Application dates and deadlines for Cambridge

Are you planning to start an undergraduate course at Cambridge in 2025? We’ve listed the main activities, dates and deadlines for Cambridge. Other deadlines apply for Music Award applicants.

You will need to meet all relevant deadlines for your application to be considered.

If you're looking to apply to a postgraduate course at Cambridge, view postgraduate application dates and deadlines.

30 April 2024

• Search for courses on the UCAS website. 2025 entry courses will be live on UCAS from this date.

14 May 2024

• You can start your UCAS application from this point, but you can’t submit it until September.

3 June 2024

• Applications open for bursary vouchers and access arrangements for the ESAT and TMUA admissions tests. You’ll need to take the ESAT if you want to study Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Engineering, Natural Sciences or Veterinary Medicine, and the TMUA if you want to study Computer Science or Economics.

18 June 2024

• Booking for the UCAT admission test opens, if you want to study Medicine or Graduate Medicine.

8 July 2024

• UCAT admission testing starts, if you want to study Medicine or Graduate Medicine.

1 August 2024

• Registration opens for LNAT admission test if you want to study Law.
• Registration for the ESAT and TMUA admissions tests opens.

29 August 2024

• Deadline to apply for access arrangements for the ESAT and TMUA admissions tests.

1 September 2024

• Deadline for submitting a transcript, if you’ve applied for an organ scholarship (TBC).

3 September 2024 onwards

• Submit your UCAS application for Cambridge from this date. Make sure you submit your application by the relevant deadline. You can start to complete your UCAS application from May.

15 September 2024

• Deadline to register for the LNAT admission test if you want to study Law.
• Deadline to apply for access arrangements for the UCAT admission test if you want to study Medicine or Graduate Medicine. 

16 September 2024

• Deadline to register for the ESAT and TMUA admissions tests. This is also the deadline to apply for a bursary voucher for these tests. 

19 September 2024

• Deadline to register for the UCAT admission test if you want to study Medicine or Graduate Medicine.

26 September 2024

• Take the UCAT admission test by this date if you want to study Medicine or Graduate Medicine.  

15 October 2024

• Deadline to submit your UCAS application (6pm UK time). If you’re a mature student (21+) you can apply to one of the mature Colleges for some courses in March.
• Take the LNAT admission test by this date if you want to study Law.
• Take the ESAT admissions test on 15 or 16 October if you want to study Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Engineering, Natural Sciences or Veterinary Medicine. 

16 October 2024

• Take the TMUA admissions test on 16 or 17 October if you want to study Computer Science or Economics. 

22 October 2024

• Deadline to submit My Cambridge Application (6pm UK time). This is an extra application form that you need to complete if you want to study at Cambridge. If you’re applying for the graduate course in Medicine, you won’t need to complete My Cambridge Application.
• Deadline to provide your transcript, if you’re an international student.
• If you applied for the graduate course in Medicine, this is the deadline to submit your additional application form. This is an extra form that you need to complete if you want to study Medicine (Graduate Course).
• Deadline to submit your Extenuating Circumstances Form (ECF). This is an extra form that your teacher or doctor can complete if you found it difficult to study.

November 2024

• The College you applied to will invite you for an interview, if you’ve been shortlisted. Find out how to prepare for an interview.

December 2024

• Most College interviews take place in the first 3 weeks of December.

January 2025

• The College you applied to may be impressed by your application, but not have a place for you. If this happens they may share your application with other Colleges to consider. Find out more about how we make a decision on your application.
• If you applied in October, we will let you know whether we have decided to offer you a place. Find out what to do when you are told the outcome of your application.

29 January 2025

• Deadline to apply if you want to study the Foundation Year (6pm UK time).

1 March 2025

• Deadline to apply for a course as part of the March application round, if you’re a mature student (11.59pm UK time).
• Take the LNAT admission assessment by this date if you want to study Law and have applied as a mature student in the March application round.

8 March 2025

• Deadline to submit My Cambridge Application (6pm UK time) if you apply as part of the March application round for mature students.

May to June 2025

• You take your A levels, IB and other examinations.
• Take the Sixth Term Examination Paper (STEP) if you’ve applied for a course where it’s required.

August 2025

• Exam results are released. Find out what to do when you get your exam results.
• We will confirm our final decision on your application. Find out how we make application decisions and what you need to do when you are told the outcome of your application.