The latest survey of CIFE students’ university applications shows that, in 2017 :
- 1392 students from 19 CIFE colleges entered a UK university
- University College London knocked Manchester off the top spot for most places gained
- 49% entered a Times Top 30 University
- 43% entered a Russell Group University
- 12 students entered Oxford or Cambridge universities
- Finance/Business/Management (F/B/M) is the most popular course choice area (22% of the total)
- 4 course areas account for just over 50% of all students (F/B/M, Humanities, Creative and performing Arts, and Engineering)
Our congratulations to those students and to the teachers who helped them succeed!
The table below shows the universities accepting the most CIFE students in 2017. Russell group universities are shown in green.
| University name | No of CIFE students |
| University College London | 69 |
| City University London | 66 |
| King’s College London | 62 |
| Queen Mary London | 50 |
| Manchester | 42 |
| Newcastle | 38 |
| Oxford Brookes | 35 |
| Leeds | 32 |
| Nottingham | 32 |
| Bristol | 29 |
| Westminster | 28 |
| Coventry | 27 |
| Birmingham | 27 |
| Exeter | 26 |
| Warwick | 25 |
| Aston | 24 |
| Royal Holloway London | 24 |
| Leicester | 23 |
| Reading | 23 |
| University of the Arts London | 23 |
| Cardiff | 22 |
| Kent | 22 |
| Kingston | 21 |
| Lancaster | 21 |
| East Anglia (UEA) | 20 |
| Sussex | 20 |
| Brighton | 19 |
| Southampton | 19 |
| Durham | 18 |
| Birkbeck London | 17 |
| Bath | 17 |
| Sheffield | 17 |
| Goldsmiths College London | 16 |
| Imperial College London | 16 |
| Nottingham Trent | 16 |
| Edinburgh | 16 |
| Essex | 16 |
| Brunel | 15 |
| Liverpool | 14 |
| Ravensbourne | 13 |
| Loughborough | 13 |
| York | 13 |
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