We know waiting for a decision on your application can be an anxious time. We hope some of the guidance here will help answer some of the questions you may have while waiting to hear back from King's.

If you have not yet applied to King’s, please see our How to apply: postgraduate taught courses and How to apply: postgraduate research courses webpages.

How do I know that King's has received my application?

When you submit your application to King's via King’s Apply, you will receive an email from noreplyap@kcl.ac.uk confirming submission. You will also be able to see your application is submitted on your account’s homepage.

If you applied for PGCE/QTS course – (teacher training for secondary education), you will need to apply via Department for Education (DfE) Apply. Usually, we will email you with your login details for King's Apply within a few days of receiving your PGCE application from DfE Apply. King's Apply does not replace DfE Apply but provides lots of useful features for King's applicants to use, and will be your main method of communication with our Admissions Office.

Usually, our systems will email you with your login details for King's Apply within a few days of receiving your PGCE application from DfE Apply. If you haven't received this, check your junk or spam folders as a first step.

How long will it take before I hear back from King's?

• For postgraduate taught courses: King’s aims to make decisions on applications within 10 weeks though some of our very competitive postgraduate taught courses operate a ‘gathered field’ process for applicants who meet the advertised entry requirements and may therefore take longer. The selection procedure will be indicated on the relevant course page which can be found on the course finder webpage.
  
  
• For postgraduate research courses: The selection procedure will be indicated on the relevant course page.

Depending on the time of year, it may also take longer to process applications, particularly around deadline periods. Please ensure that your online application form is as complete as possible at the time of submission to avoid unnecessary delays and ask your referee(s) to be ready to submit a reference promptly.

Please also be aware there can be other factors that result in it taking longer for you to receive a final decision, for example, if you apply to a course where an interview is required, obtaining necessary approvals for funding or your application is sent to the department for review.

You will receive emails from noreplyap@kcl.ac.uk notifying you to check your King’s Apply account whenever there are an updates or messages sent to you. We strongly encourage you to save this as a contact so any emails do not go in to your junk/spam folders.

When a decision has been made, you will be emailed to log in to your King’s Apply account. The decision will be in the 'Application status' box on the 'Application overview' screen.

For postgraduate taught courses: You can view the average turnaround time in weeks for each faculty below, as of 29 August 2024. Courses may vary within these timeframes:

• All Postgraduate: 10 weeks
• Arts & Humanities: 13 weeks
• King’s Business School: 8 weeks
• Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences: 14 weeks
• Dickson Poon School of Law: 12 weeks
• Life Sciences & Medicine: 7 weeks
• Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences: 12 weeks
• Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care: 5-6 weeks
• Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience: 12 weeks
• Social Science and Public Policy: 10 weeks

Will I be interviewed for my course?

For postgraduate taught courses: Many of our postgraduate taught courses do not hold interviews.

If they do interview applicants:

• For courses where interviews must take place for all applicants, such as PGCE, pre-registration courses, you will receive a notification through King's Apply with full details. You will also be able to put any questions about the interview to the team through this Admissions Portal.
• For courses where some applicants may be interviewed before receiving a decision, you will be contacted via your contact email address directly by faculty academics or the course team.

For postgraduate research courses: It is the responsibility of the faculty to have transparent selection procedures in place in order to accept students onto postgraduate research courses. Following an initial screening, a decision will be made to make an application unsuccessful or to be progressed to an interview before an offer can be made.

If you are contacted regarding an interview, this will be via email (outside of King’s Apply) and could be face-to-face or, for some international students, by another communication method as deemed appropriate by the faculty.

How will I know when King's has made a decision?

When a decision has been made, you will be emailed to log in to your King’s Apply account. The decision will be in the 'Application Status' box on the Application Overview screen.

Can I apply for a King’s Pre-sessional English course?

You may wish to consider taking a King’s Pre-sessional course, which will provide you with academic and language skills, and, for those who receive a conditional offer, is an alternative route to taking an external English language test to meet an English language condition.

