The hardest universities to get a place at in the UK

The number of snowflake students shirking real life responsibility and slumming it in their digs, getting legless in the street and falling asleep in their kebabs is on the rise – according to the tabloids. But how hard is it to actually get into your university?

Figures compiled by HESA for The Times’ Good Uni Guide show that, no surprises, Cambridge and Oxford have the highest standards for prospective freshers according to the UCAS points they require.

According to UCAS, an A* is worth 140, an A 120, a B 100, a C 80 and a D 60 at A-level. At AS-level, an A is worth 60, a B 50, a C 40 and a D 30. Meaning Cambridge’s high expectations of 600 points is the equivalent of three A* through to A-level – enough to get you through to a really uncomfortable one on one interview where they grill you on books you claim to have read but clearly haven’t.

Further down the scale, Aberystwyth prop up the list of unis worth talking about with 299 UCAS points required for three years spent learning to surf and drinking with old men in pubs.

How hard is it to get into your university? Find out here.

Cambridge 600

Oxford 577

Imperial 567

LSE 540

Durham 526

St Andrews 524

UCL 506

Warwick 490

Edinburgh 487

Bath 481

Bristol 479

Glasgow 478

Strathclyde 476

Exeter 471

King’s 464

Aberdeen 443

Manchester 439

Leeds 436

St George’s 435

Newcastle 432

York 431

Birmingham 429

Nottingham 425

Surrey 424

UEA 423

Lancaster 421

Sheffield 420

Queen Mary 417

Southampton 417

Dundee 413

Loughborough 411

SOAS 410

Cardiff 405

Royal Holloway 400

Liverpool 395

RGU 392

Leicester 390

QUB 388

Glasgow Caledonian 387

Norwich Univ. of Arts 378

Stirling 377

Sussex 375

City 375

Reading 372

Aston 365

Northumbria 364

Kent 361

Hull 344

Lincoln 340

Oxford Brookes 338

Portsmouth 323

Bournemouth 322

Falmouth 318

Plymouth 314

Nottingham Trent 306

Aberystwyth 299