Editing University College London (section)

==Admissions==
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|+ UCAS admission statistics (2022)
|colspan=2|'''''Main scheme applications'''''<ref name="UCAS EoC 2022">{{cite web |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-sector-level-end-cycle-data-resources-2022 |title=UCAS undergraduate sector-level end of cycle data resources 2022 |year=2023 |at=Provider > Applications & acceptances > U80 UCL (University College London) |publisher=UCAS |access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref>
|-
|'''Applications'''
|74,775
|-
|'''Accepted applicants'''
|7,420
|-
|'''Applications/accepted ratio'''
|10.08
|-
|colspan=2|'''''UK applicants, June deadline'''''<ref name="UCAS reports 2022">{{cite web|title=2022 entry UCAS undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group |at= U80 UCL (University College London)|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-sector-level-end-cycle-data-resources-2022/2022-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|year=2023|publisher=UCAS|access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|'''Applications'''
|31,285
|-
|'''Offer rate (%)'''
|29.5
|-
|'''Offers'''
|9,700
|-
|'''Placed applicants'''
|3,175
|-
|'''Placed applicants/offers (%)'''
|32.7
|-
| colspan=2|'''''Summary statistics'''''
|-
|'''Total accepted applicants'''<ref name="UCAS EoC 2022"/>
|7,530
|-
|'''[[UCAS Tariff|Average Entry Tariff]]''' (2020)<ref name="Complete League Table 2023">{{cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards |title=Top UK University League Table and Rankings |publisher=Complete University Guide |access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref>
|189
|}

[[File:Bentham House, UCL.jpg|right|thumb|Bentham House, the main building of the [[UCL Faculty of Laws]]]]
Admission to UCL is highly selective with an average entry tariff for 2020–21 of 189 [[UCAS points]] (approximately equivalent to AAAB at [[GCE Advanced Level (United Kingdom)|A-level]]), the 9th highest in the country.<ref name="Complete League Table 2023"/> According to a [[Freedom of information in the United Kingdom|Freedom of Information]] request response, UCL's offer rate for 2021 admission was 36.1% at undergraduate level and 23.5% at postgraduate level across all applicants.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/application_statistics_for_the_2#incoming-1784113 |title=Application Statistics for the 2021 entry – a Freedom of Information request to University College London |date=22 April 2021}}</ref><ref group=note>The UCAS offer statistics given in the table above cover only UK domiciled applicants</ref>

International students have made up the majority of main-scheme applicants to UCL since 2015 and the majority of acceptances since 2017. The ratio of main-scheme applicants to acceptances in 2022 was 10.3 for UK applicants and 9.9 for international applicants.<ref name="UCAS EoC 2022"/> Within the UK, UCL is a local recruiter,<ref>{{cite web|title=University College London Access and participation plan 2020–21 to 2024–25|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/widening-participation/sites/widening_participation/files/universitycollegelondon_app_2020-21_v1_10007784_0.pdf|page=1|website=UCL|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> with 47.4% of 2022 UK admissions coming from the London region and a further 28.1% from the adjacent East of England and South East regions.<ref name="UCAS EoC 2022"/>

Of UCL's young UK domiciled undergraduates, 32.7% were [[Independent school (United Kingdom)|privately educated]] in 2019–20, the eighth highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Widening participation: UK Performance Indicators 2019/20 |at=Table T1 – Participation of under-represented groups in higher education |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/performance-indicators/widening-participation |website=hesa.ac.uk |publisher=Higher Education Statistics Authority |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref>

Undergraduate law applicants are required to take the [[National Admissions Test for Law]]<ref name=applications>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/how-apply/how-we-assess-your-application|title=How we assess your application|website=UCL|date=10 March 2022 |access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref> and undergraduate medical applicants are required to take the [[BioMedical Admissions Test]].<ref name=applications/> Applicants for European Social and Political Studies are required to take the [[Thinking Skills Assessment]] (TSA) should they be selected for an assessment day.<ref name=applications/> Medicine, pharmacy and English also interview undergraduate applicants prior to making an offer of admission.<ref name=applications/>

