How to apply

Application process

Follow these steps to apply for this course:

• Check the entry requirements
• Complete the online application form
• Upload the following with your application:
  • All pages of your 2025-26 UCL degree offer, including all English language and academic conditions
  • Your English language qualification
  • The personal details page of your passport
  • Your most recent UK visa (if you have one).
• Pay the application fee of £90 via the UCL Online Store
• Wait to hear back from us via email. If we offer you a place on the course, our email will include details about how and when you need to pay the course fee.

Please make sure you fully complete your application because missing information will cause a delay. If your chosen course is full prior to the submission of a complete application, we will not be able to make you an offer.

Offer holders for IOE degrees are not eligible for this course and should apply for the separate IOE Preparation for Academic Studies in Higher Education course (PASHE).

Application deadlines

The application deadline 12pm UK time on 30 May 2025 

Applications may close earlier if courses become full.

Confirming your place

We will email you to confirm your place on the course after you have paid the course fee.

The course fee will normally be due within a maximum of two weeks of our offer being made and can be paid by credit or debit card on the UCL Online Store.

Your offer email will contain full details on how and where to make this payment.

Visa information

Unless you already hold a valid visa for the UK, you cannot study this online course in the UK.

Future degree course

If you successfully complete the course assessments (meeting the English requirements of your UCL degree offer) and have met any outstanding academic conditions attached to your offer, your degree course offer will be made unconditional and UCL will issue you with a CAS for your degree.

You can use this CAS to make an application for a Student Visa covering your degree course.

Refunds

Full refunds of the course fee will be made in the event of a visa application refusal where a further visa application is not possible. Claims must be supported by a Refusal of Entry Clearance letter. 

Other refund requests must be received by 12pm (UK time) on 30 May 2025 (the refund request deadline) to be considered and are subject to a 10% administration charge. Refund requests must be submitted by email to presess@ucl.ac.uk.

No refund will be made if you withdraw or are withdrawn (for example, because of poor attendance) from a course after it begins.