FOI_26-279 Admissions Medicine UG programme
Date of response: 03 November 2026
We have now considered your request of 14 October 2026 for the following information:
I am requesting existing aggregated admissions statistics and selection criteria for your undergraduate Medicine programme for 2024, 2025 and 2026 Entry.
Please separate Home and International/Overseas applicants wherever available.
Question 1. Admissions and UCAT
For each year, please provide, where available:
Applications, interview invitations, offers and enrolled students.
Mean and lowest UCAT scores for interview invitees and offer holders, the UCAT scoring scale used, and application/interview/offer outcomes by UCAT score range or band.
Our response:
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean UCAT score of interview attendee | Home - 2795 International - 2725 | Home - 2743 International - 2696 | Home – 2011 International - 2016 |
| Lowest UCAT score of an interview attendee | Home – 2190 International – 2560 | Home – 2080 International - 2490 | Home – 1680 International - 1670 |
| Mean UCAT of an offer holder | Home – 2807 International – 2855 | Home – 2756 International – 2795 | Home – 2070 International – 2036 |
| Lowest UCAT of an offer holder | Home – 2440 International – 2560 | Home – 2350 International – 2620 | Home – 1720 International – 1670 |
the UCAT scoring scale used, and application/interview/offer outcomes by UCAT score range or band.
Our response:
The UCAT cognitive overall score is used. There is no score range or band.
and application/interview/offer outcomes by UCAT score range or band.
Our response:
There is no UCAT score range or band.
Question 2. Selection and Interview Assessment
Please provide any available pre- and post-interview weightings, scoring systems or ranking criteria, including the roles of UCAT, GCSEs, A-levels/IB, interviews, personal statements, references and contextual/widening participation factors.
A blank interview scoring sheet or rubric, including criteria, scales and weightings, would also be appreciated. If unavailable, a public link or brief summary is welcome.
Our response:
Please see https://www.uea.ac.uk/course/undergraduate/mbbs-medicine#how_to_apply
Question 3. Academic Results
Please provide the lowest A-level and IB results (including relevant Higher Level grades) among offer holders and enrolled students, where recorded, distinguishing predicted grades, offer requirements and achieved results.
Please indicate whether existing records identify students admitted despite narrowly missing standard offer conditions.
Our response:
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offer requirements A Level | AAA | AAA | AAA |
| Offer requirements IB | 34 HL 666 | 34 HL 666 | 34 HL 666 |
| Lowest A Level offer holder predicted | AAA | AAA | AAA |
| Lowest IB score of an interview attendee | 34 HL 666 | 34 HL 666 | 34 HL 666 |
| Lowest A Level offer holder actual | AAB | ABB | ABB |
| Lowest IB offer holder actual | IB 33 HL 566 | IB 34 HL 655 | IB 34 HL 665 |
Question 4. International Admissions
Where available, please provide application, interview, offer and enrolment figures by international applicants’ country or territory of domicile, and details of any country-specific quotas, caps, targets or other admissions restrictions.
Our response:
Please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_26-279 Appendix A.
There are no country specific caps. There are 13 places for international fee payers.