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Tariff (UK applicants only)

Applicant and accepted applicant tariffs over six years and average tariff scores by subject

Applicants

Tariff	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
None/not known	139,724	161,384	195,028	211,015	230,983	231,091
001-079	14,385	21,473	24,002	28,249	30,065	25,787
080-119	9,699	9,426	9,740	9,738	10,824	11,029
120-179	24,646	21,275	21,730	22,775	24,166	24,491
180-239	39,438	35,523	36,412	39,212	41,327	41,302
240-299	50,266	46,828	49,722	53,374	57,525	58,337
300-359	51,445	49,568	52,697	56,694	59,323	60,359
360-419	43,754	44,180	46,452	49,616	49,515	51,250
420-479	28,739	30,321	31,133	33,607	35,365	36,197
480-539	17,195	18,680	19,277	20,752	22,129	23,060
540 plus	12,905	15,490	16,268	19,253	25,599	26,447
Total	432,196	454,148	502,461	544,285	586,821	589,350

Accepted applicants

Tariff	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
None/not known	98,300	117,449	142,769	145,694	141,640	141,315
001-079	10,169	15,598	18,266	21,455	21,184	17,982
080-119	6,601	6,514	6,870	6,648	6,442	6,657
120-179	18,336	15,582	16,423	16,158	14,728	14,604
180-239	31,596	28,305	29,859	30,904	28,618	28,217
240-299	42,353	39,649	42,448	44,751	45,458	46,849
300-359	45,101	43,343	46,224	49,094	49,624	51,912
360-419	39,171	39,383	41,484	43,861	42,861	45,521
420-479	26,214	27,359	28,178	30,134	31,087	32,734
480-539	15,795	16,995	17,574	18,754	19,723	21,033
540 plus	11,928	14,367	14,929	17,610	23,269	24,411
Total	345,564	364,544	405,024	425,063	424,634	431,235

Applicants - expressed as percentages

Tariff	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
None/not known	32.3%	35.5%	38.8%	38.8%	39.4%	39.2%
001-079	3.3%	4.7%	4.8%	5.2%	5.1%	4.4%
080-119	2.2%	2.1%	1.9%	1.8%	1.8%	1.9%
120-179	5.7%	4.7%	4.3%	4.2%	4.1%	4.2%
180-239	9.1%	7.8%	7.2%	7.2%	7.0%	7.0%
240-299	11.6%	10.3%	9.9%	9.8%	9.8%	9.9%
300-359	11.9%	10.9%	10.5%	10.4%	10.1%	10.2%
360-419	10.1%	9.7%	9.2%	9.1%	8.4%	8.7%
420-479	6.6%	6.7%	6.2%	6.2%	6.0%	6.1%
480-539	4.0%	4.1%	3.8%	3.8%	3.8%	3.9%
540 plus	3.0%	3.4%	3.2%	3.5%	4.4%	4.5%
Total	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

Accepted applicants - expressed as percentages

Tariff	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
None/not known	28.4%	32.2%	35.2%	34.3%	33.4%	32.8%
001-079	2.9%	4.3%	4.5%	5.0%	5.0%	4.2%
080-119	1.9%	1.8%	1.7%	1.6%	1.5%	1.5%
120-179	5.3%	4.3%	4.1%	3.8%	3.5%	3.4%
180-239	9.1%	7.8%	7.4%	7.3%	6.7%	6.5%
240-299	12.3%	10.9%	10.5%	10.5%	10.7%	10.9%
300-359	13.1%	11.9%	11.4%	11.5%	11.7%	12.0%
360-419	11.3%	10.8%	10.2%	10.3%	10.1%	10.6%
420-479	7.6%	7.5%	7.0%	7.1%	7.3%	7.6%
480-539	4.6%	4.7%	4.3%	4.4%	4.6%	4.9%
540 plus	3.5%	3.9%	3.7%	4.1%	5.5%	5.7%
Total	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

