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Be prepared at every stage of the application process
This section of the website gives you an insight into the application process.
Our role is to process applications for full-time undergraduate degrees, HNDs, university diplomas and graduate courses in medicine and social work. We ensure that each university and college can access your son's or daughter's record, inform your son or daughter when a decision is made, match any results that we receive from examination boards to their application and send the results on to the relevant universities and colleges. View the list of examination results that we receive.
Main deadline
dates
Deadlines for different types of
application.
Completing an
application
Making choices and writing the
personal statement.
What happens
next?
Information about offers.
Art and
design
Application process for some art and design
courses.
Decisions
Types of offer and procedures for accepting places.
Extra
Extra allows applicants to make additional choices if no offers are
received.
Clearing
Matching vacancies and applicants without places.
Checklist
Five tasks to ensure the application runs smoothly.
Admissions
tests
Some universities and
colleges require applicants to pass an admissions
test as well as standard qualifications if they are applying for
courses in certain subjects. Click on the admissions test link above to
view a list of the admissions tests and their deadline
dates.