Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB

Entry requirements

Make sure you also read the more detailed entry requirements below.

For more information and frequently asked questions about the course, check the Medical School website.

More detailed entry requirements

We have 24 places available to Home applicants from widening participation backgrounds for our four-year Graduate Entry Medicine - MBChB (A101) programme.

Applicants for this programme will be required to demonstrate that they come from a widening participation background and that they meet our minimum academic and UCAT requirements.

Meeting the minimum academic, UCAT and widening participation entry requirements does not guarantee an invitation to interview or the offer of a place. If you wish to also be considered for the Medicine - MBChB A100 programme you will need to apply to that course via UCAS as a separate choice.

Widening Participation entry requirements

Applicants for MBChB Graduate Entry Medicine are required to meet two or more of the following criteria:

You lived in a neighbourhood with a low rate of participation in higher education

At the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent), you were living in a postcode area with a POLAR4 Quintile 1 ranking, or a postcode area in Quintile 1 or 2 of the relevant Indices of Deprivation (IMD) ranking for your home nation.

You can check the POLAR4 ranking for your area by searching for your postcode on the Office For Students postcode look-up.

You can check the IMD ranking for your area using the following tools. Simply follow the link and put your postcode into the postcode checker.

• For applicants from Wales, Quintiles 1 and 2 equates to a Welsh Indices of Multiple Deprivation rank of up to and including 764.
• For applicants from England, Quintiles 1 and 2 equates to an IMD rank of 13,137 or below.
• For applicants from Northern Ireland, Quintiles 1 and 2 equates to a NI Multiple Deprivation measure rank of 356 or below.
• For applicants from Scotland, Quintiles 1 and 2 equates to a Scottish Indices of Multiple Deprivation rank of up to and including 2790.

You are care experienced or a care leaver

You should have lived in public care or as a looked-after child at any stage of your life up to the age of 18, including if you were adopted from care or left care with a Special Guardianship Order before the age of 18 lived with foster carers or in a residential children's home have been looked after under a supervision order; or have lived with friends or relatives in formal kinship care under a Local Authority but are not currently recognised by your Local Authority as a care leaver in receipt of statutory support.

Alternatively, you should be recognised by your Local Authority as a 'care leaver', or have been recognised in the past as a person who

• has been looked after by a local authority for at least 13 weeks since the age of 14
• and was looked after by the local authority at school-leaving age or after that date

You have been a carer

At the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent), you should have been responsible for providing unpaid care to someone who has, for example

• a long-term illness
• a physical or learning disability
• a mental health condition
• an addiction
• temporary care needs following, for example, an accident or operation

You have been estranged from your family

Estranged students have no relationship with, or support from, their parent(s) or carer(s). We'll consider you an estranged student if, at the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent):

• You hadn't communicated with your parents for 12 months and the situation was irreconcilable.
• Both your biological or adoptive parents were deceased.
• Your parents couldn't be traced or it wasn't practicable or safe for you to make contact with them.

You have parenting responsibilities

At the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent), you should have been a parent of, or responsible for the care and wellbeing of, a child aged 17 or under. This includes being:

• a biological parent
• a step-parent
• an adoptive or legal parent
• a legally-appointed guardian
• a foster carer
• someone who provides kinship or other parental care to a child

You were entitled to Free School Meals

You should have been entitled to Free School Meals at some point during the six years prior to your final KS4 year (ie, the year you were aged 15-16).

School pupils in the UK are normally entitled to Free School Meals if their parents or carers are on a low income or in receipt of certain benefits. If you’re not sure, your school will be able to confirm this for you. You may also be entitled if you're paid qualifying benefits directly, instead of through your parent or carer.

You are a forced migrant

You should have been a forced migrant to the United Kingdom. This means at the time you started your undergraduate study:

• The UK government had granted you refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK. You had limited or discretionary leave to remain in the UK as the result of an asylum or human rights application. You were seeking asylum in the UK
• You are part of the first generation in your family to enter higher education
• Your parents or legal guardians should not have successfully completed a higher education course at the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent).

Your parents were unemployed or working in unskilled jobs

At the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent), your parents or legal guardians should have been unemployed, or the main earner should have been working in an unskilled job. We consider unskilled jobs as those defined by the Office for National Statistics Occupation Coding Tool as falling into simplified NS-SEC analytic classes 4-8.

You received a 16-19 Bursary or similar grant

You should have been in receipt of a 16-19 Bursary or Discretionary Learner Support with an income threshold of £25,000 or below.

You have a disability

You should have a disability that has been declared as part of your UCAS application.

You will be asked to complete a short form after you submit your application.

For 2025 entry, this must be returned to us by 5pm on Friday 1 November 2024.

Applicants who receive offers will be required to provide supporting evidence that they meet these criteria at registration.

Academic entry requirements

In addition to meeting our Widening Participation entry criteria, applicants are required to meet both our minimum A Level and our minimum Degree academic entry requirements. (We do not consider GCSEs or AS Levels for this programme.) Applicants are also required to meet our minimum English Language requirements. We do not rank applicants on the basis of their academic attainment.

A Level qualifications

Applicants must have grades of at least BBB at A Level at the time of application, one of which must be Chemistry or Biology.

