1、ANNUAL ADMISSIONS STATISTICAL REPORTMay 2022UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ANNUAL ADMISSIONS STATISTICAL REPORT|2022ForewordThis year Oxford has continued to maintain its position as the top ranked University in the world in the Times Higher Education Global Ranking.Partly as a consequence,competition for pla

2、ces remains intense.Applications have risen by 22%in the past five years.In this,our fifth Annual Admissions Report,we provide details of the success rate of UK undergraduate applicants by education,region,race and socio-economic background,as well as by course and college.We do so in an effort to t

3、rack our progress and to be transparent about our practices.Almost 3,300 undergraduates were admitted in 2021,a return to the norm of previous years after the anomalies of 2020 when,due to the exceptional arrangements for awarding qualifications in response to the pandemic,a much larger cohort was a

4、dmitted.Most of those admitted in 2021 also suffered severe disruption to their education and are to be congratulated for doing so well in difficult circumstances.The data that follows illustrates that over the past five years the proportion of students from state schools rose from 58%to 68%.Those i

5、dentifying as Black and Minority Ethnic rose from 18%to 25%.Those from the most socio-economically disadvantaged areas rose from 11%to 17%and those from areas with low progression to higher education rose from 13%to 17%.Those declaring a disability rose from 8%to 12%and the proportion of women rose

6、from 50%to 55%.We have set ourselves a target that by 2023 25%of the British students we admit will be from deprived backgrounds.In the past four years that number has risen from 13%to 21%.The changing profile of our undergraduate student body is the result of hard work and dedication by a wide rang