Accepted applicants - average Tariff scores by subject

Subject	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Group A Medicine & Dentistry	377.9	378.79	379.24	384.66	401.38	399.26
A1 - Pre-clinical Medicine	375.27	381.84	382.32	387.46	405.91	406.48
A2 - Pre-clinical Dentistry	396.24	362.07	365.77	371.28	377.41	361.23
A9 - Others in Medicine and Dentistry	368.1	263.81	194.83	277.95	236.50	266.00
Group B Subjects allied to Medicine	188.69	184.25	127.44	123.38	133.67	147.41
B1 - Anatomy,Physiology and Pathology	265.58	265	259.87	254.59	279.35	284.80
B2 - Pharmacology,Toxicology and Pharmacy	283.24	288.28	282.79	298.12	305.81	322.99
B3 - Complementary Medicine	61.41	57.4	67.81	66.42	69.75	79.62
B4 - Nutrition	171.58	181.35	158.21	168.50	166.43	172.84
B5 - Ophthalmics	308.42	298.25	304.99	310.44	321.37	318.09
B6 - Aural and Oral Sciences	248.21	237.76	255.27	229.89	247.64	252.93
B7 - Nursing	132.24	120.83	60.94	57.82	71.89	79.14
B8 - Medical Technology	152.89	151.6	149.96	144.76	160.42	169.78
B9 - Others in Subjects allied to Medicine	169.35	167.1	170.83	167.52	179.59	189.82
BB - Combinations within Subjects allied to Medicine	153.56	149.73	125.59	132.45	129.49	140.54
Group C Biological Sciences	235.41	228.51	223.02	228.04	238.69	240.35
C0 - Biological Sciences: any area of study	475	347.79	390.60	382.92	486.25	473.43
C1 - Biology	287.43	286.61	292.09	307.29	317.87	319.33
C2 - Botany	224.39	217.35	315.90	287.79	348.21	335.65
C3 - Zoology	261.45	259.37	251.87	253.84	279.99	283.95
C4 - Genetics	312.82	317.63	317.92	333.73	346.17	359.09
C5 - Microbiology	292.3	279.33	271.18	293.96	320.55	320.07
C6 - Sports Science	148.82	141.02	133.24	129.90	129.58	127.19
C7 - Molecular Biology,Biophysics & Biochem	319.18	325.32	319.65	347.74	352.48	345.50
C8 - Psychology	263.5	256.62	249.44	255.62	269.25	269.27
C9 - Others in Biological Sciences	218.19	198.7	170.69	203.29	226.45	251.50
CC - Combinations within Biological Sciences	251.42	242.02	242.57	252.64	257.07	256.55
Group D Vet Sci, Ag & related	170.39	170.3	159.12	157.19	160.95	166.37
D0 - Vet Sci, Ag & related: any area of study	166	81.5	-	-	-	-
D1 - Pre-clinical Veterinary Medicine	380.13	379.34	384.57	389.05	407.21	403.95
D2 - Clinical Veterinary Medicine & Dentistry	137	148.83	-	-	-	-
D3 - Animal Science	117.78	125.79	120.11	132.49	123.15	130.17
D4 - Agriculture	98.25	99.45	96.82	104.01	112.33	122.26
D5 - Forestry	49.32	62.11	37.20	45.37	42.47	61.48
D6 - Food and Beverage studies	176.92	118.35	142.21	136.88	136.35	171.89
D7 - Agricultural Sciences	134.05	86.76	137.03	186.56	186.31	219.02
D9 - Others in Vet Sci, Ag & related subjects	398.42	345.48	266.67	330.29	336.25	396.32
DD - Combinations within Vet Sci, Ag & related subjects	86.67	101.94	96.60	56.49	79.26	79.12
Group F Physical Sciences	302.68	305.48	304.79	315.83	331.46	342.45
F0 - Physical Sciences: any area of study	146.1	136.27	237.08	233.92	168.00	245.59
F1 - Chemistry	333.59	335.76	345.18	358.85	369.79	386.17
F2 - Materials Science	245	392.63	475.60	523.50	550.60	-
F3 - Physics	386.8	389.71	391.77	413.03	428.58	434.39
