2026 and 2027 entryInternational applicantsFinal 2026 deciles

Your UCAT, against every line actually published.

Two decisions, not one: the cognitive total sets which schools are reachable, and the rules schools out or costs you points. A school’s is where last year’s ranking stopped, not a promise for this one. Switch between them below. For a verdict that weighs both against your grades, GCSEs and fee status, use the school finder.

Key dates this cycle

15 October at 18:00: UCAS deadline for Medicine, 6pm (UCAS, opens in a new tab)
Week of 1 November: UCAT results reach your universities (UCAT, opens in a new tab)

Interview dates vary by school; each school’s page has its own.

Read against the line each school set for international applicants, where it published one, at the 38 schools that use the UCAT and take international students. The lines differ from the Home ones, so the bands do too.

schools with an international line: 14; published, or confirmed under FOI
schools open to you: 38; that use the UCAT; 4 take Home applicants only
score bands: 18; one page each, with every verdict
publish no international line: 24; read on their general figures

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Read this before you use any figure on the page

A cut-off is not set in advance. With three exceptions below, every figure here is where a ranking stopped once that year’s applications were in. It moves with the number and quality of applicants, so last year’s line is a guide, never a promise. Schools say so themselves.
Only 14 of the 38 schools open to you have published an international line. The rest are read on their general figures. International places are capped and few, so where a school gives no line for you, the bar may be higher than its figures suggest. A school with no international line is not an easier one. Buckingham and Greater Manchester (formerly Bolton) do not use the UCAT for 2027 entry. Anglia Ruskin, Bangor (North Wales Medical School), Edge Hill and Lincoln take Home applicants only, so they are not counted here.
Every figure is on the current scale out of 2,700. Abstract Reasoning was removed in 2025, so a cut-off quoted out of 3,600 anywhere else is not comparable with these.
Your line is not the Home one. Where a school ranks international applicants separately, their line can sit well above the Home line or below it. Contextual schemes are for Home applicants, so they are not read here.
The deciles here are final for the 2026 test, and about 30 higher than 2025’s. That is why the finder reads each school against where we expect its line to fall this cycle, not only where it fell last time. Those are our readings, marked as such.
The UCAT is one part of an application. An SJT band, A-level subjects and GCSE minimums rule people out independently of the score.

Published minimums for 2027 entry

3 schools

Published in advance: below it the application is not considered. Clearing it is the start, not the end. Only three schools publish one on the current scale; everywhere else the line appears after the cycle.

School	International applicant	By group	What the figure is
Keele	1,950	Home 1,700 · International 1,950	Published minimum — Above the floor the total only sets your quintile, worth 5 of the 25 shortlisting points; the personal statement is worth 15.
Edinburgh	1,850	All applicants 1,850	Published minimum — Above it applicants are ranked into deciles and scored, so 2,100+ is the practical target. SJT Band 4 is rejected.
Sheffield	1,800	All applicants 1,800	Published minimum — Access to Sheffield and recognised pathway applicants are interviewed from this floor; everyone else is ranked, and the 2026 ranking stopped at 2,120.

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Where the line fell for 2026 entry

13 figures

Where the ranking stopped in that cycle. Set after applications closed, so it moves with the next cohort. Rows marked “lowest score invited” are not thresholds at all: they are the lowest total that actually reached an interview, so someone was simply the last one in. Where a school gave no international line, the row says so and its other figures are beside it; the bar for you there may be higher.

