Going places! University offers flood in from the world’s top universities for sixth-formers

Year 13 students at QE have already received some 200 offers from universities in the top 10 of the QS world rankings – with the results of many applications still to come.

2026 is shaping up to be a vintage year for future study in the States. Danyal Talha has been offered a place at Harvard (which is in the QS world top 10). Pratham Bhavsar (pictured top left) has no fewer than four American university offers.

And Year 12’s Ameen Elamin will be following in the footsteps of many famous Fulbright scholars after winning a place on the Sutton Trust’s US programme.

Ameen is not the only such success: this year’s 44 Oxford and Cambridge offers for QE pupils include three pupils securing valuable and prestigious scholarships.

Assistant Head (Destinations and Progress) James Kane said: “We’re proud to be able to celebrate these early offers. The determination of our sixth-formers, alongside the support of our dedicated staff, has led to outstanding success in highly competitive courses and prestigious scholarships across the UK and USA.

“I offer huge congratulations to our students and their families, along with my best wishes for the rapidly approaching A-level exams.”

This year’s offers to date include:

• 62 from Imperial College London, which is second in the QS world university rankings. The offers are for courses including Medicine, Computing, Maths, Physics, and Engineering;
• 15 offers from Oxford (fourth place in QS rankings) and 29 from Cambridge (ranked sixth);
• Pratham’s four US offers – from Penn State, Rutgers, Syracuse & Fordham universities;
• An unconditional offer for Fine Art at the highly regarded Kingston University School of Art for Ryuki Watanabe (pictured top right).

The three pupils with Oxbridge offers securing scholarships include Adithya Raghuraman (pictured top centre) – selected as an Ellison Scholar. Launched only in 2023, the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) programme funds the studies of Oxford undergraduates and provides them with the opportunity to work as interns on cutting-edge EIT research and innovation projects that aim for positive global impact.

Adithya has an offer to take Oxford’s Mathematics/Mathematics and Statistics course at Christ Church. He is one of just 20 students across 14 Oxford colleges from 15 countries to receive full university funding.

The other two are choral scholarships, which go to two stars of QE’s Music department, pictured here.

One is for Leo Sellis, who has an offer to study Music at Jesus College, Cambridge; the other is for Adam Liang, whose offer is to read Economics at Gonville & Caius, also at Cambridge.