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The built environment encompasses lots of courses and professions, so outline your reasons for wanting to study the particular building and construction course you’re applying for, and what fascinates you about buildings and how they’re made.

How future proof is your portfolio? We'll help you take stock of your offering so you can make informed decisions about your course strategies.

Here are some tips and advice to help you decide what subject, course type, and course provider is right for you.

UCAS' Collection Tool is your portal to manage and promote your courses to your market all in one place. You can also manage applications by setting vacancy statuses and eligibility criteria.

Your chance to explore creative courses, apprenticeships, and careers – all in one place. Book your place today.

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.

Don’t rob yourself of the opportunity to argue your case for why you deserve a place on a competitive criminology course.

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.

If you have children or an adult dependent, and you want to study a full-time undergraduate course or an Initial Teacher Training (ITT) programme, you may be able to get extra help.

Our best advice: start your research early. Alongside your research into courses and universities, you may also need to take your individual support needs into account when making your choices.

Higher education courses can be studied in flexible ways. There are different study types, work combinations, and part-time options.

This summer, we surveyed thousands of 2025 entry applicants who were placed on a course – to find out how they made decisions, their experience of the cycle, and their outlook for the future.

Make sure you tailor your personal statement to the course you’re applying to and keep it personal, relevant, and reflective.

Each course, and most universities and colleges, have different requirements – usually a mix of qualifications, subjects, or exam grades. Learn more about them here.

Each course, and most universities and colleges, have different requirements – usually a mix of qualifications, subjects, or exam grades. Learn more about them here.

Whether it was something from fact or fiction, tell admissions tutors what’s piqued your interest in forensic science, and why this is the course for you.

Find additional financial support for travel, meals and accommodation costs, course equipment, and childcare from one of these schemes.

If you decide a conservatoire is right for you, there's still a lot of variety in course types, locations, previous qualifications required, and application deadlines, so make sure you do your research.

If you’re going through Clearing after getting your exam results, it’s really important to let your student finance provider know if your course, university, or college have changed, as it could affect how much student finance you can get.

Our course pages now display both the advertised and actual grades of accepted students to help students understand more about the grades universities and colleges have accepted previously. The entry grades data uses up to five years of historical data (2019– 2023 application cycles).