Glasgow Caledonian University makes contextual offers (lower entry requirements) to applicants whose background may have limited their opportunities. Here's who qualifies for 2027 entry and how much lower the offer is.
Find out in about two minutes whether you could get a contextual offer from Glasgow Caledonian University, and from every other university with a published scheme.
Check if you qualify →To be considered for a contextual offer from Glasgow Caledonian University you need 'home' fee status, plus one of the following: caring responsibilities, care experience, estrangement from your parents, refugee or asylum-seeker status, an SIMD20 area or (an SIMD40 area and a widening-access programme).
Everyone must:
Then you need any one of these:
Criteria based on where you live are worked out from your home postcode, which the checker looks up for you. Each link above explains what the criterion means.
Across the 29 Glasgow Caledonian University courses where we have both offers, the contextual offer is most often one grade lower (24 courses; for example BCC becomes CCC), and between one and five grades lower overall.
See every Glasgow Caledonian University course for the full entry requirements.
This page summarises Glasgow Caledonian University's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means Glasgow Caledonian University may make you a contextual offer; it doesn't guarantee one, and some courses (often medicine, dentistry and other heavily oversubscribed courses) can have their own rules. Always check the university's own policy before relying on it.
Check whether your postcode, school and circumstances meet Glasgow Caledonian University's criteria.
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