Chinese at Oxford

Hi, does anyone who does Chinese/knows people who do Chinese know how many people study the subject per year?
Thanks

The university admits forty undergraduates to read Chinese each year.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/asian-and-middle-eastern-studies

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artful_lounger

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The 40 students is for all those doing AMES across all specialisms as I understand. I gather Chinese is one of the "bigger" options (along with Arabic) though so I imagine a few.

Looking through a couple of FOIA requests it looks like at least around the last 5 years it's been about 15-25 of those 40 successful offerholders for AMES are for the Chinese programme. That said I imagine that the lectures and classes may have more students accounting for those doing Chinese as a subsidiary language on other AMES programmes and postgraduate students.

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audenn

Original post by artful_lounger

The 40 students is for all those doing AMES across all specialisms as I understand. I gather Chinese is one of the "bigger" options (along with Arabic) though so I imagine a few.
Looking through a couple of FOIA requests it looks like at least around the last 5 years it's been about 15-25 of those 40 are made offers for the Chinese programme. That said I imagine that the lectures and classes may have more students accounting for those doing Chinese as a subsidiary language on other AMES programmes and postgraduate students.