UCAS Clearing 2025

Published on July 4, 2025

UCAS Clearing is how universities fill remaining course spots—with over 30,000 courses available each year. Whether you’ve just received your results, changed your mind, or are applying late, Clearing helps you find the right course and secure a place quickly.

What is Clearing?

Clearing matches applicants to university places that are yet to be filled. It’s available to anyone who has made a UCAS Undergraduate application and doesn’t hold any offers.

You’ll be eligible for Clearing if:

You’re applying after 30 June
You didn’t receive any offers (or none you wanted to accept)
You didn’t meet the conditions of your offers
You’ve paid the multiple choice application fee of £27.50
You’ve declined your firm place using the ‘decline my place’ button in your application

Note: Courses in Clearing aren’t just the ones nobody wants – there are many reasons why courses are still available. It’s an opportunity for those who have missed their conditions, or had a last minute change of heart about the university or course they want to study.

Key Dates for UCAS Clearing 2025

Starts- 5 July 2025
Ends- 20 October 2025

How Clearing works?

Check available courses on UCAS search tool from July 5
Contact Universities and give them your clearing number, UCAS Personal ID, Grades and a list of courses ready
Research the course and university before your call and ask if they’d accept you
Get informal offers – maybe from a variety of universities and colleges – then decide which one you want to accept
Only ‘Add a Clearing choice’ once you have permission from the university or college and fill in the course details by the date the university/college gave you
This counts as you definitely accepting the offer, so if they confirm, it’ll show as an acceptance on your ‘Choices’ page in your application
You can only add one choice at a time, but if the university/college doesn’t confirm your place, you’ll be able to add another
If the university/college confirms your place, find your student accommodation and then make sure you get everything ready to start your studies

Note: Universities will not make any decisions on Clearing choices during the UCAS results embargo ( In 2025, A level results day is 14 August. If you took your exams in Scotland, the SQA results day will be 5 August), and UCAS Hub will not update during this period.