Oxford Medicine: the admissions numbers
What the university released under Freedom of Information about who applied, who was shortlisted and who got an offer, laid out so you can read it without opening a spreadsheet. Offer A*AA, panel: two traditional academic interviews.
- applications
- 1,164
- 2025 cycle
- offers
- 173
- 15% of applications
- mean UCAT, offer holders
- 2,407
- against 2,194 for applicants
- colleges
- 28
- four to nine offers each
Offers, contextual offers and resits
A-level offer, 2027 entry
A*AA
Chemistry, plus one of Biology, Physics, Maths or Further Maths, both at A or above; all three taken in the same year
Contextual offer
Not stated
Oxford's entry requirements do not give a lower contextual offer.
Resits
Only with extenuating circumstances
Oxford wants three A levels taken in the same academic year. It might consider an applicant resitting A levels after extreme circumstances beyond their control, such as disruption from a change of school, severe discontinuity of teachers, bereavement or a one-off debilitating illness.
From Oxford’s own admissions pages for 2027 entry, checked 27 September 2026. Where a box says not stated, the school’s pages do not mention it.
The 2025 cycle, end to end
Applications made in autumn 2024 for entry in 2025, and what survived each stage. The last step is places actually taken up, not offers made.
Applications to places
Every Oxford Medicine applicant in the 2025 cycle, and how many were left at each stage.
Applications
1,164
Offers
173
15% of applications
Places taken up
155
13% of applications
The 2026 cycle held steady
15%
1,155 applications and 175 offers across the college table below
Report an error in The 2026 cycle held steadyShortlisted for interview, 2026 cycle
41%
About 425 of the 1,026 eligible applicants (1,156 applied). 175 offers followed, about 41% of those interviewed. Oxford's own figures.
Report an error in Shortlisted for interview, 2026 cycleUCAT and offers by college, 2026 cycle
Mean UCAT total of everyone who applied to each college and of those who got an offer there. Applications are counted at the college the applicant named, or was allocated to for an open application; the 2025 offers column counts the college that made the offer, which can differ after reallocation.
Mean UCAT of offer holders, by college
Each bar is the college’s gap from the all-college mean of 2,407 — not a bar from zero, because every college sits within 230 points of every other. Hover or tab to a college for its own figure. 2026 cycle.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| Magdalen | 2,528 | 6 offers |
| University College | 2,492 | 5 offers |
| Keble | 2,474 | 7 offers |
| New College | 2,465 | 6 offers |
| Wadham | 2,465 | 6 offers |
| Merton | 2,445 | 6 offers |
| Worcester | 2,442 | 6 offers |
| St Hugh's | 2,440 | 8 offers |
| Christ Church | 2,439 | 7 offers |
| Balliol | 2,424 | 5 offers |
| Corpus Christi | 2,423 | 6 offers |
| Trinity | 2,419 | 7 offers |
| Hertford | 2,416 | 7 offers |
| St John's | 2,413 | 6 offers |
| St Peter's | 2,402 | 6 offers |
| Lady Margaret Hall | 2,400 | 6 offers |
| St Hilda's | 2,398 | 5 offers |
| Pembroke | 2,388 | 5 offers |
| Oriel | 2,381 | 7 offers |
| Somerville | 2,370 | 5 offers |
| St Edmund Hall | 2,370 | 9 offers |
| Brasenose | 2,367 | 6 offers |
| Exeter | 2,363 | 6 offers |
| St Anne's | 2,360 | 7 offers |
| St Catherine's | 2,353 | 7 offers |
| The Queen's College | 2,342 | 6 offers |
| Lincoln | 2,335 | 8 offers |
| Jesus | 2,298 | 4 offers |
Four to nine offers per college, so one person moves a college by tens of points. The ranking below is noise; the gap between this chart and the applicant view is the signal.
