Your chances of getting into Oxford Mathematics and Computer Science, and the TMUA score you need

Oxford Mathematics and Computer Science acceptance rate

For 2025 entry, 611 people applied for Mathematics and Computer Science at Oxford, 172 were interviewed and 80 received offers.

That is an offer rate of 13.1%, or about 1 in 8. Oxford's own published acceptance rate counts only those who took up a place: 68 of 611, or 11%, for 2025 entry.

Applications rose from 52 for 2007 entry to 611 for 2025 entry, with a peak of 633 for 2022 entry. Offers rose more slowly, from 21 to 80, so the offer rate fell from 40.4% to 13.1%. It was lowest for 2020 entry, at 9.4%.

The share interviewed fell from 92% for 2007 entry to 28% for 2025 entry. If you are interviewed, your chance of an offer is close to 1 in 2 (80 of 172, or 47%). Since 2016 entry that figure has ranged from 34% to 47%.

For 2026 entry, the two departments counted 564 applications, 206 shortlisted and 90 offers (16.0%).

The departments' counts and Oxford's official ones differ, because the departments file an applicant who is offered Maths or Computer Science alone under this course. For 2025 entry the departments show 89 offers and the official series 80. This page uses the official series to 2025 and the departments' count for 2026.

What TMUA score do you need for Oxford Mathematics and Computer Science?

A TMUA score of about 7.2 gives a 1 in 3 chance of an offer on our estimate, read from past applicants' MAT results.

Oxford publishes no pass mark. It used the MAT, marked out of 100, up to 2026 entry and requires the TMUA, both papers, from 2027 entry. Oxford has released no TMUA results yet.

So the figures below are estimates. They come from past applicants' MAT marks and outcomes, ranked within each year. We place a TMUA score on that scale by percentile: your score is matched to where it would sit among Imperial's 2025 TMUA applicants to Joint Mathematics and Computing.

This assumes Oxford's 2027 applicants are about as strong on the TMUA as Imperial's 2025 applicants. Nobody has published how Oxford applicants score on the TMUA yet, so the ranges are widened.

On that basis the estimate reaches a 1 in 3 chance of an offer at TMUA 7.2. At 6.0 it is about 8%, and at 7.0 about 29%, against the 13.1% average for 2025 entry.

How TMUA scores compare across all test-takers is in our guide to a good TMUA score.

If Oxford's applicants score like Imperial's, offers on this curve centre on about TMUA 7.9. Oxford's past offer holders sat the MAT, so no one has a real TMUA average for them.

Even the top of the scale is no guarantee: at 9.0 the estimate is about 74%, with an 80% range of 61% to 83%. At 5.0 it is under 1%.

The estimate for a score is the same for everyone before grades, school and where you apply from are added. Use the calculator above for those.

How the old MAT results sorted applicants

Everything in this section is on the MAT scale, marks out of 100, and comes from the years before the TMUA. A MAT mark is not a TMUA score and cannot be converted into one by eye.

For 2025 entry, the most recent year with marks and outcomes together, 0 of 357 applicants scoring below 60 got an offer, and only 20 of them were interviewed. All 31 applicants scoring 90 or more were interviewed and 26 got offers.

In every year with linked data (2018 to 2023 and 2025 entry), between 80% and 97% of offers went to the top quarter of that year's marks. The lowest mark that received an offer ranged from 43 (2022) to 67 (2021), but each year's marks sit on a different scale.

Marks swing between years, and before the October 2024 sitting M&CS applicants answered their own set of questions, different from both Maths and Computer Science. Compare an applicant's position within a year and never marks across years or courses.

Shortlisting usually used a score combining the MAT with GCSE results, and the thresholds were guidance. For 2022 entry, when the guidance used the MAT alone, the lowest shortlisted mark was 41 while an applicant with 78 was not shortlisted, and for 2024 entry, the year of the MAT disruption, it was 23 and 84.

How much does the interview matter?

Shortlisted applicants are interviewed online in December, typically separately in Maths and in Computer Science according to the departments, by their first college and by a second, randomly assigned college. For 2024 entry most had three or four recorded marks.

Interviews are marked from 1 to 9 against agreed descriptors. Among those interviewed for 2024 entry, offer holders averaged 7.45 and the others 6.32.

No interviewee averaging below 6.5 got an offer (0 of 63). From 6.5 to 6.9 it was 3 of 48, from 7 to 7.4 it was 32 of 54 (59%), and 32 of the 33 averaging 7.5 or more got offers.

2024 entry was the year many candidates had technical problems with the online MAT; Oxford says tutors were given no extra guidance on offer-making after interviews that year.

The marks come from the tutors who also decide, so they record how decisions went. These figures describe past outcomes; there is no mark to aim for.

UK and international applicants, and school type

International applicants did better than UK applicants. For 2025 entry the offer rate was 18.8% for non-EU applicants, 10.0% for UK applicants and 8.1% for EU applicants (3 of 37). Over 2023 to 2025 entry it was 16.6% for non-EU and 8.8% for UK applicants.

Non-EU applicants were interviewed more often (32.2% against 27.2%, 2023 to 2025) and converted far more often once interviewed (51.4% against 32.3%). These are Oxford's own groups by where you live, not fee status.

The UK offer rate has fallen from 37.1% for 2007 entry (13 of 35) to 10.0% for 2025 entry (35 of 351). UK applicants were 57% of applicants but took 44% of offers in 2025.

School type shows a gap among UK applicants. Over 2023 to 2025 entry, 8.2% of state-school applicants got offers (68 of 829), against 13.8% from independent schools (23 of 167). State schools supplied 75% of those offers.

Across all applicants, 26.3% of state-school and 33.2% of independent-school applicants were interviewed over 2023 to 2025. Raw rates do not allow for test marks; after the test score, the calculator's borrowed school effect goes the other way (see the method).

What grades and subjects does Oxford Mathematics and Computer Science ask for?

The standard offer rose for 2027 entry. It is now A*A*A, with the A*s in Maths and Further Maths if available (IB: 39 points with 7, 6, 6 at Higher Level, the 7 in Maths). Without Further Maths, it is A*AAa with an AS in Further Maths, or A*AA with A* in Maths.

For 2026 entry the offer was A*AA, including A*A across Maths and Further Maths, and the 2026 page asked for Maths at A or A*. For 2027, Oxford expects Maths at A*.

Oxford has released no results by grade for M&CS alone, so this page cannot show offer rates by predicted grades or GCSEs. The calculator's grade effects are borrowed from Oxford PPE (see the method).

Further Maths is highly recommended. Oxford's pooled figures for its Computer Science courses, joint courses included, show 96% of A-level students offered places from 2022 to 2025 took it, and 95.0% of shortlisted A-level applicants did for 2026 entry.

Shortlisting used a score combining the MAT and GCSE A* grades, and for 2022 entry the guidance used the MAT alone. The course page for 2027 entry says tutors use their criteria together with the TMUA result to decide whom to interview.

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