Who is eligible for a contextual offer at University of Bristol?

To be considered for a contextual offer from University of Bristol you need 'home' fee status and studying A-levels or the IB, plus one of the following: a school on Bristol's aspiring state schools and colleges list, an IMD quintile 1-2 area, a widening-access programme, care experience or free school meals.

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University of Bristol contextual offer checker

University of Bristol makes contextual offers for 2027 entry: lower-grade offers for applicants from backgrounds that are underrepresented at university. It looks at IMD, your school, outreach programmes, care experience and more. A typical offer drops from AAA to ABB (two grades lower). It also guarantees an interview or offer to some applicants.

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

Roughly two minutes with no sign-up to check your circumstances against every university's scheme.

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Real offers posted by University of Bristol applicants for 2027 entry, including how many were contextual.

Who qualifies

Everyone must

Plus any one of these

Courses: Doesn't apply to the CertHE Foundation courses or the Gateway courses. The checker answers for University of Bristol as a whole, so check the policy for the course you're applying to.

Guaranteed offers and other routes

A guaranteed offer, or a guaranteed interview on courses that interview (such as Medicine and Dentistry) if you have one of the following: (a Bristol-area home address (BS, BA1-3, BA5, BA14, BA15) and a UK state-school education), an Access to HE course or free school meals. A separate scheme from the contextual offer: you need home fee status, grades achieved or predicted to meet the entry requirements, and any admissions-test thresholds; not for Dental Therapy and Dental Hygiene.
A guaranteed offer at the contextual level, or a guaranteed interview if you complete Access to Bristol, Discover Bristol, Insight into Bristol, Next Step Bristol or the Virtual Summer School (Bristol Scholars get a tailored offer instead).

The checker tells you which of these your answers meet, except routes that depend on completing a programme.

How much lower is the offer?

Typically AAA → ABB (two grades lower).

On all 255 University of Bristol courses where we have both offers, the contextual offer is two grades lower.

Contextual offer for every University of Bristol course (255)