School	International applicant	By group	What the figure is
Imperial	2,310	Home 2,320 · Home, contextual 2,170 · International 2,310	Where the line fell — Up from 2,260 the cycle before, so a score within 30 to 50 of it is not safe if it rises again.
UCL	2,300	Home 2,190 · Access UCL 2,080 · International 2,300	Where the line fell — The SJT band separates tied scores.
Bristol	2,270	Home 2,240 · International 2,270	Where the line fell — Shortlisting is UCAT alone, so 2,280 or more is the safer target.
Manchester	2,250	Home 2,060 · WP+ (widening participation) 1,960 · International 2,250	Where the line fell — Aim above 2,100 to be safe. SJT Bands 3 and 4 are both rejected.
Glasgow	2,150	Rest of UK 1,990 · Scottish 1,870 · International 2,150	Where the line fell
Liverpool	2,080	Home 1,960 · International 2,080	Where the line fell
Sheffield	2,070	Home 2,120 · International 2,070	Where the line fell — Sheffield calls this its ranking cutpoint. Everyone must also clear the 1,800 floor below; pathway applicants are interviewed from it.
Leeds	2,020	Home 1,900 · Home, widening participation 1,810 · International 2,020	Lowest score invited — There is no pre-set cut-off: academics and UCAT are combined, and Leeds refuses to publish the point values.
Brighton and Sussex (BSMS)	1,990	Home 1,990 · Home, contextual all invited · International 1,990	Where the line fell — At 1,990 the SJT band was the tie-break (Band 1). A Band 4 is rejected from 2027 entry.
Lancaster	1,900	Home 1,920 · Home, contextual 1,870 · International 1,900	Where the line fell — A borderline pool up to 10 below was also interviewed, in order of academic performance.
Aberdeen	1,730	Rest of UK 1,720 · Scottish 1,700 · International 1,730	Lowest score invited — The average rest-of-UK interviewee had 1,990.
St Andrews	1,710	Rest of UK 1,640 · Scottish and home funded 1,500 · International 1,710	Lowest score invited — Widening-participation applicants get a 10% uplift before the ranking, so the raw score behind a figure can be lower.
City St George's, University of London	1,640	Home 1,880 · International 1,640	Where the line fell — At least 500 in each section is required as well as the total.

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Reading the groups

Every row uses these terms. The large figure in each row is the one an international applicant should read: the school's international line, or the one figure it gave for all applicants.

Home: A UK applicant on the school's standard route, outside any contextual scheme.
Rest of UK: At a Scottish school, an applicant from England, Wales or Northern Ireland: the row most readers here want.
All applicants: One figure for everyone, whatever their fee status or background.
Standard, no uplift: Anglia Ruskin raises some groups' scores before ranking; this is the line for everyone it does not.
Scottish: At a Scottish school, an applicant living in Scotland, who is often read against a lower figure.
International: An applicant paying international fees.
Contextual, widening participation and named schemes: A lower line for applicants who meet that school's own criteria. The university checks eligibility itself, so the row applies only if it agrees you qualify.

Final 2026 UCAT deciles, and how they moved

What percentile is your score?

Your 2026 UCAT total, out of 2,700

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An estimate from UCAT’s final 2026 decile boundaries, so it can differ slightly from UCAT’s own figure, most at the ends of the scale. For the exact percentile, use UCAT’s percentile lookup. Some universities rank you against their own applicants instead.

UCAT’s final figures for the 2026 test, the one you sat for 2027 entry. Every decile on this site is now read against them. The preliminary boundaries published on 13 September 2026 are kept beside them, and so is 2025, the test last cycle’s lines were drawn on. The score shown is the one at each decile rank: the 1st is the 10th percentile, the 9th the 90th.

Decile	2026 final	2026 preliminary	2025 final	Change on 2025
1st	1,590	1,630	1,580	+10
2nd	1,700	1,750	1,680	+20
3rd	1,780	1,840	1,760	+20
4th	1,850	1,910	1,820	+30
5th	1,920	1,980	1,880	+40
6th	1,980	2,040	1,950	+30
7th	2,050	2,110	2,010	+40
8th	2,140	2,190	2,100	+40
9th	2,250	2,300	2,220	+30

A score above the 9th decile (2,250) is in the 10th. The final boundaries came out 40 to 60 lower than the preliminary ones, so your final decile may be one higher than the preliminary table showed.

What the final deciles mean for your four

The deciles are about 30 higher than last year’s. The rise is 10 at the 1st decile and 40 through the middle and upper deciles, so the same score sits lower in the field this year than it did last year.

Higher deciles do not mean you cannot apply to the schools with high UCAT lines. They mean there is more risk in doing so.

A school with a high cut-off attracts a higher proportion of students with high scores. Applicants who know they clear the lines at Imperial, Bristol or UCL are more likely to apply there, so those schools’ applicant pools are made up of higher UCAT scores. Their lines are drawn by ranking that pool, so with more high scorers in it the ranking stops higher, and the cut-off rises.

That is not a reason not to apply. It is a reason to be careful: nobody knows this year’s cut-offs until the cycle is over, so pick your four to get four interviews from four choices, not to apply to the places you would most like to go and hope.

Studying somewhere you want to be matters, but it means nothing if that school does not interview you. Put getting four interviews ahead of applying to a high-risk school simply because you want to study there.

Where we expect each school’s line to fall this cycle is in the next section, and the finder reads every score against it.

