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English Personal Statement Example 1 Ever since I have had the ability to understand it, I have been fascinated by the English language. As a child, I would either be writing, reading or telling stories and ever sine then, have read a wide variety of both fiction and non-fiction texts from a variety of genres and eras...

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Accountancy & Management Personal Statement Example I have chosen to study combined degrees in Accounting and Finance or Economics because I intend to further my studies towards developing a career in financial consultancy. Accountancy and Finance remain central elements of the dynamics of commerce, that define the way a firm, shareholders and society at large interact on multiple platforms...

English Literature with Italian Personal Statement Example As a child, I was always intrigued by the idea that other worlds could be held between the covers of a book, providing insight into cultures, times and societies that would otherwise be foreign to us. Continued study of English Literature through to 'A' level has broadened my understanding and enjoyment of literature, greatly improving my ability to read analytically and critically...

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How to write an excellent personal statement in 10 steps

Stand out from the crowd: here's how to write a good personal statement that will get you noticed

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Your personal statement forms a core part of your university application, and the sooner you get going, the better you can make it. You may think that your personal statement won’t matter as much to unis as your grades and experience but a great personal statement could make all the difference between you and a candidate with the same grades. Sure, your application might not reach that deal breaker stage. But is it something you want to leave to chance?  Here we’ll take you through the process of planning, writing and checking a good personal statement, so you end up with something you can submit with confidence. And to make sure the advice we're giving you is sound, we’ve spoken to admissions staff at loads of UK universities to get their view. Look out for video interviews and advice on applying for specific subjects throughout this piece or watch our personal statement playlist on YouTube .

• Are you looking for personal statement examples? Check our library of hundreds of real personal statements, on The Student Room

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You'll need to make sure you've got your personal statement written well in advance of your application deadline. Below are the main university application deadline dates for 2024 entry.

2024 entry deadlines

16 October 2023: Deadline for applications to Oxford and Cambridge universities, along with most medicine, dentistry, and veterinary courses.   31 January 2024: Deadline for applications to the majority of undergraduate courses. After this date, universities will start allocating places on these courses –   but you can still apply after the 31 January deadline , as this article explains . 30 June 2024:  Students who apply after this date will be entered into Clearing .

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What is a personal statement?

A personal statement is a central part of your Ucas application, where you explain why you’ve chosen a particular course and why you’ll be good at it. It's your chance to stand out against other candidates and hopefully get that all-important offer. You only write one personal statement which is then read by each university you apply to, so if you are applying for more than one subject (or it's a combined course) it's crucial that you include common themes or reference the overall skills needed for all subjects. Personal statements are especially important if you’re trying to get on a very competitive course, where you need to do anything you can to stand out to admissions tutors. Courteney Sheppard, senior customer experience manager at Ucas, advises that your personal statement is "the only part of the application that you have direct control over. Do lots of research to demonstrate your passion, curiosity and drive to pursue your chosen subject." There’s a limit on how much you can write: your personal statement can be up to 4,000 characters (including spaces) or 47 lines of 95 characters (including spaces); whichever is shorter. This may appear generous (read: long) but once you've got going you may find yourself having to edit heavily.

• Read more: teacher secrets for writing a great personal statement

1. Plan what you want to cover

The first thing you need to do is make a plan. Writing a personal statement off the top of your head is difficult. Start by making some notes, answering the following questions:

• What do you want to study?
• Why do you want to study it?
• What is there about you that shows you’re suited to studying this subject at university? Think about your personality, as well as your experiences.
• What are your other interests and skills?

These few points are going to form the spine of your personal statement, so write them in a way that makes sense to you. You might want to make a simple bulleted list or you might want to get all arty and use a mindmap. Whatever you choose, your aim is the same. You want to get it clear in your own head why a university should offer you a place on its course. Getting those details down isn't always easy, and some people find it helpful to make notes over time. You might try carrying a notebook with you or set up a memo on your phone. Whenever you think of something useful for your personal statement, jot it down. Inspiration sometimes comes more easily when you’re thinking about something else entirely. It might help to take a look at The Student Room for some sample personal statements by university and sample personal statements by subjects , to give you an idea of the kind of thing you want to include. 