F4 - Forensic and Archaeological Science	187.78	179.85	165.60	168.44	175.88	174.20
F5 - Astronomy	296.79	355.07	352.61	306.63	321.46	348.91
F6 - Geology	311.01	317.46	317.95	336.39	354.25	362.01
F7 - Ocean Sciences	226.95	255.91	219.88	220.49	242.13	247.79
F8 - Physical & Terrestrial Geog & Env Sci	292.61	289.97	300.38	311.18	328.41	335.34
F9 - Others in Physical Sciences	217.5	221.68	146.35	144.30	158.88	183.20
FF - Combinations within Physical Sciences	331.54	314.53	309.04	312.16	326.60	352.69
Group G Mathematical & Comp Sci	208.37	200.55	195.85	197.20	207.21	212.43
G0 - Mathematical & Comp Sci: any area	505.07	535.77	420.94	420.16	488.42	179.34
G1 - Mathematics	391.58	395.33	397.04	403.73	415.99	419.79
G2 - Operational Research	159.07	269.23	222.11	184.94	215.91	131.74
G3 - Statistics	320.02	325.19	308.82	334.59	334.35	374.37
G4 - Computer Science	153.01	139.97	133.38	130.49	138.30	142.27
G5 - Information Systems	130.81	110.44	105.13	108.39	110.01	111.60
G6 - Software Engineering	139.96	109.34	113.10	124.15	117.71	121.19
G7 - Artificial Intelligence	243.39	167.09	235.11	223.97	306.32	256.81
G9 - Others in Mathematical & Computer Sci	240.57	157.18	134.71	175.83	126.41	30.77
GG - Combinations within Mathematical & Computer Sci	231	193.72	190.59	189.51	192.25	197.89
Group H Engineering	240.91	238.81	232.01	241.06	249.22	254.43
H0 - Engineering: any area of study	58.25	124.17	123.77	105.17	132.74	115.48
H1 - General Engineering	230.08	218.34	215.55	216.57	241.35	257.87
H2 - Civil Engineering	275.43	269.66	256.97	264.55	265.96	255.82
H3 - Mechanical Engineering	244.29	238.72	230.12	249.76	254.51	267.68
H4 - Aerospace Engineering	255.57	253.7	247.47	249.30	262.43	264.23
H5 - Naval Architecture	178.37	256.05	241.25	271.50	288.06	307.35
H6 - Electronic and Electrical Engineering	170.56	172.32	155.23	160.43	158.44	166.80
H7 - Production and Manufacturing Engineering	275.86	265.89	255.39	262.51	274.77	284.55
H8 - Chemical,Process and Energy Engineering	353.16	362.36	373.64	397.57	409.04	399.45
H9 - Others in Engineering	142.86	138.33	132.00	36.82	65.52	15.00
HH - Combinations within Engineering	274.92	248.98	248.31	252.34	263.08	236.07
Group J Technologies	142.59	134.93	120.55	130.64	136.33	146.74
J0 - Technologies: any area of study	-	-	-	231.00	-	-
J1 - Minerals Technology	213.87	200.97	166.54	225.00	134.14	221.83
J2 - Metallurgy	244.17	231.6	276.35	369.14	345.32	265.33
J3 - Ceramics and Glass	-	-	-	-	-	56.46
J4 - Polymers and Textiles	182.66	193.56	171.32	238.00	180.82	160.54
J5 - Materials Technology not otherwise spec	234.59	148.41	211.20	244.66	236.94	285.58
J6 - Maritime Technology	161.27	150.27	167.26	203.76	234.71	198.30
J7 - Industrial Biotechnology	220.86	250.22	222.95	230.00	314.48	349.25
J9 - Others in Technology	116.6	113.11	97.70	100.14	111.84	116.82
JJ - Combinations within Technology	290	285	170.00	408.75	326.25	388.53
Group K Architecture, Build & Plan	218.17	206.72	196.91	194.73	196.18	200.01
K0 - Architecture, Build & Plan: any area	175	298.33	168.00	183.33	166.67	-
K1 - Architecture	290.86	288.97	270.73	278.85	281.96	289.93
