UCAS - Decision times

Decision times

Decision times are worked out by measuring the time taken (days) between UCAS receiving the application form and the institution returning the first decision about the application.

Average decision times given in days for home and overseas applications
Average decision times (days)	Home				Overseas
Institution Region (England)	2009	2010	2011	2012	2009	2010	2011	2012
North East	50	51	55	56	51	53	50	59
Yorks & Humberside	42	45	48	48	39	42	41	40
North West	43	45	48	46	38	40	40	43
East Midlands	40	46	48	50	39	43	45	43
West Midlands	46	49	55	51	52	51	54	52
Eastern	49	46	49	51	55	55	57	55
Greater London	54	59	58	53	57	62	62	60
South East	44	49	52	51	44	47	48	48
South West	51	52	54	51	53	51	52	49
Institution Country	2009	2010	2011	2012	2009	2010	2011	2012
England	47	50	52	50	49	52	52	52
Scotland	50	58	73	72	48	54	64	66
Wales	43	44	48	42	40	41	44	40
Northern Ireland	40	43	48	57	51	46	52	60

Average decision times given in days for home and overseas applications
Average decision times (days)	Home				Overseas
JACS Subject Group	2009	2010	2011	2012	2009	2010	2011	2012
Group A Medicine & Dentistry	111	112	118	108	103	106	111	100
Group B Subjects allied to Medicine	58	61	62	62	47	53	55	55
Group C Biological Sciences	34	35	42	39	42	43	48	47
Group D Vet Sci,Ag & related	65	69	65	72	64	72	65	78
Group F Physical Sciences	44	47	48	48	48	51	52	53
Group G Mathematical & Comp Sci	39	39	43	48	47	49	50	63
Group H Engineering	44	44	46	46	42	44	44	47
Group I Computer Science	-	-	-	38	-	-	-	44
Group J Technologies	43	47	53	43	40	47	47	45
Group K Architecture,Build & Plan	45	47	49	51	59	62	62	65
Group L Social Studies	48	51	53	51	52	51	55	53
Group M Law	36	39	41	41	48	52	51	53
Group N Business & Admin studies	30	32	35	36	37	38	40	41
Group P Mass Comms and Documentation	38	40	47	47	42	44	47	46
Group Q Linguistics, Classics & related	47	47	50	47	51	53	59	57
Group R European Langs, Lit & related	53	54	54	54	53	59	59	60
Group T Non-European Langs and related	39	40	44	45	54	49	57	57
Group V Hist & Philosophical studies	45	47	48	43	54	57	61	58
Group W Creative Arts & Design	53	67	68	66	54	68	69	69
Group X Education	59	58	62	60	60	55	56	55
Y Combined arts	42	44	49	45	50	51	55	55
Y Combined sciences	38	40	44	45	45	46	47	51
Y Combined social sciences	30	32	36	33	41	38	43	45
Y Sciences combined with social sciences or arts	38	41	47	42	47	46	51	50
Y Social sciences combined with arts	43	46	50	47	55	56	57	58
Z General, other combined & unknown	58	57	58	65	59	63	75	77

The JACS subject group is used to classify courses into subject groups, and can vary from cycle-to-cycle. Both the description of the subject groups and the composition of subject groups may vary between the years reported. Subject groups are defined by JACS subject group in 2007, JACS2 in 2008 to 2011 and JACS3 in 2012.