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Cardiff Metropolitan University contextual offer checker

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

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Who qualifies

Everyone must

• Have 'home' (UK) fee status

Plus any one of these

• Be care-experienced or a care leaver
• Have caring responsibilities (a young carer, a parent or similar)
• Be the first generation in your family to go to university
• Live in a POLAR4 quintile 1 or 2 area (the 40% of areas where fewest young people go to university) from your postcode
• Live in England's most deprived 40% of areas (IMD quintiles 1-2) from your postcode
• Live in Wales's most deprived 40% of areas (WIMD quintiles 1-2) from your postcode
• Live in Northern Ireland's most deprived 40% of areas (NIMDM quintiles 1-2) from your postcode
• Live in Scotland's most deprived 40% of areas (SIMD40) from your postcode
• Have taken your GCSEs, or be studying for your A-levels (or equivalent), at a school with below-average progression to university
• Have completed a recognised access or outreach programme (e.g. Sutton Trust, Realising Opportunities or the university's own scheme)
• Be from an armed-forces family, or be a veteran or service leaver

Summarised from Cardiff Metropolitan University's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means Cardiff Metropolitan 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.