Progression to undergraduate degrees

The UPC (international foundation) course has excellent progression rates; the majority of students go on to study their undergraduate degrees at the best UK universities.

In 2020:

• 90% of UPC students received UCL undergraduate degree offers.
• 100% received UCL or Russell Group university degree offers.
• 57% progressed to a UCL undergraduate degree programme.
• 84% progressed to UCL or another Russell Group university.

Examples of the universities and undergraduate courses which UPC students have progressed to in 2020:

UCL undergraduate degrees

Anthropology	Management Science
Applied Medical Sciences	Mathematics
Architecture	Mathematics & Statistic Science
Arts & Sciences	Mathematics with Economics
Astrophysics	Medicinal Chemistry
Biochemistry	Neuroscience
Biological Sciences	Pharmacy
Biomedical Sciences	Pharmacy with Integrated Pre-registration Training
Cancer Biomedicine	Philosophy and Economics
Comparative Literature with a Year Abroad	Physics
Computer Science	Politics and International Relations
Economics	Politics, Sociology and East European Studies
Economics with Statistics	Psychology
Economics with a Placement Year	Psychology with Education
Education Studies	Security and Crime Science
Engineering (Biochemical)	Social Sciences
Engineering (Civil)	Social Sciences with Quantitative Methods
Engineering (Electronic & Electrical)	Sociology
Engineering (Mechanical)	Statistics
Geography	Statistics and Management for Business
History, Politics and Economics	Statistics, Economics and Finance
Information Management for Business	Urban Planning, Design and Management
Law

Other Russell Group Universities

University of Bristol	Engineering Design with Study in Industry; Law
Durham University	Law
University of Edinburgh	Sociology and Politics
Imperial College London	Biological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering; Chemistry; Computing (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning); Earth and Planetary Science; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Geology, Mathematics; Mathematics with Statistics; Physics
King's College London	Biomedical Sciences; Economics; Electronic Engineering; Philosophy
University of Liverpool	Psychology
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	Financial Mathematics and Statistics; Geography with Economics; Sociology
University of Manchester	Biology; Civil Engineering; Law; Politics, Philosophy and Economics
University of Nottingham	Nutrition
Queen Mary, University of London	Accounting and Finance; Business Management; English and European Law (4 years); International Relations
University of Sheffield	Accounting and Financial Management and Mathematics; Urban Studies and Planning
University of York	Biology; Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence

Other UK universities

City University London	Accounting and Finance; Criminology; Finance; Psychology; Sociology
University of Kent	Law
Kingston	Architecture
Newcastle University	Medical Science
SOAS University of London	Law; World Philosophies
University of Westminster	Business Management (Digital Business)

Progression to UCL

Guaranteed UCL undergraduate offers

UPC students applying to one of the UCL degrees listed below will be guaranteed a conditional offer provided they are predicted to meet the entrance requirements of their chosen degree program. Students then achieving the terms of their conditional offer will progress automatically to their chosen UCL degree.

List of UCL degrees with guaranteed conditional offers

Archaeology BA Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan BA Archaeology with a Placement Year BA Archaeology with a Year Abroad BA Archaeology BSc Archaeology and Anthropology BA Applied Medical Science BSc Astrophysics BSc / MSci Biochemistry BSc / MSci Biological Sciences BSc / MSci Biomedical Sciences BSc Bioprocessing of New Medicines (Business and Management) BSc Bioprocessing of New Medicines (Science and Engineering) BSc Bulgarian and East European Studies BA Cancer Biomedicine BSc Chemical Physics BSc / MSci Chemistry (International Programme) MSci Chemistry BSc / MSci Chemistry with a European Language BSc / MSci Chemistry with Management Studies BSc / MSci Chemistry with Mathematics BSc / MSci Classical Archaeology and Classical Civilisation BA Czech (with Slovak) and East European Studies BA Data Science BSc Earth Sciences (International Programme) MSci Earth Sciences BSc / MSci Economics and Business with East European Studies BA    Economics and Business with East European Studies with a Year Abroad BA    Economics and Geography BSc (Econ) Economics and Statistics BSc (Econ) Education Studies BA Engineering (Biochemical) BEng / MEng Engineering (Biomedical) BEng / MEng Engineering (Chemical) BEng / MEng Engineering (Civil) BEng / MEng Engineering (Electronic and Electrical) BEng / MEng Engineering (Mechanical) BEng / MEng Engineering (Mechanical with Business Finance) MEng Environmental Geoscience BSc / MSci Finnish and East European Studies BA Geology BSc / MSci Geography BA Geography BSc Geography (International Programme) BA Geography (International Programme) BSc Geography with Social Data Science BA Geophysics BSc / MSci Global Humanitarian Studies BSc History and Philosophy of Science BSc History, Politics and Economics BA

