UCAS has a wide range of information, resources and services to support international students, advisers and UK universities and colleges. This ranges from advice and guidance on the UK higher education admissions journey, to data dashboards and insights.
Who are UCAS?
UCAS is the UK’s national shared and centralised admissions service for higher education.
As an independent, not-for-profit charity, our role is to support students – domestic and international – in discovering, deciding and applying to their undergraduate degree programmes of choice.
Each year, we support roughly 150,000 international applicants take their first steps on their journey to UK higher education, choosing from tens of thousands of course options taught at over 380 higher education programmes across the four nations of the UK – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
UCAS has everything you need to know as an international student planning to come to study in the UK. Our information will take you step-by-step through the process as you make life-changing decisions over your future.
Use our information to discover thousands of course options; our interactive tools to help you turn your interests, hobbies and previous studies into shortlists of your best-fit choices; and our guidance to prepare for and submit all-important university and college applications to stand the best chance of admittance.
UCAS has a huge amount of support available for our extensive network of over 3,000 expert international registered centres, located in over 150 countries and territories.
Our best-in-class support, resources and training help school, college, independent and agent counsellors in guiding their students through the process of unlocking their future career pathway and on their journeys to UK higher education.
From classroom materials, masterclass workshops and global conferences, here you will find out how we can support you in the lifechanging work you do with international applicants.
UCAS has been helping connect the world to UK higher education since its inception and has supported over one million international students to make their UK study dreams a reality in the past decade alone.
With 1 in 5 UCAS applicants being from outside of the UK, we have a huge amount of data and insights (over 8 million data points each year!) to help the UK’s 380+ higher education providers plan and inform their recruitment and admissions strategies – through understanding international market trends, student sentiment and potential opportunities on the horizon.