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Sheffield Hallam University contextual offer checker

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

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Who qualifies

You need any one of these

• Live in a postcode area starting S, DN, SK, DE, NG, LN, WF or HD from your postcode
• 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 a TUNDRA quintile 1 or 2 area (the 40% of areas where fewest young people go to university) from your postcode
• Be care-experienced or a care leaver
• Have a disability, learning difference or long-term health condition
• Be 21 or over when the course starts
• Have refugee, asylum-seeker or humanitarian-protection status (you or your family)
• Have caring responsibilities (a young carer, a parent or similar)
• Be estranged from your parents or guardians
• Be from an armed-forces family, or be a veteran or service leaver
• Have completed a recognised access or outreach programme (e.g. Sutton Trust, Realising Opportunities or the university's own scheme)
• Be from an underrepresented ethnic background
• Have a household income below about £25,000 a year
• Be homeless or at risk of homelessness
• Be unable to move away from home to study
• Have had your education significantly disrupted (bereavement, serious illness, family breakdown or similar)

Courses: Foundation year courses don't get the lower offer. The checker answers for Sheffield Hallam University as a whole, so check the policy for the course you're applying to.

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