Filling In the Information

Register to use Apply

Add some personal details, get a username – this is generated as result of your registration and comes up on the screen once (so make a note of it) then you can choose and create a password (again make a note of this too) and set your security questions. Combined your username and password are your login details. Add the Buzzword the College has set (MBRO2024), or if you’re applying independently there’ll be a few questions to answer. Log in to fill in the rest of your form.

Personal details

For the Funding options opt for the Student Finance option (to say you will be applying for Student Finance Government Funding) pay particular attention to: residential status, any special needs or disabilities and any criminal convictions questions.

If you have any learning difficulties or specific needs it is important to declare this in order for you to be assessed and receive the required support during your studies. There may also be financial support available to you through the disability students allowance. Add your email address – you will have to verify this. UCAS will use this to let you know whenever your application is updated online, ready for you to log in and check.

Nationality details

Please select country of birth and then nationality. If you're applying from outside the UK, choose your nationality as it appears on your passport.

Student finance (UK applicants only)

UCAS don’t arrange student finance, but if you’re looking for financial support, you can give UCAS permission here to share your info with the student loans/awards organisation you apply to – which should speed up the process.

Please select UK, CHI, IOM or EU Student Finance Service.

Course choices

You can choose up to five courses (all now or some later). There’s no preference order and your Universities/ Colleges won’t see where else you’ve applied until after you reply to any offers.

If you are applying for Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine or Veterinary Science, you can only apply for a maximum of four courses in any one of Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine or Veterinary Science. Be aware of early deadlines and entry tests such as BMAT or UCAT – do your research first.

Applying to the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge? Usually you can only apply to one course at either the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge. Be aware of entry tests and early application deadlines.

Full education history

You must enter all your qualifications – whether you have the result (even any that were ungraded) or you’re still awaiting exams and results. For course results you’re still waiting for, these are the exam results UCAS process and forward on to Universities and Colleges. If any of your pending qualifications aren’t in the list provided in the Education section, you still need to add them to your application, but also remember you’ll need to send the results on to your chosen Universities and Colleges when you get them.

Remember if in doubt check

Tips for entering specific qualifications such AS/A Levels, BTEC or Access Diplomas can be found in the Help section on the application. It could be useful to have all your certificates together during completion of this part of the form.

Your employment history

If you’ve had any paid jobs – full-time or part-time –here’s where you can enter details for up to five of them. Include company names, addresses, job descriptions and start/finish dates. Mention any unpaid or voluntary work in your personal statement.

Write a Personal Statement (see next page)

Your Personal Statement offers a valuable opportunity to provide Admissions Tutors with essential information about yourself: for example, which skills you have, your achievements and interests and you can emphasise the research you have carried out for your degree course choice and your motivation towards it.

The Personal Statement allows you to promote yourself to Admissions Tutors, which can mean the difference between getting an interview or an offer of a place (or not).

Please note that UCAS now use Anti-plagiarism Software, the Similarity Detection Service is designed to ensure that every applicant’s Personal Statement is their own work. So do not copy or share your Statement with others.

View all the details

See if you need to make any amendments, then mark it as complete and save it. Once you’ve marked all previous sections as complete, you’ll be able to read and agree to the declaration – which allows UCAS to process your info and send it to your chosen Universities/Colleges. You’ll then be able to move on to the final sections.

Pay and send form

Pay your application fee and send your application –£27.00 for any number of choices 1-5. Even if you pay and press send - the form is going to stay in the Middlesbrough College apply system if you have used the Buzzword until your reference has been added before it can be sent to UCAS. This may take up to 10 working days.

If applying through College your reference will be completed internally by your Tutor through your Directorate. If you are applying independently follow the on screen instruction. If you are concerned about paying this fee, please speak to the careers team for further advice.