The 17 toughest business schools to get into in the UK

Business and management degrees are some of the most competitive in the UK, with thousands of students every year trying to get places on a degree course that they hope will eventually lead to a lucrative career in finance or business.

But where in the UK is it most difficult to get onto a business and management degree course?

Using the Complete University Guide's annual ranking of the UK's 127 universities we took a look at the universities where getting onto a business and management course is the trickiest.

The report is one of the most comprehensive of its kind and orders institutions based on a number of metrics, including student satisfaction, quality of research, graduate prospects, and entry standards, as well as ranking all of these metrics by subject.

The ranking of entry standards takes into account the average UCAS tariff score of new students entering the system and offers an accurate picture of how difficult it is to get into each subject at every university.

The guide's website explains: "Each student's examination results were converted to a numerical score (A level A=120, B=100 ... E=40, etc; Scottish Highers A=72, B=60, etc) and added up to give a score total. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) then calculated an average for all students at the university. The results were then adjusted to take account of the subject mix at the university."

Britain's two top universities, Oxford and Cambridge, miss out on the list, as neither offers a straight business degree for undergraduates. See which faculties do make the cut below.