Oxford · A1002025 and 2026 UCAS cyclesConfirmed as of 17th September 2026

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.

1,164
applications: 173
offers: 2,407
mean UCAT, offer holders: 28
colleges

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Read this before you use any number on the page

These describe past applicants. They are not entry requirements. Meeting an average here guarantees nothing; falling short of one rules nothing out.
College numbers are tiny: four to nine offers each. One applicant moves a college’s mean UCAT by tens of points. Do not pick a college on these figures. Oxford reallocates applicants between colleges so that the strongest candidates get offers whichever college they named.
The 2026-cycle figures cover offers made in January 2026 for entry in 2026. How many took the place up is not known yet.
GCSEs are as declared on the UCAS form. The university says it does not verify them at the point of application.
Every UCAT figure here is on the current scale out of 2,700. The 2025-cycle response also gave UCAT averages on the old scale out of 3,600; those are left out because they cannot be compared with a score you sit now.

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

15% of applications — about 1 in 7

Offers

173

15% of applications

90% of offers

Places taken up

155

13% of applications

Offer rate

15%

173 offers from 1,164 applications

The 2026 cycle held steady

15%

1,155 applications and 175 offers across the college table below

UCAT 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.

Magdalen

University College

Keble

New College

Wadham

Merton

Worcester

St Hugh's

Christ Church

Balliol

Corpus Christi

Trinity

Hertford

St John's

St Peter's

Lady Margaret Hall

St Hilda's

Pembroke

Oriel

Somerville

St Edmund Hall

Brasenose

Exeter

St Anne's

St Catherine's

The Queen's College

Lincoln

Jesus

−1212,407all-college mean+121

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.

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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.

Independent school (UK)

State school (UK)

International

−1512,407offer-holder mean+151

Show the numbers

Group	Mean UCAT
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.

Applicants

Shortlisted

Offer holders

0.002.004.006.008.0010.00

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.

Show the numbers

Stage	9s	8s	7s	Below 7
Applicants	6.71	2.02	0.77	0.49
Shortlisted	8.13	1.65	0.24	0.17
Offer holders	8.71	1.26	0.14	0.09

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.

4 top grades

5 top grades

6 top grades

7 top grades

8 top grades

9 top grades

10 top grades

11 top grades

12 top grades

13 top grades

061

Median top grades

mean 9.98

Ten or more top grades

73%

117 of 161

Fewer than eight

5 offer holders

Any grade at 7 or below

22%

9 had a grade at 6 or below

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.

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.