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

Applicants

Tariff	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
None/not known	95,787	92,227	100,703	139,724	161,384
001-079	15,089	16,117	16,509	14,385	21,473
080-119	15,875	14,352	14,385	9,699	9,426
120-179	35,432	32,442	33,712	24,646	21,275
180-239	47,474	45,528	48,385	39,438	35,523
240-299	54,087	54,501	58,979	50,266	46,828
300-359	51,590	53,217	58,415	51,445	49,568
360-419	41,848	44,710	49,004	43,754	44,180
420-479	26,965	29,522	32,168	28,739	30,321
480-539	15,254	17,709	18,415	17,195	18,680
540 plus	10,567	13,009	13,955	12,905	15,490
Total	409,968	413,334	444,630	432,196	454,148

Accepted applicants

Tariff	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
None/not known	70,822	66,696	71,136	98,300	117,449
001-079	9,912	10,753	11,210	10,169	15,598
080-119	10,895	9,859	9,821	6,601	6,514
120-179	26,350	24,094	24,890	18,336	15,582
180-239	38,236	36,278	38,596	31,596	28,305
240-299	46,042	45,415	49,762	42,353	39,649
300-359	45,385	45,958	51,180	45,101	43,343
360-419	37,644	39,789	44,077	39,171	39,383
420-479	24,652	26,881	29,401	26,214	27,359
480-539	14,127	16,382	17,088	15,795	16,995
540 plus	9,877	12,190	13,083	11,928	14,367
Total	333,942	334,295	360,244	345,564	364,544

Applicants - expressed as percentages

Tariff	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
None/not known	23.4%	22.3%	22.7%	32.3%	35.5%
001-079	3.7%	3.9%	3.7%	3.3%	4.7%
080-119	3.9%	3.5%	3.2%	2.2%	2.1%
120-179	8.6%	7.9%	7.6%	5.7%	4.7%
180-239	11.6%	11.0%	10.9%	9.1%	7.8%
240-299	13.2%	13.2%	13.3%	11.6%	10.3%
300-359	12.6%	12.9%	13.1%	11.9%	10.9%
360-419	10.2%	10.8%	11.0%	10.1%	9.7%
420-479	6.6%	7.1%	7.2%	6.6%	6.7%
480-539	3.7%	4.3%	4.1%	4.0%	4.1%
540 plus	2.6%	3.2%	3.1%	3.0%	3.4%
Total	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

Accepted applicants - expressed as percentages

Tariff	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
None/not known	21.2%	20.0%	19.8%	28.4%	32.2%
001-079	3.0%	3.2%	3.1%	2.9%	4.3%
080-119	3.3%	3.0%	2.7%	1.9%	1.8%
120-179	7.9%	7.2%	6.9%	5.3%	4.3%
180-239	11.5%	10.9%	10.7%	9.1%	7.8%
240-299	13.8%	13.6%	13.8%	12.3%	10.9%
300-359	13.6%	13.8%	14.2%	13.1%	11.9%
360-419	11.3%	11.9%	12.2%	11.3%	10.8%
420-479	7.4%	8.0%	8.2%	7.6%	7.5%
480-539	4.2%	4.9%	4.7%	4.6%	4.7%
540 plus	3.0%	3.7%	3.6%	3.5%	3.9%
Total	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

