Where will a Downe House education take your daughter?
Every year, students from the Upper Sixth leave us to take up places at top universities and institutions across the world.
Highlights from 2025:
– 90% joined Russell Group universities
– 36% progressed to QS World Top 50 universities
– 26% gained places at Oxbridge and top London universities
– 16% chose overseas universities
Subjects & Specialisms:
– 31% pursued STEM disciplines (up from 24% in 2024) including 10% in Medicine, Dentistry & Medical Sciences
– Social Sciences: 23%
– Politics, Economics, Policy & Management: 21% (down from 34% in 2024)
– International focus (including study abroad): 26%
Our students continue to demonstrate ambition and excellence, securing places at some of the most prestigious institutions across the globe.
Results 2025
University destinations
Girls in our Class of 2025 were successful in securing university places in the UK and overseas for a wide range of courses, reflecting the diverse achievements and interests of this year group. We are hugely proud of their achievements and wish them every success in the next phase of their adventure in education.
Where more than one student is taking a course, the number is shown.
University/Institution |
Course |
| Aberdeen | Biological Sciences |
| Australia | PQA |
| Bath | Politics and International Relations, Modern Languages, Psychology |
| Birmingham | Biochemistry |
| Bristol | Psychology in Education, International Foundation Year Programme, English and Russian, Veterinary Nursing and Companion Animal Behaviour |
| Brunel | Medicine |
| Canada – McGill | Undeclared – Arts and Sciences |
| Canada – U Toronto | Life Sciences |
| Cardiff | Biochemistry |
| City and Guilds | Art Foundation |
| Courtauld | History of Art |
| Durham | Business and Management |
| Durham | Business and Management with Placement Year |
| Edinburgh | Business and Economics, Biological Sciences (Biochemistry), Fine Art, Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) |
| Europe – EHL | International Hospitality Management |
| Exeter | Geography, English Literature and Creative Writing, History, Computer Science, Politics and International Relations, English and Creative Writing, History, Law |
| Glasgow | Business and Management (SocSci) |
| Imperial | Biochemistry with French for Science, Physics, Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry |
| KCL | Global Health and Social Medicine |
| Loughborough | Energy Engineering, International Business, Mechanical Engineering |
| LSE | Law (Bachelor of Laws) |
| Manchester | Earth and Planetary Sciences, Liberal Arts |
| Newcastle | Combined Honours |
| Nottingham | Chemical Engineering, Cancer Sciences |
| Oxford | History, Classics, Biochemistry |
| Reading | Finance with Foundation |
| Royal Holloway | Biomedical Sciences, Geoscience |
| St Andrews | Art History and Italian, English, Medicine, French and Management |
| UCL | Education, Society and Culture, International Social and Political Studies, Anthropology, Philosophy and History of Art, Geography (International), Human Sciences, Information in Society, Biological Sciences |
| US – Barnard | Liberal Arts |
| US – Northeastern | Liberal Arts |
| US – NYU | Liberal Arts |
| US – U Chicago | Business Economics |
| US – U Miami | Liberal Arts |
| US – U Michigan | Economics and Political Science |
| US – UCSD | Liberal Arts |
| USA – Northwestern | Political Science |
| USA – Pittsburgh | Liberal Arts |
| Warwick | Politics and International Studies |
