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Tariff (UK applicants only)

Applicant and accepted applicant by tariff band

Applicants

Tariff band	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
None/not known	161,384	195,028	211,015	230,983	231,091	172,397
001-079	21,473	24,002	28,249	30,065	25,787	9,284
080-119	9,426	9,740	9,738	10,824	11,029	6,817
120-179	21,275	21,730	22,775	24,166	24,491	23,309
180-239	35,523	36,412	39,212	41,327	41,302	38,696
240-299	46,828	49,722	53,374	57,525	58,337	66,534
300-359	49,568	52,697	56,694	59,323	60,359	66,895
360-419	44,180	46,452	49,616	49,515	51,250	65,192
420-479	30,321	31,133	33,607	35,365	36,197	44,273
480-539	18,680	19,277	20,752	22,129	23,060	23,870
540 plus	15,490	16,268	19,253	25,599	26,447	27,485
Total	454,148	502,461	544,285	586,821	589,350	544,752

Accepted applicants

Tariff band	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
None/not known	117,449	142,769	145,694	141,640	141,315	105,823
001-079	15,598	18,266	21,455	21,184	17,982	5,382
080-119	6,514	6,870	6,648	6,442	6,657	3,594
120-179	15,582	16,423	16,158	14,728	14,604	13,515
180-239	28,305	29,859	30,904	28,618	28,217	27,025
240-299	39,649	42,448	44,751	45,458	46,849	53,160
300-359	43,343	46,224	49,094	49,624	51,912	56,621
360-419	39,383	41,484	43,861	42,861	45,521	56,655
420-479	27,359	28,178	30,134	31,087	32,734	39,168
480-539	16,995	17,574	18,754	19,723	21,033	21,404
540 plus	14,367	14,929	17,610	23,269	24,411	25,044
Total	364,544	405,024	425,063	424,634	431,235	407,391

Applicants - expressed as percentages

Tariff band	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
None/not known	35.5%	38.8%	38.8%	39.4%	39.2%	31.6%
001-079	4.7%	4.8%	5.2%	5.1%	4.4%	1.7%
080-119	2.1%	1.9%	1.8%	1.8%	1.9%	1.3%
120-179	4.7%	4.3%	4.2%	4.1%	4.2%	4.3%
180-239	7.8%	7.2%	7.2%	7.0%	7.0%	7.1%
240-299	10.3%	9.9%	9.8%	9.8%	9.9%	12.2%
300-359	10.9%	10.5%	10.4%	10.1%	10.2%	12.3%
360-419	9.7%	9.2%	9.1%	8.4%	8.7%	12.0%
420-479	6.7%	6.2%	6.2%	6.0%	6.1%	8.1%
480-539	4.1%	3.8%	3.8%	3.8%	3.9%	4.4%
540 plus	3.4%	3.2%	3.5%	4.4%	4.5%	5.0%
Total	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

Accepted applicants - expressed as percentages

Tariff band	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
None/not known	32.2%	35.2%	34.3%	33.4%	32.8%	26.0%
001-079	4.3%	4.5%	5.0%	5.0%	4.2%	1.3%
080-119	1.8%	1.7%	1.6%	1.5%	1.5%	0.9%
120-179	4.3%	4.1%	3.8%	3.5%	3.4%	3.3%
180-239	7.8%	7.4%	7.3%	6.7%	6.5%	6.6%
240-299	10.9%	10.5%	10.5%	10.7%	10.9%	13.0%
300-359	11.9%	11.4%	11.5%	11.7%	12.0%	13.9%
360-419	10.8%	10.2%	10.3%	10.1%	10.6%	13.9%
420-479	7.5%	7.0%	7.1%	7.3%	7.6%	9.6%
480-539	4.7%	4.3%	4.4%	4.6%	4.9%	5.3%
540 plus	3.9%	3.7%	4.1%	5.5%	5.7%	6.1%
Total	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