Average tariff scores by subject

Subject	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Group A Medicine & Dentistry	430.33	427.67	440.78	441.82	377.90	378.79
A1 - Pre-clinical Medicine	433.38	429.00	441.91	443.75	375.27	381.84
A2 - Pre-clinical Dentistry	408.31	417.11	431.79	429.54	396.24	362.07
A9 - Others in Medicine and Dentistry					368.10	263.81
Group B Subjects allied to Medicine	202.24	202.02	209.89	219.67	188.69	184.25
B1 - Anatomy,Physiology and Pathology	287.71	280.87	301.63	299.14	265.58	265.00
B2 - Pharmacology,Toxicology and Pharmacy	283.85	284.73	298.94	303.04	283.24	288.28
B3 - Complementary Medicine	86.95	94.66	86.07	95.26	61.41	57.40
B4 - Nutrition	180.34	193.38	176.50	210.40	171.58	181.35
B5 - Ophthalmics	315.41	326.53	335.44	355.38	308.42	298.25
B6 - Aural and Oral Sciences	261.33	267.44	279.99	290.15	248.21	237.76
B7 - Nursing	134.20	134.16	141.26	157.93	132.24	120.83
B8 - Medical Technology	146.99	165.61	173.93	184.78	152.89	151.60
B9 - Others in Subjects allied to Medicine	170.47	172.87	184.38	196.60	169.35	167.10
BB - Combinations within Subjects allied to Medicine	127.40	131.38	159.39	176.96	153.56	149.73
Group C Biological Sciences	243.13	247.67	255.57	255.67	235.41	228.51
C0 - Biological Sciences: any area of study	32.50	-	-	-	475.00	347.79
C1 - Biology	271.00	277.70	293.67	296.78	287.43	286.61
C2 - Botany	209.45	219.71	272.75	290.30	224.39	217.35
C3 - Zoology	277.41	268.11	285.67	289.53	261.45	259.37
C4 - Genetics	315.42	313.24	330.98	318.22	312.82	317.63
C5 - Microbiology	271.52	267.87	283.70	278.82	292.30	279.33
C6 - Sports Science	159.91	161.85	165.70	171.53	148.82	141.02
C7 - Molecular Biology,Biophysics & Biochem	327.38	327.24	341.69	335.45	319.18	325.32
C8 - Psychology	266.06	275.14	282.53	283.18	263.50	256.62
C9 - Others in Biological Sciences	164.99	184.74	195.97	227.04	218.19	198.70
CC - Combinations within Biological Sciences	249.57	257.36	275.98	257.52	251.42	242.02
Group D Vet Sci, Ag & related	180.60	187.34	199.03	201.77	170.39	170.30
D0 - Vet Sci, Ag & related: any area of study	82.29	45.71	123.20	23.27	166.00	81.50
D1 - Pre-clinical Veterinary Medicine	428.88	443.87	437.58	435.78	380.13	379.34
D2 - Clinical Veterinary Medicine & Dentistry	47.43	127.44	76.49	169.43	137.00	148.83
D3 - Animal Science	130.32	123.78	131.21	136.68	117.78	125.79
D4 - Agriculture	113.47	113.06	124.38	133.02	98.25	99.45
D5 - Forestry	63.68	101.47	121.21	114.25	49.32	62.11
D6 - Food and Beverage studies	187.16	221.01	244.17	223.59	176.92	118.35
D7 - Agricultural Sciences	92.21	86.73	84.06	138.57	134.05	86.76
D9 - Others in Vet Sci, Ag & related subjects	382.58	384.97	355.36	382.64	398.42	345.48
DD - Combinations within Vet Sci, Ag & related subjects	136.00	92.17	129.00	117.56	86.67	101.94
Group F Physical Sciences	295.89	299.85	311.09	314.02	302.68	305.48
F0 - Physical Sciences: any area of study	91.04	114.65	129.17	159.76	146.10	136.27
F1 - Chemistry	306.54	312.36	334.42	338.60	333.59	335.76
F2 - Materials Science	256.67	193.00	391.67	228.00	245.00	392.63
F3 - Physics	373.54	384.16	394.70	397.48	386.80	389.71