The subtests, 2026 against 2025

Decile	VR	DM	QR
1st	500	520	530(+10)
2nd	540	560	580(+10)
3rd	560	590	600(+10)
4th	580	620(+10)	640(+10)
5th	600	640(+10)	670(+20)
6th	620	670(+20)	700(+20)
7th	640	690(+20)	730(+20)
8th	670	710(+10)	780(+30)
9th	710(+10)	760(+20)	820

In brackets, the change on 2025 where there is one.

SJT bands, 2026

Band	Share of candidates
Band 1	15%
Band 2	40%
Band 3	34%
Band 4	11%

Of 42,359 candidates.

Where we expect the international lines to fall this cycle

Our reading, not the schools’ figures: nobody knows this cycle’s cut-offs until it is over. For each school whose international line is set by its applicants, last cycle’s line is moved by as much as the deciles moved at that point of the scale, which finds the same place on this year’s test. Between last cycle’s line and ours, the finder reads “possible”: you can apply, but it is a risk.

School	International line for 2026 entry	Deciles moved	Our reading for 2027
Imperial	2,310	+30	about 2,340
UCL	2,300	+30	about 2,330
Bristol	2,270	+30	about 2,300
Manchester	2,250	+30	about 2,280
Glasgow	2,150	+36	about 2,190
Liverpool	2,080	+40	about 2,120
Sheffield	2,070	+40	about 2,110
Brighton and Sussex (BSMS)	1,990	+37	about 2,030
Lancaster	1,900	+37	about 1,940
City St George's, University of London	1,640	+16	about 1,660

Rounded up to the next ten, since totals move in tens and rounding down would understate the risk. Far fewer applicants stand behind an international line than a Home one, so there is no field to add a margin for, and these lines swing more from one cycle to the next: treat them as a rough guide. Leeds, Aberdeen, Keele and St Andrews published a lowest score invited or a minimum rather than a line, so they are not moved; their figures are in the tables above.

Where can you apply with your score as an international student?

One page per band, each reading the score at all 38 schools that use the UCAT and take international students: against the school’s international line where it published one, and its general figures where it did not. Anglia Ruskin, Bangor (North Wales Medical School), Edge Hill and Lincoln take Home applicants only, so they are left out. A band is as wide as the data allows: where consecutive totals give exactly the same answer at every school they are a single band. Everything below 1,640, the lowest line an international applicant is read against, is one band that sets out the alternatives to Medicine; contextual routes, which reach lower, are for Home applicants. Each page reads the score at the bottom of its band and says where a school’s line falls inside it.

reject a Band 4: 23; the application stops there
score the band: 7; points before interview
use it at interview: 5; or after, in the offer decision
ignore it: 13; the band costs nothing at all

The SJT is a separate decision from the total. It rules you out at 23 of the 42 schools and is scored at 15 of them, so it decides which schools are worth one of your four choices, and 13 ignore it entirely. This is what each one does with it. Buckingham and Greater Manchester (formerly Bolton) do not use the UCAT for 2027 entry, so they are not counted here. Hertfordshire and St Mary's, Twickenham are counted but marked international only: they take only international students for 2027 entry, so a UK applicant cannot apply there this cycle.

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Read this before you shortlist on a band

A Band 4 is fatal at 23 schools and costs nothing at 13: Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Southampton, Aberdeen, Aston, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth (Peninsula), St Andrews, University of East Anglia (UEA), Bangor (North Wales Medical School), Hertfordshire (international only). If you are holding one, those are the 13 worth looking at first.
Manchester is the only school that rejects a Band 3 as well as a Band 4. Everywhere else a Band 3 is allowed, though it costs points at 15 schools.
A Band 2 rules you out nowhere. It still costs marks at 15 schools that score the band, and the gap is largest where the band carries real points before interview: King's College London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Nottingham, Hull York (HYMS), Keele, Lincoln.
Bands are set against the whole cohort each year, like the deciles, so a band is not comparable across cycles. The schools that score the band use the band, not a percentile.
The school finder applies your band to every school at once and marks the ones it rules out.

What each band costs you

How many of the 42 schools each band rules out, and how many score it rather than ignore it.

Band 1

Rules you out nowhere

Full marks everywhere that scores the band.

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Band 2

Rules you out nowhere

15 more score the band, so it costs marks there; 27 ignore it.

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Band 3

Out at 1

15 more score the band, so it costs marks there; 26 ignore it.

