Southampton · A100 (BM5)2021 to 2024 cyclesConfirmed as of 19 September 2026

Southampton Medicine: the admissions numbers

Southampton ranks everyone who meets the entry requirements by UCAT and interviews the top; an FOI gives four cycles of interviews and offers by category and the lowest UCAT invited each year. In the 2024 cycle c.689 Home non-contextual applicants were interviewed from a lowest UCAT of 2,610 out of 3,600, and c.449 got an offer. Offer AAA, Panel, plus an observed group task.

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A-level offer, 2027 entry

AAA

Biology, plus one of Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Sociology, Environmental Studies or Geography

Contextual offer

AAB

Same subjects; you need two contextual flags.

Southampton's contextual criteria(opens in a new tab)

Resits

Accepts resits

Southampton accepts resits and does not raise its grade requirements for them.

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From Southampton’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

All applicants, as the school released them.

Applications

1,309

64% of applications

Interviews

834

69% of interviews

Offers

574

Numbers move every cycle; this is the most recent one the school has released.

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Published UCAT line

None published

No fixed cutoff: everyone meeting the requirements is ranked by UCAT and the top are interviewed. Ballpark 1,900 to 2,000 on the current scale; the FOI lines (2,610 to 2,810 for Home non-contextual, old scale) are on the data page. The SJT is not used.

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Years here are UCAS cycles, named for the year the course starts. The 2024 cycle means applying by 15 October 2023, after sitting the UCAT that summer, when it was out of 3,600, to start the course in autumn 2024.
Every UCAT figure is on the old scale out of 3,600. The current test is out of 2,700; no figure here is your score’s equal as published. The Convert button under the UCAT table carries each cycle (read as its entry year, so the test the year before) to the same percentile on this year’s test, as our estimate.
“c.” in front of a number means “circa”, about: Southampton gave every count as an approximate figure that may be one or two out. Totals include graduates, mature applicants and applicants not yet classified, so the categories do not add up to the total. Applications are not split by contextual status because Southampton stops classifying once it has enough applicants to interview.
“Lowest UCAT invited” is the lowest score of anyone interviewed in that group; one applicant can set it, and the 2024 contextual line (2,370) shows how far it can sit below the non-contextual one.

How Southampton selects

Ranked by UCAT once the requirements are met

Everyone who meets the entry requirements on achieved or predicted grades is ranked by UCAT score and the top applicants are invited to interview.

A panel interview and a group task, then offers on that alone

A selection day: a panel interview and an observed group task. Selectors look for self-motivation and resilience, reflection on life experiences (work experience, paid employment and personal experience in or out of health and social care), effective communication, interaction with others, and an understanding of the NHS Constitution's values. Offers are made on interview performance. UCAT is used after interview only to split a tie in selection-day scores.

Personal statement and SJT

Used at the selection-day interview. Southampton does not currently use the Situational Judgement Test.

Entry requirements

AAA including Biology and one additional science, with a pass in the practical element where it is separately endorsed. Grade or tariff equivalents to AAA are not accepted. GCSEs: Seven GCSEs at grade 6 or above, including English Language, Mathematics, and either Biology and Chemistry, Combined Science, or Science and Additional Science. The same minimum applies to contextual applicants.

Interviews, offers and the UCAT line, 2021 to 2024

From FOI F25-0354. Two tables. The first counts people: how many applied, how many were interviewed and how many got an offer in each cycle, split by category. The second is UCAT scores only: the lowest UCAT of anyone invited to interview in each category, out of 3,600. “c.” means about.

2024, applicants

c.1,309

about 1,071 Home and c.238 international

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2024, Home non-contextual interviewed

c.689

c.449 offers, 65% of those interviewed

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2024, lowest UCAT invited, non-contextual

2,610

contextual 2,370, international 2,850

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Table 1: how many applied, were interviewed and got an offer

Cycle	Applicants, total	International	Interviews, total	Home non-contextual	Home contextual	International	Offers, total	Home non-contextual	Home contextual	International
2021	c.1,936	c.299	c.762	c.565	c.74	c.66	c.377	c.298	c.31	c.15
2022	c.1,974	c.242	c.846	c.628	c.78	c.71	c.427	c.343	c.31	c.17
2023	c.1,725	c.231	c.807	c.648	c.42	c.59	c.394	c.320	c.23	c.17
2024	c.1,309	c.238	c.834	c.689	c.77	c.56	c.574	c.449	c.52	c.18

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Table 2: the lowest UCAT score invited to interview

Every cell is a UCAT score out of 3,600 (the old four-subtest test): the lowest score of anyone in that category who was invited to interview that cycle. So in 2024 no Home non-contextual applicant with a UCAT under 2,610 was interviewed, but a contextual applicant was interviewed with 2,370. “All applicants” is the lowest across every category including graduates and mature applicants, which is why it sits below the others.

Cycle	Lowest UCAT, all applicants	Lowest UCAT, Home non-contextual	Lowest UCAT, Home contextual	Lowest UCAT, international
2021/3,600	2,260	2,680	2,620	2,710
2022/3,600	2,290	2,750	2,570	2,750
2023/3,600	2,120	2,810	2,540	2,770
2024/3,600	2,370	2,610	2,370	2,850

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The shape is steady: around 800 interviews a year, most of them Home non-contextual, and offers to roughly half of Home non-contextual interviewees until 2024, when offers jumped to 65% and the line fell to 2,610 as applications dropped to c.1,309. Contextual applicants were interviewed from 40 to 270 points lower each year.

Where this comes from

University of Southampton FOI F25-0354 (22 September 2025): applicants, interviews, offers and lowest UCAT invited by category for the 2021 to 2024 cycles.
Southampton’s published entry requirements and selection process for the BM5.

Compiled 17 September 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables so nothing has to be downloaded. Check Southampton’s current pages before you apply; they win if anything here differs.

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Southampton Medicine: the admissions numbers

Offers, contextual offers and resits

How Southampton selects

Interviews, offers and the UCAT line, 2021 to 2024

Table 1: how many applied, were interviewed and got an offer

Table 2: the lowest UCAT score invited to interview

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