7th May 25
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).
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)
We look forward to seeing our students receive more offers from universities in the UK and overseas in the coming weeks.