Admissions data

This data has been produced for the Admissions cycles 2020-2026 to help you understand the competition for places on the medical degree programme, and your likelihood of being called for interview, being made an offer or becoming a student.

Medical students in hospital setting

UCAT Data - 2026 entry

Interview cut-off score Average score of applicants Average score of applicants interviewed Average score of offer holders
Medicine and Surgery - A100 UK (non-contextual) 1920* N/A 2077 2082
Medicine and Surgery - A100 UK (contextual) 1870* N/A 2020 2041
Medicine and Surgery - A100 Overseas 1900 1872 2022 2045
Medicine and Surgery with a Gateway Year (A104) 1870 1833 1967 1943

*A small number of candidates scoring up to 10 points below the thresholds were placed in a borderline pool and invited to interview, as places became available, in order of prior academic performance.

N/A - Not applicable. Contextual information is not collected at this stage in the admissions cycle.

Candidates who complete the Lancaster Access Programme receive a guaranteed interview and are excluded from the interview cut‑off.

UCAT Data - 2025 entry

Interview cut-off score Average score of applicants Average score of applicants interviewed Average score of offer holders
Medicine and Surgery - A100 UK (non-contextual) 2580 N/A* 2781 2777
Medicine and Surgery - A100 UK (contextual) 2470 N/A* 2679 2704
Medicine and Surgery - A100 Overseas 2440 2426 2623 2641
Medicine and Surgery with a Gateway Year (A104) 2430 2387 2563 2552

*Not applicable. Contextual information is not collected at this stage in the admissions cycle.

Medicine and Surgery (A100)- UK

Year of entry 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Number of applications 894 1009 1004 926 959
Interview places available 418 353 587 581 669
Number of offers made 174 174 261 325 451
Placed from reserve list 9 36 9 20 14
Number of students enrolled 125 125 126 131 132

Medicine and Surgery (A100)- International

Year of entry 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Number of applications 331 261 264 60 77
Interview places available 35 28 19 18 25
Number of offers made 8 6 6 9 11
Placed from reserve list 0 0 0 0 0
Number of students enrolled 3 3 3 3 3

An applicant's fee status is not confirmed until the point of interview, and so this likely shows an over-representation of International applicants.

Medicine and Surgery with a Gateway Year (A104)

Year of entry 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Number of applications 208 182 106 168 199
Number of eligible applications 109 88 53 153 158
Interview places available 47 42 34 46 59
Number of offers made 21 18 23 31 36
Placed from reserve list 7 9 9 0 1
Number of students enrolled 15 14 14 15 16

Eligible applicants refers to UK applicants who are school leavers, i.e. had not taken any resits or begun degree study elsewhere.

Applicants placed from the reserve list includes a number of applicants to A100 who were made alternative offers on results day based on their achieved grades.