Oxford acceptance rate
Oxford acceptance rate
14%
3,302 students were admitted from 23,329 applications in 2025.
Your result
Oxford acceptance rate: 14%. 3,302 students were admitted from 23,329 applications in 2025. Oxford made 3,891 offers, 17% of applications.
Applications
23,329
Offers
3,891
Students admitted
3,302
| Cycle | Applications | Offers | Admitted | Admitted per application |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23,329 | 3,891 | 3,302 | 14.2% |
| 2024 | 23,061 | 3,793 | 3,245 | 14.1% |
| 2023 | 23,211 | 3,721 | 3,219 | 13.9% |
| 2022 | 23,819 | 3,645 | 3,271 | 13.7% |
| 2021 | 24,338 | 3,555 | 3,298 | 13.6% |
Practise for the interview
Oxford's acceptance rate is 14%: 3,302 students were admitted from 23,329 applications in 2025, about 1 in 7.
Questions people ask
Which Oxford course is hardest to get into?
By Oxford's own figures, Economics and Management: 5% of applicants were successful on average over 2023 to 2025, and 18% were interviewed.
How many people apply to Oxford?
23,329 applications in 2025, for 3,891 offers and 3,302 students admitted.
What does successful mean on Oxford's figures?
It is Oxford's own label on each course page: the share of applicants who were successful in getting a place on that course, averaged over three years.
Is Oxford harder to get into than Cambridge?
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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How we work this out
What it does
Oxford's own figures for every course: how many applicants are interviewed and how many succeed.
Every Oxford undergraduate course page that prints admissions statistics: 48 courses and options, each a 3-year average for 2023 to 2025. The whole-university figure is the 2025 admissions cycle from Oxford's annual report.
Method
- Interviewed and successful are Oxford's own percentages of applicants, printed on each course page. Intake is the average number starting each year.
- The whole-university rate is students admitted divided by applications, all domiciles, from Table 1.1 of Oxford's Annual Admissions Statistical Report.
- The figures are read from Oxford's pages by script and dated; nothing is estimated.
Published figures
Every Oxford course
Oxford’s own figures from each course page, 3-year average for 2023 to 2025, hardest to get into first.