2.1 in a life sciences degree.
BBB at A Level including Chemistry or Biology.
Scottish Highers – Advanced Highers grades BB including Chemistry or Biology.
32 points overall with 5’s in Higher Level subjects (to include Chemistry or Biology) and no less than 4 in each of the Standard Level subjects.
Not scored.
Not scored.
Our MBChB Graduate Entry Medicine programme is for life science graduates who want to become a doctor and are from a background that is under-represented in higher education.
Students begin their training with ‘pre-clinical’ work, involving study of the basic medical sciences.
This is followed by the ‘clinical’ course, during which you will work in hospital wards under the supervision of consultants.
Predicted grades for undergraduate degree classifications are accepted.
Resits are accepted.
Clinical experience is not required. Work experience is discussed at interview.
Not scored.
UCAT.
Applications will be ranked according to their UCAT scores and only those with the highest UCAT scores will be invited to interview.
Each year, we set a minimum UCAT score threshold, which is 1800 for 2026 entry.
Multiple mini-interviews.
Applicants for MBChB Graduate Entry Medicine (A101) will need to demonstrate that they meet our Widening Participation entry requirements, as well as our minimum academic and UCAT requirements.
Applicants for MBChB Graduate Entry Medicine are required to meet two or more of the following criteria:
At the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent), you were living in a postcode area in Quintile 1 or 2 of the relevant Indices of Deprivation (IMD) ranking for your home nation.
You can check the IMD ranking for your area using the following tools. Simply follow the link and put your postcode into the postcode checker.
You should have lived in public care or as a looked-after child at any stage of your life up to the age of 18, including if you were adopted from care or left care with a Special Guardianship Order before the age of 18 lived with foster carers or in a residential children’s home have been looked after under a supervision order; or have lived with friends or relatives in formal kinship care under a Local Authority but are not currently recognised by your Local Authority as a care leaver in receipt of statutory support.
Alternatively, you should be recognised by your Local Authority as a ‘care leaver’, or have been recognised in the past as a person who
At the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent), you should have been responsible for providing unpaid care to someone who has, for example
Estranged students have no relationship with, or support from, their parent(s) or carer(s). We’ll consider you an estranged student if, at the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent):
At the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent), you should have been a parent of, or responsible for the care and wellbeing of, a child aged 17 or under. This includes being:
You should have been entitled to Free School Meals at some point during the six years prior to your final KS4 year (ie, the year you were aged 15-16).
School pupils in the UK are normally entitled to Free School Meals if their parents or carers are on a low income or in receipt of certain benefits. If you’re not sure, your school will be able to confirm this for you. You may also be entitled if you’re paid qualifying benefits directly, instead of through your parent or carer.
You should have been a forced migrant to the United Kingdom. This means at the time you started your undergraduate study:
At the point you completed your A Levels (or equivalent), your parents or legal guardians should have been unemployed, or the main earner should have been working in an unskilled job. We consider unskilled jobs as those defined by the Office for National Statistics Occupation Coding Tool as falling into simplified NS-SEC analytic classes 4-8.
You should have been in receipt of a 16-19 Bursary or Discretionary Learner Support with an income threshold of £25,000 or below.
You should have a disability that has been declared as part of your UCAS application.
Sheffield is a research university with a global reputation for excellence. We’re renowned for the excellence, impact and distinctiveness of our research-led learning and teaching.
With a strong focus on patient-centred learning, our course is designed to educate and train you to become an excellent doctor. Over the programme, you can gain the clinical abilities, knowledge, attitudes and professional behaviours you will need to thrive in medicine.
