Newcastle Medicine: the admissions numbers
Since 2025 entry Newcastle scores every Home applicant out of 100: up to 40 for the best eight GCSEs and up to 60 for the UCAT. The interview line for 2025 entry was 50 of 100 in both the standard and contextual streams. 610 of 757 Core applicants were interviewed and 466 got an offer; PARTNERS applicants ran 486 / 288 / 176. Offer AAA, MMI.
Offers, contextual offers and resits
A-level offer, 2027 entry
AAA
Biology or Chemistry, plus one of Biology, Chemistry, Maths, Further Maths, Statistics or Physics
Resits
Accepts resits
Newcastle would ideally like the grades at the first attempt, but allows a subject to be repeated once. When a subject is taken a second time, the grade required in it rises by a grade, for example from A to A*.
Newcastle's page also says: “As our entry requirements have recently changed, for 2027 and 2028 entry we will consider applicants who are not studying science subjects.” That contradicts its own requirement for Biology or Chemistry and may be a mistake on the page. To be safe, take at least one of Chemistry and Biology.
From Newcastle’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
Home non-contextual applicants, as the school released them.
Applications
990
Interviews
693
Offers
513
Numbers move every cycle; this is the most recent one the school has released.
Published UCAT line
None published
No cutoff: the UCAT is worth up to 60 of 100 screen points (2,400+ = 60, one point fewer per 10 below, 1,810 = 1) with the best eight GCSEs worth up to 40; the 2025-entry interview line was 50 points. Eight 9s need about 1,900 to reach it, eight 8s about 1,980, eight 7s about 2,060. SJT Band 4 is rejected.
Report an error in Published UCAT lineThe academic screen: 100 points
Applicants who meet the minimum entry requirements are scored and ranked; there is no pre-set score, the top of the list is interviewed. Newcastle publishes its own scoring tool; the tables below are the same rules.
Work out your Newcastle screen score
Enter your GCSEs and UCAT total to score yourself out of 100 against the 2025 line of 50. Everything is worked out from the published rules on this page; nothing is saved.
- Eight GCSEs
- 0 of 40
- 0 scored: 5 for a 9, 4 for an 8, 3 for a 7, 1 for a 6
- UCAT
- enter your total
- 60 at 2,400, one fewer per 10 below, 1 at 1,810 or under
Enter your UCAT total to compare with the line.
Newcastle scores eight GCSEs; you have entered 0.
GCSEs: up to 40 points
| Grade | Points |
|---|---|
| 9 / A* | 5 |
| 8 | 4 |
| 7 / A | 3 |
| 6 / B | 1 |
| 5 / C | 0 |
UCAT: up to 60 points
| UCAT | Points |
|---|---|
| 2,400 or above | 60 |
| 2,300 | 50 |
| 2,200 | 40 |
| 2,100 | 30 |
| 2,000 | 20 |
| 1,900 | 10 |
| 1,810 or below | 1 |
Then interview, weighted 50:50
Two streams
Offers and subjects
Interview thresholds, 2021 to 2025 entry
From Newcastle’s slides. For 2021 to 2024 entry the line is a UCAT total out of 3,600, because Newcastle shortlisted on the UCAT alone. For 2025 entry it is 50 of 100 points, because Newcastle switched to scoring the UCAT (up to 60) and the best eight GCSEs (up to 40) together; 50 was simply where that ranking stopped. International applicants are still ranked on UCAT alone, so their column stays a UCAT total.
The Core threshold against the national average UCAT
Measured from that year's national average, so the bar is how far above the typical candidate Newcastle's line sat. Old scale out of 3,600, 2021 to 2024 — the 2025 line was a points score, not a UCAT, so it is not here. Hover or tab to a year.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 entry | 2,820 | national average 2,511 |
| 2022 entry | 2,800 | national average 2,570 |
| 2023 entry | 2,820 | national average 2,500 |
| 2024 entry | 2,490 | national average 2,516 |
Three years at about 300 points above the national average, then 2024 at barely any gap at all. A threshold is set against the applicants who turn up, not against a standard.