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Band 4

Out at 23

6 more score the band, so it costs marks there; 13 ignore it.

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Band 4 is rejected at

Imperial, King's College London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Nottingham, Anglia Ruskin, Barts and The London (Queen Mary), Brighton and Sussex (BSMS), Dundee, Hull York (HYMS), Keele, Lancaster, Leicester, Liverpool, Sunderland, Brunel, Edge Hill, Kent and Medway (KMMS), Lancashire (formerly UCLan), Lincoln, St Mary's, Twickenham (international only).

At BSMS this starts with 2027 entry: a Band 4 was interviewed for 2025 entry, its first UCAT year, and that will not happen again.

Band 4 costs you nothing at

Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Southampton, Aberdeen, Aston, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth (Peninsula), St Andrews, University of East Anglia (UEA), Bangor (North Wales Medical School), Hertfordshire (international only).

If you are holding a Band 4, these are the schools where the rest of the application still decides. Check their UCAT lines before you commit a choice.

Where the band is scored, and what it is worth

7 schools put the band into the pre-interview score and 5 use it at or after interview. The points below are the schools’ own.

School	When	What the band is worth
King's College London	Before interview	Band 4 is rejected. The band is then worth 10 of the 150-point score, alongside 100 for the UCAT percentile and 40 for GCSEs.
Edinburgh	Before interview	Band 4 is rejected. The band is scored separately from the UCAT total in the ranking.
Leeds	Before interview	No band is rejected. The band feeds the pre-interview total, but Leeds refuses to publish how much it is worth.
Nottingham	Before interview	Band 4 is not accepted. The band is worth 10 points for Band 1, 6 for Band 2 and 2 for Band 3, inside the 50-point UCAT score.
Hull York (HYMS)	Before interview	Band 4 is not accepted. The band is worth 15 of the 100 selection points, against 35 for GCSEs and 35 for the UCAT decile. It no longer counts as an extra interview station.
Keele	Before interview	Band 4 is not considered. Band 1 adds 2 points and Band 2 adds 1 to the 25-point shortlisting score; Band 3 adds nothing.
Lincoln	Before interview	Band 4 is rejected. Band 1 earns 15 points, Band 2 10 and Band 3 5, towards the 60-point shortlisting score.
Birmingham	At or after interview	No band is rejected. The band is used at the interview stage, not in the pre-interview ranking.
Newcastle	At or after interview	Band 4 is not considered. At interview the band counts as one MMI station: Band 1 scores 5, Band 2 scores 3, Band 3 scores 1.
Sheffield	At or after interview	No band is rejected. The SJT quartile becomes an interview score out of 5 (1st quartile 5, 4th quartile 2), added to the eight MMI stations for a total out of 45.
Barts and The London (Queen Mary)	At or after interview	Band 4 is rejected at the first screen. After interview Band 1 adds 2 points and Band 2 adds 1.
City St George's, University of London	At or after interview	No band is rejected, but after the MMI the band is added to the applicant score: Band 1 adds 15, Band 2 10, Band 3 5, Band 4 nothing. For 2027 entry City St George's will consider the band in its decisions.

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Every school

Grouped by what the band does: screens first, then scored, then used at interview, then tie-break only, then not used at all.

