Lancaster Link
Our Lancaster Link Programme is the perfect way to give your students an opportunity to visit and study at a top UK institution
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Lancaster Link at a glance
- Guaranteed offers and interviews
- Guaranteed accommodation on campus
- Access to the Lancaster scholarship package
- Peer to peer mentoring
- Information, advice and guidance
- Links to academic departments
- Networking and teacher CPD
- Invites to the Heads and Principals Forum
- Use of our marketing toolkit
- Fully funded travel for group visits
Tab Content: Benefits to your students
Lancaster Link’s significant benefit is a guaranteed offer and/or interview for any of your students selecting us as one of their university choices.
In addition, and to encourage academic excellence, your high achieving students will gain access to the full Lancaster scholarship package.
Furthermore, Lancaster Link offers a package of support for your students from application to arrival, including mentoring with personal statements, talks on student life, higher education advice sessions and guaranteed accommodation on campus if Lancaster is their firm choice university
Tab Content: Benefits to your school
Becoming a progression partner adds real value.
We offer Lancaster Link schools and colleges the opportunity to connect with the heads of subjects in our academic departments to share discussions on curriculum innovation and advances in teaching.
Lancaster Link ensures membership of our Vice-Chancellor’s Heads and Principals Forum, which brings together senior leaders for networking and to share best practice on delivering transformative, educational excellence.
Lancaster Link also offers fully funded group visits to campus to add valuable enrichment to your curriculum.
To celebrate the progression partnership and help establish it with your parents, supporters and advisors, we provide all Lancaster Link schools and colleges with a marketing toolkit
Terms and Conditions
Lancaster Link offers an exclusive range of benefits for students and schools and colleges. These benefits are designed to support and enhance the link between the school/college and Lancaster University.
The benefits and operation of the Lancaster Link partnership are subject to continual review and changes as required each academic year.
The below provides an outline of the key benefits as advertised for the 2024/25 UCAS entry cycle (these are subject to change each year):
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Students, studying the equivalent of three A level qualifications, who apply for Lancaster University for 2025 undergraduate entry before the UCAS Equal Consideration deadline will be guaranteed to receive a conditional offer for their selected course, or a suitable alternative.
This offer is subject to students meeting any existing GCSE requirements, submission of any required portfolio or aptitude test and studying any required subjects as detailed on the Lancaster University study webpages.
For courses at Lancaster which require an interview the student will be guaranteed an invite to interview in lieu of the offer detailed above.
The guaranteed offer or interview does not apply to the following courses:
- A100 Medicine and Surgery MBChB
- A104 Medicine and Surgery with a Gateway Year MBChB
Students who apply to Lancaster will be guaranteed a room on campus should they apply for accommodation. This requires the student to apply by the published deadline as detailed in their emails. As an incoming full-time undergraduate, you are guaranteed a place on campus if Lancaster is your firm choice university, you have firmly accepted an offer via UCAS, and you submit your application before 10 August. We do not offer a formal guarantee to students joining us as their insurance choice or through clearing, though we can usually accommodate many students in those categories and can advise on alternative options if the need arises.
Students who achieve AAA grades in their A Level studies, who hold five GCSEs grade A/7 or above will receive the scholarship.
The Lancaster Scholarship will be available to all full-time UK (Home fee paying) applicants.
Awardees must achieve AAA and above at A Level, or equivalent, with at least five GCSE’s grade A/7 or above.
All grade conditions must be met or exceeded, tariff point equivalences are not considered.
The scholarship is available to eligible applicants to all Undergraduate full-time degree programmes offered at Lancaster University for October 2025 entry.
Applicants, who are returning to study after an extended break, will be considered for the scholarship on the basis of an Access or equivalent programme.
Applicants must make Lancaster University their firm UCAS choice.
Scholarships are reviewed on an annual basis and funding cannot be guaranteed for the following entry year, for applicants who decide to defer.
The Lancaster Scholarship is available to Part I students only.
We offer Lancaster Link Schools and Colleges a wide variety of events, activities and talks to help students consider their future education choices.
Please see for our programme of activities: Schools and Colleges
Schools and colleges will receive exclusive access to our networks of schools liaison leads and admissions tutors across our 28 academic departments. Our Lancaster Link representative will liaise on your behalf and provide introduce for your subject staff with their counterparts in our departments.
Senior leaders at Lancaster Link schools and colleges are invited to join the Vice-Chancellor’s Heads and Principals Forum, providing an opportunity to engage with Vice-Chancellor and senior stakeholders across Lancaster. The forum will also provide a valuable biannual opportunity to network with colleagues from other schools/colleges across the North West.
Lancaster Link schools and colleges are provided with a dedicated engagement toolkit of digital and marketing assets to support their promotion of the partnership both internally and externally.
Schools and colleges will also be invited to arrange promotional sessions to present the opportunity to students.
The school or college will be able to access funded travel to attend events held on Lancaster University’s campus. This will be provided via the direct payment of coach/bus costs or the reimbursement of these costs to the school/college.
This funding will be provided via the UK Student Recruitment team and will be available for visits of Year 12/13 students for up to 3 visits per academic year.