King’s Medicine: the admissions numbers
Five cycles of King’s own statistics, every 2023 and 2024 interviewee’s interview score and UCAT next to whether they got an offer, and the 150-point score King’s gives an application before anyone is invited in. Offer A*AA, MMI.
Offers, contextual offers and resits
A-level offer, 2027 entry
A*AA
Biology and Chemistry, both at A or above
Contextual offer
Not stated
King's College London's entry requirements do not give a lower contextual offer.
Resits
Accepts resits
King's can consider applicants who have retaken their qualifications, but they are reviewed alongside applicants who got the grades within the normal timeframe, who may be viewed more favourably. A second resit is only considered with significant mitigating circumstances and a Mitigating Circumstances form. Taking the same subject again at the same level, even in a different qualification, counts as a resit.
From King's College London’s own admissions pages for 2027 entry, checked 27 September 2026. Where a box says not stated, the school’s pages do not mention it.
How many were competing, 2024 entry
Home applicants, as the school released them.
Applications
1,981
Interviews
796
Offers
609
Numbers move every cycle; this is the most recent one the school has released.
Where the UCAT line sits
On the current scale out of 2,700, against the final 2026 decile boundaries. Hover or tab to a band for its figures.
| From | To | Detail | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest to typical interviewee | 1,760 | 2,330 | converted from the old scale by percentile |
King's College London publishes no line. This is the band its own figures describe, which is the nearest thing to one.
How King’s scores your application: 150 points before interview
Every application is marked out of 150 (170 with contextual points) and ranked; the interview list comes off the top of that ranking. Three things go into it.
UCAT
100 points
Your percentile among that year’s applicants to King’s, not the national pool. Top 1% of King’s applicants is the 99th percentile and scores 99; the median applicant scores 50. Because King’s applicants score well above the national average, your percentile here is lower than the national decile table suggests.
SJT
10 points
Band 1 scores 10, Band 2 scores 5, Bands 3 and 4 score 0. Band 4 is an automatic reject, which makes Band 3 the risky one: still in, but 10 points behind a Band 1 with the same everything else.
GCSEs
40 points
Counted by grades at 8 or 9: 8 or more earns 40, 7 earns 30, 6 earns 20, 5 earns 10. Minimums matter less than at Imperial, but you still need grade 6 in English Language and Mathematics.
Contextual points
20 points, all or nothing
King’s checks the UCAS data for contextual indicators. Trigger at least one and the full 20 points are added to the raw total; trigger none and the field is 0. There is no partial credit. The indicators include:
- POLAR4 quintile 1 or 2 (a neighbourhood with low progression to university)
- ACORN category 4 or 5
- care experience
- a low-performing state school
- completion of an official widening-participation programme such as Realising Opportunities
What decides an offer once you are interviewed
King’s released every interviewee’s interview score, UCAT total and outcome for the 2023 and 2024 cycles. Two things stand out: the interview score decides, and the UCAT that got you the interview stops mattering.
2023: offered after interview
58%
645 of 1,116 interviewees
Report an error in 2023: offered after interview2024: offered after interview
77%
760 of 981 interviewees
Report an error in 2024: offered after interview2023: UCAT vs interview score
0.02
correlation; 0 means no relationship
Report an error in 2023: UCAT vs interview score2024: UCAT vs interview score
0.09
correlation; 0 means no relationship
Report an error in 2024: UCAT vs interview score2023: share offered, by interview score
Every interviewee that cycle, banded by their interview score. Hover or tab to a band for the count behind it.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 50% | 0% | 0 of 43 interviewees |
| 50 to 59% | 0% | 0 of 111 interviewees |
| 60 to 64% | 0% | 0 of 79 interviewees |
| 65 to 69% | 10% | 10 of 104 interviewees |
| 70 to 74% | 31% | 52 of 170 interviewees |
| 75 to 79% | 91% | 161 of 177 interviewees |
| 80 to 89% | 98% | 279 of 285 interviewees |
| 90% and above | 95% | 76 of 80 interviewees |
67 interviewees with no score held (all offered) are left out. 26 people scored 75% or more and were still rejected; 0 got an offer with under 65%.
