Clearing House for Postgraduate Courses in Clinical Psychology   

Numbers of Places

The success rate in 2012 was 15%.
Between 1 in 6 and 1 in 7 applicants got a place on a course.

All the courses have excellent completion rates. The national attrition rate for the academic year 2010/2011 was only 0.76%, which includes both people who dropped out of a course and people who failed.

Applicants and places nationally

graph of numbers of applicants and places since 2006

Table version of the above graph

Places at each course centre

The table below gives the number of places at each course centre for the 2012 intake. These numbers may change for the 2013 intake: please check the information from individual course centres for details. We also provide numbers for course centres from previous years in our archive.

Please bear in mind that each applicant can apply to up to four course centres so for the 2012 entry 3,857 applicants made 14,873 applications for 586 places.

Applications and places by course centre - 2012 entry
Course Centres Applications Places
Bangor - North Wales 159 9
Bath 560 14
Birmingham 601 25
Coventry and Warwick 396 15
East Anglia 326 17
East London 1,041 31
Edinburgh 489 27
Essex 268 10
Exeter 317 14
Glasgow 353 23
Hertfordshire 524 15
Institute of Psychiatry 1,001 21
Lancaster 406 24
Leeds 541 16
Leicester 295 13
Liverpool 539 24
Manchester 652 24
Newcastle 299 14
North Thames - UCL 1,228 42
Oxford 636 15
Plymouth 250 14
Royal Holloway 988 29
Salomons 504 33
Sheffield 374 18
Southampton 320 13
South Wales 229 12
Staffordshire and Keele 290 15
Surrey 715 28
Teesside 233 14
Trent 339 17