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On this page you can find information about the offers we made, and subject-specific feedback.

Offer Statistics

In the 2017-18 admissions cycle, Mansfield made 92 offers for entry in 2018, including 10 open offers. No offers were made for deferred entry in 2019.

In addition, four offers were made for deferred entry starting in 2018 in the 2016-17 admissions round. These offers have not been included in the figures below.

Subject Breakdown
Engineering: 6
English Language and Literature: 12
Geography: 7
History: 11
Human Sciences: 4
Law (including Law with Law Studies in Europe): 9
Materials Science: 7
Mathematics (including Mathematics and Statistics): 9
Oriental Studies: 3
Philosophy, Politics and Economics: 9
Philosophy and Theology: 2
Physics: 7
Theology and Religion: 6

Area of Permanent Residence
UK: 79.3%
EU: 5.4%
Overseas: 15.2%

Gender
Please note: applicants are able to select from only two options when completing their UCAS form (‘male’ and ‘female’).

Female: 55.4%
Male: 44.6%

School Type (UK only)
The following figures refer to UK students who are being/have been educated in the UK only.

95.9% of UK applicants who were made offers by Mansfield in the 2017-18 admissions cycle were from the state sector, and 4.1% from the independent sector.

The breakdown by school type was as follows:

24.7% Academy (selective)
19.2% Academy (non-selective)
8.2% Academy (other)
20.5% FE Sector Institutions
19.2% Comprehensive School
4.1% Grammar School
4.1% Independent School

The breakdown by school selection policy was as follows:

38.4% non-selective
30.1% selective
31.5% not applicable (e.g. FE/Sixth Form Colleges)

OFFA Targets (UK only)
The following figures refer to UK students who are being/have been educated in the UK only.

The University of Oxford has an agreement with the Office for Fair Access that it will aim to meet certain targets relating to the admission of students from under-represented groups, identified by indicators of educational and socio-economic disadvantage. More information can be found here.

The targets agreed with OFFA, and the figures relating to Mansfield’s UK offer holders for 2018 entry, are as follows:

Target 1: increase the percentage of UK undergraduate students entering Oxford from schools and colleges that historically have had limited progression to Oxford to at least 15.9% in 2019-20.
Target for 2018-19: 15.3%
Mansfield offers for 2018: 37.0%

Target 2: increase the percentage of UK undergraduate students entering Oxford from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds (ACORN postcodes 4 and 5) to at least 9.5% in 2019-20.
Target for 2018-19: 9.1%
Mansfield offers for 2018: 20.5%

Target 3: increase the percentage of UK undergraduates entering Oxford from neighbourhoods with low participation in higher education (POLAR3 postcodes 1 and 2) to at least 13.0% in 2019-20.
Target for 2018-19: 12.2%
Mansfield offers for 2018: 23.3%

In addition, 28.8% of our UK offer holders had indicators of both educational disadvantage and socio-economic disadvantage. Please see here for further information.