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 2025.

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Specialty Number of applications Number of direct entry posts Competition ratio
Andrology 26 3 8.6
Audiology 129 19 6.7
Cancer Genomics 656 10 65.6
Cardiac Science 714 40 17.8
Clinical Biochemistry 869 21 41.3
Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics 350 5 70
Clinical Engineering 239 13 18.3
Clinical Immunology 289 5 57.8
Clinical Informatics 68 3 22.6
Clinical Microbiology 728 5 145.6
Clinical Scientific Computing 92 9 10.2
Critical Care Science 28 3 9.3
Embryology 495 9 55
Gastrointestinal Physiology 48 4 12
Genomic Counselling 535 13 41.1
Genomics 584 13 44.9
Haematology and Transfusion Science 121 2 60.5
Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics 49 3 16.3
Histopathology 146 3 48.6
Imaging with non-ionising radiation 44 7 6.2
Medical Physics – non defined 386 29 13.3
Neurophysiology 386 9 42.8
Nuclear Medicine 84 10 8.4
Ophthalmic and Vision Sciences 18 2 9
Pharmaceutical Sciences 344 17 20.2
Radiation Safety and Diagnostic Radiology 68 11 6.1
Radiotherapy Physics 135 21 6.4
Reconstructive Science 20 4 5
Respiratory and Sleep Sciences 131 14 9.3
Vascular Science 91 13 7
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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’.