===Widening access===
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|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2023/24)
|-
!Domicile<ref name="Table 1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1|title=HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> and Ethnicity<ref name="HESA ethnicity">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/whos-in-he/characteristics|title=Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics|date=3 April 2025|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
|[[White people in the United Kingdom|British White]]{{efn|Not be confused solely with [[White British]]}}
|align=right| {{bartable|24|%|2||background:red}}
|-
|[[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom#Collective terms for minority ethnic groups|British Ethnic Minorities]]{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as [[British Asian|Asian]], [[Black British people|Black]], [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed Heritage]], [[British Arabs|Arab]] or any other ethnicity except White.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|24|%|2||background:green}}
|-
|[[European Union|International EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|7|%|2||background:blue}}
|-
|[[International students in the United Kingdom|International Non-EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|46|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate [[Widening participation|Widening Participation]] Indicators<ref name="Table 1"/><ref name="Times25">{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[Feminism in the United Kingdom#Education|Female]]
|align=right| {{bartable|58|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
|[[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Independent School]]
|align=right| {{bartable|30|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
|Low Participation Areas{{efn|Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the [[Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation]] (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2||background:black}}
|}

UCL runs a contextual offer scheme called Access UCL, whereby eligible applicants can receive conditional offers for courses at UCL that have lower requirements than the standard conditional offers for those courses. Eligibility for Access UCL can be through an applicant living in a deprived areas or an area with low participation in higher education, through having spent time in care, though being a young adult carer, or through being estranged from their family. Except for applicants that have spent time in care, the scheme requires applicants to have attended a state school. Mature applicants are assessed on the same criteria, and are additionally not eligible if they have completed or are on the final year of an undergraduate degree. While the scheme enables applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds to receive contextual offers, it does not guarantee that an offer will be made.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/access-ucl-scheme| title=Access UCL Scheme| website=UCL| date=23 March 2022|access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref> Contextual offers vary by course. For example, a contextual offer for the law LLB reduces the requirement from A*AA to BBB at [[A level]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/law-llb|title=Law LLB|website=UCL|access-date=4 February 2023}}</ref> but for the physics MSci from A*AA to AAB.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/physics-msci|title=Physics MSci|access-date=4 February 2023}}</ref>

UCL also runs week-long UCL Summer Schools for high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds in partnership with the [[Sutton Trust]]. These give participants the opportunity to explore London, to develop skills in their chosen subject, to improve their university applications through personal statement workshops and talks by admissions tutors, and to take part in social activities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://summerschools.suttontrust.com/university-partners/ucl/|title=UCL|website=UK Summer Schools – The Sutton Trust |access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref>

In 2023, UCL launched an integrated engineering [[foundation year]] programme based at UCL East for disadvantaged students who do not meet the standard entry requirements for the Faculty of Engineering's undergraduate degrees. Candidates must have attended UK state schools for [[A level]]s or equivalent (unless they have experienced forced displacement) and have experienced specific socioeconomic or personal circumstances such as time in care, estrangement, forced displacement, or receipt of free school meals. The programme's academic entry requirements are based on [[UCAS Tariff]] points rather than letter grades.<ref>{{cite web |date=30 April 2025 |title=Engineering Foundation Year |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/engineering-foundation-year#tab2-nonacademic |access-date=30 April 2025 |website=UCL}}</ref>

The university runs intensive one-year [[foundation programme|foundation courses]], called Undergraduate Preparatory Certificates, in either sciences or humanities, for international students who do not meet the university's requirements for admission.<ref>{{cite web |title=Undergraduate Preparatory Certificates – UCL's International Foundation Year |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/language-centre/preparatory-certificates|website=UCL|date=11 July 2018 |access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref>

For UK domiciled young full-time undergraduate entrants in 2020/21, 67.6% came from state schools, significantly below the location-adjusted benchmark of 74.5%, and 4.3% came from low participation neighbourhoods, not significantly different from the location-adjusted benchmark of 4.0%.<ref name="HESA Widening Participation">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/performance-indicators/widening-participation|title=Widening participation: UK Performance Indicators 2020/21|date=22 February 2022|access-date=9 February 2023|website=HESA}}</ref> For UK-domiciled undergraduate entrants in 2022/23, UCAS data shows no significant difference in offer rate with ethnicity or gender.<ref name="UCAS reports 2022"/> Applicants from the 20% of neighbourhoods with the lowest rates of participation in higher education receive offers at a rate 4.9% higher than would be expected based on their subject choice and predicted grades alone, a statistically significant difference, accounting for 6.3% of all offers. The offer rate for applicants from the 20% of neighbourhoods with the lowest rates of participation in higher education is not significantly different from that expected, with applicants from those neighbourhoods accounting for 48.9% of all offers.<ref name="UCAS reports 2022"/>