Accepted applicants - average Tariff scores by subject

Subject	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Group A Medicine & Dentistry	378.79	379.24	384.66	401.38	399.26	413.33
A1 - Pre-clinical Medicine	381.84	382.32	387.46	405.91	406.48	417.48
A2 - Pre-clinical Dentistry	362.07	365.77	371.28	377.41	361.23	392.09
A9 - Others in Medicine and Dentistry	263.81	194.83	277.95	236.50	266.00	303.73
Group B Subjects allied to Medicine	184.25	127.44	123.38	133.67	147.41	177.77
B1 - Anatomy,Physiology and Pathology	265	259.87	254.59	279.35	284.80	295.88
B2 - Pharmacology,Toxicology and Pharmacy	288.28	282.79	298.12	305.81	322.99	340.45
B3 - Complementary Medicine	57.4	67.81	66.42	69.75	79.62	104.17
B4 - Nutrition	181.35	158.21	168.50	166.43	172.84	186.98
B5 - Ophthalmics	298.25	304.99	310.44	321.37	318.09	319.66
B6 - Aural and Oral Sciences	237.76	255.27	229.89	247.64	252.93	264.04
B7 - Nursing	120.83	60.94	57.82	71.89	79.14	118.42
B8 - Medical Technology	151.6	149.96	144.76	160.42	169.78	204.33
B9 - Others in Subjects allied to Medicine	167.1	170.83	167.52	179.59	189.82	202.09
BB - Combinations within Subjects allied to Medicine	149.73	125.59	132.45	129.49	140.54	189.50
Group C Biological Sciences	228.51	223.02	228.04	238.69	240.35	284.55
C0 - Biological Sciences: any area of study	347.79	390.60	382.92	486.25	473.43	-
C1 - Biology	286.61	292.09	307.29	317.87	319.33	327.40
C2 - Botany	217.35	315.90	287.79	348.21	335.65	300.25
C3 - Zoology	259.37	251.87	253.84	279.99	283.95	329.66
C4 - Genetics	317.63	317.92	333.73	346.17	359.09	360.25
C5 - Microbiology	279.33	271.18	293.96	320.55	320.07	341.71
C6 - Sports Science	141.02	133.24	129.90	129.58	127.19	235.12
C7 - Molecular Biology,Biophysics & Biochem	325.32	319.65	347.74	352.48	345.50	350.00
C8 - Psychology	256.62	249.44	255.62	269.25	269.27	285.48
C9 - Others in Biological Sciences	198.7	170.69	203.29	226.45	251.50	278.67
CC - Combinations within Biological Sciences	242.02	242.57	252.64	257.07	256.55	302.41
Group D Vet Sci, Ag & related	170.3	159.12	157.19	160.95	166.37	226.07
D0 - Vet Sci, Ag & related: any area of study	81.5	-	-	-	-	-
D1 - Pre-clinical Veterinary Medicine	379.34	384.57	389.05	407.21	403.95	415.42
D2 - Clinical Veterinary Medicine & Dentistry	148.83	-	-	-	-	-
D3 - Animal Science	125.79	120.11	132.49	123.15	130.17	201.29
D4 - Agriculture	99.45	96.82	104.01	112.33	122.26	187.57
D5 - Forestry	62.11	37.20	45.37	42.47	61.48	80.21
D6 - Food and Beverage studies	118.35	142.21	136.88	136.35	171.89	158.56
D7 - Agricultural Sciences	86.76	137.03	186.56	186.31	219.02	263.77
D9 - Others in Vet Sci, Ag & related subjects	345.48	266.67	330.29	336.25	396.32	419.05
DD - Combinations within Vet Sci, Ag & related subjects	101.94	96.60	56.49	79.26	79.12	188.32
Group F Physical Sciences	305.48	304.79	315.83	331.46	342.45	355.29
F0 - Physical Sciences: any area of study	136.27	237.08	233.92	168.00	245.59	-
F1 - Chemistry	335.76	345.18	358.85	369.79	386.17	378.76
F2 - Materials Science	392.63	475.60	523.50	550.60	-	-
F3 - Physics	389.71	391.77	413.03	428.58	434.39	437.35
F4 - Forensic and Archaeological Science	179.85	165.60	168.44	175.88	174.20	221.88
