UCAT University Selector
Compare your UCAT score with the published cut-offs and interview thresholds of UK medical and dental schools, for 2026 entry and earlier years.
How to use it#
Choose the UCAT you sat, enter your total score, and say where you live and whether you are a graduate or qualify for a contextual offer. The tool lines your score up against what each university published for the year you choose, and sorts them from comfortably above to well below. Open "Earlier years" on any university to see how its figure has moved.
It uses the total score only. Your Situational Judgement band matters too: many schools reject band 4 outright, and some need band 3 or better.
What the figures mean#
Universities do not all publish the same thing, so each figure is labelled:
- Interview threshold: the score at or above which applicants were invited, as the university describes it.
- Lowest score invited: the lowest score among those who got an interview. At schools that combine UCAT with academic marks this is a rough guide, not a cut-off, and the page says so where the source does.
- Published minimum: a score you must reach to be considered, which does not guarantee an interview.
- Mean score: for Oxford and Cambridge, which publish no cut-off, the average of those shortlisted or offered places.
Some schools use deciles instead of a score. Queen Mary, Leicester and Sunderland reject applicants below a decile of the national results, so for those the tool compares your decile with the rule.
The 2025 scoring change#
From the 2025 test, Abstract Reasoning was removed. Total scores now run from 900 to 2700 instead of 1200 to 3600, so figures for 2026 entry onwards cannot be compared with earlier ones. The tool never mixes the two scales, and it does not convert between them: any conversion is a guess. Universities set their 2026-entry figures on the new scale, so if you sat UCAT in 2025 or 2026 you are compared only with 2026-entry figures and published 2027 minimums. Figures for 2027 entry will not exist until universities finish selecting, from November 2026.
Where the data comes from#
Each figure is marked Official or Reported.
Official figures were read from the university's own admissions pages and documents, including the thresholds tables at Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Plymouth, and the current cut-offs at Bristol, Liverpool, Anglia Ruskin, Brighton and Sussex and Keele. The decile boundaries and mean scores come from the UCAT Consortium's test statistics.
Reported figures come from a compilation by various web resources. So treat reported figures as good but unverified, and follow the university link to check the one that matters to you.
What a cut-off cannot tell you#
- Thresholds are usually set after applications close, from that year's applicants, so the figure for your year may be higher or lower.
- Most schools also weigh academic results, and some weigh them more than UCAT.
- Contextual and widening participation rules change who is treated as above the line.
- A score above a past figure is encouraging, not a promise.
These schools use the UCAT but publish no score or threshold, so the tool lists them with a link to their own pages: Bangor, Brunel, Chester, Pears Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Hull York, Lancashire, Lincoln, Portsmouth, Queen's Belfast, St Mary's, Surrey and Worcester. Newcastle's main course has used a points score instead of a UCAT-only threshold since 2025 entry.