With a mix of large flagship events and locally focused exhibitions across the UK, you can target your perfect audience in the locations most important to you.

Booking details for 2024 UCAS Discovery events

The booking window for autumn UCAS Discovery events will open mid-May. Please keep an eye out for updates. 

Booking can be made via the eNet, please keep an eye out for further updates. 

Please ensure primary bookers use their individual work email addresses rather than shared mailbox email addresses.

Further information on UCAS Discovery 2025 events bookings will be released in summer 2024.

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Exhibitor Feedback
"I wanted to thank you and the events team on the day. We felt the event was really well run, the support staff on the day were very helpful and our staff all enjoyed the exhibition"

Dates

The dates for 2024 UCAS events can be found below. 

Dates for 2025 UCAS events will be released later in the year, keep an eye our for updates.

Events Calendar 2024

From flagship events to smaller, locally focused exhibitions, we visit more than 40 towns and cities across the UK, offering hundreds of universities, employers, and commercial brands the opportunity to connect face-to-face with thousands of enthusiastic students, parents, and teachers actively seeking future options.

Exhibit across the UK

We visit more than 40 towns and cities across the UK, over 9 months, providing an incredible opportunity for you to reach tens of thousands of young people. We host three types of event: Premium, Shell and Campus.

Premium Events: Our flagship exhibitions, held in Birmingham, London and Manchester, attracting over 12,000 students per event.

Shell events: Our regional exhibitions, hosted in key towns and cities across the UK, attracting between 2,000 and 7,000 student attendees per event.

Campus events: Our smaller venue and campus-based events, held at college and university locations, attracting up to 7,000 student attendees per event.
 

2023 Statistics
"95% of student attendees found a university, college or employer they'd like to apply to."

Our UCAS Discovery events in numbers

Take a look at what our 2023 event season looked like.
Over 155k attendees
at our last full round of UCAS 2023 Discovery events with an 11% increase in flagship event attendance.
Over 10,000 advisers
visited UCAS Discovery events generating a 12% increase in adviser rating.
Over 40 events
took place across various regions throughout the UK enabling all students to reach a UCAS Discovery event within 60 minutes.
Over 4,050 schools
attended our UCAS Discovery events with their students.
Over 260 Universites and Colleges
exhibited at our 2023/24 UCAS Discovery events showcasing their course portfolio.
Over 30 Employers and Industry Organisations
exhibited at our 2023/24 UCAS Discovery events promoting their apprenticeships, career options, brands and products.

The power of UCAS Events

Young people crave the chance to communicate face-to-face. UCAS events allow you to do just that. Our Discovery days bring together HE providers, employers and industry/commercial brands and organisations to provide students with a wealth of knowledge and opportunities to assist with their future decision-making. Students can find out about traditional degrees, apprenticeships, careers, and much more. 

Start new conversations, answer their burning questions and generate more leads.

Our UCAS Discovery events enable students to:
  • Chat to universities and colleges about course and university life
  • Talk to experts about student finance and gap years.
  • Speak to employers and apprenticeship providers about the options available.
  • Speak to qualified careers advisers about their future.
  • Engage with commercial brands and learn more about their products and services.
  • Listen to talks from experts in their field.

Reaching students at the right time

UCAS Discovery Days are popular destinations for schools preparing students in the early research phase of their post-school planning, the decisions they make today as those that will ultimately effect their future journey.

 

Marketing and Sponsorship Opportunities

Our team of experts have designed an exciting array of marketing and sponsorship opportunities that can help you reach the right audience, at the right time - before, during and after an event. Interacting with students in a way they’ll remember is crucial to help you stand out from the crowd. We offer an array of marketing opportunities before, during and after each event that can maximise your recruitment plans. 

Find out more

 

Student feedback 2023
" I walked into the UCAS exhibition with zero idea on where to go, or what subjects were suited to me and I walked out feeling very positive with loads of different options"  

Pricing

With more marketing opportunities than ever before, we have created separate rate cards that are easily accessible and clear to understand. Our rate cards are categorised based on the type of provider you are, and contain all the pricing information you need, from stand costs to post-event communications prices. For our latest exhibition stand and marketing opportunity costs, please get in touch with your Account Manager or email the team at eventssales@ucas.ac.uk