F5 - Astronomy	355.07	352.61	306.63	321.46	348.91	359.30
F6 - Geology	317.46	317.95	336.39	354.25	362.01	366.17
F7 - Ocean Sciences	255.91	219.88	220.49	242.13	247.79	266.36
F8 - Physical & Terrestrial Geog & Env Sci	289.97	300.38	311.18	328.41	335.34	346.14
F9 - Others in Physical Sciences	221.68	146.35	144.30	158.88	183.20	207.03
FF - Combinations within Physical Sciences	314.53	309.04	312.16	326.60	352.69	350.40
Group G Mathematical & Comp Sci	200.55	195.85	197.20	207.21	212.43	412.53
G0 - Mathematical & Comp Sci: any area	535.77	420.94	420.16	488.42	179.34	-
G1 - Mathematics	395.33	397.04	403.73	415.99	419.79	419.72
G2 - Operational Research	269.23	222.11	184.94	215.91	131.74	156.83
G3 - Statistics	325.19	308.82	334.59	334.35	374.37	379.55
G4 - Computer Science	139.97	133.38	130.49	138.30	142.27	-
G5 - Information Systems	110.44	105.13	108.39	110.01	111.60	-
G6 - Software Engineering	109.34	113.10	124.15	117.71	121.19	-
G7 - Artificial Intelligence	167.09	235.11	223.97	306.32	256.81	-
G9 - Others in Mathematical & Computer Sci	157.18	134.71	175.83	126.41	30.77	221.43
GG - Combinations within Mathematical & Computer Sci	193.72	190.59	189.51	192.25	197.89	340.63
Group H Engineering	238.81	232.01	241.06	249.22	254.43	291.85
H0 - Engineering: any area of study	124.17	123.77	105.17	132.74	115.48	120.00
H1 - General Engineering	218.34	215.55	216.57	241.35	257.87	268.23
H2 - Civil Engineering	269.66	256.97	264.55	265.96	255.82	277.68
H3 - Mechanical Engineering	238.72	230.12	249.76	254.51	267.68	313.29
H4 - Aerospace Engineering	253.7	247.47	249.30	262.43	264.23	310.03
H5 - Naval Architecture	256.05	241.25	271.50	288.06	307.35	379.54
H6 - Electronic and Electrical Engineering	172.32	155.23	160.43	158.44	166.80	221.90
H7 - Production and Manufacturing Engineering	265.89	255.39	262.51	274.77	284.55	305.27
H8 - Chemical,Process and Energy Engineering	362.36	373.64	397.57	409.04	399.45	401.61
H9 - Others in Engineering	138.33	132.00	36.82	65.52	15.00	183.00
HH - Combinations within Engineering	248.98	248.31	252.34	263.08	236.07	286.93
Group I Computer Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	212.82
I1 - Computer Science	-	-	-	-	-	219.27
I2 - Information Systems	-	-	-	-	-	183.21
I3 - Software Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	220.30
I4 - Artificial Intelligence	-	-	-	-	-	299.53
I5 - Health Informatics	-	-	-	-	-	272.00
I6 - Games	-	-	-	-	-	210.73
I7 - Computer generated visual & audio effects	-	-	-	-	-	182.63
I9 - Others in Computer Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	181.95
II - Combinations in Computer Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	210.59
Group J Technologies	134.93	120.55	130.64	136.33	146.74	218.57
J0 - Technologies: any area of study	-	-	231.00	-	-	-
J1 - Minerals Technology	200.97	166.54	225.00	134.14	221.83	267.88
J2 - Metallurgy	231.6	276.35	369.14	345.32	265.33	303.33
J3 - Ceramics and Glass	-	-	-	-	56.46	74.00
J4 - Polymers and Textiles	193.56	171.32	238.00	180.82	160.54	286.69
J5 - Materials Technology not otherwise spec	148.41	211.20	244.66	236.94	285.58	304.57
J6 - Maritime Technology	150.27	167.26	203.76	234.71	198.30	258.31
J7 - Industrial Biotechnology	250.22	222.95	230.00	314.48	349.25	366.23
