Newcastle 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 Newcastle University you need one of the following: a POLAR4 quintile 1-2 area, care experience, estrangement from your parents, free school meals or caring responsibilities. It also guarantees an interview or offer to some applicants.
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 Newcastle University for 2027 entry.
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PARTNERS: an offer up to three grades lower (two for Medicine and Dentistry) if you have one of the following: an IMD quintile 1-2 area, a WIMD quintile 1-2 area, an SIMD40 area, a low-affluence ACORN or Censation area, a TUNDRA quintile 1-2 area, a school with GCSE Attainment 8 of 44 or less, A-level points per entry of 30 or less, or over half its pupils on free school meals, an underrepresented ethnic background, free school meals, care experience, being first in your family at university, a disability or long-term health condition, caring responsibilities, estrangement from your parents, an armed-forces background, refugee or asylum-seeker status or disrupted education. Only through the PARTNERS programme: apply to PARTNERS separately by 29 January 2027 (22 October 2026 for Medicine and Dentistry), make Newcastle your firm choice and complete the PARTNERS Academic Summer School (27 June to 2 July 2027). You need predicted grades of at least CCC.
Regional Guaranteed Offer on eligible courses if you live or study in one of Newcastle's North East postcodes.
Regional Contextual Offer: up to two grades lower if you study at a state school in North East England (including Tees Valley).
Pathways to Newcastle: up to two grades lower on eligible STEM courses if you apply to Pathways to Newcastle (a separate online form after your UCAS application).
Up to two grades lower through Realising Opportunities if you take part in Realising Opportunities through a partner school.
The checker tells you which of these your answers meet, except routes that depend on completing a programme.
Summarised from Newcastle University's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means Newcastle 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 .