ESAT scores and Cambridge offers
In 2025, Engineering offer holders' three module scores averaged 6.3.
Cambridge Engineering
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Your result
- 8.0 to 9.051%52/102
- 7.0 to 7.935%66/189
- 6.0 to 6.925%78/318
- 5.0 to 5.921%130/614
- 4.0 to 4.96%62/954
- 3.0 to 3.90%2/691
- 2.0 to 2.90%0/245
- 1.0 to 1.90%0/66
- Offer rate, with 95% range
- Your band
- Under 30 applicants: no rate
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Questions people ask
What ESAT score do you need for Cambridge Engineering?
Cambridge publishes no cut-off. In 2025, Engineering offer holders' three module scores averaged 6.3. Offer rates rose with score: 6.5% for applicants averaging 4.0 to 4.9, 21% for 5.0 to 5.9, 24.5% for 6.0 to 6.9, 35% for 7.0 to 7.9 and 51% for 8.0 to 9.0.
Do international applicants need higher ESAT scores?
In 2025, Engineering offer holders averaged 5.7 if their domicile was the UK and 7.3 if it was elsewhere, and international applicants also scored higher on average. Domicile means where the applicant lives; it is not fee status.
What ESAT score do you need for Natural Sciences?
No cut-off is published. In 2025, offer holders averaged 6.2 on the Physical route and 5.6 on the Biological route, and about a quarter of scored applicants on each route received an offer.
Can you get an interview rate by ESAT score?
Not from these releases. Cambridge's FOI answers give applicant and offer figures but no interview figures, even when asked for them, so an offer rate must never be read as an interview rate.
Why average the three modules?
Only to group similar applicants. Cambridge publishes no combined score or weighting, so the tool also keeps your separate module scores in view, and a strong module may not make up for a weak one.
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What it does
What happened to 2025 Cambridge Engineering and Natural Sciences applicants with scores like yours, from the university's own released data.
Cambridge Engineering and Natural Sciences (Physical and Biological routes) applicants for 2025 entry with three ESAT module scores: 3,179 in Engineering and 2,561 in Natural Sciences. Engineering can be split by domicile, where the applicant lives, because the release records it; Natural Sciences cannot.
Method
- Cambridge released every applicant's module scores and whether they got an offer, under Freedom of Information: FOI-2025-1098 for Engineering and FOI-2025-1026 for Natural Sciences.
- We average each applicant's three module scores and put applicants into one-point bands: 1.0 to 1.9, 2.0 to 2.9 and so on, with 8.0 to 9.0 at the top. The average is our summary; Cambridge publishes no combined ESAT score and no module weighting.
- In each band we count applicants and offers and give the share with a 95% Wilson range. Bands with fewer than 30 applicants show counts only.
- Your three scores are averaged the same way and matched to a band. Engineering applicants averaging 6.0 to 6.9: 78 of 318 got offers, 24.5% (95% range 20.1% to 29.5%).
Published figures
Every 2025 band, offers out of applicants
Counted from Cambridge’s FOI releases: applicants with three module scores, grouped by the average of those scores. Rates are shown only where a band has at least 30 applicants.
| Course and group | All | 1.0 to 1.9 | 2.0 to 2.9 | 3.0 to 3.9 | 4.0 to 4.9 | 5.0 to 5.9 | 6.0 to 6.9 | 7.0 to 7.9 | 8.0 to 9.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering, all | 390/3,179 | 0/66 (0%) | 0/245 (0%) | 2/691 (0%) | 62/954 (6%) | 130/614 (21%) | 78/318 (25%) | 66/189 (35%) | 52/102 (51%) |
| Engineering, Home domicile | 252/1,766 | 0/40 (0%) | 0/170 (0%) | 2/519 (0%) | 56/603 (9%) | 111/313 (35%) | 49/85 (58%) | 28/30 (93%) | 6/6 |
| Engineering, international domicile | 138/1,413 | 0/26 | 0/75 (0%) | 0/172 (0%) | 6/351 (2%) | 19/301 (6%) | 29/233 (12%) | 38/159 (24%) | 46/96 (48%) |
| Natural Sciences, Biological | 287/1,130 | 0/22 | 2/73 (3%) | 22/222 (10%) | 70/330 (21%) | 91/229 (40%) | 53/158 (34%) | 35/72 (49%) | 14/24 |
| Natural Sciences, Physical | 381/1,431 | 0/23 | 1/85 (1%) | 14/243 (6%) | 61/385 (16%) | 114/311 (37%) | 80/190 (42%) | 60/107 (56%) | 51/87 (59%) |