The Oxbridge courses where you’ll find the most girlies in 2024

Girl, it’s so confusing to apply to Oxbridge. We’ve ranked all the Oxbridge courses by the percentage of girls studying there in 2024, so you know what to pick if you want to be surrounded by other girlies. Working this out took some serious girl math.

There is a massive split between how many girls do STEM and humanities courses at Oxbridge in 2024. There is such a lack of women in STEM at Oxbridge that it makes me despair for feminism. At Cambridge, 62.2 per cent of humanities students are female, and 38.7 per cent are male. It tends to be the “softer” STEM subjects that have more girls – such as psychology and veterinary science – and the “tougher” humanities subjects – such as law and politics – which have more men. Mathematics and computer science at Oxford has the least female students. There are 48 male and three female freshers on that course right now.

The overall gender divide for Oxbridge is pretty even – 50.4 per cent of Cambridge students and 49.7 per cent of Oxford students identify as female. This is pretty low for Russell Group unis – more girls get into Russell Group unis than boys.

These stats come from Cambridge and Oxford’s websites and refer to the year group who are freshers right now. Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern studies at Oxford just has one student this year, who is female.

So, here are all the Oxbridge courses ranked by the percentage of girls studying them in 2024:

79. Mathematics and computer science, Oxford – 5.9 per cent

78. Mathematics, Cambridge – 19.4 per cent

77. Engineering science, Oxford – 20.9 per cent

76. Physics, Oxford – 21.3 per cent

75. Computer science, Cambridge – 21.5 per cent

=73. Engineering, Cambridge – 24.0 per cent

=73. Mathematics, Oxford – 24.0 per cent

72. Computer science, Oxford – 30.8 per cent

71. Chemical engineering and biotechnology, Cambridge – 31.3 per cent

70. Mathematics and philosophy, Oxford – 31.6 per cent

69. Computer science and philosophy, Oxford – 33.3 per cent

68. Economics, Cambridge – 35.2 per cent

67. Economics and management, Oxford – 36.1 per cent

66. History and politics, Oxford – 37.5 per cent

65. Chemistry, Oxford – 38.3 per cent

64. Materials science, Oxford – 38.6 per cent

63. History and economics, Oxford – 38.9 per cent

62. Ancient and modern history, Oxford – 40.0 per cent

61. Philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), Oxford – 40.6 per cent

60. Land economy, Cambridge – 42.3 per cent

59. Natural sciences, Cambridge – 42.8 per cent

58. Music, Oxford – 44.4 per cent

57. Theology and religion, Oxford – 45.7 per cent

56. Linguistics, Cambridge – 46.2 per cent

=54. History and English, Oxford – 50.0 per cent

=54. Physics and philosophy, Oxford – 50.0 per cent

=52. Law, Cambridge – 51.3 per cent

=52. Medicine, Cambridge – 51.3 per cent

51. Philosophy, Cambridge – 52.0 per cent

50. History and politics, Cambridge – 52.2 per cent

49. Medicine, Oxford – 52.3 per cent

48. Philosophy and modern languages, Oxford – 52.4 per cent

47. Earth sciences, Oxford – 52.9 per cent

=45. European and Middle Eastern languages, Oxford – 53.8 per cent

=45. Law studies in Europe, Oxford – 53.8 per cent

44. Geography, Oxford – 55.7 per cent

43. Philosophy and theology, Oxford – 56.0 per cent

42. History, Oxford – 57.0 per cent

41. Fine art, Oxford – 57.1 per cent

40. Medicine graduate course, Cambridge – 57.5 per cent

39. Classics, Oxford – 59.0 per cent

=37. Architecture, Cambridge – 60.0 per cent

=37. Asian and Middle Eastern studies, Oxford – 60.0 per cent

36. History and modern languages, Oxford – 61.1 per cent

=34. Biology, Oxford – 61.5 per cent

=34. Human sciences, Oxford – 61.5 per cent

33. Law, Oxford – 62.0 per cent

32. Music, Cambridge – 62.7 per cent

31. Biochemistry, Oxford – 63.0 per cent

30. Archaeololgy and anthropology, Oxford – 63.6 per cent

29. Human, social and political sciences (HSPS), Cambridge – 63.9 per cent

28. History and modern languages, Cambridge – 64.5 per cent

27. Modern languages, Oxford – 65.5 per cent

26. Modern and medieval languages (MML), Cambridge – 66.4 per cent

25. Mathematics and statistics, Oxford – 66.7 per cent

24. Asian and Middle Eastern studies (AMES), Cambridge – 67.5 per cent

23. History, Cambridge – 67.7 per cent

22. Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic studies (ASNAC), Cambridge – 68.4 per cent

21. Geography, Cambridge – 68.7 per cent

20. Biomedical sciences, Oxford – 70.7 per cent

=18. Classical archaeology and anthropology, Oxford – 72.0 per cent

=18. Classics (three years), Cambridge – 72.0 per cent

17. Psychological and behavioural sciences, Cambridge – 72.8 per cent

16. Psychology, philosophy and linguistics, Oxford – 73.7 per cent

=14. Experimental psychology, Oxford – 74.4 per cent

=14. Modern languages and linguistics, Oxford – 74.4 per cent

13. Classics (four years), Cambridge – 75.9 per cent

12. English language and literature, Oxford – 77.8 per cent

11. History of art, Oxford – 78.6 per cent

10. English, Cambridge – 79.7 per cent

9. Theology, religion and philosophy of religion, Cambridge – 81.1 per cent

8. Archaeology, Cambridge – 81.3 per cent

7. Education, Cambridge – 82.4 per cent

6. Veterinary medicines, Cambridge – 83.6 per cent

5. Classics and English, Oxford – 84.6 per cent

4. English and modern languages, Oxford – 85.7 per cent

3. Classics and modern languages, Oxford – 90.0 per cent

2. History of art, Cambridge – 96.8 per cent

1. Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern studies, Oxford – 100.0 per cent

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