K2 - Building	158.46	146.53	140.75	125.35	122.15	113.81
K3 - Landscape Design	158.79	169.68	140.13	147.61	140.94	118.96
K4 - Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional)	211.46	195.53	201.38	201.31	189.27	210.69
K9 - Others in Architecture, Build & Plan	202.34	190.28	71.00	82.50	157.67	0.00
KK - Combinations within Architecture, Build & Plan	212.4	165.34	166.95	151.63	199.32	180.86
Group L Social Studies	210.45	200.95	201.27	204.49	213.32	215.68
L0 - Social Studies: any area of study	354.2	377.53	425.37	349.04	442.35	505.99
L1 - Economics	331.21	334.88	343.01	357.87	371.84	365.31
L2 - Politics	286.42	279.68	277.40	283.84	308.47	311.31
L3 - Sociology	221.93	214.4	203.67	210.74	225.76	228.76
L4 - Social Policy	118.62	96.52	99.22	96.33	97.66	91.34
L5 - Social Work	64.3	61.09	53.70	55.04	54.32	55.70
L6 - Anthropology	260.61	246.9	261.09	271.45	273.93	274.27
L7 - Human and Social Geography	351.56	341.32	350.95	354.10	378.96	382.13
L9 - Others in Social Studies	138.87	129.5	157.32	157.88	169.00	184.87
LL - Combinations within Social Studies	264.49	250.89	259.23	261.20	262.61	270.01
Group M Law	274.34	262.49	257.39	257.54	269.43	265.31
M0 - Law: any area of study	-	-	-	-	-	-
M1 - Law by Area	296.77	285.95	281.97	283.16	299.15	293.79
M2 - Law by Topic	180.25	157.37	159.56	157.30	169.84	165.45
M9 - Others in Law	189.15	177.71	166.26	172.75	182.07	179.39
MM - Combinations within Law	234.2	218.88	216.17	192.96	229.08	207.16
Group N Business & Admin studies	196.42	183.07	172.70	178.53	181.84	182.75
N0 - Business & Admin studies: any area	277.7	256.14	230.00	195.00	300.00	-
N1 - Business studies	196.42	178.42	169.92	177.58	188.26	187.96
N2 - Management studies	192.97	185.8	186.69	186.67	187.95	180.79
N3 - Finance	223.4	231.19	226.72	254.29	245.75	253.81
N4 - Accounting	223.45	208.45	201.14	211.30	204.80	207.10
N5 - Marketing	205.43	191.35	178.33	184.90	184.02	190.51
N6 - Human Resource Management	171.42	153.13	140.43	141.88	137.39	134.34
N7 - Office Skills	105	192.5	60.00	79.47	55.28	109.23
N8 - Tourism, Transport and Travel	122.84	115.67	110.92	121.16	124.11	124.05
N9 - Others in Business & Admin Studies	165.27	139.37	161.41	160.74	162.89	139.56
NN - Combinations within Business & Admin Studies	216.14	197.06	193.13	197.54	209.23	212.23
Group P Mass Comms and Documentation	207.35	191.82	186.60	194.06	198.25	199.86
P1 - Information Services	214.97	206.79	225.98	232.94	226.82	204.17
P2 - Publicity studies	225.63	210.78	206.07	206.48	200.44	253.59
P3 - Media studies	188.86	177.58	168.48	177.40	175.34	171.62
P4 - Publishing	248.88	197.85	200.74	232.49	212.44	270.91
P5 - Journalism	228.84	205.8	211.99	214.35	220.69	225.90
P9 - Others in Mass Comms & Documentation	238.58	228.81	221.24	227.67	239.13	226.49
PP - Combinations within Mass Comms & Documentation	219.05	199.55	178.30	192.00	227.46	231.36
Group Q Linguistics, Classics & related	310.71	307.21	307.95	311.80	337.61	340.47
Q0 - Linguistics, Classics & related: any area	-	-	-	-	-	-
Q1 - Linguistics	268.58	266.32	268.51	270.84	299.62	317.82
Q2 - Comparative Literary studies	206.35	189.35	182.27	240.08	273.52	276.98
