Admissions Policy 2018

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University Admissions Policy for 2018 entry – approved October 2017

Programme Information

4.1

Information about individual programmes and the entrance requirements which guide selection

is provided in the Undergraduate Prospectus and Postgraduate Prospectus and other publicity

documents. The Newcastle University central website will have the most up to date

information at any given time

4.2

Every effort will be made to ensure that all published material and statements are accurate and

provide information which will enable applicants to make informed decisions. This

information shall include tuition fees, availability of financial support, dates of terms and any

additional costs incurred on the programme.

4.3

Applicants holding an offer will be notified in writing as soon as possible before a

programme’s expected start date if there are any significant changes to the programme of

study.

4.4 The University makes all reasonable efforts to deliver the programmes of study and research

opportunities described on its website and in printed prospectuses. It may be required on

occasion to suspend, discontinue or combine programmes of study (for example because a key

member of staff leaves the University or there are too few applicants for a programme). In

such cases, applicants will be informed in writing at the earliest opportunity.

4.5 It may sometimes be necessary to close a programme to new applications if the programme has

too many applicants. In the case of undergraduate programmes (except for Medicine and

Dentistry), this will not be before the UCAS ‘equal consideration’ deadline of 15 January.

Selection – Undergraduate Admissions

5.1 The University accepts a broad range of qualifications and combinations of qualifications for

entry to its programmes of study, including vocational and Access qualifications and a wide

range of qualifications offered by international applicants.

5.2 All applications received by the relevant UCAS deadline are to be given equal consideration.

This means that in some subjects, because of limits to the number of places available, some or

all applications may be held until after the relevant deadline for consideration in a ‘gathered

field’.

5.3 Offers of places to applicants are to be made, within the constraints of the number of places

available, on the basis of individual academic achievement, ability and potential to succeed on

their chosen programme of study. This is regardless of age, religion or belief, race, ethnicity,

gender, being trans gender, marital or family status, sexual orientation, or disability.

Exceptionally, it may not be possible to make offers to applicants with a disability in cases

where the adjustments that would be needed to make a programme of study accessible to a

particular applicant are demonstrably unreasonable within the terms of the Equality Act 2010.

5.4 Applicants are expected to disclose information about any disability, including mental health,

that would help the University to identify and provide help with support needs.