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Northumbria University contextual offer checker

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

Who qualifies

Everyone must

• Have 'home' (UK) fee status

Plus any one of these

• 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
• Be care-experienced or a care leaver
• Be from an underrepresented ethnic background
• Have been eligible for free school meals
• Be 21 or over when the course starts
• Have caring responsibilities (a young carer, a parent or similar)
• Be estranged from your parents or guardians
• Have a disability, learning difference or long-term health condition
• Be from an armed-forces family, or be a veteran or service leaver
• Be the first generation in your family to go to university
• Have refugee, asylum-seeker or humanitarian-protection status (you or your family)
• Have completed a recognised access or outreach programme (e.g. Sutton Trust, Realising Opportunities or the university's own scheme)

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