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University of Reading contextual offers

University of Reading makes contextual offers (lower entry requirements) to applicants whose background may have limited their opportunities. Here's who qualifies for 2027 entry.

Who is eligible for a contextual offer at University of Reading?

To be considered for a contextual offer from University of Reading you need one of the following: a POLAR4 quintile 1-2 area, an IMD quintile 1-2 area, a disability or long-term health condition, a widening-access programme, care experience, refugee or asylum-seeker status, estrangement from your parents, caring responsibilities or an armed-forces background.

You need any one of these:

• Live in a POLAR4 quintile 1 or 2 area (the 40% of areas where fewest young people go to university)
• Live in England's most deprived 40% of areas (IMD quintiles 1-2)
• Have a disability, learning difference or long-term health condition
• Have completed a recognised access or outreach programme (e.g. Sutton Trust, Realising Opportunities, or the university's own scheme)
• Are care-experienced or a care leaver
• Have refugee, asylum-seeker or humanitarian-protection status (you or your family)
• Are estranged from your parents or guardians
• Have caring responsibilities (a young carer, a parent, or similar)
• Are from an armed-forces family, or are a veteran or service leaver

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.

University of Reading's official policy

This page summarises University of Reading's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means University of Reading 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.

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• Cardiff University
• City St George's, University of London
• Coventry University
• Durham University
• Edge Hill University
• Edinburgh Napier University
• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Goldsmiths, University of London
• Harper Adams University
• Heriot-Watt University
• Imperial College London
• Keele University
• King's College London
• Lancaster University
• London School of Economics and Political Science
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• Northumbria University
• Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
• Queen's University Belfast
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• Royal Holloway, University of London
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• Swansea University
• UWE Bristol
• University College London
• University of Aberdeen
• University of Bath
• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• University of Cambridge
• University of Chester
• University of Chichester
• University of Derby
• University of Dundee
• University of East Anglia
• University of East London
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Exeter
• University of Glasgow
• University of Gloucestershire
• University of Hull
• University of Kent
• University of Lancashire
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• University of Manchester
• University of Plymouth
• University of Salford
• University of Sheffield
• University of South Wales
• University of Southampton
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• University of Suffolk
• University of Surrey
• University of Sussex
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• University of Warwick
• University of Winchester
• University of Wolverhampton
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• University of York
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