Competition ratios per post for each specialty

Data showing the number/percentages of applicants, per post, for each of the specialties for recruitment to the Scientist Training Programme in 2023.

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Specialty Number of applications Number of direct entry posts Competition ratio
Andrology 21 5 10.5
Audiology 78 29 3.9
Cancer Genomics 362 25 20.1
Cardiac Science 567 67 14.1
Clinical Biochemistry 545 27 25.9
Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics 194 19 16.1
Clinical Engineering 140 21 9.3
Clinical Immunology 228 6 32.5
Clinical Informatics 21 2 7.0
Clinical Microbiology 567 15 51.5
Clinical Scientific Computing 56 14 5.0
Critical Care Science 47 6 6.7
Embryology 413 29 29.5
Gastrointestinal Physiology 14 4 4.6
Genomic Counselling 387 22 25.8
Genomics 413 30 17.2
Haematology and Transfusion Science 172 11 21.5
Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics 48 5 9.6
Histopathology 127 9 14.1
Imaging with non-ionising radiation 25 7 5.0
Medical Physics – non defined 288 41 7.0
Neurophysiology 232 14 38.6
Nuclear Medicine 44 16 4.0
Ophthalmic and Vision Sciences 21 4 7.0
Pharmaceutical Sciences 164 22 10.9
Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology 42 19 3.2
Radiotherapy Physics 117 35 4.0
Reconstructive Science 26 6 2.8
Respiratory and Sleep Sciences 66 24 6.0
Vascular Science 55 12 4.5
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Access to earlier data

Data prior to 2021 can be found in the publications section by using the ‘content type’ filter and selecting ‘data’.