1. Applying to University 2019/20

2. What do you want to do?
University
Employment
Apprenticeship

3. Process of application to university
Research courses
Register with UCAS
Apply via UCAS

4. Why go to University?

5. Traditional Higher qualification and bigger salary
Acquire transferable skills
Learn critical thinking
Build self-confidence, independence and responsibility

6. Good Reasons Find out what you are really good at
Learn for its own sake
Find where your limits lie and the cost of success
Establish a useful network of professional friends

7. Things to think about Course content Teaching and assessment
Practical considerations - entry requirements/Subjects can be covered by 1 personal statement
Overall academic reputation (Russell Group)
Graduate employment rates
What's the city like?
What are the academic facilities?
Career opportunities
Starting salaries
Other “leisure” facilities/activities

9. Don’t worry – help is at hand!

10. Which university? Which course?
Spartan test – sacu-student.com
Which? University Guide - university.which.co.uk
Guardian University Guide -
UCAS – UCAS.com
The Times Good University Guide
Complete University Guide -
The course website!
Prospectuses
Open Days

11. SACU – Spartan Test

15. SACU - apprenticeships

16. Which?

18. The Guardian

21. UCAS

23. The Times Good University Guide

25. Course Website

27. Complete University Guide

29. Open Days

31. Universities and Colleges Admissions Service

32. Key Features of UCAS
Applicants can only make 1 UCAS application per cycle
Maximum of 5 choices
Primarily 3 realistic, but also 1 aspirational and a back-up (more later!)
£24 fee (£18 for 1 choice of HEP & course)
Some choice restrictions:
Medicine, Veterinary, Dentistry – max 4 for any one (+ another)
Oxford or Cambridge
Simultaneous consideration
‘Invisibility’
But only one personal statement to cover ALL choices
Nurses Beware!
Further options later if required (and eligible)
Extra / Clearing / Adjustment

33. Completing a UCAS application
Every applicant has up to seven sections to complete:
Personal details
Additional information
Student finance
Choices
Education
Employment
Personal statement

34. Grades and predicted grades
The important parts
Student
Grades and predicted grades
Tutor
Reference
Personal Statement

35. The best preparation you can do now is….

36. Start thinking super-curricular!