Data solutions
Explore how UCAS’ data-driven insights can help solve the higher education challenges your organisation is facing.
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Data solutions
Explore how UCAS’ data-driven insights can help solve the higher education challenges your organisation is facing.
Developing your skills as an adviser
Whether you are a careers adviser, or a teacher supporting students, you'll need to continually reflect on your careers practice to keep improving the value of what you do. We can help with some of this...
Displaced students
If you're applying to higher education as a refugee, asylum seeker or with an insecure immigration status, there may be support available to help you. This page has been created in collaboration with Refugee Education UK, STAR Network and We Belong.
Early careers multichannel campaigns
Reach the right candidates and their influencers on the right channels. 1.5 million students come to UCAS each year to explore their next steps – we're ahead of Google when it comes to students seeking information about higher education.
Email campaigns
Get your message into inboxes, reliably and consistently, via trusted UCAS email campaigns.
EXACT
Access the richest and most up-to-date admissions data so you can strengthen your strategic planning and better understand your market - and your competition.
Film studies 2026 personal statement guide
Direct your personal statement to success with a mixture of passion, knowledge, and know-how.
Financial support for refugees and asylum seekers and those with limited leave to remain
If you're applying to higher education and you're a refugee, asylum seeker or have limited leave to remain in the UK, there may be support available to help you with finance and your studies.
Find career ideas
Find career ideas by exploring different jobs, taking our career quiz, or looking at volunteering, apprenticeships, or starting your own business.
Finding Their Place: Higher education edition
Going to university or college is a major milestone for students and their families, marking a time of change, excitement, and new independence. We’ve gathered both qualitative and quantitative insights to understand what they really need from their institutions during this pivotal time.
Finding your passion
Here’s the secret: finding your passion isn’t about looking — it’s about doing and discovering. Let’s think about what passion is and how to find it.
Funding
Find additional financial support for travel, meals and accommodation costs, course equipment, and childcare from one of these schemes.
Gap years
Gap years can be used to enhance your CV, travel, learn new skills, and much more. Find out more and get some inspiration here.
Get results day ready this summer
Results day can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. Here's everything you need to prepare for results day and Clearing.
Graduates: ten must-dos for work experience
Securing an excellent work experience opportunity alone isn't enough; demonstrating to employers how you squeezed the most from it, counts too. Sheffield Hallam University’s employability adviser Jill Valentine explains how.
HE provider good practice briefing for refugees, asylum seekers, and students with limited leave to remain
This briefing is for staff working in universities and colleges, supporting the introduction of the new UCAS flag to identify applicants who are refugees, asylum seekers, and those with limited leave to remain in the UK. We have worked with STAR Network, Refugee Education UK and We Belong to outline the common challenges for these students, share good practice around the UK to improve access to and success in higher education, and provide considerations ahead of the new question.
Health and Safety at a UCAS exhibition
We've gathered information to help you make your event experience safe. Below are some useful documents to help you plan ahead.
How can I decide what subjects to study?
Are you stuck choosing which subjects are right for you and your next steps? Don't panic – here's our guide to help.