Please note:

• The requirement for BBB at A Level means at least a B grade in each of the three A Levels
• All three A Levels must have been taken in the same first sitting
• We do accept A Level resits. Any and all A Level resits must be taken in the same sitting, and only one resit per A Level is permitted. Only those A Levels that do not meet the above entry requirements need to be retaken
• A Levels in Further Mathematics, Critical Thinking and General studies are not accepted for the A101 programme
• For applicants who took four A Levels in a two year period (typically years 12 and 13 at school) including Mathematics and Further Mathematics, we will accept the Mathematics A Level, even if it is taken in Year 12, and irrespective of whether the A Level is certificated in Year 12 or 13. It is expected that Chemistry or Biology and another subject (that is not Critical Thinking, Further Mathematics or General Studies) will be taken in Year 13
• Where a graduate applicant has BBB or better at A Level but the pre-degree A Levels do not include Chemistry or Biology we will consider their application provided they have taken an A Level in either Chemistry or Biology during or after their Bachelor's degree and achieved (or are predicted to achieve) a Grade B or higher

For applicants not holding A Levels, our usual requirement for other qualifications is:

• Cambridge Pre-U Certificate - grades M2, M2, M2 including Chemistry or Biology
• Scottish Highers - Advanced Highers grades BB including Chemistry or Biology
• Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma - grade B, plus grades BB in two A Levels, subjects must include Chemistry or Biology
• Irish Leaving Certificate - H3,H3,H3,H3,H3,H3 with H3 in Chemistry or Biology
• International Baccalaureate - 32 points overall with 5's in Higher Level subjects (to include Chemistry or Biology) and no less than 4 in each of the Standard Level subjects

We are not able to consider the following qualifications for entry to our Graduate Entry Medicine course:

• Access courses
• Bachelor's degrees that are not in acceptable Life Sciences subjects
• Bedales Examinations
• BTECs
• Foundation courses
• HE Diplomas
• International Certificate of Christian Education
• Masters degrees
• PhDs
• T-Levels

Degree qualification

Applicants for this programme will need to have attained, or be predicted to attain, an upper second-class or first-class Bachelor's degree in an appropriate life sciences subject. We are looking for applicants whose degrees will have given them an appropriate level of understanding of human anatomy and physiology.

Please note:

Appropriate life sciences degrees include, but are not limited to the following degrees (this is not an exhaustive list):

• BDS (Dentistry)
• BMedSci
• BSc Anatomical Sciences (provided this relates to Human Anatomy)
• BSc Anatomy and Physiology
• BSc Biomedical Science
• BSc Clinical Science
• BSc Healthcare Science
• BSc Human Biology
• BSc Human Physiology
• BSc Medical Physiology and Therapeutics
• BSc Medical Science
• BSc Neuroscience
• BSc Pharmacology
• BSc Pharmaceutical Science
• BSc Physiotherapy
• BSc Sport and Exercise Science
• BSc Sport Rehabilitation and Exercise Science
• MPharm

We do not consider the following degrees to be appropriate life sciences degrees and they do not meet our entry requirements. Please note that it is not an exhaustive list:

• BSc Adult Nursing
• BSBA/BSc Ayervedic Medicine and Surgery
• BSc Biochemistry
• BSc Biochemistry with Human Biology
• BSc Biology
• BSc Biological Science (Genetics)
• BSc Biomedical Engineering
• BSc Biomedial Material Science
• BSc Botany
• BSc Cancer Biomedicine
• BSc Chemical Engineering
• BSc Chemistry
• BSc Clinical Speech and Language Sciences
• BSc Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
• BSc Diagnostic Radiology
• BSc Engineering
• BSc Forensic Anthropology
• BSc Forensic Psychology
• BSc Forensic Science
• BSc Genetics
• BSc Global Health
• BSc Human Genetics
• BSc Immunology
• BSc Marine Biology
• BSc Medical Biochemistry
• BSc Mental Health Nursing
• Bsc Molecular Cell Biology
• BSc Nursing
• BSc Operating Department Practice
• BSc Orthoptics
• BSc Podiatric Medicine
• BSc Prosthetics and Orthotics
• Bsc Psychology
• BSc Zoology

Potential applicants whose degree does not appear in the lists above are strongly advised to contact the medical admissions team (medadmissions@sheffield.ac.uk) prior to submitting an application, enclosing a degree transcript, to determine whether their degree will be acceptable or not.

We do not consider postgraduate Masters degrees (i.e. when taken as a second degree) or PhDs when determining whether you meet our academic entry requirements.

University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) requirements

Applicants for Medicine at the University of Sheffield must take the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) before they apply, in the year that they are applying. Each year, we set a minimum UCAT score threshold, which is 2430/3600 for 2025 entry.

Applications will be ranked according to their UCAT scores and only those with the highest UCAT scores will be invited to interview.

Applicants’ performance in the Situational Judgement Test component of the UCAT will only be reviewed if they are invited to interview.

More information about how we use applicants’ UCAT scores, and the scores that were required to be invited to interview in recent years, can be found on the School of Medicine and Population Health website.

Medicine selection process

Disclosure and Barring Service check

All applicants are required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure check, and will be asked in their application to declare if they have any convictions that will appear on a DBS check.

Disrupted Studies policy

If you have experienced issues of a personal, social or domestic nature that have affected either your post-16 studies, or any GCSE Qualifications that are cited in our course entry requirements, you can let us know by completing our Disrupted Studies form. Read the Medical School's Admissions Policy on Disrupted Studies carefully before submitting a Disrupted Studies form.

Disrupted Studies policy

Admissions policy

Read our A101 admissions policy

You must demonstrate that your English is good enough for you to successfully complete your course. For this course we require: GCSE English Language at grade 4/C; IELTS grade of 7.5 with a minimum of 7.0 in each component; or an alternative acceptable English language qualification