UCAS

:This page is about the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. UCAS is also an abbreviation for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

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UCAS (Universities & Colleges Admissions Service, pronounced like "YOU-kass", ) is a clearing house for applications for virtually all undergraduate degree programmes at British universities or colleges.

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As nearly all British higher education institutions are members of UCAS, nearly all those wishing to study for first degrees in the UK have to apply through UCAS. This applies to all categories of applicants - UK residents, residents of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, European Union citizens and international applicants. Applicants submit a single application via UCAS's website (or, until the 2005 entry only, either via the website or on paper) with a list of up to six courses for which they are applying (in no order of preference). All 6 choices are confidential during the application process so other unversities and colleges cannot see any of the candidate's other choices. There is also a maximum limit of up to 4 choices for medicine, dentistry and veterinary science course choices and a candidate can only apply to either Oxford or Cambridge within one application cycle but not both.

Clearing house: A clearing house (or clearinghouse) is an organization affiliated with a securities or derivatives exchange that completes the transactions on that exchange by seeing to validation, delivery, and settlement....

Undergraduate: In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelor's degree. Students of higher degrees are known as postgraduates (or often simply graduates)....

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