J9 - Others in Technology	113.11	97.70	100.14	111.84	116.82	194.53
JJ - Combinations within Technology	285	170.00	408.75	326.25	388.53	420.00
Group K Architecture, Build & Plan	206.72	196.91	194.73	196.18	200.01	249.78
K0 - Architecture, Build & Plan: any area	298.33	168.00	183.33	166.67	-	-
K1 - Architecture	288.97	270.73	278.85	281.96	289.93	315.85
K2 - Building	146.53	140.75	125.35	122.15	113.81	183.83
K3 - Landscape Design	169.68	140.13	147.61	140.94	118.96	146.09
K4 - Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional)	195.53	201.38	201.31	189.27	210.69	217.50
K9 - Others in Architecture, Build & Plan	190.28	71.00	82.50	157.67	0.00	63.33
KK - Combinations within Architecture, Build & Plan	165.34	166.95	151.63	199.32	180.86	230.65
Group L Social Studies	200.95	201.27	204.49	213.32	215.68	228.80
L0 - Social Studies: any area of study	377.53	425.37	349.04	442.35	505.99	-
L1 - Economics	334.88	343.01	357.87	371.84	365.31	379.40
L2 - Politics	279.68	277.40	283.84	308.47	311.31	314.41
L3 - Sociology	214.4	203.67	210.74	225.76	228.76	240.84
L4 - Social Policy	96.52	99.22	96.33	97.66	91.34	163.07
L5 - Social Work	61.09	53.70	55.04	54.32	55.70	86.26
L6 - Anthropology	246.9	261.09	271.45	273.93	274.27	287.96
L7 - Human and Social Geography	341.32	350.95	354.10	378.96	382.13	381.88
L9 - Others in Social Studies	129.5	157.32	157.88	169.00	184.87	204.38
LL - Combinations within Social Studies	250.89	259.23	261.20	262.61	270.01	270.88
Group M Law	262.49	257.39	257.54	269.43	265.31	284.75
M0 - Law: any area of study	-	-	-	-	-	-
M1 - Law by Area	285.95	281.97	283.16	299.15	293.79	302.47
M2 - Law by Topic	157.37	159.56	157.30	169.84	165.45	217.10
M9 - Others in Law	177.71	166.26	172.75	182.07	179.39	218.20
MM - Combinations within Law	218.88	216.17	192.96	229.08	207.16	241.26
Group N Business & Admin studies	183.07	172.70	178.53	181.84	182.75	225.41
N0 - Business & Admin studies: any area	256.14	230.00	195.00	300.00	-	-
N1 - Business studies	178.42	169.92	177.58	188.26	187.96	222.75
N2 - Management studies	185.8	186.69	186.67	187.95	180.79	236.77
N3 - Finance	231.19	226.72	254.29	245.75	253.81	279.89
N4 - Accounting	208.45	201.14	211.30	204.80	207.10	234.26
N5 - Marketing	191.35	178.33	184.90	184.02	190.51	232.86
N6 - Human Resource Management	153.13	140.43	141.88	137.39	134.34	169.72
N7 - Office Skills	192.5	60.00	79.47	55.28	109.23	94.17
N8 - Tourism, Transport and Travel	115.67	110.92	121.16	124.11	124.05	182.54
N9 - Others in Business & Admin Studies	139.37	161.41	160.74	162.89	139.56	221.42
NN - Combinations within Business & Admin Studies	197.06	193.13	197.54	209.23	212.23	241.93
Group P Mass Comms and Documentation	191.82	186.60	194.06	198.25	199.86	233.27
P1 - Information Services	206.79	225.98	232.94	226.82	204.17	300.51
P2 - Publicity studies	210.78	206.07	206.48	200.44	253.59	249.51
P3 - Media studies	177.58	168.48	177.40	175.34	171.62	220.47
P4 - Publishing	197.85	200.74	232.49	212.44	270.91	255.43
P5 - Journalism	205.8	211.99	214.35	220.69	225.90	251.22
P9 - Others in Mass Comms & Documentation	228.81	221.24	227.67	239.13	226.49	227.39
PP - Combinations within Mass Comms & Documentation	199.55	178.30	192.00	227.46	231.36	243.36
