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There's one university that outshines the rest when it comes to producing Prime Ministers.
Every Prime Minister whose won an election since 1937 if they went to University - It was Oxford.
2009
2015
In 2009 Oxford hit a diversity low when just 1.5% of those admitted to the University came from a Black or Black Mixed Race background
In 2015 Oxford reached an admissions high accepting 2.5% of those accepted were from a Black or Black Mixed Race background
However, that is still painfully below the 4% representation mark.
As recently as 2012, Oxford and Cambridge universities were found to be disproportionately selecting their students from just three prestigious private schools and two elite sixth form colleges. Eaton, Westminster, St Paul's, Peter Symonds College and Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge were getting as many pupils into Oxford and Cambridge as 1,800 state schools and colleges in England combined.
These top schools are some of the most expensive in the country and are clearly fast tracks into Oxbridge.
Another troubling statistic is when black and minority ethnic pupils apply to Oxford and top universities; they are less likely to get in than their white counterparts even when they have the same grades.
Dr Vicki Boliver from Durham University carried out the research into Oxford and other top universities admissions data, she believes it reveals an inherent bias within the university's admissions process.
a huge outreach by the uni to improve its ethnic quotas, there admissions are still incredibly low. We'd expect to see about 4% of their students being black or black mixed race if it was to be representative of the broader population.
Hover the years to find out what the figure was in 2009 and 2015!
Oxford university publishes its admissions data and breaks it down by ethnicity. Despite