Clearing courses 2026 (with grades)

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Links to the pre-92 universities who have published their clearing vacancies with grades. No snobbery intended - post 92s don't tend to publish their grade requirements.

Spot the subjects dropping in popularity - Warwick offering English and Modern Languages at BBB.....

If anyone knows of others please feel free to add.

Will try and update as more unis publish their requirements.

https://www.dundee.ac.uk/clearing/ruk-vacancies

https://www.essex.ac.uk/clearing/entry-requirements

https://vacancies.exeter.ac.uk/clearing/home/?_gl=11uqq6dv_gaMTcwNDYxMjA3Ny4xNzgzNTk0MDA4_ga_D45K1N753JczE3ODM1OTQwMDckbzEkZzAkdDE3ODM1OTQwMTAkajYwJGwwJGgw_gcl_awR0NMLjE3ODM1OTQwMDguQ2owS0NRandqYjNTQmhEZ0FSSXNBTUtpV3poMmUteVB5clo3WmdMWEVOSFFqcl83M1ZwWUoxdVNtanhGdXNVZHJoanRPWndpTVM3eWk2VWFBblgxRUFMd193Y0I._gcl_au*MTQyODkwMDk3NC4xNzgzNTk0MDEw

https://www.gold.ac.uk/course-finder/results/?collection=goldsmiths~sp-courses&query=&f.Course%20level%7Ccourselevel=Undergraduate%20and%20Integrated%20Degrees%3Cbr%20%2F%3E(BA%2C%20BSc%2C%20BMus%2C%20LLB)

https://www.keele.ac.uk/clearing/current-vacancies/

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/clearing/courses/

https://www.qub.ac.uk/clearing/clearing-vacancies/gb/

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/applying/undergraduate/clearing/

[Individual courses not listed but says most courses will be available at CCC or equivalent]

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/clearing/course-vacancies?subject=All+Subjects&filter=&studentType=uk&availableOnly=true

https://warwick.ac.uk/study/results/clearing/

yes the admission numbers are agreed usually a year before hand - so this year's numbers were agreed last year. Given that the recent governments have had a habit of changing rules for international students (because of 'migration' issues), these numbers supposedly are there to help with universities balancing their budgets but currently can't.

logically, yes of course, if 500 students who are paying £20k-40k each can't come, then surely we should fill their spaces with 500 home students paying close to £10k. As a mum of a home student, I hope that happens. As an academic member of staff, it will mean that there'll be an email at the end of summer saying although our recruitment numbers remained the same, this will mean that there's been a shortfall of at least £5million (taking the most conservative figure of 20K and not more), and will mean that our research/teaching budgets will be tightened again. And yes, this hits all subjects, not just those that have already been in the news.

interesting to see that you say you see fewer clearing spaces for internationals...! In the subject that my DC is looking at, clearing is ONLY for internationals (because of strict government funded spaces).

Thats terrible when a country has to prefernetially educate foreign students over its own kids for financial viability. Something is wrong there. Preaching to the choir, im sure, but I hope one of our many governments takes the bull by the horns and corrects this (making up funding shortfall for home students?).

Thing is those international students are subsidising our home students (the same way humanities subsidise STEM). Universities have based their finances on a certain percentage of international students. You'll see more spaces open in RG unis on (relatively) cheaper to run programmes like maths or law but less so on programmes that rely on specific facilities or are expensive to teach.

International student fees have been an integral part of university budget calculations for decades, our university system is (or, increasingly, was) a good source of soft power and funds flow from other countries.

Sure, but it remains inherently wrong if significant numbers of home students can't get on courses they want to study, with appropriate grades, and are happy to get into debt for, because universities need to agree a higher proportion of international students to survive finacially, That is a fucked up system. And unsustainable surely if the trend is for less internaional students? There must be a lot less Russian students coming. Are Chinese numbers down?

You would hope the balance and ratio is carefully controlled to reflect predicated number of home students that want to study. But reading here what I do from people that work in Higher Ed, it all seems on a knife edge and is no longer primarily about educating the countries students as I think it should be. Sad times, for the kids and the university staff.

