Pretty hard to judge "competitiveness" - looking at raw application figures isn't great because it doesn't take into account applicant calibre. For example, one of the most statistically competitive courses at Oxford is Economics and Management (8.5%), but it isn't actually as hard to get into as the figures suggest, given that a large proportion of the applicants for this course are internationals with little notion of how to put in a competitive application and who never had a chance at all - the proportion of competitive applicants is similar to other courses (this is according to the head tutor at my college).

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Reply 8

MrSupernova

Original post by sazzabazza

Medicine at Cambridge
Economics at LSE
PPE at Oxford

Cambridge actually has less applicants per place than quite a few other med schools most years because of their preference for high UMS scores

Reply 9

MrSupernova

Original post by Secretnerd123

most to least. i heard psychology , medicine and maths are the most competitive

I swear half of the people I know in the year above are off to uni to do psychology, not sure it's *that* competitive haha

Reply 10

WhatDoIWrite

Original post by qwertyuiop1993

Pretty hard to judge "competitiveness" - looking at raw application figures isn't great because it doesn't take into account applicant calibre. For example, one of the most statistically competitive courses at Oxford is Economics and Management (8.5%) isn't actually as hard to get into as the figures suggest, given that a large proportion of the applicants for this course are internationals with little notion of how to put in a competitive application and who never had a chance at all - the proportion of competitive applicants is similar to other courses (this is according to the head tutor at my college).

This is exactly it.

Reply 11

Changing Skies

Veterinary Medicine, mainly because there are only 8 vet schools in the UK.

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Reply 12

gijops

dunno about most but a good contender for the least competitive would be baking technologies at London South Bank... 100 UCAS points and you're in!

Reply 13

Rum Ham

Any science(including medicine)/maths/engineering degree

Geophysics.

Original post by sazzabazza

Medicine at Cambridge
Economics at LSE
PPE at Oxford

medicine at Cambridge is ironically one of the least oversubscribed medicine courses. In fact it would have been more appropriate for the thread if you said "Medicine at Keele".