UCAT 1,900 to 1,940: where can you apply for Medicine?
Every total in this band reads the same way at all 34 schools, which is why it is one page: it is the 4th to 5th decile on the preliminary 2026 boundaries, it clears the confirmed line at 6 of the schools that publish one and misses it at 10. The rest rank by decile or blend the UCAT with GCSEs and grades, so the score alone does not decide them. Every verdict comes from the same rules as the school finder, which adds your grades, GCSEs, SJT band and contextual indicators.
This band, across all 34 schools
Read at 1,900, the bottom of the band, for a standard rest-of-UK applicant
- 7
- competitive
- 14
- possible
- 13
- out of reach
- 14
- read against no published line
Competitive7
The score clears these schools' confirmed line, or sits in a decile they treat as competitive.
Confirmed line 1,900 · from exactly it, a thin clear
Clears 1,900, the lowest score invited for 2026 entry.
Competition (2024 entry, Home applicants): 35% interviewed · 40% of those offered
St George's, University of London
Confirmed line 1,880 · 20 to 60 over it, a thin clear
Clears the 1,880 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 60% interviewed · 74% of those offered
Competitive from 1,840 to 1,870 · 60 to 100 over the low end
At or above the top of the 1,840 to 1,870 range.
Competition (2025 entry, Home non-contextual applicants): 70% interviewed · 74% of those offered
3rd decile and above competitive
Sunderland uses the UCAT as a threshold only — the top eight deciles, with SJT Band 1 to 3 — and does not rank on it at all; a 14-point work-experience tool decides who is interviewed. Its own conversions of its past minimums to the current scale were 1,650 to 1,690.
1,900 to 1,940 clears the 1,690 those conversions give, so the threshold is not the problem here. A score in the 4th decile is just below the middle of the ranking, so the rest of the application has to carry it.
Competition (2026 entry, Home applicants): 66% interviewed · 63% of those offered
Confirmed line 1,720 · 180 to 220 over it
Clears 1,720, the lowest score invited for 2026 entry.
Competition (2026 entry, rest-of-UK school leavers): 74% interviewed · 83% of those offered
Confirmed line 1,700 · 200 to 240 over it
Clears the 1,700 minimum published for 2027 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 42% interviewed · 53% of those offered
Confirmed line 1,640 · 260 to 300 over it
Clears 1,640, the lowest score invited for 2026 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, rest-of-UK applicants): 36% interviewed
Possible14
In reach but not comfortable: inside a caution zone, under a competitive decile, or on a figure that is last cycle's rather than confirmed.
Barts and The London (Queen Mary)
9th decile and above competitive
Queen Mary rejects anything below the fourth national decile, then adds the UCAT to the UCAS tariff for your predicted grades and ranks the sum 50/50, so a strong prediction can carry a lower score. Its 2023-cycle Home line was 2,720 out of 3,600, and its example pairs show a tariff of 260 getting an interview on 2,410 while a tariff of 166 needed 3,050.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,710 to 1,810 the lowest interviewee works out at on our conversion of those figures to the current scale, but below the 1,930 to 2,040 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2023 entry, Home applicants): 53% interviewed · 57% of those offered
8th decile and above competitive
Birmingham scores the UCAT decile out of 4.0 against GCSEs out of 4.5 and a contextual score, then ranks the total. For 2025 entry its standard interviewees ranged from 2,680 to 3,460 out of 3,600 with a median of 2,940; contextual interviewees went down to 2,430.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,900 to 2,010 the lowest interviewee works out at on our conversion of those figures to the current scale, but below the 2,090 to 2,210 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 71% interviewed · 80% of those offered
8th decile and above competitive
Queen's scores the UCAT centile band out of 9 against nine GCSEs out of 36, so the GCSEs carry four times the weight. It has never published applicants' UCAT scores, only the points threshold, which ran from 30 to 38 out of the old 42 between 2015 and 2025.
A score in the 4th decile is just below the middle of the ranking, so the rest of the application has to carry it.
Competition (2023 entry, all applicants): interviews not published · 43% of those offered
Minimum 1,850 (confirmed), competitive from 2,100 · 200 to 160 under the competitive figure
Above the 1,850 minimum published for 2027 entry but below the 2,100 competitive figure.
Competition (2025 entry, rest-of-UK applicants): 45% interviewed · 68% of those offered
7th decile and above competitive
Cardiff scores eight GCSEs out of 24 and adds only 1 to 3 points for the UCAT decile, so GCSEs decide and the 7th decile already earns full marks. For 2026 entry, already on the current scale, its Home interviewees ranged from 1,880 to 2,630 and averaged 2,017.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,880 the lowest interviewee works out at, but below the 2,017 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2026 entry, all applicants): 41% interviewed · 76% of those offered
6th decile and above competitive
Leicester rejects the bottom two deciles, then scores the UCAT out of 48 against eight GCSEs out of 48. For 2026 entry, already on the current scale, its lowest Home interviewee had 1,820 and they averaged 2,051; the score that guaranteed an interview was 79 of 96.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,820 the lowest interviewee works out at, but below the 2,051 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2026 entry, Home school leavers with predicted grades): 77% interviewed · 53% of those offered
Competitive from 1,900 to 2,000 · from exactly the low end
Inside the 1,900 to 2,000 range.
