Loughborough 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 Loughborough University, and from every other university with a published scheme.
Check if you qualify →To be considered for a contextual offer from Loughborough University you need 'home' fee status, plus one of the following: free school meals or an IMD quintile 1 area.
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.
Of the 124 Loughborough University courses where we have both offers, 121 are two grades lower and 3 are one grade lower. The most common change is AAB to BBB.
See every Loughborough University course for the full entry requirements.
This page summarises Loughborough University's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means Loughborough 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 Loughborough University's criteria.
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