Overview

UCAS (Universities & Colleges Admissions Service is a charitable organisation responsible for managing applications to almost all full-time undergraduate degree programmes at UK universities and colleges. UCAS was formed in 1993 by the merger of UCCA (Universities Central Council on Admissions), PCAS (Polytechnics Central Admissions Service) and SCUE (Standing Conference on University Entrance). As nearly all British higher education institutions are members of UCAS, all those wishing to study for undergraduate degrees in the UK must apply through UCAS. Applicants submit a single application via UCAS's website with a list of up to five courses for which they are applying. Choices are not listed in preference order. All five choices are confidential during the application process so universities and colleges considering an application cannot see any of the candidate's other choices. Applications must be completed by the middle of the January of the year that the student wishes to start university. Those applying for medicine, dentistry and veterinary science courses can only make up to four choices.

 

Applications to the highly selective universities of Oxford and Cambridge have an earlier deadline of October the year before the student wishes to start university. This also applies to Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Science applicants for all British universities. An additional restriction on applications to Oxbridge is that it is not possible to apply simultaneously to both Cambridge and Oxford.

 

For 2011 applications, the cost is £11 to apply to one course or £21 per student to apply to two or more courses. This is normally paid by the student. Students, whose applications are submitted by the January deadline, would usually expect to receive either offers or rejections from all five choices by mid-May, although UCAS advises universities and colleges to send their decisions by the end of March. If candidates applied to five choices and find themselves without any offers or have declined all of their offers, they may apply for an additional course that still has sufficient places through the process of UCAS Extra. Extra runs from mid-February until the end of June. Otherwise, they would go through the UCAS Clearing process.

 

The personal statement is a very important part of the application. It gives candidates a chance to write freely about themselves and their interest in the subject, as opposed to the rest of the application which consists mainly of 'objective' information. The statement can form the basis of an interview discussion. A personal statement can be up to 4,000 characters.

 

UCAS operates two Postgraduate application services: the first is UKPASS (UK Postgraduate Application and Statistical Service) which was introduced in 2007 and has a number of universities and colleges lining to join up to the service. The second is the GTTR (Graduate Teacher Training Registry) for PGCE and PGDE courses (which provide initial teacher training for graduates).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location & Facilities

UCAS is based near Marle Hill in Cheltenham at the junction of the B4075 (New Barn Lane) and the A435 (Evesham Road), near Cheltenham Racecourse and a Park and ride. It is situated just inside the parish of Prestbury, Gloucestershire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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