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For Parents
What will they actually study? How many hours will anyone teach them face to face? What does the placement year pay — and what does it cost? These snapshots answer the questions prospectuses gloss over, for the ten degrees our families ask about most, across the ten universities that dominate the UK league tables: Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Imperial, UCL, Edinburgh, Manchester, King’s, Bristol and Warwick.
MBBS · 5–6 yrs
Clinical from year 2–3 · guaranteed Foundation job · the hardest application in Britain
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BDS · 5 yrs
30+ clinical hrs/wk · near-universal employment · UCAT + interview everywhere
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MPharm · 4 yrs
Integrated masters · NHS placements throughout · prescriber status on qualifying
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BSc · 3 yrs
The City’s favourite degree · spring-week pipeline from year 1 · A* Maths expected
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LLB · 3 yrs
30+ hrs reading weekly · training contracts signed 2 yrs early · LNAT at the top
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BSc · 3–4 yrs
The placement-year subject · salaried year at blue-chips · ≈£1,960 fee that year
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MEng · 4 yrs
Integrated masters standard · Year in Industry at £20–28k · CEng route
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BSc/MEng · 3–4 yrs
Out-selects medicine at the top · Big-Tech internships · quant salaries beyond
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BSc/MMath · 3–4 yrs
STEP/MAT country · quant funds at £100k+ · the purest test of ability
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BSc/MSci · 3–4 yrs
Breadth first, depth later · research year in a working lab · the PhD springboard
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Essential Reading
Spring weeks, target-university lists, medics poached into the City — the recruitment system that starts in the first term of first year, explained for parents.
Read the GuideAdmissions tests, personal statements, interviews — every course above filters hard, and every filter is preparable. That preparation, led personally by a PhD-qualified Head of Mathematics and a registered clinical pharmacist, is what we do.
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From shortlisting universities to submitting UCAS — our complete free guide walks through the whole process in order.
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