Season status
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
UCAS 2027 applications are open; completed applications can be submitted from 1 September 2026.
🧭 Application route
UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) is the shared online application service used by most full-time undergraduate courses in the United Kingdom. You submit one UCAS application with up to five course choices.
🎓 Academic entry basis
The course page lists accepted qualifications, required subjects, and any contextual or additional selection criteria.
📝 Tests and language
Admissions tests, interviews, portfolios, and English-language evidence are course-specific and appear in the provider’s requirements.
📊 How cutoffs work
The UCAS course entry profile is the operative source; tariff points do not replace a provider’s subject and grade requirements.
📅 Dates and timing
For 2027 entry, submit by 18:00 UK time on 15 October 2026 for Oxford, Cambridge, and most medicine, dentistry, or veterinary courses. For most other undergraduate courses, submit by 18:00 UK time on 13 January 2027. Applications received by 30 June are still sent to universities, but places may be limited. Applications submitted after that move into Clearing from 2 July.
- UCAS
- The United Kingdom’s central undergraduate application service. It sends your application to the universities and courses you choose.
- Equal consideration
- An on-time application must be considered on the same basis as other applications received by that deadline. It does not guarantee an offer.
- Late application
- Universities may still consider the application if places remain, but you should check availability before relying on a late route.
- Clearing
- A later matching process for applicants who do not yet hold a place and courses that still have vacancies.
- 01
Search UCAS for courses beginning in 2027.
- 02
Open each course page and check accepted qualifications, required subjects, and the university’s own website.
- 03
Submit the complete application—including the academic reference—before the deadline shown for that course.
🏛️ Official admissions sites
Each link opens the authority, application service, or institution that publishes this result.
Source set reviewed: 2026-08-24