ManchesterBand 3 and 4 rejected
Bands 3 and 4 are both rejected — the strictest rule in the UK. Only Bands 1 and 2 are considered, and they are treated alike.
Anglia RuskinBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not invited to interview. Bands 1 to 3 are ranked on the uplifted UCAT total.
Barts and The London (Queen Mary)Band 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected at the first screen. After interview Band 1 adds 2 points and Band 2 adds 1.
Brighton and Sussex (BSMS)Band 4 rejected
From 2027 entry a Band 4 is rejected before the ranking. At the 2026 threshold of 1,990 the band was the tie-break, and Band 1 got in.
BrunelBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not accepted. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike: Home applicants are ranked on the UCAT total.
DundeeBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is an automatic rejection whatever the rest of the application holds.
Edge HillBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected automatically. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike: the ranking is the UCAT total.
EdinburghBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected. The band is scored separately from the UCAT total in the ranking.
GlasgowBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected at the screen; above that the ranking is on the UCAT total.
Hull York (HYMS)Band 4 rejected
Band 4 is not accepted. The band is worth 15 of the 100 selection points, against 35 for GCSEs and 35 for the UCAT decile. It no longer counts as an extra interview station.
ImperialBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike: the shortlist is the UCAT total.
KeeleBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not considered. Band 1 adds 2 points and Band 2 adds 1 to the 25-point shortlisting score; Band 3 adds nothing.
Kent and Medway (KMMS)Band 4 rejected
Band 3 or better was part of last cycle's threshold, so Band 4 is not considered; above the threshold the band plays no further part.
King's College LondonBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected. The band is then worth 10 of the 150-point score, alongside 100 for the UCAT percentile and 40 for GCSEs.
Lancashire (formerly UCLan)Band 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected; Bands 1 to 3 are accepted, and its FOI response gives no other use of the band.
LancasterBand 4 rejected
For 2027 entry Lancaster expects Bands 1 to 3; a Band 4 is not selected.
LeicesterBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected pre-interview. Bands 1 to 3 are treated alike in the 96-point score.
LincolnBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is rejected. Band 1 earns 15 points, Band 2 10 and Band 3 5, towards the 60-point shortlisting score.
LiverpoolBand 4 rejected
Home applicants need Band 1 to 3 for the application to be processed; international applicants may hold any band.
NewcastleBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not considered. At interview the band counts as one MMI station: Band 1 scores 5, Band 2 scores 3, Band 3 scores 1.
NottinghamBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is not accepted. The band is worth 10 points for Band 1, 6 for Band 2 and 2 for Band 3, inside the 50-point UCAT score.
St Mary's, TwickenhamBand 4 rejectedInternational only
International only for 2027 entry. Only Band 1 to 3 is considered, and every UCAT subtest must be at 500 or above.
SunderlandBand 4 rejected
Band 4 is automatically rejected; Bands 1 to 3 are accepted and are not ranked or weighted against each other.
LeedsScored before interview
No band is rejected. The band feeds the pre-interview total, but Leeds refuses to publish how much it is worth.
BirminghamCounts at or after interview
No band is rejected. The band is used at the interview stage, not in the pre-interview ranking.
City St George's, University of LondonCounts at or after interview
No band is rejected, but after the MMI the band is added to the applicant score: Band 1 adds 15, Band 2 10, Band 3 5, Band 4 nothing. For 2027 entry City St George's will consider the band in its decisions.
SheffieldCounts at or after interview
No band is rejected. The SJT quartile becomes an interview score out of 5 (1st quartile 5, 4th quartile 2), added to the eight MMI stations for a total out of 45.
Queen's University BelfastTie-break only
No band is rejected. The band decides borderline cases twice: among applicants tied on the pre-interview score, and among those tied at interview.
UCLTie-break only
No band is rejected. The band separates applicants tied on the UCAT total at the threshold.
AberdeenNot used
Aberdeen has published no rule using the SJT band; its 20% UCAT weighting is the cognitive total.
AstonNot used
All four bands are accepted and the band plays no part in the ranking — the only school in the UK to take a Band 4 without penalty.
Bangor (North Wales Medical School)Not used
The SJT band is not considered at present, though Bangor says that may change; the ranking is the UCAT total.
BristolNot used
The SJT is not used at any stage, so a Band 4 is not a rejection here.
CambridgeNot used
Cambridge publishes the mean SJT band of applicants and offer holders but states no rule that uses it.
CardiffNot used
The SJT band is not considered at any stage.
ExeterNot used
The 2027-entry policy does not use the SJT band: the Exeter score is grades and UCAT decile only.
HertfordshireNot usedInternational only
International only for 2027 entry. The SJT plays no role in selection, its FOI response says; the ranking is the UCAT total.
OxfordNot used
Oxford has not published any use of the SJT band in shortlisting or at interview.
Plymouth (Peninsula)Not used
Plymouth states it does not assess the SJT band, and no band is automatically rejected.
SouthamptonNot used
The SJT is not used: selection for interview is the UCAT total alone.
St AndrewsNot used
The SJT band is not looked at; the ranking is the UCAT total.
University of East Anglia (UEA)Not used
No band is rejected and the SJT is not used before interview; it is folded into the interview score.

13 of the 42 schools do not use the band at all before interview. Where a school publishes nothing about the SJT, that is what is recorded here rather than an assumption that it is scored.

Last updated 2 October 2026, from the universities’ published statistics and Freedom of Information responses. Each school’s own page carries its sources and the date its figures were last confirmed. Check the school’s admissions page before you apply; it wins if anything here differs. Spotted something missing or out of date? Tell me.