- Where to start?
- Step 1: Choosing courses
- Step 2: Applying
- Step 3: Offers
- Step 4: Results
- Step 5: Next steps
- Step 6: Starting university or college
- FAQs
- News
- Student finance
- Important dates
- Events
- Student number controls
Where to start?
If your son or daughter is applying for higher education, read through the benefits of higher education, get an overview of the UCAS application process, and an understanding of the commonly used UCAS terms.
Higher education explained
The benefits of attending a higher education course.
Six steps to applying
There are six main steps your son or daughter will follow when applying through UCAS - find out more.
UCAS terms explained
Understand the commonly used words and phrases.
Read our book on applying (this link takes you to another section of this site)
Help your son or daughter get into uni or college with this definitive UCAS guide.
Read our new international guide for parents
Is your son or daughter thinking of coming to study in the UK? Our guide will help you find answers to your questions and provide links to other sources of advice and support, so you can advise your son or daughter to make the right choices:
Introduction to UCAS in other languages
Click on the links below to read an introduction to UCAS and the application process in Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.
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