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Anglia Ruskin - Medicine

MBChB Medicine (A100)

How this university scores applications, with the figures it publishes.

High level summary

Simple summary. Excruciating detail below.

How selection works

Applicants interviewed, 2026 entry, home non-contextual (of 2700)

Applicants interviewed, 2026 entry, home contextual (of 2700)

Applicants OFFERED a place, 2026 entry (of 2700)

Mean total cognitive UCAT

SJT bands of applicants interviewed

Contextual and widening access

Summary of the selection model

Source

Anglia Ruskin University FOI 3890, 8 September 2026 (application volumes refused under section 43(2); all other questions answered in full)

2025 entry distributions, on the old 3600 scale

These are Anglia Ruskin internal deciles of its OWN applicants, not national deciles. The 2026 entry equivalents are above. Never read a 3600 figure against a 2700 one.

Anglia Ruskin notes that with a cohort of eleven, quartiles are more meaningful than deciles. Mean 1872.7, which is the 5th national decile. The range runs 1790 to 1960, the 4th to the 6th.

Translated into NATIONAL deciles, which is what tells a student anything

Each figure placed against the decile table for the cycle it was sat in. 2025 entry was sat in the 2024 cycle, 2026 entry in the 2025 cycle. Rows in red sit BELOW the 1st national decile.

THE LOWEST OFFER FIGURES IN THE WHOLE WORKBOOK, and it is not close. For 2026 entry Anglia Ruskin made an offer to a contextual applicant scoring 1490 and to a NON-contextual applicant scoring 1560. Both are below the 1st national decile, 1580. The lowest score interviewed was 1350. Nothing else in this workbook comes near: Aston lowest contextual interviewed was 1560, and that was an interview, not an offer. For 2025 entry a non-contextual applicant was offered a place at 2340, the 3rd decile. This is the single most important row in the workbook for a student with a low UCAT and no contextual flag, because Anglia Ruskin is the one school proven to have said yes to one.

BUT SAY THE MEDIAN IN THE SAME BREATH. The floor is not the target. The median offer holder sat at the 8th national decile non-contextually and the 6th contextually, and those two numbers have barely moved between the cycles. The honest framing for a student is that Anglia Ruskin does not use a threshold, so a low score is not an automatic exclusion the way it is elsewhere, but the ranking still puts most offers well up the national distribution. It is a school worth a choice at the 5th or 6th decile, not a school that takes anyone.

BAND 4 IS ZERO EVERYWHERE, and this needs a question put to them. Across every group, both cycles, at interview and at offer, the band 4 count is 0. Fourteen tables, not one band 4 applicant. Anglia Ruskin states that the SJT is not used in selection. Either no band 4 candidate ever applied, which is implausible at these volumes, or the SJT is doing work that has not been described. Worth asking directly, and gently.

DO THE UPLIFTS STACK? Not stated, and it matters enormously. A WAMS applicant living in Essex would take 5 per cent plus 5 per cent if they combine, which on a score of 1900 is 190 points, roughly two national deciles. That would be the largest contextual adjustment anywhere in this workbook by a wide margin. If they do not combine, the best available is 5 per cent. Nothing in the response says which, and the difference decides whether a local WAMS applicant should place a choice here. Record as unresolved and ask.

PLACES ARE BEING CUT. A100 falls from 128 for September 2026 entry to 116 for September 2027, with 12 A101 places added. Fewer A100 places against a rising applicant pool should tighten the ranking, so the 2027 floor is unlikely to be as low as 1490 again. Do not quote this year figures as next year expectations.

Source

Anglia Ruskin University FOI 3890, response of 8 September 2026, document "Response 3890.docx". Questions 2 to 7 answered in full. Question 1, application volumes, refused under section 43(2). All figures above taken directly from that response; national decile placements calculated in this workbook.

TWO CAUTIONS ABOUT THE SOURCE DOCUMENT ITSELF. First, the interview counts are secure: each SJT table carries its own stated total, and the quartile and decile counts in the same sections sum to exactly the same figure, so each is confirmed three ways. The OFFER counts are not. Those SJT tables carry no total row and there are no matching counts to check them against, so 352, 75, 242 and 176 are sums calculated here, not figures Anglia Ruskin stated. Second, the question 3 heading in their document reads "For applicants invited to interview" while every section beneath it is headed "applicants offered a place". The section headings are almost certainly right, but the basis has been queried with them rather than assumed.

A101 APPEARS TWICE, IDENTICALLY. The A101 quartiles and SJT bands given at offer stage are the same eleven candidates and the same numbers as at interview stage, and the mean is identical to the second decimal place. Either every A101 applicant interviewed received an offer, or the interview table was repeated in error. With eleven candidates the first is possible, so it has been recorded as published and flagged rather than corrected.

Entry requirements

Volumes, places and competition

How the UCAT is turned into a score

Entry requirements and places, as shown on the comparison table

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