Course	Standard	Contextual
BA Ancient History	ABB	BBC
BA Anthropology	AAB	BBB
BA Archaeology and Anthropology	AAB	BBB
BA Classical Studies	ABB	BBC
BA Classics	ABB	BBC
BA Comparative Literatures and Cultures	AAB	BBB
BA Comparative Literatures and Cultures and Modern Languages	ABB	BBC
BA Economics	A*AA	AAB
BA English	AAB	BBB
BA English and Classical Studies	AAB	BBB
BA English and History	AAA	ABB
BA English and Modern Languages	AAB	BBB
BA English and Philosophy	AAA	ABB
BA English with Study Abroad	AAB	BBB
BA Film and English	AAB	BBB
BA Film and Modern Languages	AAB	BBB
BA Film and Television	AAB	BBB
BA History	AAA	ABB
BA History and Modern Languages	AAA	ABB
BA History of Art	ABB	BBC
BA History of Art and Modern Languages	ABB	BBC
BA History with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BA International Business Management and Modern Languages	AAA	ABB
BA Liberal Arts	AAA	ABB
BA Modern Languages	ABB	BBC
BA Music	AAB	BBB
BA Music and Modern Languages	AAB	BBB
BA Philosophy	AAA	ABB
BA Philosophy and Modern Languages	AAB	BBB
BA Philosophy and Theology	AAA	ABB
BA Politics and Modern Languages	AAB	BBB
BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics	AAA	ABB
BA Religion and Theology	ABB	BBC
BA Religion and Theology with Study Abroad	ABB	BBC
BA Theatre and English	AAB	BBB
BA Theatre and Film	AAB	BBB
BA Theatre and Modern Languages	AAB	BBB
BA Theatre and Performance Studies	AAB	BBB
BDH Dental Hygiene	ABB	BBC
BDS Dentistry	AAA	ABB
BDT Dental Therapy	ABB	BBC
BEng Aerospace Engineering	A*AA	AAB
BEng Aerospace Engineering with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
BEng Artificial Intelligence	A*AA	AAB
BEng Civil Engineering	A*AA	AAB
BEng Civil Engineering with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
BEng Design Engineering	A*AA	AAB
BEng Design Engineering with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering	AAA	ABB
BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering with a Year in Industry	AAA	ABB
BEng Engineering Mathematics	AAA	ABB
BEng Engineering Mathematics with a Year in Industry	AAA	ABB
BEng Mechanical Engineering	A*AA	AAB
BEng Mechanical Engineering with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
BEng Mechanical and Electrical Engineering	AAA	AAC
BEng Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with a Year in Industry	AAA	AAC
BSc Accounting and Finance	AAA	ABB
BSc Accounting and Finance with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
BSc Accounting and Finance with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Accounting and Management	AAA	ABB
BSc Accounting and Management with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
BSc Accounting and Management with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Applied Anatomy	ABB	BBC
BSc Biochemistry	AAA	ABB
BSc Biochemistry with Medical Biochemistry	AAA	ABB
BSc Biochemistry with Molecular Biology and Biotechnology	AAA	ABB
BSc Biochemistry with Study in Industry	AAA	ABB
BSc Biology	AAA	ABB
BSc Biology with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
BSc Biomedical Sciences	AAA	ABB
BSc Biomedical Sciences with Study in Industry	AAA	ABB
BSc Business Analytics	AAA	ABB
BSc Business and Management	AAA	ABB
BSc Business and Management with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Business and Management with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	AAA	ABB
BSc Cancer Biology and Immunology	AAB	BBB
BSc Cancer Biology and Immunology with Study in Industry	AAB	BBB
BSc Cellular and Molecular Medicine	AAB	BBB
BSc Cellular and Molecular Medicine with Study in Industry	AAB	BBB
BSc Chemical Physics	AAA	ABB
BSc Chemistry	AAA	ABB
BSc Chemistry with Computing	AAA	ABB
BSc Childhood Studies	ABB	BBC
BSc Childhood Studies with Study Abroad	ABB	BBC
BSc Computer Science	A*AA	AAB
BSc Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence	A*AA	AAB
BSc Criminology	AAB	BBB
BSc Criminology with Study Abroad	AAB	BBB
BSc Data Science	A*AA	AAB
BSc Data Science with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
BSc Economics	A*AA	AAB
BSc Economics and Accounting	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics and Accounting with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics and Accounting with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics and Data Science	A*AA	AAB
BSc Economics and Econometrics	A*AA	AAB
BSc Economics and Econometrics with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
BSc Economics and Finance	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics and Finance with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics and Management	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics and Management with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics and Mathematics	AAA	AAA
BSc Economics and Politics	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics and Politics with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Economics with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
BSc Economics with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	A*AA	AAB
BSc Education Studies	ABB	BBC
BSc Education Studies with Study Abroad	ABB	BBC
BSc Environmental Geoscience	ABB	BBC
BSc Finance	AAA	ABB
BSc Geography	AAB	BBB
BSc Geography with Study Abroad	AAB	BBB
BSc Geography with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	AAB	BBB
BSc Geology	ABB	BBC
BSc International Business Management	AAA	ABB
BSc International Business Management with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc International Business Management with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	AAA	ABB
BSc International Social and Public Policy	AAB	BBB
BSc International Social and Public Policy with Study Abroad	AAB	BBB
BSc Marketing	AAA	ABB
BSc Marketing with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Marketing with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	AAA	ABB
BSc Mathematics	AAA	AAA
BSc Mathematics and Computer Science	AAA	AAA
BSc Mathematics and Philosophy	AAA	AAA
BSc Mathematics and Physics	AAA	AAA
BSc Mathematics with Statistics	AAA	AAA
BSc Mathematics with Statistics for Finance	AAA	AAA
BSc Mathematics with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	AAA	AAA
