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Birmingham City University contextual offer checker

Enter your postcode and school and our free checker automatically looks up POLAR4 for you, then asks a few quick questions to work out whether you qualify for a contextual offer from Birmingham City University for 2027 entry.

Looking for a different university? See University of Birmingham or Birmingham Newman University.

Who qualifies

Everyone must

• Have 'home' (UK) fee status
• Have a household income below about £25,000 a year

Plus any one of these

• Live in a POLAR4 quintile 1 area (the 20% of areas where fewest young people go to university) from your postcode
• Both of:
  • Live in a POLAR4 quintile 1 or 2 area (the 40% of areas where fewest young people go to university) from your postcode
  • Any one of:
    • Be the first generation in your family to go to university
    • Have a disability, learning difference or long-term health condition
    • Both of:
      • Have been eligible for free school meals
      • Be 25 or under when the course starts
    • Have caring responsibilities (a young carer, a parent or similar)
    • Both of:
      • Be care-experienced or a care leaver
      • Be 25 or under when the course starts
    • Be estranged from your parents or guardians
    • Have refugee, asylum-seeker or humanitarian-protection status (you or your family)
    • Be from an armed-forces family, or be a veteran or service leaver

Summarised from Birmingham City University's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means Birmingham City University may make you a contextual offer, not that it will, and some courses (often medicine, dentistry and other heavily oversubscribed courses) have their own rules. Always check the university's own policy before relying on it. Data updated 5 November 2026.