Facts and figures

The Faculty of Medicine - our size and shape

The statistics for the Faculty of Medicine activity presented here are drawn from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø London's pocket statistics guide (51³Ô¹ÏÍø Statistics Guide 2024-25)*.

  1. Numbers have been rounded as appropriate.
  2. MRes students are counted as research students.

* You can check for the latest published updates to the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's statistics information on the Planning and Insight Division '51³Ô¹ÏÍø Overview' webpage.

Faculty of Medicine size and shape

Student : staff ratios


Full-time equivalent staff numbers and student : staff ratios (2024-25)

Academic staff Research staff Support staff Student FTE Student : staff ratio
 480  1069  1185  4665  10: 1

Notes:

  • The student:staff ratio is the ratio of student load to academic staff.
    Student FTE has been calculated from the 31 December 2024 snapshot figures, based on the methodology employed by HESA.
    The student FTE does not take into account fluctuations due to study patterns.
    Short courses are excluded. Numbers exclude occasional students.
    Numbers exclude postgraduate research students who are writing up.
    Staff numbers are inclusive of all sources of funding.
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UG applications and admissions


Applications and admissions - Undergraduate Medicine (2024-25)

Home/EU applications received for 2024-25 entry Overseas applications received for 2024-25 entry New admissions 2024-25 Applications : admissions ratio for 2024-25 entry
2,659  2,208  485  10 : 1

Notes

1 Applications as at 31 October 2024. Applications for deferred entry in 2023 are included.
2  Applications and admissions data excludes Graduate Entry Medicine, Intercalated Medicine and Oxbridge Applicants.
 Numbers exclude occasional students.
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PG applications and admissions


Applications and admissions - Postgraduate Medicine (2024-25)

Applications received for 2024-25 entry (taught) Applications received for 2024-25 entry (research) New admissions 2024-25 (taught) New admissions 2024-25 (research) Applications : admissions ratio for 2024-25 entry
3,411  2,194  845  433  4.4 : 1

Notes

  • Applications and admissions include full-time and part-time students.
     Data do not include applications and admissions for courses where the applications and/or admissions are not handled centrally by 
    the university.
     Numbers exclude occasional students.
     Applications data include applications received up to May 2025
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UG degrees awarded


Undergraduate degrees awarded (2024)

First 2.1 Total Percentage of first / 2.1
 Medicine - MBBS n/a n/a  308 n/a 
 School of Medicine 298 256 569 98.9%
1 Total includes all degree classifications. Total does not include awards made to occasional students.
2  The Intercalated students whose Intercalated year was in a department outside of Medicine have been included in the home 
department – Bioengineering and Business School.
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Academic expenditure

 
Academic expenditure (2023-24)

General funds (staff, in £k) General funds (other, in £k) Research grants and contracts (staff, in £k) Research grants and contracts (other, in £k)
Faculty of Medicine  127,127 36,519 96,127  55,075
 
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Research grants and contracts


Research grants and contracts income (2023-24)

Faculty of Medicine (All figures in £k)
Research councils 42,526
UK charities 47,100
UK gov., including health authorities 41,988
UK industry 9,790
EU and overseas industry 10,355
EU government bodies  4,893
Other 21,247
Total 177,899
Note - 'EU government bodies' category includes the European Commission.
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External rankings


The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings - Subject rankings 2026

  • The Times Higher Education World University Rankings judge world-class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.  The subject ranking table highlights the universities that are leading medicine, dentistry and health subjects.
  • 51³Ô¹ÏÍø was ranked 4th in the world for Medical and Health for 2026.

The Complete University Guide - University Subject Tables 2026

  • The  ranks UK universities by entry standards, student satisfaction, research quality and graduate prospects. 
  • 51³Ô¹ÏÍø London was ranked 3rd in the UK for Medicine by the Complete University Guide for 2026.


More about our rankings - further information about the Faculty of Medicine and other 51³Ô¹ÏÍø London rankings is available in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's
League tables pages.

Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021

51³Ô¹ÏÍø submitted to the following medicine-related Units of Assessment within Main Panel A in REF 2021:

  • Unit of Assessment 1 - Clinical Medicine
  • Unit of Assessment 2 - Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care
  • Unit of Assessment 4 - Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Overall quality profile (percentage of research activity at each quality level)

UoA 4* 3* 2* 1* u/c Cat A FTE
1 - Clinical Medicine  60 34 6 0 0 438.9
2 - Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care 78  21  1 0 0 79.5
4 - Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience 75 24 1 0 0 34.9

Data reproduced from full table of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's overall scores by UoA on the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø London REF 2021 webpages.

For more information on 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's performance in REF2021, visit the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Research Excellence Framework web pages.