Application Guide for UNIQplus

The first section of the form will collect information about you, including your personal details, contact information and residence details. This section and the ‘Referee and reference letter’ section (described below) can be submitted before the remaining sections of the form. Once submitted, this section will be locked from further editing, so you should check the information you have entered before proceeding.

Your personal details

Please enter your details as they appear on your passport or other official document, such as a driving licence.

Your contact information

When providing your primary email address, please enter a personal email address and not a university email address. All communications will be sent to you at this email address. If you register with a university email address, you must also include a personal email address as part of your application.

If you provide a university email address, this must only be as an alternative email address. Please ensure that you enter your alternative email address as it appears to the recipient. For example, your email address may appear to you as [email protected] but appear to recipients as [email protected]. If you do not enter it in the format that we see as a recipient, we will not be able to correspond with you using this address, as we will not be able to verify whether you are the sender.

Your residence and eligibility

When completing the declaration, you will be asked to confirm that you are ordinarily resident in the UK. Your country of ordinary residence is the country in which you are normally resident, out of choice and for a settled purpose, apart from temporary or occasional absences. It is not a country in which you are studying, working or living temporarily. You would usually have indefinite leave to enter or remain in the UK in order to be considered ordinarily resident. Those with a time limitation on how long they can stay in the UK (for example, a time-limited UK visa) would not usually be eligible for our programmes. To be eligible for UNIQplus, you need to have been ordinarily resident in the UK for three years before the start date of your undergraduate degree.

The application form will ask you to provide information about your referee. Your referee should be a member of university academic staff (e.g. a tutor, advisor or professor) who can comment on your academic ability, the quality of your work, your potential for further study, and your suitability for the programme. Please enter your referee’s institutional or professional email address. If this is not possible, you will need to provide additional details when registering your referee so that we can, where necessary, seek confirmation of their authenticity. Your referee will also need to explain the reason for this in their letter. 

To give your referee as much time as possible to submit their reference for you, we recommend that you add your referee's details and submit the first two sections of the application form (‘About you’ and ‘Reference’) as soon as possible. As soon as you submit these sections of the form:

• your referee will be sent an automated email that will explain how to submit their reference via a form; and
• the completed 'About you' and ‘Reference’ sections will be locked from further editing.

Therefore, before submitting the first two sections of the form you should:

• contact your referee to make sure that they are happy to write a reference for you and submit it before the deadline of 12:00 midday UK time on Wednesday 18 February 2026; and
• make sure that all the information you have entered in the ‘About you’ and ‘Reference’ sections is correct – you will not be able to change it once it has been submitted. Take particular care when adding the email address of your referee. 

After you have completed and submitted the first two sections of the form (‘About you’ and ‘Reference’), we advise you to contact your referee to make sure that they have received the email notification. You should then continue to complete the remainder of your application.

If your referee would like more information about UNIQplus, you can provide them with a link to the Guidance for UNIQplus referees page on this website. You can share this short link with your intended referee: http://www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/uniqplus/referees.

Once you have submitted your full application, you will receive an email confirmation when your referee provides their reference.

Reference Authenticity

If we suspect that your reference is not genuine, or has not been submitted by the registered referee, we will take reasonable steps – including contacting third parties – to determine their authenticity. If the reference turns out not to be genuine, your application will be withdrawn and will not be considered for UNIQplus. Where possible your referee must be registered with an institutional or professional email address. If this is not possible, reference letters must explain why. References you upload to your application yourself are not permitted and will not be considered authentic. Personal references (i.e. from family, friends or neighbours) are never acceptable.

In addition to information about your undergraduate/postgraduate degree, the application form will ask you to provide the name and address of the school(s)/college(s) that you attended when you passed your GCSE(s) or equivalent (usually at age 16) and in your final calendar year of secondary education (usually Sixth Form/FE college at age 18). Don’t worry if the name has changed or the school has now closed – just include as much detail as you can. You will need to provide a postcode, which you can search for using an online service such as the Royal Mail’s Postcode Finder.