Human Sciences and Evolution MSci Human Sciences BSc Hungarian and East European Studies BA Infection and Immunity BSc Information Management for Business BSc Management Science BSc / MSci Mathematics and Physics BSc / MSci Mathematics and Statistical Science BSc / MSci Mathematics BSc / MSci Mathematics with Economics BSc / MSci Mathematics with Management Studies BSc / MSci Mathematics with Mathematical Physics BSc / MSci Mathematics with Modern Languages BSc / MSci Media BA Medical Physics MSci Medical Innovation and Enterprise BSc / MSci Natural Sciences BSc / MSci Neuroscience BSc / MSci Nutrition and Medical Sciences BSc Pharmacology BSc / MSci Physics BSc / MSci Physics with Medical Physics BSc Polish and East European Studies BA Politics, Sociology and East European Studies BA Politics, Sociology and East European Studies with a Year Abroad BA Population Health BSc Psychology with Education BA/BSc Romanian and East European Studies BA Russian Studies BA Russian with an East European Language BA Russian and History BA Serbian/Croatian and East European Studies BA Security and Crime Science BSc Slovak (with Czech) and East European Studies BA Social Sciences BSc Social Sciences with Data Science BSc Sociology BSc Sociology and Politics of Science BSc Statistical Science (International Programme) MSci Statistics and Management for Business BSc Statistics BSc Statistics, Economics and a Language BSc Statistics, Economics and Finance BSc Theoretical Physics BSc / MSci Ukrainian and East European Studies BA

 UCL degree offer rates by UCL Faculty for UPC students in 2020

Progression to other universities

The aim of the UPC is to help students enter one of the very best universities in the UK. All UK universities consider the UPC for entry onto undergraduate degrees and 100% of UPC students received a Russell Group offer in 2020.

All undergraduate university applications in the UK, including to UCL, are made online through UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). You complete one application form choosing a maximum of five universities to apply to. The deadline for university applications is 15 January. If you plan to apply to Oxford or Cambridge, you need to complete your UCAS application by mid-October - just a few weeks after starting the UPC.

UCAS information and registration sessions take place at the beginning of the UPC course to help you with the UCAS process. You will be provided with excellent support and advice in selecting appropriate universities and courses. Your subject lecturers, language tutors and the Centre's Education Adviser will all assist you in the process.

Grading

You can see the grades that UCL requires for entry onto an undergraduate degree in the table below and compare these with the required A-level grades for your desired undergraduate degree programme in the undergraduate prospectus.

Equivalence with A-Level grades

The table below gives approximate equivalences to A-level grades:

UCL Undergraduate Admissions views 65% in the Academic English module as equivalent to 6.5 in IELTS, 60% to 6.0, and so on.

Types of offer

It is typical that conditional offers are expressed in one of the following ways:

• As an overall average percentage.
• As an overall average with a specified percentage in one or more modules (normally Academic English and the two compulsory science/humanities modules).
• As a specified percentage in each of the four modules studied.

Note: the 25% of the mark awarded to the extended research project in Academic Research: Approaches & Methods and Science & Society should be borne in mind when making offers on the basis of overall percentages.

Examples of offers

Below are some suggestions for broadly typical offers and their UPC equivalents: