Check your eligibility
You can check whether you are eligible for a contextual offer or any additional consideration by using our eligibility tool. There are 5 questions in total though you may not need to answer them all and will be advised if this is the case. Please answer each question in turn and click on the next question's title button to access it.
Please note:
- This tool is only applicable for the 2025 admissions cycle because our criteria and data may change from year to year
- Any additional consideration will be based on the information provided in your UCAS application form so please ensure that information is entered correctly.
- Offers may change or be revoked if we find that information provided as part of the application is incorrect meaning that an applicant does not meet the eligibility criteria.
This means that you have applied for asylum and have received an outcome granting you refugee status by the UK Government. If your asylum application is still pending or you have received an outcome other than refugee status please answer 'no' to this question. Similarly, if you have never made an asylum application please answer 'no'.
Individuals who have been issued a UK visa under one of the Ukrainian schemes (Homes for Ukraine, Ukraine Family Scheme, Ukraine Extension Scheme) will be classified as a refugee for the purposes of contextual data.
When submitting your UCAS application, you should select ‘Refugee’ as your 'Residential category' in the ‘Where you live’ section of the form. This will ensure that you are automatically flagged in our system.
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As part of your UCAS application you will be asked to indicate if you have been in care. This refers to time living in public care as a looked-after-child, including:
- With foster carers under local authority care
- In a residential children's home
- Being looked after at home under a supervision order
- Living with friends or relatives in kinship care
This does not refer to time spent in boarding schools, working in a care or healthcare setting or if you are a carer yourself.
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Please enter your home postcode below. This should be for your primary address that will be entered in your UCAS application form.
If your postcode is not returned below then please contact contextualdata@manchester.ac.uk providing your postcode and the name and address of the school(s)/college(s) attended for your GCSEs and A-levels (or equivalent qualifications).
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Your Level 2 school is where you studied your GCSEs or equivalent qualifications.
You can search using the name of your school, the address or the postcode. A full list of schools and their statuses can also be found in our Education indicators - 2025 entry (opens in a new tab) document.
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Your Level 3 school is where you studied your A-levels or equivalent qualifications.
You can search using the name of your school, the address or the postcode. A full list of schools and their statuses can also be found in our Education indicators - 2025 entry (opens in a new tab) document.
Overall Result: Two grade contextual offer
Flag: WP Plus PLUS
If you apply to the University in the 2025 cycle using the information provided, you may receive a contextual offer two grades lower than the standard entry requirements (A-level or equivalent).
To be eligible for this offer, you also need to meet all of the following criteria:
- The qualifications and subjects you are applying with meet our published entry requirements. For example, if a course requires Chemistry and Maths you must be taking both of these subjects. Some courses may also require specific grades in specific subjects.
- You are applying for a course where the minimum entry requirements are ABB.
- Your predicted grades are within two grades of our minimum entry requirements. For example, your predicted grades are BBB where the standard entry requirements are AAB.
- You successfully complete any additional selection requirements where required e.g. interview or aptitude test (eg UCAT for Medicine).
Please note:
- Contextual offers don’t apply to T-Level qualifications.
- Grade drops will be made in addition to any drops received as result of completing one of our Widening Participation Programmes (up to a maximum of 3 grades).
- The lowest possible offer after applying a contextual reduction is BBC at A-level (or equivalent).
- Some courses may offer lower GCSE requirements for applicants eligible for a contextual offer. This will be clearly stated on the individual course profile on our website.
- Offers can be changed or withdrawn if the information you provide is incorrect meaning you don’t actually meet the eligibility criteria.
For more details, please check our contextual admissions page.
What next?
Search for a course and check the entry requirements using our course list.
You don’t need to do anything extra - just fill out and submit your UCAS application. We’ll get all the information we need from that and your record will be automatically flagged.