Cambridge Economics acceptance rate
10.0% of applicants for Economics at Cambridge were accepted in the 2025 admissions cycle: 164 of 1,647, after 195 offers.
Cambridge Economics acceptance rate
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Cambridge Economics acceptance rate: 10.0%. 164 of 1,647 applicants were accepted in the 2025 cycle, after 195 offers (11.8% of applicants). Cambridge calls this the success rate.
Applications
1,647
Offers
195
Accepted
164
- Applications, Cambridge's count
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How many people apply for Economics at Cambridge?
1,647 in the 2025 cycle, against 1,336 in 2023.
How many Cambridge Economics applicants get an offer?
195 of 1,647 in the 2025 cycle, 11.8% of applicants.
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How we work this out
What it does
Cambridge's own counts for Economics: 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% |
Sources
Checked .
- University of Cambridge: Undergraduate Admissions Statistics, 2025 cycle, Table 1.1: applications, offers and acceptances by subject (all domiciles) (May )
- University of Cambridge: Undergraduate Admissions Statistics, 2024 cycle, Table 1.1: applications, offers and acceptances by subject (all domiciles) (June)
- University of Cambridge: Undergraduate Admissions Statistics, 2023 cycle, Table 1.1: applications, offers and acceptances by subject (all domiciles) (June)