F4 - Forensic and Archaeological Science	225.10	209.82	216.91	212.28	187.78	179.85
F5 - Astronomy	312.64	323.80	342.79	291.04	296.79	355.07
F6 - Geology	293.63	302.46	302.71	309.15	311.01	317.46
F7 - Ocean Sciences	282.84	244.85	251.80	256.68	226.95	255.91
F8 - Physical & Terrestrial Geog & Env Sci	287.43	291.44	303.75	307.24	292.61	289.97
F9 - Others in Physical Sciences	200.31	225.99	217.33	241.27	217.50	221.68
FF - Combinations within Physical Sciences	312.60	319.61	374.78	331.77	331.54	314.53
Group G Mathematical & Comp Sci	188.57	198.77	211.70	220.77	208.37	200.55
G0 - Mathematical & Comp Sci: any area	496.96	507.88	499.03	511.38	505.07	535.77
G1 - Mathematics	385.04	390.28	401.08	399.61	391.58	395.33
G2 - Operational Research	229.70	274.47	264.91	203.24	159.07	269.23
G3 - Statistics	297.88	309.89	324.44	327.19	320.02	325.19
G4 - Computer Science	166.40	165.65	170.18	172.64	153.01	139.97
G5 - Information Systems	125.96	135.62	132.51	150.06	130.81	110.44
G6 - Software Engineering	135.32	151.80	153.29	160.89	139.96	109.34
G7 - Artificial Intelligence	248.17	232.68	256.51	246.83	243.39	167.09
G9 - Others in Mathematical & Computer Sci	174.74	237.43	247.08	242.79	240.57	157.18
GG - Combinations within Mathematical & Computer Sci	261.77	263.85	244.46	235.96	231.00	193.72
Group H Engineering	215.49	226.39	249.46	251.19	240.91	238.81
H0 - Engineering: any area of study	164.24	190.68	199.36	148.74	58.25	124.17
H1 - General Engineering	208.89	225.48	237.60	244.25	230.08	218.34
H2 - Civil Engineering	257.11	268.17	286.31	285.36	275.43	269.66
H3 - Mechanical Engineering	237.73	248.56	266.46	263.06	244.29	238.72
H4 - Aerospace Engineering	280.13	267.64	290.04	279.39	255.57	253.70
H5 - Naval Architecture	170.46	201.78	195.45	230.55	178.37	256.05
H6 - Electronic and Electrical Engineering	164.02	166.54	187.75	183.10	170.56	172.32
H7 - Production and Manufacturing Engineering	223.96	222.60	238.58	266.36	275.86	265.89
H8 - Chemical,Process and Energy Engineering	301.75	328.14	345.05	340.84	353.16	362.36
H9 - Others in Engineering	-	302.17	268.46	264.71	142.86	138.33
HH - Combinations within Engineering	224.79	231.66	264.15	284.14	274.92	248.98
Group J Technologies	171.20	181.62	190.07	197.58	142.59	134.93
J1 - Minerals Technology	170.00	213.57	306.88	270.91	213.87	200.97
J2 - Metallurgy	119.05	270.00	289.63	227.50	244.17	231.60
J3 - Ceramics and Glass	151.43	126.67	-	50.00	-	-
J4 - Polymers and Textiles	181.16	199.88	219.06	248.90	182.66	193.56
J5 - Materials Technology not otherwise spec	199.28	225.02	219.09	249.40	234.59	148.41
J6 - Maritime Technology	189.47	189.37	218.03	252.99	161.27	150.27
J7 - Industrial Biotechnology	200.10	238.39	203.90	264.71	220.86	250.22
J9 - Others in Technology	162.09	160.27	168.36	162.92	116.60	113.11
JJ - Combinations within Technology	193.75	195.71	220.00	352.00	290.00	285.00
Group K Architecture, Build & Plan	205.26	216.31	232.98	240.62	218.17	206.72
K0 - Architecture, Build & Plan: any area	151.00	16.67	128.57	115.45	175.00	298.33
K1 - Architecture	276.27	280.48	301.14	309.86	290.86	288.97
K2 - Building	136.16	153.53	176.11	188.14	158.46	146.53
