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U niversity Entry 2019 There will be 226 university entrants this year from Sevenoaks School to leading universities across the world. Of students going on to study in the UK, ninety-one per cent took up a place at one of the Russell Group universities. Of these, 27 Sennockians are taking up places at Oxford or Cambridge, while over 50 are taking up places at one of the London colleges including LSE, UCL, KCL and Imperial. Other popular university destinations were Durham, Exeter, Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester and St Andrews. This year 29 students took up places at US or Canadian universities with seven going to universities within Europe and Australia. 22 The Sciences and STEM remain the most popular subject area, followed by Economics, Business and Finance; Combined Honours and Liberal Arts; History, Politics and International Relations; Medicine and Veterinary Medicine; and Psychology and Sociology. English continues to attract strong numbers of our students, as do Law, Geography or Land Economics, and Modern, Classical and Middle Eastern Languages. With the competition for the top places remaining fierce, this is a tremendous record of achievement, and we wish all our new undergraduates every success. HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW Wendy Heydorn