Student Destinations
We are delighted that every year Abbey College Manchester students successfully progress to their first choice Universities to study a wide range of courses.
While we have an excellent reputation for students progressing to the UK’s top Northern Universities, as the destinations below show, we are also successful in supporting students to many top London and Southern Universities as well.
2025 DESTINATION HIGHLIGHTS
More than 80% of our International Foundation Programme/Preparation for University students progressed to a top 50 ranked or Russell Group university, to prestigious destinations including the University of Bath, University of Bristol, University of Manchester and Lancaster University.
Destinations for our A Level students in 2025 included the University College London, University of Warwick, Loughborough University, and the University of Glasgow. 6 Students secured places to study Medicine across our academic programmes.
Please see the table below for the range of Top 35 Ranked & Russell Group UK University Destinations our students have progressed to from 2021 – 2025
| RANK* | UNIVERSITY |
| 3 | Durham University |
| 4 | University of Oxford |
| 6 | Imperial College London |
| 7 | University of Bath |
| 8 | University of Warwick |
| 9 | University College London |
| 10 | University of Bristol |
| 12 | Loughborough University |
| 13 | University of Sheffield |
| 15 | Lancaster University |
| 17 | University of Southampton |
| 18 | University of Liverpool |
| 19 | King’s College London |
| 20 | University of York |
| 22 | University of Glasgow |
| 25 | University of Edinburgh |
| 26 | University of Leeds |
| 27 | University of Manchester |
| 28 | Cardiff University |
| 30 | University of Nottingham |
| 34 | Newcastle University |
| 35 | Queen Mary University of London |
11 students have successfully progressed to medicine over the last three years:
University of Nottingham
University of Lancashire – 4 students
University of East Anglia
Royal College of Surgeons Ireland – Bahrain Campus
Edge Hill University
Aston University – 2 students
St Georges University, Grenada
Read more about our students’ success stories by clicking here.