Group Q Linguistics, Classics & related	307.21	307.95	311.80	337.61	340.47	342.95
Q0 - Linguistics, Classics & related: any area	-	-	-	-	-	-
Q1 - Linguistics	266.32	268.51	270.84	299.62	317.82	313.58
Q2 - Comparative Literary studies	189.35	182.27	240.08	273.52	276.98	243.64
Q3 - English studies	305.19	304.98	308.75	334.93	337.39	340.34
Q4 - Ancient Language studies	284	381.69	430.14	404.70	230.00	466.00
Q5 - Celtic studies	281.69	235.52	255.85	278.86	320.08	312.87
Q6 - Latin studies	423.33	357.27	308.00	395.00	381.88	388.60
Q7 - Classical Greek studies	365.67	400.00	0.00	480.00	340.00	312.50
Q8 - Classical studies	388.81	410.19	405.87	441.80	444.57	454.29
Q9 - Others in Linguistics, Classics & related	271.04	321.05	145.10	184.91	159.15	156.90
QQ - Combinations within Linguistics, Classics & related	295.01	286.10	308.12	317.18	320.19	314.69
Group R European Langs, Lit & related	338.4	350.13	369.15	395.58	396.94	398.97
R0 - European Langs, Lit & related: any area	434.55	423.39	428.34	432.90	523.69	-
R1 - French studies	326.17	328.68	355.66	375.74	371.81	362.83
R2 - German studies	302.77	324.15	334.55	368.18	367.13	336.09
R3 - Italian studies	269.3	291.94	296.56	331.41	321.62	330.82
R4 - Spanish studies	298.61	279.96	304.05	324.56	334.11	310.86
R5 - Portuguese studies	-	361.17	165.00	-	-	112.5
R6 - Scandinavian studies	238	266.82	245.50	387.60	261.58	192.73
R7 - Russian and East European studies	254.65	480.03	287.44	301.02	363.62	328.12
R8 - European studies	-	-	473.47	277.78	305.36	319.33
R9 - Others in European Langs, Lit and related	304.03	346.27	366.44	446.99	436.49	460.91
RR - Combinations within European Langs, Lit and related	361.67	365.32	386.98	410.17	413.38	416.20
Group T Non-European Langs and related	341.86	320.31	323.52	326.95	336.49	343.71
T1 - Chinese studies	314.5	324.01	338.60	304.98	298.69	374.24
T2 - Japanese studies	272.66	286.60	296.80	280.23	322.98	303.66
T3 - South Asian studies	143.39	159.85	198.78	214.70	182.49	217.45
T4 - Other Asian studies	84.44	124.29	248.00	217.33	268.67	234.55
T5 - African studies	215.41	110.00	239.78	272.35	215.00	234.00
T6 - Modern Middle-Eastern studies	213.83	228.98	253.56	250.26	223.24	307.80
T7 - American studies	282.29	284.88	299.59	322.75	333.89	342.95
T9 - Others in non-European Langs & related	448.18	433.25	433.25	411.38	421.28	391.82
TT - Combinations within non-European Langs & related	359.9	304.50	304.50	460.22	492.60	413.14
Group V Hist & Philosophical studies	306.49	304.30	304.30	332.34	341.50	345.55
V1 - History by Period	322.18	323.27	325.51	347.93	358.12	362.35
V2 - History by Area	291.91	204.82	219.71	252.81	242.37	292.75
V3 - History by Topic	297.93	300.72	309.93	332.29	349.05	352.11
V4 - Archaeology	239.33	229.71	238.69	281.40	260.25	263.76
V5 - Philosophy	313.54	307.94	321.28	333.90	341.31	346.41
V6 - Theology and Religious studies	266.67	258.19	276.80	282.47	283.92	277.42
V9 - Others in Hist & Philosophical studies	232.63	198.25	253.72	284.81	294.01	289.79
VV - Combinations within Hist & Philosophical studies	299.61	290.44	292.30	311.67	324.54	320.26
Group W Creative Arts & Design	128.76	125.96	149.70	154.95	169.75	228.04