These take place in the summer before the new academic year.

To submit a Pre-sessional application, you will need to log in to your King’s Apply account and select the 'New Application' option. Your Pre-sessional application will then sit alongside your postgraduate application on your King’s Apply homepage.

How do I contact Admissions?

Contact the Admissions team by sending us a message via your King’s Apply account. We ask that you select the most relevant message category if you have more than one query, rather than sending multiple messages, except in the case of CAS/Visa messages as these will be directed to our Visa Compliance team.

Please note during busy periods there may be a delay in responding to you, but we will reply to you as soon as we can.

If there are delays in processing your application, we will aim to keep you updated. You can send us a message via your King’s Apply account to query the status of your application using the “Application status/update” message category. If we have not responded to your message, this does not mean we are not assessing your application in the meantime, and you do not need to send a further follow message unless you have a new query.

We will contact you if we need further information to assess your application and provide you with a decision as soon as possible.

How do I send and receive messages on King’s Apply?

Once you have logged into King's Apply, please click through to the course that you are trying to access (the links will be under the section called ‘Current applications’).

Then, from the menu on the right, select: ‘View and Send Messages’ use this to create a new message or to upload a document or attachment. This will go directly to the team within the Admissions Office who have responsibility for processing your application.

If you receive a message, you will be notified via email to check your King’s Apply account. Clicking into the same section: ‘View and Send messages’ will take you to any new or old messages that you’ve received from the admissions team at King’s, which you can click on to read and respond to.

Can I change the course I wish to study after I apply?

Your application on King’s Apply is specific to a course, mode of study (full-time/part-time) and year of entry.

• If you wish to be considered for a different course you will need to submit a new application through King's Apply, and be considered alongside other applicants for that course.
• If you wish to change your mode of study (from full-time to part-time) on the same course, please contact the Admissions Office through King's Apply for advice.

Follow our key dates and deadlines* for the application process:

• Mid-October 2024 – Applications open online.

• October 2024-August 2025 – After applying, check King’s application portal, King’s Apply, for messages, interviews, details and decisions from the admissions team

• October 2024 – If you are an international student check if you require a visa to study in the UK. Check if you have you met the English language requirements for your course?

• December 2024 – May 2025 – Apply for King’s bursaries and scholarships. Please note, for some funding opportunities you may need to apply early.

• March 2025 – Initial application deadline for most postgraduate taught courses. Please note, some postgraduate taught courses may have an earlier deadline. Courses will remain open after this date if places are available.

• January – August 2025 – Received an offer? Check the acceptance and deposit deadline. Read your offer letter carefully.  Some courses may require clearance for Occupational Health (OH), the Disclosure & Barring Services (DBS), or Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS).

• May – August 2025 – Received a conditional offer? Send evidence of meeting your conditions. If you are an international student, you will be sent your CAS number only when you have accepted an offer which is now unconditional.
  
  
• Mid-August 2025 - Offer holders who have accepted an unconditional offer invited to enrol.

*Dates and deadlines relate to September entry.

For information on how use King's Apply, please go to our How to apply: postgraduate taught courses and How to apply postgraduate research courses webpages.

My application was unsuccessful. Can I find out why?

You can find a summary of the reason your application was unsuccessful through King's Apply portal. For further detailed feedback, please send a formal request through King's Apply and the Admissions Office will be able to give you further advice.

Further details of feedback and appeal procedures can be found on our policy webpage.

I have received an offer to study at King’s. What are my next steps?

Congratulations on receiving an offer! We hope you will accept your offer. We have a few dedicated webpages for our offer holders:

• Offer holder hub: Take a look at this Hub for offer holder events, accommodation options, find out about student life at King’s, chat to current students and explore your subject.
  
  
• Important information for offer holders: Take a look at this webpage, which has been written by the Admissions Office to support you with the remainder of your application journey with us before the enrolment process. We have guidance on how to accept your offer, how to be made unconditional if your offer is conditional, CAS number information and more.

