Frequently asked questions

The University will receive A level and BTEC (RQF/reformed) results direct from UCAS. If you have studied these qualifications, we hope to be able to give you a decision on or shortly after Thursday 15 August 2024. 

If you are not taking these qualifications, and receive your final results yourself, please send a copy to the Admissions Team email straight away. Please label the subject heading as Examination Results and ensure you include your name and UCAS Personal ID so we can identify your application quickly.

Loughborough is your Firm choice

If you have met or exceeded all the conditions in your offer (including grades required in specific subjects), congratulations! You will be able to check to see that your place at Loughborough has been confirmed via UCAS. We will subsequently email you information about what you then need to do next to register as a Loughborough student.

Loughborough is your Insurance choice

If you have met the conditions of your offer, but you have NOT been successful at your first choice, then UCAS will notify you that your place at Loughborough has been confirmed. If your Firm choice accepts you then you will be placed there rather than at Loughborough University.

If you don’t meet all the conditions of your offer, we may still be able to accept you onto the degree course for which you originally applied. We will make these decisions as quickly as possible and will update the status of your application on UCAS as soon as we are able to do so.

If the University cannot accept you onto your original course choice, we may be able to offer you a different but related course. If this is the case, we will email you to let you know, and you will also see this on UCAS. You must accept or decline the offer via your UCAS application within five days. If you accept it, information about registration will be sent to you and your first choice accommodation guarantee will still stand.

If we are unable to offer you a place, or you decline an offer for a related course, you will be released to take up your insurance place or enter Clearing.

If you have not received all your results, please don’t worry! You should email the Admissions Team as soon as you receive your missing results. Please indicate clearly that the email relates to Missing Results in the subject heading and ensure you include your name and UCAS Personal ID so we can identify your application quickly.

All conditions of your offer must be met and received by the University by 4 September 2024. After this date decisions on whether or not to accept applicants are at the University’s discretion and depend on the availability of places.

If you plan to appeal your grade, we encourage you to speak to your school/college about this as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, we are unable to take any action until the outcome of your appeal is known so there is no need to contact the University at this stage.

If by 4 September 2024 we are notified of any revised grades that mean you meet the terms of the offer we made and that you subsequently accepted, we will honour our offer to study at Loughborough. 

After this date decisions on whether to accept applicants are at the University’s discretion and will depend on the availability of places.

If you would like to defer entry and start your course in October 2025, we will need to receive confirmation of this from you in writing. Please email release@lboro.ac.uk indicating clearly in the subject line of the message that your enquiry relates to deferred entry. You should also include your full name and UCAS Personal ID.

Similarly if you are holding an offer for deferred entry and now wish to come in 2024 instead, you will need to put the request in writing, quoting your UCAS Personal ID, full name, the course name and detail the reason you wish to change your year of entry, to the Admissions Office. We will then consider the request depending on the availability of places.

If you decide that you do not wish to take up your place at Loughborough and would like to be released into Clearing so you can seek a place at another institution then, you can use the self-release function on your UCAS Hub.

You will need to sign in to UCAS Hub and click the ‘Decline my place button’. By continuing, you will give up your confirmed place and end your contract with the University. You will then able to apply for another place at a different institution through Clearing.

Once your academic place at Loughborough has been confirmed, you will be able to make accommodation arrangements.

If you applied to Loughborough in the main cycle, the Accommodation Centre will contact you by email in early August. Please be sure to check your email and take the necessary action promptly. If your email address has changed, or is likely to change in the next few weeks, it is important that you let both us and UCAS know, so we can keep in touch with you. Find out more about accommodation options.

If you decide that you do not wish to take up your place at Loughborough and no longer wish to study at University in the UK and subsequently withdraw from UCAS altogether, then we will need to receive confirmation of this from you in writing. Please email release@lboro.ac.uk indicating clearly in the subject line of the message that your enquiry relates to withdrawal of your place. You should also include your full name, UCAS Personal ID and reason for your decision.

You should make us aware of contextual information and mitigating circumstances prior to your results being released, and by the end of July, so that this can be taken into account before we make a final decision on your application. We are unable to consider information shared after results are released.

If you don’t meet the conditions of your offer, all information on your application will be considered to determine if we may still be able to accept you onto the degree course for which you originally applied.