Every CAO course, and what it took
Round one points for all 2,409 courses, from 2020 to 2025. Search by course, by CAO code or by college, and every row carries six years rather than one.
Every figure here was read from the CAO’s own published workbooks. Nothing is estimated and nothing is predicted. Open any course for its full history, or work out your own total with the points calculator.
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Reading a row properly
The number on the right is the last published figure. The line beside it is the six years behind it, drawn against that course’s own range rather than against 0 to 625, because on a shared scale almost every course is a flat line in the middle and the shape tells you nothing.
The line is the part worth looking at. A course that dropped twelve points last year after climbing for four is not a course that is getting easier, and the single year column that most points tables stop at cannot tell you that. Both are here: one year on the left of it, six years on the right.
A rising figure does not mean a course got harder in any academic sense. It means more people with higher totals put it further up their list. That is worth remembering before reading anything into a change of a few points, which is usually noise.
Questions people ask
- What were the CAO points for my course?
- Search the course name, its CAO code or the college in the box on this page. Each row shows the round one points for every year from 2020 to 2025, so you can see the figure and whether it has been moving up or down rather than only the most recent one.
- Are these the points I need to get in?
- No, and nothing here is a target. Points are set after the fact: a course takes the highest applicants until its places are gone, and the published figure is wherever it stopped. Next year's figure depends on who applies next year, which is why the six year line beside each course is worth more than any single number.
- Why do some courses show no points at all?
- Three reasons, and each row says which. Some were scored partly on a portfolio, audition or test, which sits on a different scale and cannot be compared with a points total. Some offered a place to every qualified applicant, so there was no cut-off. Some published nothing that year and may have stopped running.
- Do the points include the Maths bonus?
- The published figures are totals, and a total already includes the 25 bonus points for H6 or above in Higher Level Maths where the applicant earned them. What matters is that you count your own total the same way, which means adding the bonus to your Maths result before your best six subjects are chosen rather than after.
Looking for one year laid out in full instead? The archive has 2025, 2024 and every year before them, and each course has its own page with the full history and what it means.