W0 - Creative Arts & Design: any area	53.41	101.05	113.64	104.63	98.69	-
W1 - Fine Art	98.61	101.49	151.49	155.32	180.54	214.62
W2 - Design studies	107.19	107.74	146.10	150.00	170.45	227.52
W3 - Music	171.65	161.69	164.94	174.93	185.72	241.54
W4 - Drama	168.05	165.16	166.58	167.12	172.68	239.11
W5 - Dance	136.58	124.87	129.45	123.74	130.85	259.67
W6 - Cinematics and Photography	127.67	124.41	139.60	150.75	163.27	216.62
W7 - Crafts	73.06	79.31	120.09	126.15	110.93	170.82
W8 - Imaginative Writing	146.47	150.15	151.17	185.62	194.73	207.58
W9 - Others in Creative Arts and Design	83.44	63.68	98.20	87.93	125.73	185.07
WW - Combinations within Creative Arts and Design	153.58	137.71	153.89	157.78	166.38	234.65
Group X Education	159.93	155.21	151.00	146.56	164.37	213.15
X1 - Training Teachers	198.51	195.56	195.12	192.68	208.39	260.88
X2 - Research and Study Skills in Education	2.95	0.00	4.90	1.55	17.40	4.56
X3 - Academic studies in Education	121.82	118.39	113.35	111.22	137.02	179.66
X9 - Others in Education	32.34	34.79	35.04	39.88	44.17	81.60
XX - Combinations within Education	75.39	59.17	77.21	76.19	86.81	144.58
Sciences combined with social sciences or arts	185.16	176.93	173.97	178.22	178.53	238.14
Combs of phys/math science with arts/humanities/languages	178.24	177.46	165.51	183.83	184.23	262.96
Combs of phys/math science with social studies/bus/law	227.03	229.62	241.31	246.28	257.81	305.54
Combs of science/engineering with arts/humanities/languages	171.23	153.45	146.19	144.89	147.07	223.93
Combs of science/engineering with social studies/bus/law	179.63	173.79	176.72	186.34	185.14	214.88
Social sciences combined with arts	238.79	237.01	236.33	245.57	251.74	281.99
Combs of social studies/bus/law with arts/humanities	222.84	219.14	218.08	227.36	232.25	265.64
Combs of social studies/bus/law with languages	288.76	298.34	310.53	322.45	334.74	355.17
Combined arts	249.28	247.37	253.12	272.23	280.29	291.85
Combs of arts/humanities	180.41	169.22	174.81	181.59	188.03	231.48
Combs of languages	328.2	327.78	352.11	365.17	379.46	379.50
Combs of languages with arts/humanities	268.32	269.82	275.07	298.73	307.22	302.27
Combined sciences	209.04	206.99	205.62	201.09	203.38	258.26
Combs of engin/tech/building studies	233.5	294.43	281.65	252.33	286.68	270.21
Combs of engineering/technology	251.51	208.10	224.52	192.79	241.27	286.94
Combs of med/bio/agric sciences	198.92	197.29	183.09	178.04	183.59	230.48
Combs of med/bio/agric sciences with phys/math sciences	191.44	192.64	211.35	196.73	188.05	241.13
Combs of phys/math sciences	293	269.44	273.66	280.74	278.77	364.30
Combs of sciences with engineering/technology	197.55	197.76	202.49	217.18	220.34	279.30
Combined social sciences	239.87	227.72	243.94	244.28	242.90	278.15
Combs of soc studies/law	218.06	204.10	219.95	212.88	207.57	243.60
Combs of soc studies/law with business	257.89	246.81	264.37	274.90	284.61	315.21
General, other combined & unknown	232.05	216.66	226.09	284.06	294.74	345.01
Combs of 3 subjects, or other general courses	232.05	216.66	226.09	284.81	298.92	345.01
Other courses not elsewhere classified	213.61	202.24	206.60	215.66	221.73	258.47

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