Completing the UCAS form

All applications are coordinated by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

There is lots of helpful information about submitting your application available on the UCAS website. You may also find the Medical Schools Council website a useful source of information about applying for medicine. 

Our UCAS codes are: 

Completing your UCAS form

For applicants who are applying to Medicine and Dentistry courses, the deadline for submitting the UCAS form is the October application deadline as set by UCAS. We are not able to accept late applications. Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that your application is submitted on time, not your school's or your referee's.

The UCAS form is your opportunity to tell us about your current qualifications and how you match up to our published entry criteria. The form needs to be complete and accurate at the point of submission and is assessed as it is received. 

All qualifications, including those which are pending and any in which you have been unsuccessful, must be declared.

You must list the qualification and awarding body on your application. Please do not use ‘other’. If you can’t find your qualification/awarding body in the list of options in UCAS, you must contact the School of Medical Sciences' admissions team prior to submitting your application and prior to the UCAS deadline and we will advise. Using ‘other’ does not show how you meet the requirements and the admissions team will not contact each applicant for clarification.

If you are currently studying your degree, your application must include a predicted degree classification. Applications without a predicted or achieved classification will not be considered (or chased for missing detail).

Please note that we do not normally accept subsequent declarations of additional qualifications or revised predicted grades that are provided to us after the UCAS deadline, so it is important that your form is accurate at the point of submission. 

Applicants who meet the minimum academic requirements for medicine at The University of Manchester progress to the next stage of the selection process. 

Personal statement

You will be required to write a personal statement as part of your UCAS application, and this will be seen by the admissions departments for each of your course choices.

We do not normally read the personal statement; you can leave this section blank if you are only applying to Manchester. However, we reserve the right to use any information we may hold on your application(s).

Any personal statements which we are notified by UCAS as having been identified by the similarity detection service will result in an unsuccessful decision, irrespective of the percentage of similarity detected, or whether we have used your personal statement in the selection process.

Reference

This should be written by one of your teachers if you are at school, or university lecturers if you are applying for the graduate programme. If you are not in education, you should approach your last education provider or contact us for further information.

We do want to know what the writer of the reference thinks about you as a person, not just about your academic achievements and potential.

Please note, we will not check the reference section for mention of any qualifications you may have achieved or are currently undertaking that you have not listed in the main qualifications section of your UCAS form (this also includes predicted degree classifications – which must be provided in the correct section).

As we read the reference after your interview, you should let us know of any mitigating circumstances by email when you apply.

Once we have received an application, we would also expect to be informed of any mitigating circumstances or changes to the qualifications you are taking that might occur during the application process. Please contact us for further information.