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How to apply
Applying online at www.ucas.com For all full-time higher education programmes at universities and colleges in the UK, students must apply online at www.ucas.com There are three types of applicant: 1 Students at a school or college registered with UCAS All UK schools and colleges (and many establishments overseas) are registered with UCAS to manage their students’ applications. Advice is available from your teacher or a careers adviser at your school or college. You fill in an online application and submit it to a member of staff. After checking your details, and having added the academic reference, your school or college submits the completed application online to UCAS. You pay online using a credit card or debit card. You may also be able to pay through your school or college. 2 Independent applicants in the UK Other UK applicants, who are not at school or college (often mature applicants), apply online via UCAS independently. You can seek advice on your application from various careers organisations. You are responsible for paying the application fee, for obtaining and attaching the academic reference and for submitting the application online to UCAS. 3 International applicants outside the UK (EU and worldwide) Except for those whose school or college is registered with UCAS, individuals from the EU (excluding the UK), and worldwide, apply online via UCAS independently. Advice is available from British Council offices and other centres overseas, such as your school or college or one of our overseas representatives. 270 www.qmul.ac.uk
For all applicants there are full instructions at www.ucas.com to make it as easy as possible for you to fill in your online application, plus help text where appropriate. UCAS also has a comprehensive guide called Applying Online, which can be downloaded from the website. UCAS will start receiving applications from mid-September 2012 for entry in Autumn 2013. Applications from UK-based applicants should reach UCAS by 15 January 2012, although, at their discretion, institutions may consider applications received up until 30 June 2012. Later deadlines apply to international applicants but early application is recommended for popular and oversubscribed programmes. You may list up to five choices of institution/programme on your UCAS form. If you wish to apply to the same institution for more than one degree programme, you should make a separate entry for each choice. You should list your choices in alphabetical order or by the institution code name taking care to clearly enter the details for programmes and institutions. The institution code for Queen Mary is Q50. Institutions will only be able to access relevant choices on your UCAS record; details of applications made to other institutions will only be made available after you have replied to your offers. It may be helpful for applicants to know that selectors at Queen Mary will not be influenced by the presence or absence of an indication on the UCAS entry form that it would be possible for the applicant to live at home.
Medical and dental students The closing date for applications to medicine and dentistry is 15 October 2012. The institution code for Medicine A100 and Dentistry A200 is Q50 and applicants must enter a campus code ‘W’ in box 3d of the UCAS application form for these programmes only. For further information please go to www.smd.qmul.ac.uk