Add an Excellence Pathway to your timetable.

These are subject-based or career-specific courses designed for students who want to aim high and actively shape their educational and professional paths.

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Designed to excite your curiosity, deepen your thinking and broaden your knowledge, our Excellence Pathways are designed for students wishing to pursue competitive university applications and help them prepare for the related external assessments that they involve, such as the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT), Test of Mathematics for University Admissions (TMUA) or Engineering and Science Admissions Test (ESAT).

Excellence Pathways include:

  • Creative Industries Pathway
  • Critical Thinking Pathway
  • Law Pathway
  • Medics, Vets and Dentists Pathway
  • Natural Sciences Challenge
  • Physics and Engineering Extension
  • Roll of Sporting Excellence
  • STEP Maths
  • Oxbridge Programme
Is an Excellence Pathway right for me?

Thinking about what drives you to achieve, can help you decide. Ask yourself these 5 questions and then you can speak with your tutor once you start at Esher:

  1. Are you curious about the world around you?
  2. Do want to think for yourself and push yourself further?
  3. Are you willing to engage with activities that will broaden your knowledge and understanding?
  4. Do you see challenges as opportunities?
  5. Do you want to go to a Russell Group or Oxbridge university?
Ben Juredini

“I’m thrilled with my results. Not only do I have my teachers to thank for my grades, but also for motivating me to apply to Oxford in the first place.”
Ben, studying English at Oxford University.

Rose Student Rowing

“The ROSE workshops supported my training as I was able to get advice about universities, principles of training, diet and nutrition, injury prevention and recovery. This really helped supplement my training.”
Evelyna, international rower for Team GB