Lancaster Medicine: the admissions numbers
Lancaster ranks on the UCAT total and publishes where the line fell: 1,920 for UK applicants for 2026 entry on the current test (1,870 contextual, 1,900 overseas), after 2,580 on the old scale for 2025. UK interviews have run at 581 for 926 applications, with 325 offers for about 130 places. Offer AAA, MMI, about 10 stations, online.
Offers, contextual offers and resits
A-level offer, 2027 entry
AAA
Any two of Biology, Chemistry and Psychology, in one sitting after two years
Predicted at least AAB to be considered.
Contextual offer
ABB
If you meet two or more widening-participation criteria.
Resits
Accepts resits
Lancaster considers resit applicants who reach the grades within three years of study. ABB or above at the first attempt makes you eligible; BBB to CCC needs evidence of exceptional circumstances. The typical resit offer is A*AA. If you already have A*AA within three years, you are eligible whatever your first grades.
From Lancaster’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, 2025 entry
UK applicants, as the school released them.
Applications
926
Interviews
581
Offers
325
Interview places available rather than interviews attended.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Confirmed line and above | 1,920 | 2,700 | 40th to 50th percentile |
| Contextual route | 1,870 | 2,700 | 40th to 50th percentile |
Lines are set after applications close, so this is where the ranking stopped last cycle, not a promise about the next one.
Ranked on the UCAT total
Contextual applicants
Personal statement
Entry requirements
Interview and offers
Places for 2027 entry
UCAT cut-offs and averages, 2025 and 2026 entry
Lancaster's published admissions data. The 2026 cycle was live when published, so its averages of interviewees and offer holders were not yet given.
2026 entry, UK non-contextual cut-off
1,920
current scale; borderline pool to 10 below
Report an error in 2026 entry, UK non-contextual cut-off2026 entry, UK contextual cut-off
1,870
50 below the standard line
Report an error in 2026 entry, UK contextual cut-off2025 entry, UK non-contextual
2,580 cut-off
interviewees averaged 2,781, offer holders 2,777; old scale
Report an error in 2025 entry, UK non-contextual| Entry year and category | Interview cut-off | Average, all applicants | Average, interviewed | Average, offer holders |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/3,600 · UK, non-contextual | 2,580 | not collected | 2,781 | 2,777 |
| UK, contextual | 2,470 | not collected | 2,679 | 2,704 |
| Overseas | 2,440 | 2,426 | 2,623 | 2,641 |
| 2026/2,700 · UK, non-contextual | 1,920* | not collected | — | — |
| UK, contextual | 1,870* | not collected | — | — |
| Overseas | 1,900 | 1,872 | — | — |
* A small number scoring up to 10 below the threshold were placed in a borderline pool and interviewed as places became available, in order of prior academic performance. Contextual status is not collected at the application stage, so there is no applicant average for UK rows. In 2025 the average UK interviewee sat 200 above the cut-off and offer holders averaged the same as interviewees: the interview, not the UCAT, decided the offer.
| Entry year | Applications | Interview places | Offers | Offers per interview place | Placed from reserve list | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 727 | 513 | 268 | 52% | 0 | 157* |
| 2022 | 894 | 418 | 174 | 42% | 9 | 125 |
| 2023 | 1,009 | 353 | 174 | 49% | 36 | 125 |
| 2024 | 1,004 | 587 | 261 | 44% | 9 | 126 |
| 2025 | 926 | 581 | 325 | 56% | 20 | 131 |
Lancaster is small: about 926 UK applicants for 130 places, with 63% offered an interview place for 2025 entry and 56% of those places turning into an offer. * 2021 enrolments were inflated by the government direction to reinstate offers after the 2021 A-level results.
Where this comes from
- Lancaster Medical School's published admissions data: UCAT cut-offs and averages for 2025 and 2026 entry by category, and the UK funnel 2021 to 2025, supplied by the site owner.
- Lancaster Medical School Admissions Policy, 2027 entry (updated July 2026): the selection stages, the top-seven-decile expectation, SJT bands, contextual admissions, places and requirements.
Compiled 17 September 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables and charts so nothing has to be downloaded. Check Lancaster’s current pages before you apply; they win if anything here differs.
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