St Andrews Medicine: the admissions numbers
St Andrews checks the application as a set of hurdles, then ranks everyone who clears them on the UCAT total and interviews about 650. It publishes the minimum UCAT that reached interview: for 2026 entry, on the current test, 1,640 for rest-of-UK applicants, 1,500 for Scottish-funded and 1,710 for overseas. Rest-of-UK applicants are the smaller and more competitive pool: 162 of 456 interviewed in 2024-25. Offer AAA, MMI.
Offers, contextual offers and resits
A-level offer, 2027 entry
AAA
Chemistry, plus one of Biology, Maths or Physics, all in one sitting
Predicted at least AAB to be considered.
Contextual offer
Not stated
St Andrews's entry requirements do not give a lower contextual offer.
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Resits
Only with extenuating circumstances
Applicants who retake A levels to meet the requirements are not normally considered. With extenuating circumstances, those whose grades were borderline, typically one grade below the requirement, may be. Anything further below is not considered.
From St Andrews’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
Rest-of-UK applicants, as the school released them.
Applications
456
Interviews
162
St Andrews publishes entrants (64), not offers.
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 | 1,640 | 2,700 | 10th to 20th percentile |
Lines are set after applications close, so this is where the ranking stopped last cycle, not a promise about the next one.
Hurdles, then a UCAT ranking
Three routes, ranked separately
Widening participation
Offers
SJT and personal statement
Entry requirements
Rest of UK (UK domicile)
1,640
the line for applicants from England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Report an error in Rest of UK (UK domicile)Home funded and Scottish
1,500
the larger pool with more places
Report an error in Home funded and ScottishApplications, interviews, entrants and UCAT, by route
St Andrews' published tables for the BSc (Hons) Medicine (A100). Entrants are full-time equivalents. Lowest and average UCAT are of those selected for interview, old scale out of 3,600.
| Rest-of-UK fee status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Applications | Interviews | Entrants | Lowest UCAT | Average UCAT |
| 2020-21/3,600 | 288 | 152 | 57 | 2,400 | 2,792 |
| 2021-22/3,600 | 463 | 161 | 54 | 2,550 | 2,916 |
| 2022-23/3,600 | 562 | 146 | 50 | 2,620 | 2,907 |
| 2023-24/3,600 | 450 | 148 | 58 | 2,570 | 2,877 |
| 2024-25/3,600 | 456 | 162 | 64 | 2,770 | 2,981 |
| Home (Scottish) fee status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Applications | Interviews | Entrants | Lowest UCAT | Average UCAT |
| 2020-21/3,600 | 549 | 223 | 68 | 2,360 | 2,765 |
| 2021-22/3,600 | 493 | 249 | 83 | 2,300 | 2,776 |
| 2022-23/3,600 | 661 | 347 | 95 | 2,330 | 2,724 |
| 2023-24/3,600 | 551 | 334 | 91 | 2,260 | 2,720 |
| 2024-25/3,600 | 528 | 366 | 85 | 2,390 | 2,698 |
The two pools differ by about 400 UCAT points at the bottom and 300 at the average: in 2024-25 the rest-of-UK minimum was 2,770 against 2,390 for Scottish applicants, and the rest-of-UK average 2,981 against 2,698. Rest-of-UK applicants were interviewed at 36% against 69%, for about 64 entrants a year. The rest-of-UK minimum rose from 2,400 to 2,770 over the five years, with one dip, so the 2026 line on the new scale (1,640) is the floor of a rising trend rather than a resting place.
Where this comes from
- St Andrews' published admissions tables: applications, interviews, entrant FTE and lowest and average UCAT selected for interview, Home and rest-of-UK fee status, 2020-21 to 2024-25; and the minimum UCAT selected for interview for 2026 entry by route. Supplied by the site owner.
- St Andrews' published selection process and entry requirements: the hurdle approach, the UCAT ranking to about 650 interviews, the widening-participation uplift, SJT and personal statement use.
Compiled 17 September 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables and charts so nothing has to be downloaded. Check St Andrews’s current pages before you apply; they win if anything here differs.
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