Heriot-Watt University makes contextual offers for 2027 entry: lower-grade offers for applicants from backgrounds that are underrepresented at university. It looks at SIMD, POLAR4, your school, care experience and more. A typical offer drops from BBC to BCC (one grade lower). It also guarantees an interview or offer to some applicants.
Enter your postcode and school and our free checker automatically looks up SIMD and POLAR4 for you, then asks a few quick questions to work out whether you qualify for a contextual offer from Heriot-Watt University for 2027 entry.
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Typically BBC → BCC (one grade lower).
Of the 71 Heriot-Watt University courses where we have both offers, 47 are one grade lower, 23 are two grades lower and 1 is three grades lower.
See every Heriot-Watt University course for the full entry requirements.
Summarised from Heriot-Watt University's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means Heriot-Watt 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 .