Buckingham Medicine: fees and how it selects
Buckingham is the UK’s only private medical school. UK students pay £41,500 a year, about £186,750 for the four-and-a-half-year course, which starts in January. It does not use the UCAT: it screens on academics, then sets its own computer-based assessment and an MMI. The offer is ABB with Chemistry or Biology.
Offers, contextual offers and resits
A-level offer, 2027 entry
ABB
Chemistry or Biology
Contextual offer
Not stated
Buckingham's entry requirements do not give a lower contextual offer.
Resits
No policy published
Buckingham's course page sets no resit rule; it says only that qualifications older than five years are not considered. Ask admissions if you are resitting.
From Buckingham’s own admissions pages for 2027 entry, checked 1 October 2026. Where a box says not stated, the school’s pages do not mention it.
What it costs
From Buckingham's course page, for the January 2028 start. Fees may rise each year with RPI inflation.
| Fee status | First year | Whole course |
|---|---|---|
| UK | £41,500 | £186,750 |
| International | £47,000 | £211,500 |
A non-refundable £10,000 deposit secures a place and counts towards the first year; it is refunded if you miss the conditions of the offer. The tuition loan is capped at £6,525 a year whatever the fee.
1. Academic screening
2. Multiple Mini Assessment
3. Multiple Mini Interview
- A-levels
- ABB: Chemistry or Biology. The UK's only private medical school. Qualifications older than five years are not considered, and BTECs are not accepted. Its course page says applications were paused from 20 May because of demand, so check they are open before you plan on it.
- GCSEs
- English and Maths at grade 4.
- UCAT
- Not used: Buckingham does not ask for the UCAT. It screens on academics and selects with its own computer-based assessment and an MMI.
- SJT band
- Not used, since the UCAT is not.
- Personal statement
- Not stated.
- Interview
- MMI, after a computer-based assessment. Academic screening, then a digital Multiple Mini Assessment, then the MMI; exceptional applicants can get an offer after the assessment.
- Contextual applicants
- No contextual scheme published.
- Resits
- No policy published. Buckingham's course page sets no resit rule; it says only that qualifications older than five years are not considered. Ask admissions if you are resitting.
Where this comes from
- The University of Buckingham's MB ChB Medicine (4.5-year degree) course page: entry requirements, the three selection stages, fees, student finance and the deposit.
Compiled 1 October 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables and charts so nothing has to be downloaded. Check Buckingham’s current pages before you apply; they win if anything here differs.
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