The University’s annual Admissions statement has just been published, presenting undergraduate admissions statistics for the University of Oxford between 2022 and 2024. The report provides details of the success rate of UK undergraduate applicants by education, region, ethnicity and socio-economic background, as well as by course and college. The University has committed to ensure that its undergraduate student body reflects the diversity of the UK, and it is encouraging to see that students from all backgrounds, with the highest academic potential, continue to apply successfully to Oxford. You can view the full report here.
At St Anne’s, we are proud to have counted students on the Astrophoria Foundation Year as members of our JCR for two academic years now. The Astrophoria Foundation Year is a one-year fully-funded foundation programme for UK state school students with significant academic potential, who have experienced severe personal disadvantage and/or disrupted education which has resulted in them being unable to apply directly for an Oxford undergraduate degree programme. St Anne’s is proud to have championed this scheme from the beginning, just as the early pioneers of the Society of Home Students sought to make an Oxford education accessible to those who might otherwise be excluded from it. It is wonderful to see the scheme go from strength to strength, with members of the first Astrophoria cohort now studying at St Anne’s on mainstream undergraduate courses.
Students at St Anne’s come from a diverse range of educational backgrounds, including schools with little experience of the Oxford admissions process, as well as independent schools, grammar schools, comprehensive schools, sixth form colleges, and academies. Increasingly, many of these students come from less advantaged backgrounds, highlighting the College’s and University’s continued commitment to ensuring that academically talented students who wish to study at Oxford have a fair chance of admission.
Over the period covered by the report, 15.8% of students admitted to St Anne’s came from areas of low progression to higher educated, while 17.5% of our students came to us from the least advantaged areas of the UK. 8.9% of students had been eligible for Free School Meals. Meanwhile, 74.8% were from state schools (University: 66.2%) and 29.5% identified as being of black or minority ethnic origin.
We share this detailed information to provide assurance that St Anne’s is determined to remain true to the proud legacy of our predecessors who over 140 years ago opened an Oxford education to women, whilst securing our future as a College that is truly diverse, forward looking, outward facing, ambitious, rigorous, supportive, and down to earth.