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2026 cycle toolkit

Everything you need to prepare for the 2026 application cycle – all in one place.

Admissions guides and resources

These guides will help you understand the UCAS process and successfully manage your applications, whether undergraduate or for conservatoires.

Admissions tests

Some universities require you to sit an admissions test as part of the application process – discover the different types of assessment here.

All provider products and services

Our products and services help you manage the application journey, navigate change, and overcome challenges. Connect and engage students at every stage of their journey and achieve your strategic goals with our paid-for products and services, as well as those included in your capitation fee.

Alternative payment option

If you are unable to make online payment of the UCAS application fee, we can accept payment by bank transfer instead.

Amendments to the Tariff consultation

In July 2021 UCAS launched a consultation into a number of proposals relating to the information we make available about qualifications and their use in progression to higher education. The scope of this consultation included the current Tariff (but not the methodology behind the calculation of Tariff points) and Qualification Information Profiles.