Deferred entry

If you wish to defer your entry for a year, we will consider your application as carefully as any other, but with reference to the entry requirements which will be in place in the following admissions cycle for those applying for immediate entry to the programmes.

In the interests of equality of access, and to ensure that there are a sufficient number of places available for the applicants who are applying for immediate entry to the programmes in the following admissions cycle, we will restrict the number of offers we make for deferred entry to 15% of the offers projected to be required to fill the quota for the year of entry.

If you ask to defer your entry for a year after you have received an offer, you will not be allowed to do so, unless there are extenuating circumstances, not foreseen at the time of application, which will prevent you from starting your degree programme in the year of entry for which you applied. If you decide, for example, to take a gap year, you will not be allowed to defer your entry — but if you then withdraw and reapply the following year, the outcome of your first application will have no bearing, positive or negative, on the outcome of your second application.