Plymouth Medicine: the admissions numbers
Peninsula selects for interview on a UCAT threshold it sets once the applications are in, and publishes the last three: 2,600 for Home applicants for 2025 entry, 2,210 for 2024 and 2,680 for 2023, all on the old scale. For 2025 entry 834 of 1,101 Home applicants were interviewed and 559 got an offer for about 150 places. Offer A*AA, MMI.
Offers, contextual offers and resits
A-level offer, 2027 entry
A*AA
Biology at A, plus a second science from Chemistry, Physics, Maths or Psychology at A
Predicted at least AAB to be considered.
Contextual offer
AAB
For widening-access applicants; ABB (A in Biology, B in a second science) through UKWPMED.
Peninsula Pathways and the UKWPMED scheme(opens in a new tab)
Resits
Accepts resits
With predicted grades you need at least ABB at the first sitting; otherwise resit and apply once you have the grades. A levels must be completed within three years of study, and the grades reached at the first resit attempt.
From Plymouth (Peninsula)’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 applicants, as the school released them.
Applications
1,101
Interviews
834
Offers
559
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 | 1,650 | 1,990 | converted from the old scale by percentile |
Plymouth (Peninsula) publishes no line. This is the band its own figures describe, which is the nearest thing to one.
A UCAT threshold set each year
No weighting, no statement, no SJT
GCSEs
A-levels
Interview and offers
UCAT cut-offs, 2023 to 2025 entry
Plymouth's published thresholds for interview selection, old scale out of 3,600.
2025 entry, Home cut-off
2,600
old scale; international 2,670
Report an error in 2025 entry, Home cut-off2024 entry, Home cut-off
2,210
the low year: applications had fallen by 43%
Report an error in 2024 entry, Home cut-off2025 entry, widening access
2,540
UKWPMED and widening-access AAB applicants
Report an error in 2025 entry, widening accessHow far the Home line moved each year
Measured from 2,497, the average of the three published Home cut-offs — not from zero, because a line of 2,210 and a line of 2,680 are both a long way up the scale and the gap between them is the whole story. Hover or tab to a year for its figure.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 entry | 2,680 | international 2,440 |
| 2024 entry | 2,210 | international 2,600 |
| 2025 entry | 2,600 | international 2,670 |
A swing of 470 points in three years, on a threshold Plymouth sets only after it has seen the applications. This is the clearest argument on the site against treating any cut-off as a target.
| Entry year | Home | International | Widening access |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/3,600 | 2,680 | 2,440 | 2,330(UKWPMED) |
| 2024/3,600 | 2,210 | 2,600 | 2,210(UKWPMED) |
| 2025/3,600 | 2,600 | 2,670 | 2,540(UKWPMED and widening-access AAB applicants) |
Home applications by entry year
Counts, so these bars do start at zero. Hover or tab to a year for what happened to those applications.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 entry | 1,338 | 660 interviews, 334 offers |
| 2024 entry | 769 | 680 interviews, 376 offers |
| 2025 entry | 1,101 | 834 interviews, 559 offers |
Applications fell 43% for 2024 entry and came most of the way back for 2025, while interviews rose every year regardless. That is why the cut-off moved the way it did.
| Entry year | Home applications | Home interviews | Interviewed | Home offers | Offers per interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,338 | 660 | 49% | 334 | 51% |
| 2024 | 769 | 680 | 88% | 376 | 55% |
| 2025 | 1,101 | 834 | 76% | 559 | 67% |
Interviews have risen every year while applications swung, so the interview rate went from 49% to 88% and back to 76%; that is the cut-off table in another form. Offers per interview rose to 67% for 2025 entry, 559 offers for about 150 places.
UCAT of those interviewed, by widening-participation status
FOI 236-2024, all fee statuses. Lowest and highest, the average and its standard deviation. Old scale.
The UCAT range that reached an interview
Lowest to highest, with the dot at the average, on the old scale out of 3,600. Hover or tab to a row for its figures.
| From | To | Detail | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023, widening participation | 2,330 | 3,040 | 56 interviewed |
| 2023, everyone else | 2,680 | 3,310 | 1,504 interviewed |
| 2024, widening participation | 2,210 | 3,070 | 60 interviewed |
| 2024, everyone else | 2,210 | 3,270 | 822 interviewed |
The widening-participation band starts lower and is much wider, and its average is only about 80 points below the rest — a handful of people at the bottom, not a different standard.
| Entry year | WP applicants | WP interviewed: lowest / highest | average (SD) | Other applicants | interviewed: lowest / highest | average (SD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/3,600 | 56 | 2,330 / 3,040 | 2,702 (174) | 1,504 | 2,680 / 3,310 | 2,780 (102) |
| 2024/3,600 | 60 | 2,210 / 3,070 | 2,635 (202) | 822 | 2,210 / 3,270 | 2,711 (176) |
In 2023 the average non-WP interviewee had 2,780 with a standard deviation of only 102: a tight band just above the 2,680 cut-off, which is what a pure threshold produces. In 2024 the line dropped to 2,210 and the spread widened.
Where this comes from
- Peninsula Medical School's published UCAT cut-offs for 2023, 2024 and 2025 entry and its entry requirements, supplied by the site owner.
- University of Plymouth FOI0131/2026: Home applications, interviews and offers for 2023 to 2025 entry; places; the personal statement, SJT, weighting and EPQ answers.
- FOI 236-2024: 2023 and 2024 entry by widening-participation status, with the UCAT range, average and standard deviation of interviewees.
Compiled 17 September 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables and charts so nothing has to be downloaded. Check Plymouth’s current pages before you apply; they win if anything here differs.
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