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This guidance is for any advisers (school counsellors, agents, IECS etc.), and other centres based outside the UK, who advise potential undergraduate applicants to higher education (HE) courses in the UK.

Students who have spent time in care are entitled to support to help them access higher education. Here are some practical ways you can support care experienced students research their options and prepare for their next steps.

Over the past four years, UCAS has released these high-impact reports that shone a light on pertinent issues in education and skills.

If you are in care, or have experience of being in care in the past, there's lots of support available in higher education to help you with finance, accommodation, and settling in.

If you're applying for university or college to start your studies in the 2027 cycle, or are applying in the 2026 cycle after 30 June, find out more about uploading documents to your application.

Heather Cousins, Deputy Secretary, Skills and Education Group in the Department for the Economy examines what increased competition means for student progression in Northern Ireland.

UCAS projects that by the end of the decade, we could see up to a million students apply for higher education (HE) across the full range of Level 4 and above opportunities. In collaboration with Unite Students and Knight Frank, we examine those projections in more detail below.

These statistical releases describe applicants and applications from the 2016 UCAS cycle at the 30 June deadline.

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group at 133 larger universities.

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

An overview for those supporting eligible applicants applying to undergraduate courses.

You make your application online. Here’s a step-by-step guide to applying to a conservatoire.