambridge?
22,513 in the 2025 cycle. Cambridge made 4,893 offers and accepted 3,669 students.
Why are there more offers than acceptances?
Cambridge counts as accepted only applicants confirmed with a place. Offer holders who miss their conditions, or go elsewhere, are not counted.
Is Cambridge harder to get into than Oxford?
Overall the rates are close. Both count applications: Oxford admitted 3,302 of 23,329 in 2025 (14.2%) and offered 16.7% a place; Cambridge accepted 3,669 of 22,513 in its 2025 cycle (16.3%) and offered 21.7%. Most people can apply to only one of the two in a year, for one course, so each application is close to one person. Course by course they differ much more.
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What it does
Cambridge's own counts for every subject: applications, offers and students accepted.
Every subject in Cambridge's Undergraduate Admissions Statistics for the 2025, 2024, 2023 admissions cycles, all domiciles.
Method
- Applications, offers and acceptances are Cambridge's own counts from Table 1.1 of each cycle's report.
- The acceptance rate is Cambridge's success rate: applicants accepted at confirmation divided by applications. Offers divided by applications is shown beside it.
- The rows are checked to add up to the report's totals each time the data is refreshed.
Published figures
Every Cambridge subject
Cambridge’s own counts for the 2025 admissions cycle, all domiciles, hardest to get into first.
| Subject | Applications | Offers | Accepted | Success rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 1,739 | 163 | 128 | 7.4% |
| Economics | 1,647 | 195 | 164 | 10.0% |
| Engineering | 3,263 | 392 | 335 | 10.3% |
| Architecture | 562 | 93 | 65 | 11.6% |
| Land Economy | 661 | 112 | 78 | 11.8% |
| Mathematics | 2,032 | 555 | 258 | 12.7% |
| Psychological and Behavioural Sciences | 611 | 111 | 79 | 12.9% |
| Law | 1,654 | 291 | 232 | 14.0% |
| Human, Social and Political Sciences | 1,230 | 236 | 173 | 14.1% |
| Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | 541 | 92 | 77 | 14.2% |
| History and Politics | 332 | 68 | 49 | 14.8% |
| Medicine Graduate Course | 172 | 35 | 28 | 16.3% |
| Veterinary Medicine | 341 | 80 | 57 | 16.7% |
| Design | 148 | 36 | 26 | 17.6% |
| Medicine | 1,530 | 307 | 270 | 17.6% |
| Philosophy | 223 | 71 | 42 | 18.8% |
| Natural Sciences | 2,644 | 672 | 576 | 21.8% |
| Education | 155 | 54 | 34 | 21.9% |
| History of Art | 141 | 41 | 31 | 22.0% |
| Geography | 379 | 139 | 99 | 26.1% |
| Archaeology | 84 | 40 | 22 | 26.2% |
| History | 631 | 241 | 172 | 27.3% |
| English | 652 | 241 | 192 | 29.4% |
| Linguistics | 126 | 52 | 38 | 30.2% |
| Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion | 155 | 72 | 51 | 32.9% |
| History and Modern Languages | 118 | 50 | 45 | 38.1% |
| Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic | 54 | 32 | 22 | 40.7% |
| Classics (4 years) | 84 | 56 | 35 | 41.7% |
| Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | 89 | 52 | 38 | 42.7% |
| Music | 143 | 89 | 67 | 46.9% |
| Classics | 107 | 61 | 52 | 48.6% |
| Modern and Medieval Languages | 265 | 164 | 134 | 50.6% |
| All subjects | 22,513 | 4,893 | 3,669 | 16.3% |