After you have applied

Processing your application

Once we have received your online application, we will look carefully at all your information, including your personal statement, reference and qualifications you have taken or are taking. In most cases, we can make you an offer based on this alone, but we may need more details, particularly relating to your immigration status or previous study in the UK.

If you have applied to transfer onto a second year or final year of a course at the University, your course will be mapped for entry and the conditions of entry will be listed in your UCAS hub.

Please read our Admissions Policy.

International Admissions

For further information, please contact International Admissions:

By telephone: 0121 232 4458

By email: international@ucb.ac.uk

Making you an offer

If we decide to make you an offer, we will let you know by email within two working days - please remember to check your junk inbox before contacting us and if the email is in there, add us to your safe contacts list so communication as your application progresses doesn't get lost.

There are two types of offer we can make you:

Conditional - this means we have offered you a place, but with conditions attached. These offers are usually made to applicants who are still in education. Once you have met these conditions and provided evidence, your offer will become unconditional.

Unconditional - congratulations, this means you have a definite place and all academic requirements have been met, so we are happy to accept you, subject to you making a partial pre-payment of your tuition fees. Please read our pre-payment policy.

When we have made you an offer, we will also send you lots of useful information about the University and all the award-winning support we offer international students.

Paying your tuition fees

International students need to pay 50% of their tuition fees before they can be issued with a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS), which you need to study at a UK university. The full amount needs to be paid by enrolment. If you pay 100% of your fees in one go, you will receive a £500 discount for paying upfront in full.

You’ll also need to show you have enough money to support yourself - unless you’ve been in the UK with a valid visa for at least 12 months on the date of your application. To study at our university, you will need £1,023 per month (for up to nine months), which needs to be held in an acceptable format at an approved bank.

We may ask for more immigration history and once we are confident you are in a position to make a student visa application, we can issue your CAS.

Making a visa application

If you are based outside the UK, we can use your CAS, along with proof of your financial situation and academic/English language qualifications, to make a student visa application at the British High Commission or Embassy in your home country.

If you are based in the UK, you will need to email our International team at visa-advice@ucb.ac.uk to arrange a 1-1 meeting to extend your current student visa.

Please note: we have a duty to the Home Office to only sponsor applicants we consider to be genuine students with a realistic chance of obtaining a student visa.

As a result, we may need to ask detailed questions about your immigration history and can never guarantee that student visa sponsorship will be issued, even if all academic and English language requirements in an offer are met.

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Accommodation for international students

International students studying at University College Birmingham for the first time will be offered accommodation in our halls of residence.

Visas and immigration

Once you have made your decision to study at University College Birmingham, you will need to make final arrangements, which are likely to include obtaining a visa.