BSc Medical Microbiology	AAB	BBB
BSc Medical Microbiology with Study in Industry	AAB	BBB
BSc Neuroscience	AAA	ABB
BSc Neuroscience with Study in Industry	AAA	ABB
BSc Palaeontology and Evolution	ABB	BBC
BSc Pharmacology	AAB	BBB
BSc Pharmacology with Study in Industry	AAB	BBB
BSc Philosophy and Economics	AAA	ABB
BSc Philosophy and Economics with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Philosophy and Politics	AAA	ABB
BSc Physics	A*AA	AAB
BSc Physics and Philosophy	A*AA	AAB
BSc Physics with Astrophysics	A*AA	AAB
BSc Physics with Computing	A*AA	AAB
BSc Physiological Science	AAB	BBB
BSc Physiological Science with Study in Industry	AAB	BBB
BSc Plant Sciences	AAA	ABB
BSc Plant Sciences with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
BSc Politics and International Relations	AAA	ABB
BSc Politics and International Relations with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
BSc Psychology	A*AA	AAB
BSc Psychology in Education	ABB	BBC
BSc Psychology in Education with Study Abroad	ABB	BBC
BSc Social Policy	AAB	BBB
BSc Social Policy and Politics	AAB	BBB
BSc Social Policy and Sociology	AAB	BBB
BSc Social Policy with Criminology	AAB	BBB
BSc Social Policy with Study Abroad	AAB	BBB
BSc Sociology	ABB	BBC
BSc Sociology and Philosophy	AAB	BBB
BSc Sociology with Study Abroad	ABB	BBC
BSc Virology and Immunology	AAB	BBB
BSc Virology and Immunology with Study in Industry	AAB	BBB
BSc Zoology	AAA	ABB
BSc Zoology with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
BVSc Veterinary Science	AAA	ABB
LLB Law	A*AA	AAB
LLB Law and Modern Languages	A*AA	AAB
LLB Law with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
LLB Law with Study in Continental Europe	A*AA	AAB
MArts Anthropology with Innovation	AAB	BBB
MArts Film and Television with Innovation	AAB	BBB
MArts History with Innovation	AAA	ABB
MArts Music with Innovation	AAB	BBB
MArts Theatre with Innovation	AAB	BBB
MB ChB Medicine	AAA	ABB
MEng Aerospace Engineering	A*AA	AAB
MEng Aerospace Engineering with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
MEng Aerospace Engineering with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
MEng Civil Engineering	A*AA	AAB
MEng Civil Engineering with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
MEng Civil Engineering with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
MEng Computer Science	A*AA	AAB
MEng Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence	A*AA	AAB
MEng Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
MEng Computer Science with Innovation	A*AA	AAB
MEng Computer Science with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
MEng Design Engineering	A*AA	AAB
MEng Design Engineering with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering	AAA	ABB
MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering with a Year in Industry	AAA	ABB
MEng Engineering Mathematics	AAA	ABB
MEng Engineering Mathematics with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
MEng Engineering Mathematics with a Year in Industry	AAA	ABB
MEng Mathematics and Computer Science	AAA	AAA
MEng Mechanical Engineering	A*AA	AAB
MEng Mechanical Engineering with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
MEng Mechanical Engineering with a Year in Industry	A*AA	AAB
MEng Mechanical and Electrical Engineering	AAA	AAC
MEng Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with a Year in Industry	AAA	AAC
MLibArts Liberal Arts with Study Abroad	AAA	ABB
MSci Accounting with Innovation	AAA	ABB
MSci Applied Anatomy	ABB	BBC
MSci Biochemistry	AAA	ABB
MSci Biochemistry with Medical Biochemistry	AAA	ABB
MSci Biochemistry with Molecular Biology and Biotechnology	AAA	ABB
MSci Biology	AAA	ABB
MSci Biology with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
MSci Business and Management with Innovation	AAA	ABB
MSci Cancer Biology and Immunology	AAB	BBB
MSci Cellular and Molecular Medicine	AAB	BBB
MSci Chemical Physics	A*AA	AAB
MSci Chemical Physics with Industrial Experience	A*AA	AAB
MSci Chemistry	A*AA	AAB
MSci Chemistry with Computing	A*AA	AAB
MSci Chemistry with Industrial Experience	A*AA	AAB
MSci Chemistry with Study Abroad	A*AA	AAB
MSci Chemistry with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	A*AA	AAB
MSci Design with Innovation	AAB	BBB
MSci Economics with Innovation	A*AA	AAB
MSci Environmental Geoscience	ABB	BBC
MSci Environmental Geoscience with Study Abroad	ABB	BBC
MSci Finance with Innovation	AAA	ABB
MSci Geography with Innovation	AAB	BBB
MSci Geology	ABB	BBC
MSci Geology with Study Abroad	ABB	BBC
MSci Mathematics	AAA	AAA
MSci Mathematics and Philosophy	AAA	AAA
MSci Mathematics and Physics	AAA	AAA
MSci Mathematics with Statistics	AAA	AAA
MSci Mathematics with Study Abroad	AAA	AAA
MSci Mathematics with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	AAA	AAA
MSci Medical Microbiology	AAB	BBB
MSci Neuroscience	AAA	ABB
MSci Palaeontology and Evolution	ABB	BBC
MSci Pharmacology	AAB	BBB
MSci Physics	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physics and Philosophy	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physics with Astrophysics	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physics with Computing	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physics with Computing with Industrial Experience	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physics with Industrial Experience	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physics with Innovation	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physics with International Experience	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physics with Study Abroad in a Modern Language	A*AA	AAB
MSci Physiological Science	AAB	BBB
MSci Plant Sciences	AAA	ABB
MSci Plant Sciences with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
MSci Psychology and Neuroscience	A*AA	AAB
MSci Psychology with Innovation	A*AA	AAB
MSci Theoretical Physics	A*AA	AAB
MSci Virology and Immunology	AAB	BBB
MSci Zoology	AAA	ABB
MSci Zoology with Professional Placement	AAA	ABB
Politics and Sociology (BSc)	AAB	BBB

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Summarised from University of Bristol's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means University of Bristol 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.