Contextualised admissions – how it works in practice
Helping form a more complete picture of an applicant’s individual characteristics.
Information and advice pages
Contextualised admissions – how it works in practice
Helping form a more complete picture of an applicant’s individual characteristics.
Course Feasibility
Your quick and easy data insight tool for launching successful courses. Get fast answers, make informed decisions - and launch new courses with confidence
Course Review
Develop and enhance your understanding of your portfolio and find out the feasibility of your existing courses with unrivalled data and powerful insight.
Courses Data Service
Comprehensive course listings for undergraduate and postgraduate course providers, to complement your student offering.
Creating my new account with UCAS
If you have registered a UCAS account but do not yet have any permissions to access UCAS services or are having difficulty with your account, you can contact our customer services team who will be able to help.
Criminal convictions – what you need to know
Higher education is an option considered by many people with previous criminal convictions. Depending on the course you want to study, you may have to disclose your criminal record.
Criminal convictions good practice for HE providers
Check out our good practice resources, to support you with changes to the criminal conviction question in the application.
CV Builder
Create and share your professional CV instantly with UCAS CV Builder—AI-ready and easy to update!
Data protection guidance for advisers
During the application process, you will be processing the personal data of your students. You are responsible for the correct handling of this data as set out in the Data Protection Act (2018).
Data solutions
Explore how UCAS’ data-driven insights can help solve the higher education challenges your organisation is facing.
Dates and deadlines for uni applications
Some courses have different deadlines, and many are a long time in advance of the start of the course. Find out which deadline applies to you, and what you need to do by that deadline.
Decisions and replies
Find out what the different decisions from training providers in your application mean, and how to reply to them.
Decisions on your UCAS Conservatoires application
Find out more about the different decisions conservatoires can make and what they mean.
Declining your firm place
If you no longer want to go to your firm choice, you can use the ‘Decline your place’ button in your application.
Degree apprenticeships packages
Promote your degree apprenticeship opportunities to candidates with our apprenticeship package designed to boost the capacity and equality of opportunity within degree apprenticeship provision.
Degree courses where work experience is essential
Work experience is an important feature of any strong university application. For certain degree courses, though, it's an essential entry requirement.