The form will also require you to upload several documents in support of your application:

Transcript

You will need to upload a copy of your university transcript(s) containing the grades/marks you have received so far for your undergraduate (and, if applicable, postgraduate) degree(s).

If you have not yet completed your current degree and/or you do not have access to a transcript of your final results, you will need to submit an official interim or provisional transcript with details of your grades achieved to date. We will also accept screenshots from self-service portals.

If you are providing a master’s transcript that does not yet contain any grades, you must include your undergraduate transcript to be considered ready for assessment.

To be accepted, any transcript you provide (including downloads/self-service screenshots) must clearly display:

• your name (including both your first name and surname);
• your institution; and
• a breakdown of grades.

If your transcript does not contain all three pieces of information, it will not be accepted.

You will have the opportunity to add up to five files. Please use the following naming convention: SURNAME, Firstname, type of document (e.g. Undergraduate Transcript/Postgraduate Transcript, etc.).

The following formats are acceptable for assessment purposes:

• a scanned version of an official transcript. This will often have a signature or stamp to certify it. The document(s) provided must be readable, but may show watermarks caused by copying or scanning;
• an official e-transcript via a secure third-party electronic system. If you'd like to share an official transcript using an electronic system such as Digitary, register the email address [email protected] and choose the longest possible time for the document to be available. We will then add your transcript to your application;
• an electronic copy of an interim or provisional transcript provided by your institution. If you are currently studying and/or you do not have access to a transcript of your final results, you should submit an official interim or provisional transcript;
• screenshot images from self-service portals, if you are unable to obtain a transcript document;
• a Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR); and/or
• a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) certificate.

We do not accept:

• Word documents (.doc and .docx)
• Transcripts you have typed or translated yourself.

A degree certificate will not usually qualify as a transcript as it does not include detailed grade information.

If your application is successful, you will be required to arrange for a final and/or official transcript to be sent directly from the institution or accredited e-transcript provider or to post a hard copy of your original transcript. Your institution may need several weeks to produce your transcript, so you should look into your institution's arrangements as soon as possible.

You are not required to submit a separate CV to apply to the UNIQplus Programme. You will instead be invited to answer a series of questions (as relevant for you) that collect information that would usually be included in a CV/ résumé including information about:

• research experience;
• employment experience;
• prizes and awards;
• skills and interests; and
• professional qualifications and training courses.

If a separate CV/résumé is uploaded, it will be removed from your application.

You will also be asked a series of questions about your student finance. We recommend having your most recent student finance letter available before you answer the questions on ‘Your financial circumstances’.

As you complete the 'Your background' section of the application form, you will also be asked to submit supporting materials concerning your financial circumstances:

Student Finance summary

You will be required to upload a scanned copy of the most recent official letter/screenshot with your entitlement summary from Student Finance confirming the undergraduate financial support you are/were eligible to receive from the UK government.

This should detail any loan/grant in addition to the standard government loan that all UK resident students are eligible for. Alternative evidence may be accepted in place of a letter from your regional funding body.

Any screenshot must include:

• your name (including both your first and surname);
• the name of the Student Finance body, e.g., Student Finance England;
• the year; and
• the amount of maintenance loan/grant/bursary that you received and/or were entitled to.

A copy of an application for funding will not suffice. Please note, we do not require evidence of any loans received for master’s courses.

If you are currently on a placement year or year abroad and only eligible to receive a non-means tested level of loan, you will be asked to upload the most recent official letter/screenshot AND the official letter/screenshot for the last year that you received finance. For example, if your placement year is 2025-26, you should upload the letter for 2025-26 and for 2024-25.

You will also be asked a series of questions about your socio-economic circumstances. You will be able to select ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘prefer not to say’ for all these questions, but if you are eligible for any of these criteria, we would encourage you to select ‘yes’ and provide as much detail as you can. If you have any questions or concerns about responding to these questions, please email us at [email protected].