K3 - Landscape Design	155.46	190.67	169.12	181.72	158.79	169.68
K4 - Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional)	200.34	204.32	219.55	227.67	211.46	195.53
K9 - Others in Architecture, Build & Plan	131.30	105.58	182.30	122.57	202.34	190.28
KK - Combinations within Architecture, Build & Plan	205.17	233.54	214.60	209.01	212.40	165.34
Group L Social Studies	240.92	245.15	243.28	238.05	210.45	200.95
L0 - Social Studies: any area of study	323.60	342.57	348.62	342.72	354.20	377.53
L1 - Economics	324.26	332.18	340.35	344.63	331.21	334.88
L2 - Politics	282.47	286.86	301.22	301.40	286.42	279.68
L3 - Sociology	199.99	211.84	222.44	231.22	221.93	214.40
L4 - Social Policy	112.69	120.56	127.53	132.00	118.62	96.52
L5 - Social Work	67.51	77.14	91.33	105.87	64.30	61.09
L6 - Anthropology	255.90	264.51	284.66	294.18	260.61	246.90
L7 - Human and Social Geography	326.03	334.51	344.65	346.20	351.56	341.32
L9 - Others in Social Studies	178.03	172.50	179.44	180.11	138.87	129.50
LL - Combinations within Social Studies	260.62	274.89	297.41	295.11	264.49	250.89
Group M Law	277.53	284.88	294.14	284.77	274.34	262.49
M0 - Law: any area of study	-	-	-	60.00	-	-
M1 - Law by Area	301.50	309.15	317.44	307.68	296.77	285.95
M2 - Law by Topic	176.11	194.01	193.84	188.29	180.25	157.37
M9 - Others in Law	182.10	193.52	213.51	212.38	189.15	177.71
MM - Combinations within Law	174.13	221.09	230.00	233.89	234.20	218.88
Group N Business & Admin studies	182.95	193.89	207.15	209.63	196.42	183.07
N0 - Business & Admin studies: any area	227.09	270.38	252.70	231.40	277.70	256.14
N1 - Business studies	207.45	210.83	214.09	211.25	196.42	178.42
N2 - Management studies	164.97	175.99	191.78	203.67	192.97	185.80
N3 - Finance	220.49	233.09	250.52	248.25	223.40	231.19
N4 - Accounting	221.38	220.80	238.73	237.81	223.45	208.45
N5 - Marketing	178.35	201.98	212.24	216.21	205.43	191.35
N6 - Human Resource Management	144.68	168.09	190.59	191.93	171.42	153.13
N7 - Office Skills	-	-	58.21	72.38	105.00	192.50
N8 - Tourism, Transport and Travel	119.66	136.40	142.12	144.47	122.84	115.67
N9 - Others in Business & Admin Studies	141.25	136.23	185.66	177.29	165.27	139.37
NN - Combinations within Business & Admin Studies	191.97	213.30	232.22	228.56	216.14	197.06
Group P Mass Comms and Documentation	200.98	203.38	211.97	223.36	207.35	191.82
P1 - Information Services	183.63	196.50	183.62	220.84	214.97	206.79
P2 - Publicity studies	227.65	237.52	244.44	250.24	225.63	210.78
P3 - Media studies	182.94	183.11	195.27	205.33	188.86	177.58
P4 - Publishing	160.15	199.53	220.73	218.33	248.88	197.85
P5 - Journalism	225.42	230.33	235.19	242.46	228.84	205.80
P9 - Others in Mass Comms & Documentation	231.69	234.68	241.53	262.39	238.58	228.81
PP - Combinations within Mass Comms & Documentation	205.23	210.13	202.82	229.01	219.05	199.55
Group Q Linguistics, Classics & related	300.44	310.89	323.76	329.24	310.71	307.21
Q0 - Linguistics, Classics & related: any area	258.07	274.90	278.98	-	-	-
Q1 - Linguistics	264.30	271.43	284.00	291.63	268.58	266.32
Q2 - Comparative Literary studies	181.86	167.14	220.63	247.30	206.35	189.35
