applications process to the University A quick guide


If you’re thinking about making an application to study a first degree, teacher training, music studies, post-graduate study or other higher education course in the UK, here is a short guide to help you through the process. If you’re applying for a higher education course, there is a very good chance that you will need to make an application via UCAS, the universities’ central admissions system.


UCAS is the centralised service which handles applications for 391 universities and colleges across the UK. They help around a million students into university places every year. It is an independent charity who aim to provide information, advice, and admissions services. They are not government funded so do make a charge for applications. For 2021 entry, the application fee is £20 for a single choice, or £26 for more than one choice.


So, how does it work?


Applications are now made online and you can make one application per academic year.


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However, you can apply for up to five courses in an academic year (either five different courses at the same university or to five different courses at five different universities). You can apply for all at the same time or start with one or two and add more later. The universities or colleges won’t see what order you’ve applied to them.


You can apply the following year if you don’t accept a place in the first year you applied, you just submit a new application. It’s sometimes possible to apply in one year and defer a place to the following year, if you decide to take a year out, for example, but this needs to be agreed directly with the university.


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