Outreach

St Catharine’s is committed to encouraging applications from students with academic potential of all backgrounds. In the 2023 admissions cycle, 80.4% of our UK undergraduates came from state school students (the University of Cambridge's target is to reach 69.1% by 2024–25).

Our Schools Liaison and Outreach Officer provides schools, individuals and outreach partners with guidance on the Oxbridge admissions process. In particular, we work with schools with little experience of applications to Oxbridge - or to Higher Education – to raise aspirations and help students reach their full academic potential. We remain dedicated to ensuring that no student is discouraged from applying to highly selective universities due to socio-economic factors or financial concerns.

Under the University of Cambridge’s Area Link Scheme, St Catharine’s has particular responsibility for schools outreach in the following regions:

North Yorkshire

Suffolk

Rutland

Selected Cambridgeshire schools are linked with St Catharine's under the Connect to Cambridge Scheme.

For events which allow individual student bookings, eligibility criteria will be clearly stated in the event description. You can read more about the University of Cambridge's Area Links Scheme and find your school's link College here. If you are a teacher/adviser at a state school in one of our College's link areas and would like to join our mailing list, please contact slo@caths.cam.ac.uk.