Q3 - English studies	295.99	307.21	319.93	328.54	307.50	305.19
Q4 - Ancient Language studies	229.18	350.00	316.52	422.73	305.38	284.00
Q5 - Celtic studies	271.49	261.27	266.08	254.74	265.81	281.69
Q6 - Latin studies	359.20	283.08	364.80	359.10	350.00	423.33
Q7 - Classical Greek studies	340.00	140.00	400.00	185.00	-	365.67
Q8 - Classical studies	382.44	391.10	408.04	405.52	401.42	388.81
Q9 - Others in Linguistics, Classics & related	361.82	311.81	292.09	279.69	248.50	271.04
QQ - Combinations within Linguistics, Classics & related	322.37	333.70	346.44	306.60	308.42	295.01
Group R European Langs, Lit & related	311.59	324.42	335.47	348.91	337.91	338.40
R0 - European Langs, Lit & related: any area	198.50	203.81	251.43	451.39	449.84	434.55
R1 - French studies	299.50	312.77	326.94	334.61	313.34	326.17
R2 - German studies	296.13	311.43	317.37	336.83	318.70	302.77
R3 - Italian studies	264.60	294.84	261.47	326.76	278.31	269.30
R4 - Spanish studies	294.02	294.26	298.73	319.13	292.42	298.61
R5 - Portuguese studies	290.00	263.33	432.00	140.00	250.00	-
R6 - Scandinavian studies	266.51	314.40	259.05	315.93	212.89	238.00
R7 - Russian and East European studies	271.13	279.17	295.33	316.39	188.22	254.65
R9 - Others in European Langs, Lit and related	285.42	302.17	318.13	310.02	303.79	304.03
RR - Combinations within European Langs, Lit and related	332.77	346.70	358.48	364.77	361.15	361.67
Group T Non-European Langs and related	338.83	347.51	356.34	353.66	347.98	341.86
T1 - Chinese studies	321.18	319.95	318.34	330.80	348.18	314.50
T2 - Japanese studies	299.76	319.12	326.27	348.21	332.19	272.66
T3 - South Asian studies	202.00	140.38	198.57	201.47	147.50	143.39
T4 - Other Asian studies	300.71	324.44	312.50	200.00	178.00	84.44
T5 - African studies	258.18	230.36	262.19	259.47	214.76	215.41
T6 - Modern Middle-Eastern studies	182.91	197.13	209.93	263.71	218.58	213.83
T7 - American studies	303.58	305.85	305.34	313.70	282.12	282.29
T8 - Australasian studies	170.00	86.67	444.55	-	-	-
T9 - Others in non-European Langs & related	415.02	424.15	290.67	428.68	438.86	448.18
TT - Combinations within non-European Langs & related	287.09	316.67	320.59	336.67	248.53	359.90
Group V Hist & Philosophical studies	296.75	311.01	224.76	325.65	309.43	306.49
V0 - Hist & Philosophical studies: any area	151.74	184.49	332.71	210.47	232.84	184.10
V1 - History by Period	318.06	328.86	259.00	339.09	326.77	322.18
V2 - History by Area	243.21	251.84	320.39	279.93	232.07	291.91
V3 - History by Topic	292.52	303.51	255.31	344.19	309.53	297.93
V4 - Archaeology	242.54	253.11	344.62	269.35	240.69	239.33
V5 - Philosophy	319.36	326.33	293.19	337.49	314.44	313.54
V6 - Theology and Religious studies	257.13	273.05	225.13	296.37	260.66	266.67
V9 - Others in Hist & Philosophical studies	-	-	-	224.08	225.79	232.63
VV - Combinations within Hist & Philosophical studies	290.67	306.24	317.33	309.86	303.15	299.61
Group W Creative Arts & Design	164.46	182.36	186.84	191.60	152.24	128.76
W0 - Creative Arts & Design: any area	267.00	212.35	109.86	153.62	58.05	53.41
W1 - Fine Art	165.41	188.68	194.98	202.20	140.79	98.61