• Read more: personal statement FAQs

2. Show off your experience

Some things are worth adding to your personal statement, some things are not. Firmly in the second camp are your qualifications. You don’t need to mention these as there’s a whole other section of your personal statement where you get to detail them very precisely. Don’t waste a single character going on about how great your GCSE grades are – it’s not what the admissions tutor wants to read. What they do want to see is: what have you done? OK, so you’ve got some good grades, but so do a lot of other applicants. What have you done that’s different, that shows you off as someone who really loves the subject you’re applying for? Spend some time thinking about all the experience you have in that subject. If you’re lucky, this might be direct work experience. That’s going to be particularly appropriate if you’re applying for one of the more vocational subjects such as medicine or journalism . But uni staff realise getting plum work experience placements is easier for some people than others, so cast your net wider when you’re thinking about what you’ve done. How about after-school clubs? Debating societies? Are you running a blog or vlog? What key skills and experience have you picked up elsewhere (eg from hobbies) that could be tied in with your course choice? Remember, you’re looking for experience that shows why you want to study your chosen subject. You’re not just writing an essay about what you're doing in your A-level syllabus. Use this checklist as a guide for what to include:

• Your interest in the course. Why do you want to spend three years studying this subject at university?
• What have you done outside school or college that demonstrates this interest? Think about things like fairs/exhibitions, public lectures or voluntary work that is relevant to your subject.
• Relevant work experience (essential for the likes of medicine, not required for non-vocational courses such as English )
• Skills and qualities required for that career if appropriate (medicine, nursing and law as obvious examples)
• Interest in your current studies – what particular topics have made an impression on you?
• Any other interests/hobbies/experiences you wish to mention that are relevant either to the subject or 'going to uni'. Don't just list your hobbies, you need to be very selective and state clearly what difference doing these things has made to you.
• Plans for a gap year if you’re deferring entry.

Read more: 6 steps you need to take to apply to university

3. Be bold about your achievements

Don't be bashful about your achievements; that’s not going to help you get into uni. It's time to unleash your inner Muhammed Ali and get all “I am the greatest” with your writing. Do keep it focused and accurate. Do keep your language professional. But don’t hide your qualities beneath a layer of false modesty. Your personal statement is a sell – you are selling yourself as a brilliant student and you need to show the reader why that is true. This doesn’t come naturally to everyone, and if you’re finding it difficult to write about how great you are it’s time to enlist some help. Round up a friend or two, a family member, a teacher, whoever and get them to write down your qualities. Getting someone else’s view here can help you get some perspective. Don’t be shy. You are selling your skills, your experience and your enthusiasm – make sure they all leap off the screen with the way you have described them.

• Read more: the ten biggest mistakes when writing your personal statement  

4. How to start your personal statement

Type your personal statement in a cloud-based word processing program, such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word and don’t copy and paste it into Ucas Hub until it’s finished.  One of the benefits of doing it this way is that you can run spell check easily. (Please note, though, that Word adds "curly" quotation marks and other characters (like é or ü) that won't show up on your Ucas form, so do proofread it on Ucas Hub before submitting it to ensure it is how you typed it.)  Another big benefit is that you'll always have a backup of what you've written. If you're being super careful, you could always save your statement in another place as well. Bear in mind that extra spaces (eg adding spaces to the beginnings of paragraphs as indentation) are removed on Ucas. In your first sentence, cut to the chase. Why do you want to do the course? Don’t waste any time rambling on about the daydreams you had when you were five. Just be clear and concise – describe in one line why this course is so important to you. Then, in the rest of your intro, go into more detail in demonstrating your enthusiasm for the course and explaining how you decided this is what you want to do for the next three or more years. However you choose to start your statement, just avoid the following hoary old chestnuts. These have been some of the most used lines in personal statements over the years – they are beyond cliche, so don’t even think about it.

• From a young age I have (always) been [interested in/fascinated by]…
• For as long as I can remember, I have…
• I am applying for this course because… 
• I have always been interested in… 
• Throughout my life I have always enjoyed… 
• Reflecting on my educational experiences… 
• [Subject] is a very challenging and demanding [career/profession/course]… 
• Academically, I have always been… 
• I have always wanted to pursue a career in… 
• I have always been passionate about…   

5. Focus your writing on why you've chosen that subject

So you’ve got your intro done – time to nail the rest of it. Bear in mind that you’ve got to be a little bit careful when following a personal statement template. It’s easy to fall into the trap of copying someone else’s style, and in the process lose all of your own voice and personality from your writing. But there is a rough order that you can follow, which should help keep you in your flow. After your opening paragraph or two, get into any work experience (if you’ve got it). Talk about extracurriculars: anything you've done which is relevant to the subject can go here – hobbies, interests, volunteering. Touch on your career aspirations – where do you want this course to take you? Next, show your enthusiasm for your current studies. Cite some specific examples of current work that you enjoyed. Show off your relevant skills and qualities by explaining how you’ve used these in the past. Make sure you’re giving real-world examples here, not just vague assertions like “I’m really organised and motivated”. Try to use examples that are relevant.   Follow this up with something about you as a person. Talk about non-academic stuff that you like to do, but link it in some way with the course, or with how it shows your maturity for dealing with uni life. Round it all off by bringing your main points together, including a final emphasis of your commitment to studying this particular course.

• Read more: how to write your personal statement in an evening  

6. How long should a personal statement be?

You've got to work to a very specific limit when writing your personal statement. In theory you could use up to 4,000 characters – but you’re probably more likely to be limited by the line count. That's because it's a good idea to put line breaks in between your paragraphs (to make it more readable) and you only get a maximum of 47 lines. With this in mind, 3,500 characters is a more realistic limit. But when you’re getting started you should ignore these limits completely. At first, you just want to get down everything that you feel is important. You'll probably end up with something that is far too long, but that's fine. This is where you get to do some polishing and pruning. Keep the focus of your piece on the course you’re applying for, why you want to do it and why you’re perfectly suited to it. Look through what you’ve written so far – have you got the balance right? Chop out anything that goes on a bit, as you want each point to be snappy and succinct.

• Read more: universities reveal all about personal statements  

7. Keep it simple

8. Smart ways to end your personal statement

Writing a closing line that you’re happy with can feel as tricky as coming up with your opener. What you’re looking for here is a sign-off that is bold and memorable. The final couple of sentences in your statement give you the opportunity to emphasise all the good stuff you’ve already covered. Use this space to leave the reader in no doubt as to what an excellent addition you would be to their university. Pull together all your key points and – most importantly – address the central question that your personal statement should answer: why should you get a place on the course?

• Read more: universities explain how to end your personal statement with a bang  

9. Make sure your personal statement has no mistakes

Now you’ve got a personal statement you’re happy with, you need to make sure there are no mistakes. Check it, check it a second time, then check it again. Once you’ve done that, get someone else to check it, too. You will be doing yourself a massive disservice if you send through a personal statement with spelling and/or grammatical errors. You’ve got months to put this together so there really is no excuse for sending through something that looks like a rush job. Ask your teachers to look at it, and be prepared to accept their feedback without getting defensive. They will have seen many personal statements before; use what they tell you to make yours even better. You’ve also got another chance here to look through the content of your personal statement, so you can make sure the balance is right. Make sure your focus is very clearly on the subject you are applying for and why you want to study it. Don’t post your personal statement on the internet or social media where anyone can see it. You will get picked up by the Ucas plagiarism checker. Similarly, don't copy any that you find online. Instead, now is a good time to make your parents feel useful. Read your personal statement out to them and get them to give you feedback. Or try printing it out and mixing it up with a few others (you can find sample personal statements on The Student Room). Get them to read them all and then try to pick yours out. If they can't, perhaps there's not enough of your personality in there.  

10. Don't think about your personal statement for a whole week

If you followed the advice at the very start of this guide, you’ve started your personal statement early. Good job! There are months before you need to submit it. Use one of these weeks to forget about your personal statement completely. Get on with other things – anything you like. Just don’t go near your statement. Give it a whole week and then open up the document again and read through it with fresh eyes. You’ll gain a whole new perspective on what you’ve written and will be well placed to make more changes, if needed.

• Read more: how to write your personal statement when you have nothing interesting to say  

10 steps to your ideal personal statement

In summary, here are the ten steps you should follow to create the perfect personal statement.  

Personal statement dos and don'ts

• Remember that your personal statement is your personal statement, not an article written about your intended field of study. It should tell the reader about you, not about the subject.
• Only put in things that you’re prepared to talk about at the interviews.
• Give convincing reasons for why you want to study the course – more than just "enjoying the subject" (this should be a given).
• For very competitive courses, find out as much as you can about the nature of the course and try to make your personal statement relevant to this.
• Be reflective. If you make a point like 'I like reading', 'I travelled abroad', say what you got from it.
• Go through the whole thing checking your grammar and your spelling. Do this at least twice. It doesn’t matter if you’re not applying to an essay-based course – a personal statement riddled with spelling mistakes is just going to irritate the reader, which is the last thing you want to do. If this is something you find difficult then have someone look over it for you.
• Leave blank lines between your paragraphs. It’s easier for the reader to get through your personal statement when it’s broken into easily digestible chunks. Remember that they’re going to be reading a lot of these! Make yours easy to get through.
• Get someone else's opinion on your statement. Read it out to family or friends. Share it with your teacher. Look for feedback wherever you can find it, then act upon it.
• Don’t write it like a letter. Kicking off with a greeting such as "Dear Sir/Madam" not only looks weird, it also wastes precious space.
• Don’t make jokes. This is simply not the time – save them for your first night in the union.
• Don’t criticise your current school or college or try to blame teachers for any disappointing grades you might have got.
• Be afraid of details – if you want your PS to be personal to you that means explaining exactly which bits of work or topics or activities you've taken part in/enjoyed. It's much more compelling to read about one or two detailed examples than a paragraph that brushes over five or six.
• Just list what you're doing now. You should pull out the experiences that are relevant to the courses which you're applying to.
• Mention skills and activities without giving examples of when they have been demonstrated by you or what you learnt from them. Anyone can write "I have great leadership skills" in a PS, actually using a sentence to explain when you demonstrated good leadership skills is much rarer and more valuable.
• Refer to experiences that took place before your GCSEs (or equivalent).
• Give explanations about medical or mental health problems. These should be explained in your reference, not your PS.
• Apply for too many different courses, making it difficult to write a convincing personal statement which supports the application.
• Write a statement specific to just one institution, unless you're only applying to that one choice.
• Copy and paste the statement from somewhere else! This means do not plagiarise. All statements are automatically checked for plagiarism by Ucas. Those that are highlighted by the computer system are checked manually by Ucas staff. If you’re found to have plagiarised parts of your statement, the universities you apply to will be informed and it could jeopardise your applications.
• Use ChatGPT or another AI program to write your personal statement for you. Or, if you do, make sure you thoroughly edit and personalise the text so it's truly yours. Otherwise you're very much at risk of the plagiarism point above.

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This is a UCAS personal statement provided by a student who applied to the University of Westminster masters program. Please only use this as a guide, do not copy it.

Before we provide the personal statement sample, we would try to answer some of the frequently asked questions about Ulster University Personal Statement and UCAS personal statement in general.

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Cliché Opening Lines to Avoid in Your Personal Statement for University of Westminster

• Quote from someone else…
• From a young age, I have (always) been [interested in/fascinated by]…
• For as long as I can remember, I have…
• I am applying for this course because…
• I have always been interested in…
• Throughout my life, I have always enjoyed…
• Reflecting on my educational experiences…
• Nursing is a very challenging and demanding [career/course]…
• Academically, I have always been…
• I have always wanted to pursue a career in…
• I have always been passionate about…

How Long Should a UCAS Personal Statement Be?

When writing your University of Westminster personal statement, read through the faculty requirement for a personal statement. If there’s no word limit stated, it is advisable to stick with the UCAS acceptable maximum of 4,000 characters or 47 lines.

Can You Use One Personal Statement for all Your Application?

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Career transitions sometimes come with fear especially for professionals in my position who have successfully built a rewarding career in the field they want to transition from. As an experienced Customer Service Professional, my decision to transition to Human Resources has not been void of its challenges, and while my friends and colleagues are against my decision to forgo my rewarding career, I have maintained my stand to pursue my passion for Human Resources Management. I am not impulsive, and I have given this prospect long and hard consideration; assessing my stand, what it will mean to move away from it, and I can say that my conviction remains that I am making a good decision.

I was born and brought up in xxx the capital city of the current day xxx in xxx. Growing up, most of the lucrative jobs were in the medical, law or business fields, so, when I displayed an early understanding of mathematics and economics in secondary school, my parents started grooming me for a career in a finance-related discipline. Even before that, I had started taking interest in bankers; I still recall how I stared at bank buildings whenever I passed one, always wondering what was inside and what it would take to look like one of the smartly dressed employers working inside the bank.

I would later go ahead to study Accounting in both my Diploma and Bachelor’s degree. Upon graduation from my National Diploma with the knowledge acquired, I joined Jarus Bank as a Customer Service Officer. Working in the customer service department meant that I was involved in different customer satisfaction and conflict resolution activities which helped deepen my knowledge and skills in interpersonal relations, multitasking, and active listening.  Then I joined Pomo Bank PLC where my influence and expertise grew rapidly. I was assigned to lead the Customer Care Team at the xxx branch, which also forced me to extend my level of operations. Working hand in hand with other team leads to meet corporate goals heightened my understanding of other departmental operations. One department that caught my attention was the HR department; I quickly found interest in the department since it represented the type of diversity in operation that I enjoyed from promoting compliance to new technologies, developing laws and policies, on-boarding new talents, meeting employee and employer expectations amongst others.

As I became increasingly aware of the activities and importance of HR professionals in any corporate setting, I began to desire a career in this terrain. I believe that pursuing a degree in human resources management is a responsibility that I owe myself. More so, several meetings with the HR Team Lead of Pomo Bank has given me a detailed understanding of the different roles that human resources play in dealing with issues and eventually reaching organizational success. Gaining formal learning in this course will give me the qualification and ground for accreditation to practice in the HR space.

After extensive research, the Human Resource Management M.A of the University of Westminster emerged as the suitable academic program for me. The program is strategically arranged with modules that cover the theory, practices and policies that cater for the present business environment. Gaining an understanding of these core areas and concepts will enable me to develop a suitable human resource strategy to manage and develop organizational potentials in any organization I find myself in. I am particularly interested in the optional modules that address employee relations, and organizational analysis, design and development. More so, the University of Westminster is located in London offers both academic and business benefits that will contribute to my academic success.

Conclusively, I have developed the organizational competence and skills that will enable me to perform well in this program; also, my previous academic result sheds light on my academic abilities. Overall, I am prepared and hopeful to pursue my Master’s degree in Human Resources at the University of Westminster.

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How to apply

Find a course.

Applying for one of our postgraduate courses is simple – just click on the red 'Apply' button at the top of our course pages.

There are two main ways to look through our courses:

• search for a course
• browse our subjects

If you're interested in applying for a research degree, have a look at our separate how to apply for research degrees page.

Applying for a taught postgraduate course

We have changed the way you apply for a postgraduate course at the University of Westminster.

You can now apply directly to us, via our new applications service.

Just click on the red Apply button on our course pages and you'll be directed to complete your application.

If you've already submitted an application through UCAS Postgraduate, it will be processed as normal – you do not need to take any action.

There are some courses which have alternative application routes – please look at our course pages for up-to-date information.

What you'll need to apply

Make sure you've got the relevant documents ready before you apply. Exactly what you'll need depends on the course, but generally, you should have the following:

• Copies of your qualifications (certificates and/or transcripts where you have met, or are expected to meet, the entry requirements)
• If English is not your first language, you'll need proof of your English language level
• International students who need a Student visa to attend the university will need a copy of their passports
• A personal statement
• Details of referees (refer to the entry requirements on the course page for specific requirements)

Application deadlines

For most of our September-start postgraduate courses, you should try to apply by 1 August. If you need to apply for a visa to study in the UK, you should aim to apply by 1 July.

We advise you to apply as soon as you can, as some courses are highly competitive. We would also suggest you apply early if your course requires a portfolio, essay component or interview, or if you're applying for a scholarship.

You can start applying a year before the course starts.

If a postgraduate course has a different deadline, you'll be able to see this on the relevant course page.

Final deadlines for January 2024

• Application deadline (International) – 24 November
• Application deadline (Home) – 7 December
• Meet conditions and pay deposit (International) - 11 December
• Meet conditions (Home) – 8 January
• Last date to request CAS (Outside UK) – 17 December*
• Last date to request CAS (Inside UK) – 7 January*
• Enrolment – 15 January
• First week of teaching – 22 January
• Last date for enrolment – 5 February

*Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your visa application . If the documentation, provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS.

Final deadlines for September 2024

These are the final deadlines for courses starting in September 2024. We would recommend that you apply well in advance of the final deadlines.

• Application deadline (International) – 1 July (midnight BST)
• Application deadline (Home) – 23 August (will accept applications made over the weekend)
• Last date to submit an Immigration History Questionnaire – 15 July
• Last date for international conditional/unconditional offers – 19 July
• Last date for Home conditional offers – 4 September
• Last date for Home unconditional offers – 9 September
• Meeting conditions and paying deposit (International) – 1 August *
• Meeting conditions (Home) – 12 September (will accept documents received over the weekend)
• Last date to request CAS (outside UK) – 23 August (midnight BST). Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your visa application . If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS
• Last date to request CAS (inside UK) – 13 September (midnight BST). Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your visa application . If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS
• Enrolment – 16 September
• First week of teaching – 23 September
• Last date for enrolment – 7 October. There will be no extensions to the final enrolment date.  If you are not present in the UK to enrol in person by this date, you should not travel to the UK to enrol even if your visa has been issued.  If you find yourself in this situation, you will need to contact your Admissions Officer by email to seek further advice.

* Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your visa application . If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS.

For LPC - Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma and Legal Practice LLM , the deadlines are as follows:

• Application deadline (Home) – 6 September
• Last date to submit an IHQ - 15 July
• Last date for Home conditional/unconditional offers – 12 September
• Last date to request CAS (outside UK) – 23 August (midnight BST). Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your visa application . If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS
• Last date to request CAS (inside UK) – 30 August (midnight BST). Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your visa application . If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS
• Meeting conditions (Home) – 13 September
• Enrolment – 9 September
• Teaching – 16 September
•  Last date for enrolment – 7 October - There will be no extensions to the final enrolment date.  If you are not present in the UK to enrol in person by this date, you should not travel to the UK to enrol even if your visa has been issued.  If you find yourself in this situation, you will need to contact your Admissions Officer by email to seek further advice

Master of Architecture RIBA Part 2

• Application deadline (Home) – 30 August
• Last date to submit an Immigration History Questionnaire - 15 July
• Last date for Home unconditional/ unconditional offers – 9 September
• Meeting conditions (Home) – 13 September (will accept documents received over the weekend)
• Last date to request CAS (inside UK) – 13 September (midnight BST). Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your visa application . If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS
• Last date for enrolment – 7 October - There will be no extensions to the final enrolment date.  If you are not present in the UK to enrol in person by this date, you should not travel to the UK to enrol even if your visa has been issued.  If you find yourself in this situation, you will need to contact your Admissions Officer by email to seek further advice

*Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your  visa application . If the documentation, provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS.

