Sunderland Medicine: the admissions numbers
Sunderland uses the UCAT as a threshold only: the total must be in the top eight deciles of the year’s cohort with SJT Band 1 to 3, and then a 14-point selection tool (three questions and your work experience) ranks for interview. For 2026 entry 720 of 1,098 Home applicants were interviewed and 451 got an offer; for 2025 the lowest interviewee had 2,260 on the old scale. Offer AAA, MMI.
Offers, contextual offers and resits
A-level offer, 2027 entry
AAA
Biology or Chemistry, plus another science from Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Further Maths or Statistics, plus a third academic subject, in one sitting
Contextual offer
AAB
With free school meals or a UCAT bursary; ABB for firm-choice applicants from the North East and Cumbria who meet a widening-participation criterion.
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Resits
Accepts resits
Sunderland accepts A level resits in certain circumstances: with AAB, you only resit the subject you got a B in, one attempt only, in the same subject.
From Sunderland’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, 2026 entry
Home applicants, as the school released them.
Applications
1,098
Interviews
720
Offers
451
Numbers move every cycle; this is the most recent one the school has released.
UCAT, usually competitive
Top 80%
The UCAT is a threshold only: the total must be in the top eight deciles (above 1,700 on the final 2026 deciles; Sunderland's adjusted minimums for 2020 to 2024 were 1,650 to 1,690) with SJT Band 1 to 3. Above it the UCAT is not ranked or weighted; a 14-point selection tool (three questions and work experience) ranks for interview.
Report an error in UCAT, usually competitiveA UCAT threshold, not a ranking
The interview selection tool, out of 14
Numeracy test and personal statement
Offers
A-levels
GCSEs
Home applications, interviews and offers, 2023 to 2026 entry
FOI2526-07-17 and FOI2627/008/08. Lowest and average UCAT are of Home applicants invited to interview, old scale.
2026 entry, Home offers
451
63% of interviews; conditional or unconditional at any point
Report an error in 2026 entry, Home offers2025 entry, lowest interviewed
2,260
average 2,543; old scale; 117 target places
Report an error in 2025 entry, lowest interviewed| Entry year | Home applications | Interviews | Interviewed | Offers | Offers per interview | Target places | Lowest UCAT interviewed: non-contextual | contextual | Average interviewed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/3,600 | 981 | 473 | 48% | 180 | 38% | 100 | 2,260 | 2,260 | 2,554 |
| 2024/3,600 | 1,044 | 477 | 46% | 237 | 50% | 98 | 2,280 | 2,320 | 2,559 |
| 2025/3,600 | 1,105 | 731 | 66% | 353 | 48% | 117 | 2,260 | 2,260 | 2,543 |
| 2026 | 1,098 | 720 | 66% | 451 | 63% | — | — | — | — |
Interviews jumped from under 480 to over 700 for 2025 entry and offers have risen every year, to 63% of interviews for 2026. The lowest interviewed sat at 2,260 to 2,280 on the old scale in every year with the contextual line no lower, consistent with a threshold that is the same for everyone.
Sunderland's adjusted minimum scores, 2020 to 2024
Published by Sunderland: the past minimums restated for the current test by removing Abstract Reasoning.
| Year | Adjusted minimum |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 1,690 |
| 2021 | 1,670 |
| 2022 | 1,650 |
| 2023 | 1,680 |
| 2024 | 1,670 |
These are Sunderland’s own restatements of the top-eight-deciles rule on the current scale, and they sit within 40 points of each other. Treat the 2nd-decile boundary of the year you apply as the line, and the SJT band as a hard gate: Band 4 is rejected.
Where this comes from
- University of Sunderland FOI2526-07-17: Home applications, interviews, lowest and average UCAT of interviewees, offers and target places for 2023 to 2025 entry; personal statement, SJT and weighting answers.
- University of Sunderland FOI2627/008/08 (August 2026): 2026-entry Home applications, interviews and offers; the interview selection tool; the numeracy test withdrawn; SJT as a threshold only.
- Sunderland's published UCAT rule and adjusted minimum scores 2020 to 2024, and its entry requirements, supplied by the site owner.
Compiled 17 September 2026. The figures are reproduced as tables and charts so nothing has to be downloaded. Check Sunderland’s current pages before you apply; they win if anything here differs.
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