Lancaster University makes contextual offers for 2027 entry: lower-grade offers for applicants from backgrounds that are underrepresented at university. To be considered for a contextual offer from Lancaster University you need 'home' fee status, plus one of the following: free school meals or care experience.
Answer a few quick questions and our free checker works out whether you qualify for a contextual offer from Lancaster University for 2027 entry.
Roughly two minutes with no sign-up to check your circumstances against every university's scheme.
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Plus any one of these
Courses: MBChB Medicine and Surgery (and Medicine with a Gateway Year) has its own contextual scheme, and Foundation Year courses keep the standard offer. The checker answers for Lancaster University as a whole, so check the policy for the course you're applying to.
Summarised from Lancaster University's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means Lancaster 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 .