
The hardest universities to get a place at in the UK
Three A*s? No problem
The number of snowflake students shirking real life responsibility and slumming it in their digs, getting legless in the street and falling asleep in their kebabs is on the rise – according to the tabloids. But how hard is it to actually get into your university?
Figures compiled by HESA for The Times’ Good Uni Guide show that, no surprises, Cambridge and Oxford have the highest standards for prospective freshers according to the UCAS points they require.
According to UCAS, an A* is worth 140, an A 120, a B 100, a C 80 and a D 60 at A-level. At AS-level, an A is worth 60, a B 50, a C 40 and a D 30. Meaning Cambridge’s high expectations of 600 points is the equivalent of three A* through to A-level – enough to get you through to a really uncomfortable one on one interview where they grill you on books you claim to have read but clearly haven’t.
Further down the scale, Aberystwyth prop up the list of unis worth talking about with 299 UCAS points required for three years spent learning to surf and drinking with old men in pubs.
How hard is it to get into your university? Find out here.
Cambridge 600
Oxford 577
Imperial 567
LSE 540
Durham 526
St Andrews 524
UCL 506
Warwick 490
Edinburgh 487
Bath 481
Bristol 479
Glasgow 478
Strathclyde 476
Exeter 471
King’s 464
Aberdeen 443
Manchester 439
Leeds 436
St George’s 435
Newcastle 432
York 431
Birmingham 429
Nottingham 425
Surrey 424
UEA 423
Lancaster 421
Sheffield 420
Queen Mary 417
Southampton 417
Dundee 413
Loughborough 411
SOAS 410
Cardiff 405
Royal Holloway 400
Liverpool 395
RGU 392
Leicester 390
QUB 388
Glasgow Caledonian 387
Norwich Univ. of Arts 378
Stirling 377
Sussex 375
City 375
Reading 372
Aston 365
Northumbria 364
Kent 361
Hull 344
Lincoln 340
Oxford Brookes 338
Portsmouth 323
Bournemouth 322
Falmouth 318
Plymouth 314
Nottingham Trent 306
Aberystwyth 299