Q3 - English studies	307.5	305.19	304.98	308.75	334.93	337.39
Q4 - Ancient Language studies	305.38	284	381.69	430.14	404.70	230.00
Q5 - Celtic studies	265.81	281.69	235.52	255.85	278.86	320.08
Q6 - Latin studies	350	423.33	357.27	308.00	395.00	381.88
Q7 - Classical Greek studies	-	365.67	400.00	0.00	480.00	340.00
Q8 - Classical studies	401.42	388.81	410.19	405.87	441.80	444.57
Q9 - Others in Linguistics, Classics & related	248.5	271.04	321.05	145.10	184.91	159.15
QQ - Combinations within Linguistics, Classics & related	308.42	295.01	286.10	308.12	317.18	320.19
Group R European Langs, Lit & related	337.91	338.4	350.13	369.15	395.58	396.94
R0 - European Langs, Lit & related: any area	449.84	434.55	423.39	428.34	432.90	523.69
R1 - French studies	313.34	326.17	328.68	355.66	375.74	371.81
R2 - German studies	318.7	302.77	324.15	334.55	368.18	367.13
R3 - Italian studies	278.31	269.3	291.94	296.56	331.41	321.62
R4 - Spanish studies	292.42	298.61	279.96	304.05	324.56	334.11
R5 - Portuguese studies	250	-	361.17	165.00	-	-
R6 - Scandinavian studies	212.89	238	266.82	245.50	387.60	261.58
R7 - Russian and East European studies	188.22	254.65	480.03	287.44	301.02	363.62
R8 - European studies	-	-	-	473.47	277.78	305.36
R9 - Others in European Langs, Lit and related	303.79	304.03	346.27	366.44	446.99	436.49
RR - Combinations within European Langs, Lit and related	361.15	361.67	365.32	386.98	410.17	413.38
Group T Non-European Langs and related	347.98	341.86	320.31	323.52	326.95	336.49
T1 - Chinese studies	348.18	314.5	324.01	338.60	304.98	298.69
T2 - Japanese studies	332.19	272.66	286.60	296.80	280.23	322.98
T3 - South Asian studies	147.5	143.39	159.85	198.78	214.70	182.49
T4 - Other Asian studies	178	84.44	124.29	248.00	217.33	268.67
T5 - African studies	214.76	215.41	110.00	239.78	272.35	215.00
T6 - Modern Middle-Eastern studies	218.58	213.83	228.98	253.56	250.26	223.24
T7 - American studies	282.12	282.29	284.88	299.59	322.75	333.89
T8 - Australasian studies	-	-	-	-	-	-
T9 - Others in non-European Langs & related	438.86	448.18	433.25	433.25	411.38	421.28
TT - Combinations within non-European Langs & related	248.53	359.9	304.50	304.50	460.22	492.60
Group V Hist & Philosophical studies	309.43	306.49	304.30	304.30	332.34	341.50
V0 - Hist & Philosophical studies: any area	232.84	184.1	-	-	-	-
V1 - History by Period	326.77	322.18	323.27	325.51	347.93	358.12
V2 - History by Area	232.07	291.91	204.82	219.71	252.81	242.37
V3 - History by Topic	309.53	297.93	300.72	309.93	332.29	349.05
V4 - Archaeology	240.69	239.33	229.71	238.69	281.40	260.25
V5 - Philosophy	314.44	313.54	307.94	321.28	333.90	341.31
V6 - Theology and Religious studies	260.66	266.67	258.19	276.80	282.47	283.92
V9 - Others in Hist & Philosophical studies	225.79	232.63	198.25	253.72	284.81	294.01
VV - Combinations within Hist & Philosophical studies	303.15	299.61	290.44	292.30	311.67	324.54
Group W Creative Arts & Design	152.24	128.76	125.96	149.70	154.95	169.75
W0 - Creative Arts & Design: any area	58.05	53.41	101.05	113.64	104.63	98.69