Competition (2024 entry, all applicants): 64% interviewed · 69% of those offered
No published figure
Aston scores the UCAT out of 12 against six GCSEs out of 24, so the GCSEs decide and the UCAT cannot make up for them. For 2025 entry its Home interviewees ranged from 2,460 to 3,500 out of 3,600 and averaged 2,743, but none of them scored under 22 of 24 on GCSEs.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,750 to 1,850 the lowest interviewee works out at on our conversion of those figures to the current scale, but below the 1,950 to 2,060 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Ranked by decile
Dundee weighs academics 60% and the UCAT decile 40%, with no minimum. For 2026 entry, already on the current scale, its lowest rest-of-UK applicant interviewed had 1,610 and they averaged 1,963.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,610 the lowest interviewee works out at, but below the 1,963 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2026 entry, rest-of-UK applicants): 38% interviewed · 69% of those offered
Ranked by decile
Exeter's score moves 4 points per UCAT decile against 10 points per A-level grade, out of 90. It has released no applications, interviews, offers or cut-off score at all, so there is nothing to compare a score against.
A score in the 4th decile is just below the middle of the ranking, so the rest of the application has to carry it.
Ranked by decile
HYMS awards 35 of its 100 selection points for the UCAT decile, with 35 for GCSEs, 15 for the SJT band and 15 contextual. It records only your decile, never your score, and says historical scores are of no relevance; the score that reached interview for 2025 entry was 62.67 of 100.
A score in the 4th decile is just below the middle of the ranking, so the rest of the application has to carry it.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 57% interviewed · 87% of those offered
No published figure
Nottingham bands each UCAT subtest into points (Verbal doubled) for 50 points against 32 for GCSEs, and says it cannot predict where the line will fall. For 2025 entry its Home applicants ranged from 2,200 to 3,460 out of 3,600 with a median of 2,740, and 844 of 1,216 were interviewed.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,560 to 1,650 the lowest interviewee works out at on our conversion of those figures to the current scale, but below the 1,950 to 2,060 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 69% interviewed · 75% of those offered
No published figure
Peninsula sets a threshold once applications are in and will not confirm it in advance. Its published Home cut-offs were 2,680, 2,210 and 2,600 out of 3,600 for 2023, 2024 and 2025 entry, a swing of 470 in three years.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,570 to 1,660 the lowest interviewee works out at on our conversion of those figures to the current scale, but below the 1,850 to 1,950 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 76% interviewed · 67% of those offered
University of East Anglia (UEA)
No published figure
UEA has no cut-off and ranks on the total twice: once for the interview, then again with the interview score for the offer. For 2025 entry the lowest non-contextual Home applicant interviewed had 2,080 out of 3,600 and interviewees averaged 2,743.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,480 to 1,560 the lowest interviewee works out at on our conversion of those figures to the current scale, but below the 1,950 to 2,060 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 69% interviewed · 86% of those offered
Unlikely13
Under the line, or so far under a decile rule that only a shift in the final deciles would help.
Competitive from 2,377 to 2,407 · 477 to 437 under the low end
1,900 to 1,940 is below anything this school's own figures show reaching an interview (nothing under 2,000). That is not a published rule, but it is a very long shot.
Competition (2025 entry, all applicants): 20–25% interviewed · about 45% of those interviewed
Confirmed line 2,320 · 420 to 380 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 2,320 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): interviews not published · 37% of applicants offered
Confirmed line 2,240 · 340 to 300 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 2,240 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 59% interviewed · 90% of those offered
Confirmed line 2,190 · 290 to 250 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 2,190 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 66% interviewed · 67% of those offered
Competitive from 2,150 to 2,300 · 250 to 210 under the low end
Below the 2,150 low end of the typical range.
Competition (2025 entry, all applicants): 75–85% interviewed · about 28% of those interviewed
Confirmed line 2,120 · 220 to 180 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 2,120 cutoff for 2026 entry. It meets the 1,800 contextual line, which applies only if you are a contextual applicant.
Competition (2025 entry, all applicants): 55% interviewed · 65% of those offered
Confirmed line 2,060 · 160 to 120 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 2,060 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2026 entry, Home applicants): 64% interviewed · 59% of those offered
Confirmed line 2,010 · 110 to 70 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 2,010 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Confirmed line 1,990 · 90 to 50 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 1,990 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2026 entry, Home applicants): 54% interviewed · 84% of those offered
Confirmed line 1,990 · 90 to 50 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 1,990 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, rest-of-UK applicants): 21% interviewed · 64% of those offered
Confirmed line 1,960 · 60 to 20 under it
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 1,960 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, Home applicants): 95% interviewed · 37% of those offered
Confirmed line 1,920 · 20 under it at the bottom of the band, 20 over it at the top
1,900 to 1,940 is below the 1,920 cutoff for 2026 entry. It meets the 1,870 contextual line, which applies only if you are a contextual applicant.
From 1,920 in this band it becomes competitive. Clears the 1,920 cutoff for 2026 entry.
Competition (2025 entry, UK applicants): 63% interviewed · 56% of those offered
Ranked by decile
King's scores the UCAT as a percentile among its own applicants, worth 100 of its 150 points, so the score does most of the work but there is no line. In the 2024 cycle its UK interviewees ranged from 2,340 to 3,510 out of 3,600 and averaged 3,007, against 2,759 for all UK applicants.
1,900 to 1,940 is above the 1,660 to 1,760 the lowest interviewee works out at on our conversion of those figures to the current scale, but below the 2,130 to 2,260 of the typical one, so we would call this an element of risk rather than safe.
Competition (2024 entry, Home applicants): 40% interviewed · 77% of those offered
Compiled 17 September 2026 from the universities’ published statistics and Freedom of Information responses; each school’s page says when its figures were last confirmed. Check the school’s own admissions page before you apply. If a figure here is out of date, tell me and I will fix it.