admission to 90.8% of its applicants, the 2nd highest amongst the Russell Group.
In the 2018/19 admission cycle, the university gave out offers to only 4.7% of international applicants to the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of surgery (BMBS) programme making it one of the most competitive medical school for international applicants in the UK; in comparison 24.7% of UK/EU applicants received offers in the same admission cycle. In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 75:6:19 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 55:45.
Exeter was in the first group of UK universities to require an A*grade in A-level examinations as part of its standard offer for entry into some undergraduate courses. The Undergraduate Prospectus 2013 lists ten-degree programmes that require at least one A*grade as part of the conditional standard offer, including Economics, English, History, and Mathematics.
=== Rankings and reputation ===
In the main rankings of universities in the United Kingdom the university is currently placed between 11th and 18th.
In the 2015/16 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Exeter placed 93rd.
Exeter was ranked 34th on the annual list of the top 500 major universities worldwide in the Leiden Rankings (2015).
In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 Subject Rankings, Exeter University ranked 11th in the world for public administration. In the QS World University Subject Rankings 2020, Exeter ranked 10th in the world for sport and health sciences and 14th for engineering in minerals and Mining.
The university was named the Sunday Times University of the Year 2013. It was named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2007.
=== Research ===
There are approximately 70 research centres and institutes within the university, including the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, the Institute of Cornish Studies, the Environment and Sustainability Institute and the Marchmont Observatory.
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