Can I study at King's while I'm on another course elsewhere?

University academic regulations do not permit you to study a course with us while also actively studying on another course at another university (except for Study Abroad students) or at King's (except for the AKC, those intercalating from an MBBS/BDS if approved by the respective Deans of Education, or those on a MD or PhD course to study a PGCert only).

If you are currently taking qualifications elsewhere - including distance learning courses - and you are successful in receiving an offer for study at King's, you will be asked to provide evidence at registration that you have completed any previous studies or that you have interrupted/suspended your other study.

Further details can be found in the King’s Academic Manual (2.15-2.18 under “Registration” in the 2024/5 version).

Will I be required to pay a deposit if I receive an offer for a postgraduate taught course?

King's College London asks our offer holders to pay a deposit when accepting their offer to study for most of our postgraduate taught courses; this is beneficial for the university in relation to student numbers and resource planning. There are limited places available on our courses and a high number of qualified applicants. By paying the deposit, you secure your place and demonstrate your commitment to enrol at King’s provided you meet any conditions of an offer.

If you apply and are successful in obtaining an offer, you can accept your offer and pay your deposit on your King's Apply account. If you experience difficulties paying, please contact the Admissions Office who can advise you. A deposit will not be required where an offer holder can provide official evidence that they will be fully funded for the course at King's, however, this evidence must be provided to the Admissions Office before the deadline to accept your offer.

The deposit is considered a partial payment towards your tuition fee upon enrolment. 

Please note, deposits do not apply to postgraduate research courses.

What are the tuition fees? When do I need to pay the fees?

Tuition fees for your course can be found by using out course finder webpage, find your course entry, and then see the 'Fees & Funding' tab.

The fees listed on the course page are for the first year of a course only - if your course is more than one year in duration and continues into subsequent years, the fees for those years may differ. Some courses (e.g. part-time) last more than a single year and it is therefore likely that tuition fees for your course will increase annually, reflecting the changes in costs of delivering your course and any changes in government policy or regulation.

King’s reserves the right to increase fees annually. Tuition fee increases may only sometimes apply to self-funding overseas fees status students, but not to home fee status students as fees are subject to a cap imposed by regulatory requirements.

Where such increases are necessary, King's will publish the new fees on its website not less than 3 months’ notice before the start of the academic year to which the fee increase is intended to apply.

Any tuition fee increase for current students shall not exceed a 6% (six percent) increase (or in accordance with the preceding November’s rate of CPI if higher) on the previous academic year's tuition fee for the course in question, subject at all times to the tuition fees not exceeding any cap imposed by Government from time to time. Please see King’s Terms & Conditions for students for more information.

You will be sent an invoice for your first year’s tuition fees after you have enrolled on the course.

For most courses, you can pay your year's tuition fees in one or two equal instalments. Please see Credit Control’s Student Fees – When to pay fees webpage for further information.

What funding is available and when do I need to consider funding?

All our funding opportunities can be found on our King’s Funding Database. You would need to consider funding as soon as possible as deadlines are usually early in the year around February time.

I think my fee status is incorrect. How do I change this?

When you submit your application, King's Apply will use the details you provided at the point of applying (e.g. nationality, country of residence, length of time in the UK etc.) to give you a provisional fee status. This will be reviewed during the assessment process.

If you receive an offer, you will see the fee status within your offer letter. You can contact us via message if you think it is incorrect at this stage. Please review the categories for home fee status on the website of UK Council of International Student Affairs.

If we are unsure of your fee status, you may be asked to complete a detailed Fee Status Questionnaire or provide documentation to give further details of your circumstances in order for us to make a full assessment.

How do I get my CAS number for my student visa?

Make sure that you have told the Admissions Office that you will need a visa by ticking the box on the application form titled “International student: Will you require a visa to study in the UK?”. Please make sure that you have recorded the necessary details from your passport.

We will only start the CAS number process for an offer holder whose offer is unconditional and has been firmly accepted.