W1 - Fine Art	140.79	98.61	101.49	151.49	155.32	180.54
W2 - Design studies	138.3	107.19	107.74	146.10	150.00	170.45
W3 - Music	180.4	171.65	161.69	164.94	174.93	185.72
W4 - Drama	178.51	168.05	165.16	166.58	167.12	172.68
W5 - Dance	146.21	136.58	124.87	129.45	123.74	130.85
W6 - Cinematics and Photography	149.15	127.67	124.41	139.60	150.75	163.27
W7 - Crafts	120.29	73.06	79.31	120.09	126.15	110.93
W8 - Imaginative Writing	157.02	146.47	150.15	151.17	185.62	194.73
W9 - Others in Creative Arts and Design	126.24	83.44	63.68	98.20	87.93	125.73
WW - Combinations within Creative Arts and Design	166.58	153.58	137.71	153.89	157.78	166.38
Group X Education	167.67	159.93	155.21	151.00	146.56	164.37
X1 - Training Teachers	201.55	198.51	195.56	195.12	192.68	208.39
X2 - Research and Study Skills in Education	-	2.95	0.00	4.90	1.55	17.40
X3 - Academic studies in Education	125.91	121.82	118.39	113.35	111.22	137.02
X9 - Others in Education	33.15	32.34	34.79	35.04	39.88	44.17
XX - Combinations within Education	123.4	75.39	59.17	77.21	76.19	86.81
Sciences combined with social sciences or arts	195.49	185.16	176.93	173.97	178.22	178.53
Combs of phys/math science with arts/humanities/languages	190.68	178.24	177.46	165.51	183.83	184.23
Combs of phys/math science with social studies/bus/law	230.94	227.03	229.62	241.31	246.28	257.81
Combs of science/engineering with arts/humanities/languages	179.73	171.23	153.45	146.19	144.89	147.07
Combs of science/engineering with social studies/bus/law	195.91	179.63	173.79	176.72	186.34	185.14
Social sciences combined with arts	254.24	238.79	237.01	236.33	245.57	251.74
Combs of social studies/bus/law with arts/humanities	239.5	222.84	219.14	218.08	227.36	232.25
Combs of social studies/bus/law with languages	299.45	288.76	298.34	310.53	322.45	334.74
Combined arts	260.89	249.28	247.37	253.12	272.23	280.29
Combs of arts/humanities	194.69	180.41	169.22	174.81	181.59	188.03
Combs of languages	330.85	328.2	327.78	352.11	365.17	379.46
Combs of languages with arts/humanities	284.05	268.32	269.82	275.07	298.73	307.22
Combined sciences	217.59	209.04	206.99	205.62	201.09	203.38
Combs of engin/tech/building studies	264.32	233.5	294.43	281.65	252.33	286.68
Combs of engineering/technology	241.03	251.51	208.10	224.52	192.79	241.27
Combs of med/bio/agric sciences	206.44	198.92	197.29	183.09	178.04	183.59
Combs of med/bio/agric sciences with phys/math sciences	190.29	191.44	192.64	211.35	196.73	188.05
Combs of phys/math sciences	321.28	293	269.44	273.66	280.74	278.77
Combs of sciences with engineering/technology	216.37	197.55	197.76	202.49	217.18	220.34
Combined social sciences	244.79	239.87	227.72	243.94	244.28	242.90
Combs of soc studies/law	218.76	218.06	204.10	219.95	212.88	207.57
Combs of soc studies/law with business	267.8	257.89	246.81	264.37	274.90	284.61
General, other combined & unknown	236.51	232.05	216.66	226.09	284.06	294.74
Combs of 3 subjects, or other general courses	236.51	232.05	216.66	226.09	284.81	298.92
Other courses not elsewhere classified	223.84	213.61	202.24	206.60	215.66	221.73

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