Cambridge admissions statistics

Cambridge acceptance rates and your chances, course by course

Cambridge's own figures for 2025 entry: offer rates from 9.4% to 11.8% across the two courses we cover. Pick a course to work out your own chances.

Computer Science
TMUA
Applications
1,739
Interviewed
–
Offer rate
9.4%
2025 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released
What the data shows
The TMUA does most of the sorting: in every year from 2020 to 2025 entry, 74% to 85% of offers went to the top quarter of that year's scores.
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Economics
TMUA
Applications
1,647
Interviewed
–
Offer rate
11.8%
2025 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released
What the data shows
Home applicants did far better at the same score: at 7.0 to 7.9, 66.1% got an offer against 23.5% of international applicants (2024 entry).
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Cambridge acceptance rates by course

2025 entry, from Cambridge's admissions statistics.

Offered a place, 2025 entry

Economics

12%

Computer Science

Applicants, interviews and offers by course, 2025 entry.
Course	Test	Applied	Interviewed	Offers	Offer rate
Economics	TMUA	1,647	Not released	195	11.8%
Computer Science	TMUA	1,739	Not released	163	9.4%

Applicants, interviews and offers by course, 2025 entry. Source: university admissions statistics.

Questions about Cambridge admissions

Which Cambridge course is hardest to get into?

Of the courses we cover, Computer Science had the lowest offer rate for 2025 entry: 9.4% (163 offers from 1,739 applicants), against 11.8% for Economics.

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