Planned maintenance: 15 – 17 June
Due to planned maintenance, the services below will be unavailable from 18:00 on Friday 15 June until
News articles
Planned maintenance: 15 – 17 June
Due to planned maintenance, the services below will be unavailable from 18:00 on Friday 15 June until
Guidance on managing application statuses for courses
When setting the application status of courses to ‘Closed’, please make sure you also amend the vacancies
Registration with the Office for Students
English providers are currently registering with the new regulator for English HE, the Office for Students
UCAS launches new postgraduate service
Students looking to study for a postgraduate degree will now find it’s much easier to search for courses
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The GDPR came into force on 25 May 2018. As part of our preparations for GDPR, we produced a series of
UCAS publishes report analysing its verification service
The service is run on behalf of students, universities, and colleges to help prevent anyone gaining an
Criminal conviction question removed from higher education applications
From May 2018, applicants for courses starting in 2019 onwards will no longer be required to declare
Reminder: Planned maintenance: 17 – 20 May
We’re carrying out planned maintenance from Thursday 17 May until Sunday 20 May.
Updated Tariff resources
The Tariff tables, qualifications spreadsheet, calculator, and API have all been updated on ucas.com,
Planned maintenance: 17 – 20 May
We’re carrying out planned maintenance from Thursday 17 May until Sunday 20 May.
Decline by default (DBD) – 3 May
The DBD ran successfully on 3 May, for applicants who received all their decisions by 31 March.
Reminder: Resources to support you with changes to the criminal convictions question in Apply
We'd like to work with the sector to produce good practice resources around the disclosure of criminal
Reminder: Change to published DBD date
The date of the first decline by default (DBD) for the 2018 cycle changed, and we ran it on Thursday
Winter results processing
We’ve processed the winter results from AQA, Pearson and OCR, and an update of winter results from CAIE
Resources to support you with changes to the criminal convictions question in Apply
Best practice guidelines