Graduate Entry Medicine FAQs
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The admissions round for the 2026 course was completed in December 2025 and all places were allocated within that process. You are welcome to apply for the 2027 course; the deadline will be 6pm, 15 October 2026.
We make a number of open-offers to applicants each year, which guarantees a place on the course but does not confirm a college, rather than operate a waiting/reserve list. We don’t offer places through clearing, nor do we consider new applications later in the year. It’s an important rule that all applicants are considered and interviewed at the same time, and we make our decisions only at that time. We can’t consider applications made at other times of the year.
There is some variation, but we would generally expect to have c. 32 places available each year.
It is important that all applicants are treated equally, and are seen to be so; for that reason, we don’t permit private meetings for candidates to discuss their applications individually. You are, of course, welcome to send any specific enquiries by e-mail, and we will do our best to deal with them.
In principle, you are responsible for paying all tuition fees (college fees and University fees). However, home students will normally have part of their fees paid for them in at least some years of the course. In addition, you will have to pay for your accommodation and living expenses. Home students may qualify for means-tested financial help with these expenses in the form of NHS bursaries or reduced-rate loans for the final three years of the course. There is currently no financial support for the first year except for a loan to cover the college fee, and unfortunately the University cannot offer any help with funding.
Further details of the Department of Health’s bursaries are available from the NHS Student Bursaries website.
Further information on the University's fees is available on the Fees and Funding website, where there is also a specific set of pages dealing with funding for medical students.
Please see our Fees and Funding webpage for information about support for which you may qualify.
Please note that the University has no resources either to offer financial support for tuition fees or to waive fees for students on the course.
While no upper age limit applies for admission to the Graduate-Entry Medicine course, older applicants should consider the implications of seeking to enter the profession at a later stage, especially bearing in mind that qualification, probation and subsequent specialist training will take a considerable time to complete. To make a case for admission, you would obviously need to show clear evidence of commitment and motivation in switching vocation at this stage in your career.
We regret that the Graduate-Entry Medicine course does not accept requests from students wishing to transfer from Medicine degrees at other universities. The Medical School is also unable to accommodate requests to spend a year at the University as part of an intercalated course in Medicine.