| Entry year | National average UCAT | Core | Contextual | International |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/3,600 | 2,511 | 2,820 | 2,720 | 2,820 |
| 2022/3,600 | 2,570 | 2,800 | 2,719 | 2,870 |
| 2023/3,600 | 2,500 | 2,820 | 2,700 | 2,600 |
| 2024/3,600 | 2,516 | 2,490 | 2,490 | 2,910 |
| 2025/3,600 | 2,523 | 50 of 100 points | 50 of 100 points | 2,980 |
| 2025 interviewees | Core | Widening participation |
|---|---|---|
| Overall, out of 100: mean (range) | 82 (50–100) | 70 (50–100) |
| GCSE/A-level points, out of 40 | 37 (19–40) | 34 (16–40) |
| UCAT points, out of 60 | 45 (10–60) | 36 (10–60) |
What the 2025 line means in grades and scores: to reach 50 of 100, eight GCSEs at 8 (32 points) needed a UCAT of 1,980; eight 7s (24 points) needed 2,060; four 7s and four 6s (16 points, the lowest GCSE profile interviewed) needed 2,140. The line is the floor, not the norm: the mean Core interviewee scored 82, which with eight 8s is a UCAT of about 2,300.
The 2024 Core and contextual lines fell to 2,490, near the national average, when applications dropped. The FOI puts the average 2025 interviewee at 41.11 UCAT points and 77.29 overall. The lowest scores it recorded among those interviewed were 43 overall (7 UCAT points) for a non-contextual applicant and 41 overall (5 UCAT points) for a contextual one, both below the 50 line because of discretionary waivers; Newcastle advises against reading them as thresholds.
Applications, interviews, offers and registrations
Home applicants by stream from the FOI, 2021 to 2025 entry. Newcastle has around 300 to 320 Home places a year.
2025 entry, Core applications
757
610 interviewed, 81%
Report an error in 2025 entry, Core applications2025 entry, PARTNERS interviewed
59%
176 offers from 288 interviews
Report an error in 2025 entry, PARTNERS interviewed| Entry year | Core | PARTNERS | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry year | Applied | Interviewed | Interviewed rate | Offered | Registered | Applied | Interviewed | Interviewed rate | Offered | Registered |
| 2021 | 1,281 | 704 | 55% | 436 | 224 | 331 | 132 | 40% | 70 | 62 |
| 2022 | 1,121 | 684 | 61% | 386 | 213 | 285 | 139 | 49% | 70 | 61 |
| 2023 | 838 | 624 | 74% | 377 | 190 | 259 | 170 | 66% | 86 | 70 |
| 2024 | 652 | 570 | 87% | 368 | 171 | 336 | 278 | 83% | 122 | 90 |
| 2025 | 757 | 610 | 81% | 466 | — | 486 | 288 | 59% | 176 | — |
| 2025 entry | Applications | Interviews | Offers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home, non-contextual | 990 | 693 | 513 |
| Home, PARTNERS | 487 | 289 | 177 |
| Home, contextual (Newcastle's criteria) | 89 | 46 | 33 |
| Home, Pathways to Medicine (Sutton Trust) | 28 | 19 | 12 |
| Home, Realising Opportunities | 5 | <5 | <5 |
| International | 494 | 126 | 109 |
All A100 applications by entry year
Newcastle interviews a large share of Core applicants (81% in 2025) and makes offers to 76% of those it interviews, so once you are over the screen line the interview decides. PARTNERS applicants are interviewed at a lower rate and converted at a lower rate, because they compete within their own stream.
Where this comes from
- Newcastle University School of Medicine, MBBS Admissions Policy for 2027 entry: the academic screen, points tables, SJT rules, 50:50 final score, streams and offers.
- Newcastle’s “UCAT and academic thresholds in recent academic cycles” slides (2025): thresholds 2021 to 2025, the national average UCAT, 2025 interviewee statistics and A100 applications by year.
- An FOI response for 2025 entry: applications, interviews and offers by category; Core and PARTNERS numbers 2021 to 2025; lowest and average scores of those interviewed; SJT and personal statement use.
Compiled 17 September 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables so nothing has to be downloaded. Check Newcastle’s current policy before you apply; it wins if anything here differs.
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