Leavers’ Destinations
Class of 2020 – Leavers’ Destinations
Destinations 2017-2021
Below are the number of CHS students who attended each destination from 2017 – 2021
| Destination | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Oxford | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Cambridge | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Durham | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4 |
| LSE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UCL | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| KCL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Imperial | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Leeds | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 11 |
| Newcastle | 7 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 8 |
| Sheffield | 9 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 |
| Nottingham | 0 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 3 |
| Liverpool | 0 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 8 |
| USA | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Percentage of subject groups taken at A-Level
For more information regarding the different subject grouping selected by our Sixth Form students, take a look below to see the percentage of SHAPE, STEM and Health subjects taken.
| Subject Grouping | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Total SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and The Arts For People and The Economy) Subjects | 63% | 57% | 58% | 65% | 63% |
| Total STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Subjects | 20% | 18% | 18% | 20% | 14% |
| Total Health Subjects | 4% | 10% | 8% | 5% | 8% |
University Courses
For further information about the subjects and courses read by Old Waconians at university, take a look at the Leavers’ Destinations guide below, based on destination information from the classes of 2017, 2018 and 2019.
| Course | Institutions |
|---|---|
| Accountancy and Finance | Cardiff, Newcastle |
| Acting, Japanese and Spanish | Coventry |
| Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering | Leeds |
| Agri-Business Management | Newcastle |
| Anatomy and Human Biology | Liverpool |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Bristol |
| Architecture | AA School of Architecture, Edinburgh, Glasgow School of Art, Newcastle, Nottingham, Westminster |
| Art Foundation | MMU, University of The Arts |
| Art History | St Andrew’s |
| Biochemistry | UCL |
| Bioengineering | Sheffield |
| Biology | Nottingham, Southampton, Bath |
| Biomedical Science | Brighton, De Montfort, Hull, St George’s |
| Business Management | LJMU, Manchester Metropolitan, Oxford Brookes, Sheffield, Aston |
| Chemical Engineering | Loughborough, Sheffield |
| Chemistry | Durham, Leeds, Bristol, Lancaster, Keele |
| Chinese and Linguistics | Leeds |
| Civil Engineering | Liverpool, Loughborough |
| Classics | Durham, UCL |
| Combined Social Sciences | Durham |
| Computing | Imperial College |
| Creative Writing | Sheffield Hallam |
| Criminology | Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield |
| Dentistry | Newcastle, Bristol, Cardiff |
| Design Engineering | Imperial College |
| Drama | Loughborough |
| Economics | Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, City University, De Montfort, Exeter, Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, UCL |
| Economics and Politics | Glasgow, Sheffield |
| Educational Psychology | MMU |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Southampton |
| Engineering | Cambridge, Liverpool, Warwick |
| English | Bristol, Exeter, Nottingham |
| English Language and Linguistics | Leeds, York, York St John’s |
| English Literature | Durham, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds |
| Environmental Science | Newcastle |
| Event Management | Leeds Beckett |
| Fashion Design | Sheffield Hallam |
| Film Production | Gloucester |
| Fine Arts | Leeds |
| Food and Nutrition | Sheffield Hallam |
| French and German | Oxford |
| French and Spanish | Oxford |
| Geography | Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Southampton |
| Geophysics | Bristol, Imperial College |
| German and Linguistics | Warwick |
| Graphic Design | York St John’s |
| History | Cambridge, King’s College London, Oxford, Sheffield, St Andrew’s, Swansea |
| History and Politics | Edinburgh, Liverpool, Nottingham, Sheffield |
| Interior Architecture & Design | Nottingham Trent |
| International Business and Management | Newcastle, Reading |
| International Relations and Politics | Oxford, Sheffield |
| Journalism | Sheffield Hallam |
| Law | Liverpool, LJMU, MMU, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sheffield Hallam |
| Law and Business | LJMU, Nottingham Trent, Warwick |
| Make-Up for Media and Performance | Arts University Bournemouth |
| Management | Leeds, LSE, Manchester, Nottingham |
| Marine Biology | Southampton |
| Marketing | Liverpool |
| Mathematics | Bristol, Leicester, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield |
| Mechanical Engineering | Bath, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, Sussex, Swansea |
| Medicine | Cambridge, Hull, Imperial College, Keele, Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, St Andrew’s |
| Modern and Medieval Languages | Cambridge |
| Molecular Genetics | King’s College London |
| Music and Sound Recording | York |
| Musical Theatre | Portsmouth |
| Neuroscience | Bristol, Manchester |
| Nursing | Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, York |
| Philosophy | Bristol, Newcastle, York |
| Philosophy, Politics and Economics | LSE, Nottingham |
| Physics | Leeds, Oxford, Sheffield |
| Physiotherapy | Nottingham |
| Politics | Durham, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Swansea, York |
| Politics and International Relations | Bath, Exeter, LSE, Manchester |
| Primary Education | Bangor |
| Prosthetics & Orthotics (Foundation) | Salford |
| Psychology | Bath, Keele, Lancaster, Liverpool, Newcastle, York |
| Real Estate | Reading |
| Rehabilitation and Exercise Science | Keele |
| Robotics | Sheffield |
| Sociology | Nottingham Trent |
| Software Development for Business | Durham |
| Space Science and Robotics | Aberystwyth |
| Spanish | Oxford |
| Sport and Exercise Sciences | Leeds Beckett, Loughborough |
| Urban Planning | Newcastle |
| Veterinary Medicine | Edinburgh, Cambridge, Liverpool |
| Zoology | Liverpool |