UCAS - Applicant statistics

Applicant statistics

Applicant statistics 21 August 2009
	2009	2008
Applicants accepted (1)
- having unconditional or confirmed conditional offers	377,658	346,057
- having found a place in Clearing	5,205	3,392
Total number of accepted applicants	382,863	349,449
Applicants with a non-Clearing outcome pending - decision from institution or applicant reply	79,528	83,831
Applicants currently eligible for Clearing - no offers, conditions not met, applied very late	141,669	115,048
Applicants withdrawn from scheme (2)	6,393	6,171
Total number of applicants	610,453	554,499
Days from publication of GCE results	1	1
Comparison date (3)	21/08/09	15/08/08
Number of institutions within UCAS membership receiving applications	304	306

Notes

Includes those deferring entry to the following year. (Applicants are counted in the year in which they apply, not the year in which they intend to begin their course.)
Includes those withdrawn after accepting an offer.
Comparisons with previous years are made relative to the publication of Advanced level results (20 August 2009 and 14 August 2008). For example, figures for Thursday 3 September 2009, fourteen days after this year's publication date, will be compared with those for Thursday 28 August 2008.

Figures as of midnight 20 August 2009
Service	2009	2008
Number of Track log-ins	970,578	688,138
Peak Track log-ins	118 per second at 07.40am	86 per second
Number of Clearing Vacancy Searches	1,237,532	693,837
Top 5 Course Search subjects	Law, Economics, Psychology, History, Business and Management
Number of courses with Clearing vacancies*	37,720
Number of phone calls answered	14,098	13,675

*This is not the number of Clearing places available