Who is eligible for a contextual offer at University of Sheffield?

To be considered for a contextual offer from University of Sheffield you need 'home' fee status, plus one of the following: an IMD quintile 1-2 area, free school meals, care experience, caring responsibilities, estrangement from your parents, refugee or asylum-seeker status or a widening-access programme.

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University of Sheffield contextual offer checker

University of Sheffield makes contextual offers for 2027 entry: lower-grade offers for applicants from backgrounds that are underrepresented at university. It looks at IMD, free school meals, care experience, caring responsibilities and more. A typical offer drops from AAB to ABB (one grade lower).

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

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Real offers posted by University of Sheffield applicants for 2027 entry, including how many were contextual.

Who qualifies

Everyone must

Have 'home' (UK) fee status

Plus any one of these

How much lower is the offer?

Typically AAB → ABB (one grade lower).

Of the 111 University of Sheffield courses where we have both offers, 101 are one grade lower and 10 are two grades lower.

Contextual offer for every University of Sheffield course (111)

Course	Standard	Contextual
Accounting and Financial Management BA	AAB	ABB
Accounting and Financial Management and Economics BA	AAB	ABB
Aerospace Engineering BEng	A*AA	AAB
Aerospace Engineering MEng	A*AA	AAB
Architectural Engineering MEng	AAA	AAB
Architecture BA	AAA	AAB
Architecture and Landscape BA	AAA	AAB
Biochemistry BSc	AAB	ABB
Biochemistry MBiolSci	AAA	AAB
Biological Sciences BSc	AAB	ABB
Biological Sciences MBiolSci	AAA	AAB
Biomedical Engineering BEng	AAB	ABB
Biomedical Engineering MEng	AAA	AAB
Biomedical Science BSc	AAB	ABB
Biomedical Science MBiomedSci	AAA	AAB
Business Management BA	AAB	ABB
Business Management and Economics BA	AAB	ABB
Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures BA	ABB	BBB
Chemical Engineering BEng	AAA	AAB
Chemical Engineering MEng	AAA	AAB
Chemistry BSc	AAB	ABB
Chemistry MChem	AAB	ABB
Chemistry with Biological and Medicinal Chemistry BSc	AAB	ABB
Chemistry with Biological and Medicinal Chemistry MChem	AAB	ABB
Civil Engineering BEng	AAA	AAB
Civil and Structural Engineering MEng	AAA	AAB
Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) BSc	A*AA	AAB
Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) MComp	A*AA	AAB
Computer Science (Software Engineering) BEng	A*AA	AAB
Computer Science (Software Engineering) MEng	A*AA	AAB
Computer Science BSc	A*AA	AAB
Computer Science MComp	A*AA	AAB
Computer Systems Engineering BEng	AAB	ABB
Computer Systems Engineering MEng	AAA	AAB
Criminology BA	AAB	ABB
Data Science BSc	AAB	ABB
Dental Hygiene and Dental Therapy BSc	ABB	BBB
Dental Surgery BDS	AAA	AAB
Digital Media and Society BA	ABB	BBB
East Asian Studies BA	ABB	BBB
Economics BA	AAB	ABB
Economics BSc	AAB	ABB
Economics and Mathematics BSc	AAA	AAB
Economics and Politics BA	AAB	ABB
Economics with Finance BSc	AAA	AAB
Education and Psychology BSc	ABB	BBB
Electrical and Electronic Engineering BEng	AAB	ABB
Electrical and Electronic Engineering MEng	AAA	AAB
English Language and Linguistics BA	AAB	ABB
English Language and Literature BA	AAB	ABB
English Literature BA	AAB	ABB
English and History BA	AAB	ABB
English and Modern Languages & Cultures BA	ABB	BBB
English and Music BA	ABB	BBB
English and Philosophy BA	ABB	BBB
Environmental Science BSc	ABB	BBB
Financial Mathematics BSc	AAA	AAB
General Engineering BEng (Hons)	A*AA	AAA
General Engineering MEng (Hons)	A*AA	AAA
Geography BA	AAB	ABB
Geography BSc	AAB	ABB
Geography and Planning BA	ABB	BBB
Global Sustainable Development BA	AAB	ABB
History BA	AAB	ABB
History and Modern Languages & Cultures BA	ABB	BBB
History and Philosophy BA	AAB	ABB
History and Politics BA	AAB	ABB
Journalism Studies BA	ABB	BBB
Landscape Architecture BA	ABB	BBB
Landscape Architecture MLA	ABB	BBB
Law (European and International) LLB	AAA	AAB
Law LLB	AAA	AAB
Law and Criminology LLB	AAB	ABB
Linguistics and Modern Languages & Cultures BA	ABB	BBB
Materials Science and Engineering BEng	AAB	ABB
Materials Science and Engineering MEng	AAA	AAB
Mathematics BSc	AAA	AAB
Mathematics MMath	AAA	AAB
Mathematics and Philosophy BSc	AAA	AAB
Mechanical Engineering BEng	A*AA	AAB
Mechanical Engineering MEng	A*AA	AAB
Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering BEng	AAB	ABB
Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering MEng	AAA	AAB
Medicine MBChB	AAA	AAB
Modern Languages and Cultures BA	ABB	BBB
Music BMus	AAB	ABB
Music and East Asian Studies BA	ABB	BBB
Music and Modern Languages & Cultures BA	ABB	BBB
Nursing (Adult) BMedSci	BBB	BBC
Orthoptics BMedSci	BBB	BBC
Pharmacy MPharm	AAB	ABB
Philosophy BA	AAB	ABB
Philosophy, Politics and Economics BA	AAA	AAB
Philosophy, Religion and Ethics BA	ABB	BBB
Physics BSc	AAB	ABB
Physics MPhys	AAA	AAB
Physics and Astrophysics BSc	AAB	ABB
Physics and Astrophysics MPhys	AAA	AAB
Politics and International Relations BA	AAB	ABB
Politics and Modern Languages & Cultures BA	ABB	BBB
Politics and Philosophy BA	AAB	ABB
Politics and Sociology BA	ABB	BBB
Psychology BSc	AAB	ABB
Social Sciences BA	ABB	BBB
Sociology BA	ABB	BBB
Speech and Language Therapy BMedSci	AAB	ABB
Theoretical Physics BSc	AAB	ABB
Theoretical Physics MPhys	AAA	AAB
Urban Planning MPlan(UG)	ABB	BBB
Zoology BSc	AAB	ABB
Zoology MBiolSci	AAA	AAB

See every University of Sheffield course for the full entry requirements.

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