For Public Relations MA, Multimedia Journalism MA, and Media Campaigning and Social Change MA , the deadlines are as follows:

• Last date to submit an IHQ 15 July
• Last date to request CAS (outside UK) – 23 August (midnight BST). Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your  visa application . If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS
• Last date to request CAS (inside UK) – 30 August (midnight BST). Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for your  visa application . If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS
• Teaching – 23 September

Final deadlines for January 2025

• Application Deadline (International) – 15 November
• Last date to ask for an Immigration History Questionnaire – 25 November
• Last date for International conditional/unconditional offers – 29 November
• Application Deadline (Home) – 6 December
• Meet conditions and pay deposit (International) - 6 December
• Last date to request CAS (outside UK) – 9 December*
• Last date for home conditional/unconditional offers – 3 January
• Meet conditions (Home) – 7 January
• Last date to request CAS (inside UK) – 10 January*
• Enrolment – 13 January
• First week of teaching – 20 January
• Last date for enrolment – 3 February

*Provide all documentation required to prove your eligibility for  your visa application.  If the documentation provided by the deadline, does not meet the requirements, we are unable to guarantee your CAS.

Applying for a degree apprenticeship

If you’re already working in a related role and your employer is supporting your application for a degree apprenticeship, click the relevant 'Apply now' link by your chosen apprenticeship programme on our  Degree apprenticeships for applicants page , and fill out the online application form. We'll be in touch to take you through the next steps to complete the process.

Applying for research degrees and PhDs

If you're interested in applying for a research degree, have a look at our separate how to apply for research degrees page .

Entry requirements

Specific entry requirements for each course are provided on our course pages.

You can access our course pages via our course search or subjects page .

For international students, please first check the entry requirements tab on the course page, if your qualifications are not listed please check our country pages or contact our course enquiries team at [email protected] .

Interviews, portfolios and additional requirements

Some courses have additional requirements and you may need to attend an interview, submit a written assignment or portfolio, or take a test. Check the 'Entry requirements' section on our course pages for details.

English language requirements

The English language requirements for our courses are provided on individual course pages as minimum IELTS scores. For information about equivalent English language qualifications that are accepted by the University, please visit our English Language requirements page .

We offer pre-sessional English language courses and run an international summer school that can help you develop your language skills before your course begins. You can also take academic English modules during your studies to further enhance your English.

University preparation courses

Our partner college, Kaplan International College London, offers a Pre-Master's course leading to entry to a number of our Master's degrees. To find out more and apply, visit the Kaplan International College London website .

We expect the referee to comment favourably on your MSc application. For academic references we expect the referee to recommend you for postgraduate study based on his/her knowledge of your previous academic performance and must have been known to you within the last 3 years.

• The referee's email address must be an institutional or corporate email address; we will not accept references from free/public email systems such as gmail or hotmail.
• We will not accept references from peers, relatives or friends.
• Non-academic references must not be more than 3 years old from the date of issue
• We reserve the right to contact your referee to seek further information, or to confirm the validity of a reference that has been sent to us.

If we suspect that your reference(s) aren't genuine, or have not been submitted by the registered referee, we will take reasonable steps – including contacting third parties – to determine their authenticity. If the reference(s) turn out not to be genuine, your application will be withdrawn and will not be considered by the academic department.

If your qualification is not listed

If your qualification is not listed, you may still be able to apply for our courses. Contact our course enquiries team to discuss your qualifications.

Previous study or experience

If your course is related to your previous study or experience (paid or voluntary), you may be able to seek exemption from relevant modules.

For information, visit our recognition of prior learning page .

Fees and funding

Course fees are listed on individual course pages.

Please look at our scholarships page for the most up to date information on scholarships. You must be holding an offer of a place on a course to apply for a scholarship.

There is also further information on the PG Loan scheme on our funding pages.

Students with disabilities

We welcome and encourage applications from students with disabilities and consider all applications on academic grounds. If you have a disability that might affect your studies, let us know when you apply, so that we can assist you wherever possible.

For more information, please visit our Disability Learning Support pages .

Criminal convictions

We believe an unspent criminal conviction should not automatically prevent an individual from studying at the University of Westminster. Disclosing a criminal conviction is not a requirement of an application to study at the University and applicants will only ever be assessed on their academic suitability. The exception to this are students who require a visa to study in the UK. These students are required to disclose this information as part of the visa application process.

For further information, please see our guidance for criminal convictions .

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International students

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Check out the scholarships, loans and other sources of funding available to you.

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