Singaporean students from top schools are increasingly applying to Oxford and Cambridge universities, with Raffles Institution and Hwa Chong Institution leading the way.
More students in Singapore are heading for Oxford University and Cambridge University , Britain’s most prestigious universities, with those from top schools here leading the pack. Singapore ’s Raffles Institution (RI) and Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) were the only two schools outside of Britain that featured in a league table ranking schools with the highest number of offers from Oxford University and Cambridge University , widely known as Oxbridge .
RI placed second with 37 offers from Oxford and 49 offers from Cambridge, while HCI came in fifth with 29 offers from Oxford and 34 offers from Cambridge. Renowned British schools like Eton College and Westminster College made up the rest of the list of top 10 schools that was published by newspaper The Telegraph in 2023.Overall, Oxford recorded 1,682 applications from Singapore from 2020 to 2022, compared with 1,515 from 2018 to 2020. Cambridge received 573 applications from Singapore in 2022, compared with 459 in 201
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