Students Relaxing In Common Room At Abbey College Cambridge

Abbey DLD Group of Colleges, 2025 University Offers Update

7th May 25

Abbey DLD Russell Group Offers 2025

Abbey DLD Group of Colleges students are celebrating after securing wide ranging offers to study at top UK universities in 2025.

Across all three of our colleges, students have secured more than 600 offers from prestigious Russell Group universities, with over 70% of students across the group achieving at least one Russell Group offer.

Top 10 Russell Group Universities by offer

No University UK Ranking*
1 Queen Mary University of London 39th
2 University of Manchester 27th
3 King’s College London 24th
4 University College London (UCL) 7th
5 University of Leeds 18th
6 University of Southampton 19th
7 University of Birmingham 16th
8 University of Warwick 9th
9 University of Bristol 13th
10 University of Nottingham 30th

*Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025

Abbey DLD students have also received more than 350 offers from UK top 20 ranked universities, and more than 50 offers from elite G5 universities (Oxford, Cambridge, LSE,  Imperial and UCL).

Abbey DLD 2025 LSE Offer Social Graphic Thun Nadi
Thun Nadi from Myanmar, who studies at Abbey College Cambridge, holds an offer for the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE).

Looking across all students on all courses (A Level, International Foundation Programme, and BTEC) our students have secured offers from more than 100 UK universities. 6 of the top 10 universities by offer this year are from London, and we also see a number of larger city universities such as Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol represented alongside smaller university cities such as Warwick and Exeter.

Top 20 Universities by offer in 2025 (all courses)

No University
1 Queen Mary University of London
2 City St George’s University of London
3 University of Westminster
4 University of Manchester
5 King’s College London
6 University College London (UCL)
7 University of Surrey
8 Royal Holloway, University of London
9 University of Leeds
10 University of Southampton
11 University of Exeter
12 University of Birmingham
13 Manchester Metropolitan University
14 Brunel University of London
15 University of Warwick
16 Kingston University London
17 Regents University London
18 University of Bristol
19 University of Reading
20 University of Nottingham

We look forward to seeing our students receive more offers from universities in the UK and overseas in the coming weeks.

Abbey DLD Top 20 Offers 2025

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