@allthemind but are there a large number of UK school leavers wanting to go to uni, but "crowded out" by international students? I'm not sure that there are but happy to be corrected.

exactly. I don't think I said that universities are preferentially educating internationals over home. They aren't because there are quotas set - by both the university as well as the government (home office, CAS/visa issues). It's not a free for all. That's what I said when I said the numbers were set at least a year in advance.

exactly. I don't think I said that universities are preferentially educating internationals over home. They aren't because there are quotas set - by both the university as well as the government (home office, CAS/visa issues). It's not a free for all. That's what I said when I said the numbers were set at least a year in advance.

Also I think most students would rather a smaller cohort size with 15% international students than really big class sizes full of only UK students. Plus international students can positively add to the university experience of UK students. (Not so much when the percentages are higher and they are all from one country but that's another story...)

yes - as an ex-international student (many moons ago - last century even!), I'm glad I came. and hopefully most people who know me view me as a contributing member of society (in terms of tax, work and community).

I dont know, but I would hope someone is monitoring that data and setting the quotas accordingly. All the data would be in UCAS surely. I dont have much faith that that is happening though, but I dont work in HE and only have anecdotal experience. And what I read about the funding crisis in UK HE

For example, my elder son's RG uni course was 45% Chinese surnames at graduation for his course last month. Some may be British of course, or have dual nationality, but that ratio seems out of whack to me - nothing against international students who want to come here (I was one in Scotland many moons ago as, depsite being British, was coming from a non EU country) but home students should be provided for first imo.

But what does 'provided for first' mean?

UCL, Manchester and King's received the highest number of international applications (according to wikipedia). Unsurprising, given their sizes and big city locations.

Should each only give places to these international students if they have insufficient home students with high enough predicted grades to fill a course?

Exactly, that is how it should be and how it is in countries like Singapore, the US, Nordics - because those universities aren't finacially on their knees and are publicly funded or via endowments to a higher level so don't have to make up the funding shortfall referenced earlier in this thread if not enough international students join. I have no issue with say 15/20% of places or whatever being reserved for international students to get a good demographic mix, but that should be a static level that ensures diversity while prioritising home students, not a dynamic moving goalpost so that the government don't have to fund universities adequately and rely on international students. Like the NHS I guess, the model is broken and needs revisisted I think. It is pretty soul destroying for British kids to see courses in Clearing that they can't apply for, whatever the mechanics in the background, and I don't believe that happens in other countries to the same degree, from what I have read and from friends experiences.

Does the US charge lower amounts to home vs international students, in general? Or do both pay the rather high fees? How does that differ between Ivy League and state universities? Do the fees promote diversity?

Many US universities are suffering massively (on their knees...), in part due to the political situation around research grants and student/lecturer visas, and few are rich enough to hold out indefinitely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_policy_of_the_second_Trump_administration

I'm not being snarky - there are various models of university funding and none are perfect.

Leeds vacancies out. Checked one or two subjects - English at ABB rather than AAB. So possible not all courses are lowered.

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/clearing/courses

Birmingham vacancies. History at BBB looks tempting.

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/clearing/home/courses?clearingStatus=29824c45-3213-4dc0-94f0-8b0cb9be5018%2C0f264f13-861e-4f86-a9a8-08bcb033e279&pageIndex=2&preventScrollTop=true

At the risk of derailing the OP's post.(Sorry.) US state colleges/universities charge in-state students less than out of state and overseas students. Private colleges/universities normally have the same standard fee but for both there is a completely different approach to scholarships which makes this not really a like for like comparison. Add to that the and a very different approach to undergraduate programmes and applications.

Aston vacancies with grades

https://www.aston.ac.uk/clearing/vacancies#au-vacancies

Thanks @HPFA

thanks @Blablue appreciate the extra info

No problem. It's nice being able to show there are decent options even if students don't get the triple A stars they're hoping for.

Leeds/ Birm more modest drops/ fewer courses. Still decent choices with BBB

Yes, that's an excellent department.

Bristol but grades don't look any lower.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/clearing/vacancies-home/

Manchester but grades don't look any lower.

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/applying/clearing/home/