Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications for medicine courses were (a) received and (b) accepted at higher education institutions in England in each of the last five years.
Joseph Johnson
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publishes data on applications and acceptances to full-time undergraduate courses. The table below shows the number of main scheme applications (applications submitted by 30 June each year) and the number of acceptances for ‘pre-clinical medicine’ for applicants domiciled in England.
Table: applications and acceptances to pre-clinical medicine1
|
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
|
Number of acceptances |
5,525 |
5,705 |
5,510 |
5,630 |
5,515 |
|
Number of main scheme applications |
55,280 |
53,740 |
54,710 |
55,065 |
48,525 |
Notes:
1. Pre-clinical medicine is based on Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) code A1
The figures were extracted from the UCAS 2015 end of cycle data resources (tables DR3_017_01 and DR3_017_03) available via the following weblink:
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