| College | Applications, 2026 cycle | Offers, 2026 cycle | Offers, 2025 cycle | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| College | Count | Mean UCAT | Count | Per application | Mean UCAT | Count |
| Balliol | 35 | 2,184 | 5 | 14% | 2,424 | 5 |
| Brasenose | 40 | 2,213 | 6 | 15% | 2,367 | 6 |
| Christ Church | 51 | 2,219 | 7 | 14% | 2,439 | 6 |
| Corpus Christi | 28 | 2,248 | 6 | 21% | 2,423 | 6 |
| Exeter | 39 | 2,259 | 6 | 15% | 2,363 | 5 |
| Hertford | 32 | 2,182 | 7 | 22% | 2,416 | 6 |
| Jesus | 31 | 2,103 | 4 | 13% | 2,298 | 5 |
| Keble | 43 | 2,185 | 7 | 16% | 2,474 | 7 |
| Lady Margaret Hall | 34 | 2,169 | 6 | 18% | 2,400 | 6 |
| Lincoln | 43 | 2,204 | 8 | 19% | 2,335 | 8 |
| Magdalen | 70 | 2,220 | 6 | 9% | 2,528 | 6 |
| Merton | 32 | 2,257 | 6 | 19% | 2,445 | 6 |
| New College | 63 | 2,247 | 6 | 10% | 2,465 | 6 |
| Oriel | 32 | 2,273 | 7 | 22% | 2,381 | 7 |
| Pembroke | 22 | 2,025 | 5 | 23% | 2,388 | 5 |
| Somerville | 27 | 2,168 | 5 | 19% | 2,370 | 8 |
| St Anne's | 32 | 2,107 | 7 | 22% | 2,360 | 7 |
| St Catherine's | 33 | 2,234 | 7 | 21% | 2,353 | 6 |
| St Edmund Hall | 32 | 2,160 | 9 | 28% | 2,370 | 7 |
| St Hilda's | 26 | 2,199 | 5 | 19% | 2,398 | 6 |
| St Hugh's | 32 | 2,158 | 8 | 25% | 2,440 | 7 |
| St John's | 78 | 2,224 | 6 | 8% | 2,413 | 5 |
| St Peter's | 32 | 2,082 | 6 | 19% | 2,402 | 7 |
| The Queen's College | 43 | 2,213 | 6 | 14% | 2,342 | 8 |
| Trinity | 66 | 2,203 | 7 | 11% | 2,419 | 6 |
| University College | 50 | 1,993 | 5 | 10% | 2,492 | 5 |
| Wadham | 32 | 2,204 | 6 | 19% | 2,465 | 6 |
| Worcester | 77 | 2,270 | 6 | 8% | 2,442 | 5 |
| All colleges | 1,155 | 2,194 | 175 | 15% | 2,407 | 173 |
Across all colleges the offer-holder mean was 2,407 against an applicant mean of 2,194. The gap between colleges is mostly noise from small groups; the gap between applicants and offer holders, about 214 points, is the signal.
Mean UCAT by background, 2026 cycle
The response labels these only as average UCAT total by school group and domicile. They sit at or above the offer-holder mean of 2,407, so we read them as offer holders; that is our inference, not the university’s wording.
How far each group sat from the offer-holder mean
Measured from 2,407, the mean across every offer holder. Hover or tab to a group for its own figure.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Independent school (UK) | 2,433 |
| State school (UK) | 2,390 |
| International | 2,558 |
GCSEs at each stage, 2026 cycle
Mean number of GCSEs per person at each grade for everyone who applied, for those shortlisted for interview, and for those who got an offer. The count of 9s climbs at every cut; the count of 7s and below shrinks.
Mean number of grade 9s, by stage
One bar per stage of the 2026 cycle, against a notional ten GCSEs. Hover or tab to a stage for the figure.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| Applicants | 6.71 | 2.02 eights, 0.77 sevens |
| Shortlisted | 8.13 | 1.65 eights, 0.24 sevens |
| Offer holders | 8.71 | 1.26 eights, 0.14 sevens |
Applicants averaged 6.71 nines; offer holders 8.71. Two grades across the whole cohort is the entire distance between applying and holding an offer.
How many top grades offer holders had, 2025 cycle
The university released the declared GCSE profile of each of the 161 offer holders who had six or more GCSEs (of 173 offers). It pools grades 9, 8 and A* as “top” grades, so a 9 and an 8 count the same here.
Offer holders by number of grades at 9, 8 or A*
How many of the 2025 offer holders had each number of top grades. Hover or tab to a bar for the count.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 top grades | 1 | 1% of offer holders |
| 5 top grades | 1 | 1% of offer holders |
| 6 top grades | 1 | 1% of offer holders |
| 7 top grades | 2 | 1% of offer holders |
| 8 top grades | 11 | 7% of offer holders |
| 9 top grades | 28 | 17% of offer holders |
| 10 top grades | 61 | 38% of offer holders |
| 11 top grades | 47 | 29% of offer holders |
| 12 top grades | 7 | 4% of offer holders |
| 13 top grades | 2 | 1% of offer holders |
A near-clean sweep of top grades is the norm, not the exception. But 5 people got an offer with fewer than eight, which is where context comes in.
Offers by school background, 2025
School group as recorded on the UCAS form. “Other” covers applicants not attached to a school, such as those applying independently or from a post-16 institution the data does not classify.
Where the 173 offers went
Each segment is a share of all offers made in the 2025 cycle.
- State — 120 offers, 69%
- Independent — 43 offers, 25%
- Overseas — 6 offers, 3%
- Other — 4 offers, 2%
Where this comes from
- University of Oxford FOI response 202602/187 (2026 UCAS cycle): applications and offers by college with mean UCAT, and mean UCAT by school group and domicile. Excludes Graduate Entry Medicine and the Astrophoria Foundation Year.
- University of Oxford FOI response 202507/736 (2025 UCAS cycle): offers by college of offer and by school group, and declared GCSE profiles of offer holders with six or more GCSEs.
- Oxford’s published admissions statistics for the 2025-cycle totals and the 2026-cycle GCSE averages by stage, and its admissions guidance for the contextual note.
- Oxford Medical Sciences Division, Medicine: Shortlisting Process and Admissions Statistics, for the 2026 cycle’s applications, eligible applicants, share shortlisted and offers (read 3 October 2026).
Compiled 17 September 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables and charts so nothing has to be downloaded. Check Oxford’s current pages before you apply; they win if anything here differs.
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