W2 - Design studies	147.55	168.09	172.45	179.63	138.30	107.19
W3 - Music	199.98	211.37	219.17	218.78	180.40	171.65
W4 - Drama	183.33	201.31	203.20	206.65	178.51	168.05
W5 - Dance	159.45	167.94	164.55	152.62	146.21	136.58
W6 - Cinematics and Photography	169.03	175.18	173.85	183.99	149.15	127.67
W7 - Crafts	139.17	166.64	173.16	148.36	120.29	73.06
W8 - Imaginative Writing	209.45	199.91	211.48	211.00	157.02	146.47
W9 - Others in Creative Arts and Design	138.55	156.78	158.45	150.59	126.24	83.44
WW - Combinations within Creative Arts and Design	168.78	192.26	208.39	205.11	166.58	153.58
Group X Education	156.40	165.08	180.74	187.65	167.67	159.93
X1 - Training Teachers	179.58	191.57	209.15	220.14	201.55	198.51
X2 - Research and Study Skills in Education	111.87	115.86	134.27	141.60	-	2.95
X3 - Academic studies in Education	111.87	115.86	134.27	141.60	125.91	121.82
X9 - Others in Education	10.30	95.44	75.17	57.35	33.15	32.34
XX - Combinations within Education	120.78	122.72	152.77	136.59	123.40	75.39
Sciences combined with social sciences or arts	194.88	204.05	213.57	215.12	195.49	185.16
Combs of phys/math science with arts/humanities/languages	195.08	200.69	198.07	202.71	190.68	178.24
Combs of phys/math science with social studies/bus/law	181.22	189.76	236.28	239.78	230.94	227.03
Combs of science/engineering with arts/humanities/languages	192.90	207.11	211.66	208.61	179.73	171.23
Combs of science/engineering with social studies/bus/law	208.35	214.21	209.76	213.95	195.91	179.63
Social sciences combined with arts	251.79	258.57	272.78	274.05	254.24	238.79
Combs of social studies/bus/law with arts/humanities	284.11	295.95	258.07	262.23	239.50	222.84
Combs of social studies/bus/law with languages	238.67	244.32	314.83	309.93	299.45	288.76
Combined arts	254.10	263.31	277.00	278.74	260.89	249.28
Combs of arts/humanities	201.29	213.95	225.57	222.49	194.69	180.41
Combs of languages	333.52	328.64	340.81	332.86	330.85	328.20
Combs of languages with arts/humanities	268.51	277.88	290.20	298.58	284.05	268.32
Combined sciences	225.41	234.94	251.09	241.82	217.59	209.04
Combs of engin/tech/building studies	151.93	317.07	315.82	325.66	264.32	233.50
Combs of engineering/technology	200.63	218.07	236.05	244.52	241.03	251.51
Combs of med/bio/agric sciences	220.65	220.50	240.24	232.86	206.44	198.92
Combs of med/bio/agric sciences with phys/math sciences	214.79	221.78	235.93	214.25	190.29	191.44
Combs of phys/math sciences	366.60	372.20	382.76	341.28	321.28	293.00
Combs of sciences with engineering/technology	207.72	219.74	233.38	242.40	216.37	197.55
Combined social sciences	245.80	260.37	272.37	263.52	244.79	239.87
Combs of soc studies/law	228.32	241.54	251.61	241.92	218.76	218.06
Combs of soc studies/law with business	257.83	274.22	288.34	280.05	267.80	257.89
General, other combined & unknown	212.35	221.76	247.53	251.63	236.51	232.05
Combs of 3 subjects, or other general courses	212.37	221.78	247.53	251.63	236.51	232.05
Other courses not elsewhere classified	396.60	367.72	243.98	246.04	223.84	213.61

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