At King’s we don’t just use your grades to assess your application. We recognise that not everyone has the same educational journey and that some students have had to overcome challenges to achieve their grades.

If you have experienced certain barriers which make it harder for you to achieve a course’s standard entry requirements, we will take this into consideration.

We use the information you provide on your UCAS application. This means that it is mostly automatic, and you usually do not have to do anything. If you are care experienced, it’s important that you tick the care-experienced box as part of your UCAS application. You can find question care experience in the ‘Diversity and inclusion’ section of your UCAS hub. If you tick the box, our admissions team will be in touch to let you know what to do next.

If you are estranged from your family, are a forced migrant or have unpaid caring responsibilities, you can let us know by ticking the box (or boxes) in the ‘More about you’ section of your UCAS hub. You will then receive a message through King’s apply to upload evidence of your situation, and we can then include your lived experiences when considering your application.

We will automatically get the other factors (postcode and school information) from your application.

Please read all of the information on this page before entering your details into the eligibility checker.

Datasets

• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Acorn
• Polar

Contextual offers are made to applicants who may have experienced barriers that have impeded their academic progress*. Contextual offers may be up to two A-Level grades** (or equivalent) lower than the advertised entry requirements found on the course pages.

Applicants must meet at least one of the criteria outlined below to be considered for a contextual offer.

Have successfully completed one of King’s College London’s widening participation programmes:

• Discover Chemistry Summer School
• KCL Sutton Trust Summer School
• KPlus
• Realising Opportunities (for participants that completed RO up until August 2023 and apply to King’s up until 2025 entry)

AND/OR

Live in one of the following postcodes:

• ACORN: the applicant lives in an area which has a higher classification (categories 4 or 5)
• IMD: the applicant lives in an area which has a higher level of deprivation (deciles 1 or 2 or quintile 1)
• POLAR 4: the applicant lives in an area where the proportion of young people progressing to higher education is low (quintile 1 or 2)

AND/OR

Have the following experience:

• Care-Experienced

Additional consideration is given to applications from students who may have experienced barriers that have impeded their academic progress. The outcome of this process may be an offer of a place on the programme applied for or an offer of a place on an alternative programme; however, an offer cannot be guaranteed.

Applicants must meet at least one of the criteria below for their application to be given additional consideration.

Have successfully completed one of King’s College London’s widening participation programmes:

• DentView
• MedView
• Developmental Neurobiology Academy
• Dentistry Schools Council (DSC) Residential Summer School

AND/OR

Have attended the following school:

• King’s College London Maths School

AND/OR

Have taken part in a qualifying course delivered by the following organisation:

• IntoUniversity

AND/OR

Have the following experience:

• Forced Migrant
• Young Carer
• Estranged 

The information displayed on this page applies to those applying for September 2024 entry.

Some of our undergraduate courses have GCSE requirements, which can be found on the course webpage. To be eligible for a course, you must still meet these GCSE requirements.

Some of our undergraduate courses also have A-level (or equivalent) subject requirements. To be eligible for a programme, applicants must meet these subject requirements at the level specified on the course webpage.

*Students applying for our MBBS courses or our courses in the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences are not eligible for contextual offers. With the exception, if eligible, students may choose to apply for the long-established Extended Medical Degree Programme (EMDP) and Enhanced Support Dentistry Programme (ESDP). Students applying to the course English Law & Hong Kong Law LLB and JD are not eligible for this reduction.

**Contextual entry requirements may be up to two grades below the standard entry requirements. There are some eligible courses and/or qualifications where the contextual entry requirements are not two grades below the standard requirements. Full details of the contextual entry requirements for each course can be found on the course webpages.