Provided under strict embargo until 10:00 on Tuesday 27 October 2015.
As notified in last week’s bulletin, we will be publishing our first statistical release of the 2016 UCAS Undergraduate cycle at 10:00 tomorrow, only covering courses with a 15 October deadline.
Provided under strict embargo is a summary analysis by applicant and provider country group, and for the first time, a report on applicant numbers to medicine courses. Please note that this report does not disclose provider-level figures.
Some of the headline figures from the analysis are as follows:
- The total number of applicants to 15 October deadline courses is 56,630, up from 56,360 last year – an increase of less than 1%.
- The total number of applicants from the UK has decreased by 1%, from 38,720 in 2015 to 38,330 this year.
- The number of international applicants has increased. There is an 8% rise in applicants from the EU (from 6,340 in 2015 to 6,860 this year), and a 1% increase from outside the EU (from 11,310 to 11,440).
- UK 18 year old applicants have also increased by 1% to 26,540, despite a fall in the population of 2%, indicating that application rates have risen.
- There are 20,100 applicants to medicine courses – a similar number to last year.