Clearing courses 2026 (with grades)

[HPFA]

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/

In part, a knock on effect of uk universities becoming less attractive to eu and international students post Brexit and visa rules

Ok makes sense @Another2Cats. I had been hoping I was wrong and Warwick were actually in clearing. Wishful thinking perhaps (although they were last year so finders crossed) but for DC it would help him feel a bit more confident tonight to know that his preferred options were in clearing (which they are not - yet at least)

I'm pretty sure Lancaster didn't go as low as CCC last year.

I do find the RG thing very annoying! I recently read a autobiography set at the end of the seventies where the writer describes his interview at UEA which was his second choice to....Oxford! He got into Oxford in the event but clearly UEA was then seen as a perfectly respectable choice for a potential Oxbridger.

It wasn't a thing when I was applying back in the 80s - there was something of a pecking order but it seemed much less rigid than now.

BCC last year for History according to my notes

Wow. Econ at Lancaster CCC from AAB. BA and BSc. It’s rank 16 econ CUG. Surrey have gone AAB/ABB to BBB. Seems v odd.

I don’t think a Uni reducing its MFL offer tells you much. Nottingham are the latest, alongside Loughborough to stop language degrees

Updated list from Southampton - History at CCC here as well.

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

Econ at Southampton also BCC

UCL but probably no grade drops.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/study/prospective-students/undergraduate/clearing

CCD last year I think.

Lancaster clearing for the maths degrees were BBC last year too, so it's not a new thing (plus NatSci was BBB in clearing, as it is now).

Their maths offer is AAB if you have maths and further maths, so it's 'only' a drop of two grades. NatSci offers are A*AA so the drop to BBB is 4 grades.

York has History as ABB. Law only for international students

"...but clearly UEA was then seen as a perfectly respectable choice for a potential Oxbridger."

"It wasn't a thing when I was applying back in the 80s - there was something of a pecking order but it seemed much less rigid than now."

I very much agree. Like you, I was applying in the early 1980s.

I can't claim to have ever been a potential Oxbridge person, but certainly when I applied to universities there was no apparent differentiation between RG and non-RG.

The real differentiation back then was between university and poly (nowadays post-92 universities).

Your post prompted me to think back to the universities I applied to - one of them was UEA.

The list was:

UCL
Warwick
Exeter
Lancaster
UEA

I can’t see any grade drops for Manchester, assuming they are clearing grades showing.

York vacancies - some grade drops.

https://www.york.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/clearing/vacancies/

I had

Oxford
Edinburgh
Liverpool
Sheffield
Leicester.

Had to resist my history teacher's attempts to force me to go to York - she was a York graduate and tried to get all of us to go there.

Can any one shed any light on this … dd has firmed politics and modern history at university of Manchester, grades required were A A Distinction or A equivalent. It’s showing as in clearing but with no grade drops. So, there are obviously course vacancies, but are they trying to get the highest grades possible from any clearing student or likely to be a bit more lenient with exsisting firm offer holders? So if she gets lower than the A A Distinction is it not looking good?

They may have a few vacancies because some applicants missed by a lot/decided to take a late notice gap year etc.

I agree with you about the Russell Group obsession. My DDs two choices are both non RG but in the top ten overall university rankings in the CUG. One is Lancaster, the other is Loughborough. I think Lancaster is possibly less popular in the South as its so far away if distance is an issue and maybe also less popular for students from the north if they prefer larger cities like Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds etc? So maybe that explains the grade drops? I really liked it but I'm a middle aged woman not concerned with nightlife! It reminds me of my old uni Kent which has also suffered from its non RG status.

I’ve watched law clearing 23,24,25. Lancaster BBC is lowest I’ve seen it (previously was BBB)
I’ve have a look at other law clearing later out of interest.

They’ll know what the grades are now for their firm offer holders. If they’re in clearing it’s very likely they haven’t filled their spots even allowing for a grade or 2 dropped.

Unis wld much rather take someone who has firmed them even with a grade drop than faff about with clearing where it’s like the ok Corral. Manchester is good but not so good that it can afford to wait and see if they pick up top grade students in clearing.

Yes, that is probably the case
Bristol is a top university and many students want to ‘trade up’

That is low for straight economics
This is what I don’t get about the whole RG thing
Southampton is a RG university but I know of other non RG where you would not be able to get on an Economics course with those grades
We have been duped

Are we watching the eclipse or clearing updates hahaha! I didn't get the glasses but went out in the garden and watched it go dark

Can I ask a question about tomorrow? As I understand it, they have from 8.00 to 14.00 to phone unis and try and get aclearing space, and if successful, they get a code which they can then enter into the UCAS portal to firm it, but only at 14.00. Does that mean they can try and get on/get codes from more than 1 course in the morning, but only firm one at 2pm?

Who has duped you?

Russell Group is a self selected group of 24 research-heavy universities, but that meaning is not synonymous with 'top ranking in every undergraduate subject'