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Decision Times are worked out by measuring the time taken (days) between UCAS receiving the application form and the institution returning the first decision about the application. Decision times show data for simultaneous applications only.

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Summary statistics
Average Decision Times given in days for Home and Overseas Applications by:
Institution Government Region
Institution Country
JACS Subject Group

Applications (2005, 2004 entry)

Average Decision Times (Days)	Home		Overseas
Institution Government Region (England)	2004	2005	2004	2005
North East	55	55	57	58
Yorks & The Humber	46	46	45	43
North West	47	52	44	47
East Midlands	47	46	45	45
West Midlands	51	54	56	55
Eastern	55	49	59	57
Greater London	60	56	62	58
South East	51	49	51	49
South West	53	53	52	52
Merseyside	48	47	51	50

Average Decision Times (Days)	Home		Overseas
Institution Country	2004	2005	2004	2005
England	51	51	52	52
Scotland	47	51	51	53
Wales	48	52	47	49
Northern Ireland	56	52	51	50

Average Decision Times (Days)	Home		Overseas
JACS Subject Group	2004	2005	2004	2005
Group A Medicine & Dentistry	118	121	115	113
Group B Subjects allied to Medicine	61	62	48	51
Group C Biological Sciences	40	39	45	46
Group D Vet Sci,Ag & related	57	59	63	67
Group F Physical Sciences	45	46	48	49
Group G Mathematical & Comp Sci	68	41	61	43
Group H Engineering	93	93	66	57
Group J Technologies	95	104	77	82
Group K Architecture,Build & Plan	82	80	77	106
Group L Social Studies	49	53	54	53
Group M Law	48	43	57	57
Group N Business & Admin studies	75	71	65	62
Group P Mass Comms and Documentation	88	83	79	55
Group Q Linguistics, Classics & related	53	52	58	55
Group R European Langs, Lit & related	52	52	62	61
Group T Non-European Langs and related	55	52	63	56
Group V Hist & Philosophical studies	96	105	60	64
Group W Creative Arts & Design	103	106	105	103
Group X Education	70	67	66	67
Y Combined arts	92	86	91	88
Y Combined sciences	45	44	45	43
Y Combined social sciences	38	36	44	44
Y Sciences combined with social sciences or arts	81	79	77	77
Y Social sciences combined with arts	88	87	98	93
Z General, other combined & unknown	96	59	90	64

The Management Statistics for end of cycle 2005, contain Decision Times at course level for each Institutions applications. The data is shown for Home and Overseas applications, and is further broken down to show Decision Times for applications received before and between the four major UCAS application dates (15th October, 15th January, 24th March, 30th June). The tables give the Average, Minimum, Maximum, Mode, Median and Standard Deviation of Decision times.

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