2024: share offered, by interview score
Every interviewee that cycle, banded by their interview score. Hover or tab to a band for the count behind it.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 50% | 0% | 0 of 28 interviewees |
| 50 to 59% | 9% | 6 of 64 interviewees |
| 60 to 64% | 17% | 14 of 84 interviewees |
| 65 to 69% | 59% | 65 of 111 interviewees |
| 70 to 74% | 98% | 129 of 131 interviewees |
| 75 to 79% | 97% | 154 of 158 interviewees |
| 80 to 89% | 97% | 257 of 266 interviewees |
| 90% and above | 96% | 104 of 108 interviewees |
31 interviewees with no score held (all offered) are left out. 17 people scored 75% or more and were still rejected; 20 got an offer with under 65%.
The line moved between cycles: in 2023 an interview score of 75% or more was all but an offer and nothing under 65% got one; in 2024, with more offers to give, the near-certain line dropped to 70%. Where the line sits depends on how many offers King’s needs that year, so aim well above it rather than at it.
UCAT no longer counts once you are in the room
Among interviewees, the share offered barely changes across UCAT bands, and higher UCAT scorers did not interview better. The UCAT buys the interview; the interview buys the offer.
2023: share offered, by UCAT band
The same interviewees, banded by UCAT instead. Hover or tab to a band for the count.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2,700 | 65% | 15 of 23 interviewees |
| 2,700 to 2,799 | 53% | 25 of 47 interviewees |
| 2,800 to 2,899 | 58% | 114 of 196 interviewees |
| 2,900 to 2,999 | 54% | 167 of 307 interviewees |
| 3,000 to 3,099 | 54% | 123 of 226 interviewees |
| 3,100 to 3,199 | 58% | 97 of 168 interviewees |
| 3,200 to 3,299 | 54% | 37 of 69 interviewees |
| 3,300 and above | 65% | 24 of 37 interviewees |
Compare the shape with the chart above. Interview score sorts people; UCAT, at this stage, does not.
2024: share offered, by UCAT band
The same interviewees, banded by UCAT instead. Hover or tab to a band for the count.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2,700 | 92% | 11 of 12 interviewees |
| 2,700 to 2,799 | 73% | 16 of 22 interviewees |
| 2,800 to 2,899 | 77% | 86 of 111 interviewees |
| 2,900 to 2,999 | 77% | 225 of 292 interviewees |
| 3,000 to 3,099 | 73% | 169 of 230 interviewees |
| 3,100 to 3,199 | 77% | 115 of 149 interviewees |
| 3,200 to 3,299 | 79% | 71 of 90 interviewees |
| 3,300 and above | 85% | 33 of 39 interviewees |
Compare the shape with the chart above. Interview score sorts people; UCAT, at this stage, does not.
| UCAT band (old scale) | 2023 | 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCAT band | Interviewed | Offered | Mean interview | Interviewed | Offered | Mean interview |
| Under 2,700 | 23 | 65% | 70% | 12 | 92% | 78% |
| 2,700 to 2,799 | 47 | 53% | 72% | 22 | 73% | 75% |
| 2,800 to 2,899 | 196 | 58% | 74% | 111 | 77% | 73% |
| 2,900 to 2,999 | 307 | 54% | 74% | 292 | 77% | 75% |
| 3,000 to 3,099 | 226 | 54% | 73% | 230 | 73% | 75% |
| 3,100 to 3,199 | 168 | 58% | 75% | 149 | 77% | 76% |
| 3,200 to 3,299 | 69 | 54% | 72% | 90 | 79% | 77% |
| 3,300 and above | 37 | 65% | 74% | 39 | 85% | 79% |
Bands with a handful of people swing on one applicant; read the middle of the table.
