So, according to the Graun, 682,514 students applied for university places this year. If we assume that most of them applied to multiple universities (which I think is a fair assumption, but let me know if I’m way off the mark), that makes 600,000X£21=£14,332,794 pounds going to UCAS, or thereabouts. This seems like an awful lot of money – though they do process a lot of applications, and I would imagine overheads are quite high since they’ve got to print pamphlets and (ahem) keep websites going…
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