University Destinations

Millfield has a strong track record in supporting students in their decision-making on which university or college is best for them. Our Futures Department is resourced to provide guidance to meet individual aspirations, whatever a student’s ambitions, whether it is Oxbridge, Russell Group, specialist colleges, American or other colleges and international universities. 

In 2024, 84% of leavers went into higher education, with 71% attending UK universities, 12% attending US universities and 3% attending other overseas universities. 13% either took gap years before applying to university or went straight into employment, professional sport or the armed forces.

The Russell Group is made up of 24 research-intensive and highly academic universities in the UK, and the Top 30 includes a further 6 other well regarded institutions. Last year 104 of our leavers won places to those universities. 36 leavers earned places at top US universities on sporting or academic scholarships. 

In the UK, popular destinations included Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Cardiff Met, Exeter, Loughborough, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oxford Brookes and Reading. In the US, students attended universities such as University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell, Duke, UPenn, Princeton and Stanford.

Millfield supports students with SAT classes and is one of few SAT test centres in the UK which means that students do not need to leave the campus to take their SAT entry exam. We offer three SAT tests per year on campus in December, March and May.