Five cycles of published statistics, 2020 to 2024
From King’s own admissions statistics. A cycle is named for its entry year: the 2024 cycle ran from 2023 to 2024. Domicile, not fee status, splits UK from non-UK, so the split is consistent across Brexit. In 2024, 2,810 applied, 982 were interviewed and 328 enrolled.
Applications to enrolments, all domiciles
Rates are interviews per application, offers per interview, and acceptances per offer.
| Cycle | Applications | Interviews | Offers | Acceptances | Enrolments | Interviewed | Offered after interview | Accepted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2,881 | 1,060 | 740 | 340 | 338 | 37% | 70% | 46% |
| 2021 | 3,911 | 1,049 | 703 | 328 | 321 | 27% | 67% | 47% |
| 2022 | 3,703 | 1,101 | 553 | 330 | 322 | 30% | 50% | 60% |
| 2023 | 3,457 | 1,116 | 645 | 341 | 337 | 32% | 58% | 53% |
| 2024 | 2,810 | 982 | 762 | 332 | 328 | 35% | 78% | 44% |
UCAT at each stage, all domiciles
Old-scale totals out of 3,600. King’s says the lowest figures are not cut-offs: not everyone above them was interviewed or offered. SJT: best band seen, worst band seen, and the most common.
| Cycle | Applicants | Interviewees | Offer holders | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cycle | Lowest | Mean | Highest | SJT best / worst / modal | Lowest | Mean | Highest | SJT best / worst / modal | Lowest | Mean | Highest | SJT best / worst / modal |
| 2020/3,600 | 1,440 | 2,607 | 3,440 | 1 / 4 / 2 | 2,400 | 2,810 | 3,440 | 1 / 3 / 2 | 2,400 | 2,814 | 3,300 | 1 / 3 / 2 |
| 2021/3,600 | 1,480 | 2,669 | 3,440 | 1 / 4 / 1 | 2,220 | 2,932 | 3,440 | 1 / 3 / 1 | 2,220 | 2,927 | 3,430 | 1 / 3 / 1 |
| 2022/3,600 | 1,490 | 2,713 | 3,420 | 1 / 4 / 2 | 2,380 | 2,948 | 3,380 | 1 / 3 / 2 | 2,420 | 2,955 | 3,380 | 1 / 3 / 2 |
| 2023/3,600 | 1,400 | 2,732 | 3,480 | 1 / 4 / 2 | 2,470 | 2,997 | 3,480 | 1 / 3 / 2 | 2,470 | 2,994 | 3,480 | 1 / 3 / 1 |
| 2024/3,600 | 1,720 | 2,744 | 3,510 | 1 / 4 / 2 | 2,340 | 3,020 | 3,510 | 1 / 3 / 1 | 2,340 | 3,019 | 3,510 | 1 / 3 / 1 |
Interview scores, all domiciles
Interview score as a percentage, for everyone interviewed and for those who then received an offer. Rounded to whole numbers by King’s.
| Cycle | All interviewees | Offer holders | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cycle | Lowest | Mean | Highest | Lowest | Mean | Highest |
| 2020 | 47% | 76% | 95% | 58% | 80% | 95% |
| 2021 | 26% | 74% | 99% | 51% | 81% | 99% |
| 2022 | 25% | 75% | 100% | 61% | 83% | 100% |
| 2023 | 33% | 74% | 100% | 65% | 82% | 100% |
| 2024 | 31% | 75% | 100% | 51% | 79% | 100% |
Where this comes from
- King’s College London, “Admissions statistics for Undergraduate Medicine (UCAS code: A100)”, cycles 2020 to 2024: applications through enrolments by domicile, UCAT and SJT statistics for applicants, interviewees and offer holders, and interview score ranges.
- King’s College London FOI response, Annex B: every applicant invited to interview in the 2023 and 2024 cycles with interview score, UCAT total and offer outcome (2,097 rows). Applicant identifiers are not reproduced.
- The 150-point scoring model is MedOffr’s summary of how King’s selects for interview. Check the current admissions statement before you apply; it wins if the two disagree.
Compiled 17 September 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables so nothing has to be downloaded.
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