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Oxford Physics acceptance rate

11% of applicants for Physics at Oxford were successful and 31% were interviewed (3-year average, 2023 to 2025). About 173 students start each year.

Oxford's own figures, 3-year average for 2023 to 2025.

Physics acceptance rate

11%

31% of applicants were interviewed and 11% were successful.

Your result

Physics acceptance rate: 11%. 31% of applicants were interviewed and 11% were successful. About 173 students start the course each year.

Interviewed

31%

Successful

11%

Starting each year

173

Physics: share of applicants
  • Interviewed31%
  • Successful11%
  • Oxford's published share

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How many Oxford Physics applicants get an interview?

31% on average over 2023 to 2025, by Oxford's own figures.

How many places are there for Physics at Oxford?

About 173 students start each year (3-year average, 2023 to 2025).

Which admissions test does Oxford Physics use?

The ESAT, for 2027 entry.

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How we work this out

What it does

Oxford's own figures for Physics: 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

  1. Interviewed and successful are Oxford's own percentages of applicants, printed on each course page. Intake is the average number starting each year.
  2. The whole-university rate is students admitted divided by applications, all domiciles, from Table 1.1 of Oxford's Annual Admissions Statistical Report.
  3. 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.

Oxford courses: interviewed, successful and starting each year, 2023 to 2025
CourseInterviewedSuccessfulStarting each year
Economics and Management18%5%82
Computer Science21%7%55
Biomedical Sciences24%8%45
Law with Law Studies in Europe26%9%28
Mathematics / Mathematics and Statistics32%9%183
Physics and Philosophy24%9%13
Computer Science and Philosophy32%10%14
Law31%10%187
Mathematics and Computer Science29%10%59
Mathematics and Philosophy33%10%18
Fine Art21%11%28
Medicine29%11%155
Physics31%11%173
Biochemistry (Molecular and Cellular)41%12%100
History and Economics43%12%17
History and English57%12%12
Philosophy, Politics and Economics38%12%227
Psychology (Experimental)34%12%49
History and Politics41%13%46
History of Art49%14%14
Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics37%14%37
Biology46%15%112
Engineering Science37%15%174
Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies45%15%2
Archaeology and Anthropology58%16%19
Human Sciences56%16%28
Medicine (graduate-entry / accelerated)41%16%35
Chemistry63%17%180
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History88%17%24
Philosophy and Theology43%17%25
Earth Sciences (Geology)83%20%35
English Language and Literature67%22%208
Geography75%22%76
Materials Science62%22%43
History74%23%215
History (Ancient and Modern)71%23%24
Classics and English89%24%13
History and Modern Languages84%25%19
English and Modern Languages86%31%30
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies85%32%36
Theology and Religion65%32%40
Classics95%33%104
Philosophy and Modern Languages91%36%19
Classics and Modern Languages95%39%8
Modern Languages and Linguistics95%39%38
European and Middle Eastern Languages93%40%13
Music92%42%77
Modern Languages94%44%141

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