Concord students regularly gain admission to the top universities in the UK. The College has a particularly strong record of placing students into Engineering, Economics and Maths courses as well as into the UK medical schools. Medicine is a particularly competitive course: In 2021, 26 students gained places at medical, dental or veterinary schools.
83% of Concord’s 2021 leavers are now attending UK Top 10 universities according to the Times World Rankings (57% UK Top 5). Due to the fantastic A level results, the vast majority of our students (over 96%) got accepted onto their firm choice university course.
Below you will see destinations of leavers over the past seven years who gained places at the Top 10 Universities in England.
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||
1. Oxford | 6 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
2. Cambridge | 13 | 20 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 8 | |
3. Imperial | 17 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 19 | |
4. LSE | 14 | 12 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 8 | |
5. Warwick | 9 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 14 | |
6. UCL | 19 | 17 | 35 | 23 | 34 | 37 | 40 | |
7. Durham | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
8. York | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | – | |
9. Bristol | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 2 | |
10. KCL | 9 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 15 |
* As ranked by The Times newspaper in 2008. University rankings are updated annually and rankings for individual subjects at different institutions now exist.