Oxbridge Admissions: Names and Numbers

In the previous piece we explained how to read a list of admissions results: look for the sums, watch the geography, tell a loud name from the right university. Now — our own list. Read it by the same rules; we won't smooth anything over.

And the caveat any such text should open with: below are offers, that is, invitations to enrol. Each graduate will study at one university, and a strong graduate always holds several offers. Why the system works this way we've already discussed.

And one more thing, to keep the reading honest: everything below is for a single graduating class — 2026 (the 2025/26 admissions cycle). It is a snapshot of one season, not the school's cumulative record across the years.

The sums first

A scholarship is the one line impossible to inflate: it is a financial decision by an admissions committee with no reason to pay a school from Tashkent a compliment. In this cohort, scholarships went to seven of our graduates:

• Antonina Ten — University of California, Santa Cruz: $40,000 (plus £2,000 from the University of Leeds)
• Rafa Nareswari — University of Toronto: $60,000; Hong Kong Polytechnic University: full tuition
• Bobur Kayumov — Iowa State University: $48,000
• Milana Normukhamedova — University of Glasgow: £10,000 (plus 20% from Middlesex University Dubai)
• Farikha Khidoyatova — University of Birmingham Dubai: AED 269,844
• Doniyor Eshonkhujayev — University of Leeds: £6,000
• Elbek Alimov — American University of Technology (Arizona State University): 30% of tuition

Each of these figures says the same thing in different currencies: a university looked at a child from Tashkent and decided it was willing to pay for them.

The right university, not just the loud one

Overall rankings only work inside academic disciplines — beyond that, a profession begins. This cohort holds admissions that won't impress anyone scrolling QS from the top down, and those are the ones we're proudest of:

• Maryam Demyanova — Gobelins Paris, the number-one animation school in the world. For a future animator, a bigger win than Oxford.
• Bekhruz Rashidov — Les Roches, second in the world for hospitality management.
• Ikram Yusupov — aerospace engineering: University of Edinburgh, King's College London, Queen Mary University of London.
• Mayuri Kuzminova — industrial design at Eindhoven University of Technology, the engineering capital of the Netherlands.
• Regina Imamalieva — a Pre-Med track in the US, The College of New Jersey: the long road to medicine, begun the right way.

Such trajectories don't appear in the final year. Animation, aerospace, medicine — these are profiles grown over years, and each of them once began with a "who do you want to be" conversation, asked in good time.

Geography

Seventeen graduates — ten countries across three continents: the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, China, the UAE, Turkey. Behind each country is its own application algorithm: the Dutch system is nothing like the British; the American demands essays and a portfolio; the Hong Kong one lives by its own calendar. When the children of one school scatter this widely, it isn't luck — it means they were guided through several systems in parallel. And why the same school grades are read in Toronto, Hong Kong and Amsterdam alike — the first piece in this series.

The whole list — not just the showcase

We ourselves advised asking a school about the middle of the class, so we publish not a selection of the best but everyone we spoke about this season:

Graduate	Field	Offers
Regina Imamalieva	Pre-Med	The College of New Jersey (US)
Mayuri Elizaveta Kuzminov	Industrial Design	Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
Arina Sereda	—	KU Leuven, University of Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Laylo Nigmatova	Marketing & Business	University of Wollongong in Dubai, Heriot-Watt University, Özyeğin University, Middlesex University Dubai, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
David Kokora	Economics, Finance & Global Law	University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University, University of Nottingham, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Antonina Ten	—	UC Santa Cruz ($40,000), University of Leeds (£2,000), University of Nottingham, University of Exeter, University of Essex, Royal Holloway
Elbek Alimov	Business & Technology	American University of Technology / ASU (30%)
Ikram Yusupov	Aerospace Engineering	University of Edinburgh, King's College London, Queen Mary University of London
Bekhruz Rashidov	Hospitality	Les Roches (#2 QS Hospitality)
Nikita Podyalyuk	Business Management	Penn State, Arizona State, Rutgers, Pace University (US)
Farikha Khidoyatova	Business Management	University of Birmingham, Birmingham Dubai (AED 269,844), University of Nottingham, University of Exeter, Queen Mary, Heriot-Watt, University of York
Jonathon Yang	Business Administration	York University (Canada)
Rafa Rasikha Nareswari	—	University of Hong Kong, University of Toronto ($60,000), HK Polytechnic (100%), University of Alberta, CUHK, City University of Hong Kong, Erasmus Rotterdam
Maryam Demyanova	Animation & Digital Arts	Gobelins Paris (#1 in the world), UWE Bristol, University of Hertfordshire
Milana Normukhamedova	AI & Computer Science	University of Glasgow (£10,000), Birmingham, Leeds, Southampton, Durham, Twente, Wollongong, Heriot-Watt, Middlesex Dubai (20%)
Bobur Kayumov	Economics & Finance	University of Manchester, King's College London, Bristol, Iowa State ($48,000), Michigan State, Penn State, Purdue
Doniyor Eshonkhujayev	Finance	University of Exeter, University of Leeds (£6,000), Queen Mary, Liverpool, Essex

What stands behind the table

Every row had one thing in common: at the end of school, several acceptances lay on the child's desk, and they chose for themselves — the country, the profession, their own future life. None of them bent a dream to fit the shape of a certificate.

If you're reading this table through the eyes of a parent of a seven-year-old — come to us with those same five questions, including the one about the middle of the class. We'll have something to answer.