The most selective universities in the United Kingdom

British universities admitting fewer than one in five applicants. Worth remembering that UK admission is course-by-course, not university-wide: a competitive course at a less competitive university can be harder to get into than the reverse.

29 universities listed. 29 of them publish acceptance rate; where a school does not publish one we say so rather than estimating it.

UniversityLocationAcceptance rate
London School of Economics and Political Science London, England, UK 7%
School of Pharmacy, University of London London, UK 10%
City St George's, University of London (II) London, UK 12%
Imperial College School of Medicine London, UK 12%
King's College London London, UK 12%
King's College London, University of London London, UK 12%
London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London London, UK 12%
Royal Academy of Music London, UK 12%
Royal Academy of Music, University of London London, UK 12%
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London UK 12%
St. Andrews University St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, NC, UK 12%
Imperial College London London, England, UK 13%
King's College London, UK 13%
Saint George's Hospital Medical School, University of London London, UK 13%
University of Halifax, Birmingham Campus Birmingham, UK 13%
University of Warwick (Warwick Business School) Coventry, England, UK 14%
City St George's, University of London London, UK 15%
City St George's, University of London (School of Health and Medical Sciences) London, UK 15%
Glasgow School of Art Glasgow, UK 15%
University of Bath Bath, Somerset, England, UK 15%
University of Birmingham Birmingham, England, UK 15%
University of Warwick Coventry, England, UK 15%
City, University of London London, England, UK 17%
University of Cambridge Cambridge, England, UK 17%
University of Oxford Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK 17%
British College of Osteopathic Medicine London, UK 18%
Durham University Durham, England, UK 18%
Goldsmiths College, University of London London, UK 18%
University of St Andrews St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK 18%

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