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Why are we obsessed with the Journey to a Million applicants?

Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of UCAS, introduces our collection of essays, created in collaboration with Unite Students and Knight Frank, highlighting the challenges and opportunities the Journey to a Million higher education applicants poses both to the education sector and UK PLC.

2015 End of Cycle Report videos

To accompany the 2015 End of Cycle Report a series of short videos are available. These videos, recorded by current and graduate members of the UCAS Data Scientist Internship Programme, focus on specific areas of the report and highlight the key findings.

2016 January deadline analysis report videos

To accompany the 2016 January deadline analysis report 'UK application rates by the January deadline', a series of short videos are available. These videos, recorded by current and graduate members of the UCAS Data Scientist Internship Programme, focus on specific areas of the report and highlight the key findings.

2019 cycle applicant figures – 30 June deadline

These statistical releases describe applicants and applications from the 2019 UCAS Undergraduate cycle at the 30 June deadline. All the PDFs and CSVs can be found underneath the interactive tool below.

2026 cycle toolkit

Everything you need to prepare for the 2026 application cycle – all in one place.

A levels

Facts about A levels: recent changes, subjects and grades, who they are for and what you can do afterwards.