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Aberdeen — Undergraduate medicine

Figures are on the current UCAT scale of 2700 unless a cell says otherwise.

Aberdeen - Medicine

MBChB Medicine (A100)

How this university scores applications, with the figures it publishes.

High level summary

Simple summary. Excruciating detail below.

Question	Answer
Is there a score to clear?	No. Applicants are put in order by UCAT score and the university works down the list until the interview places run out. The line moves with the field each year. Any contextual adjustment is below.
How to read the UCAT figures here	A lowest score and an average are both published. Judge yourself against the average. The lowest is one person.
What else counts	GCSEs are a gate. Meeting the minimum is what counts; beating it earns nothing. The SJT band does not affect shortlisting.
The odds	Of every 100 who applied, about 88 were interviewed and about 67 were offered a place. (Scottish applicants, 2026 entry.)
Where it is decided	At interview. Almost everyone who qualifies is interviewed, so the score gets you into the room and then stops counting. Of those interviewed, about 77 in 100 were offered a place.

2026 entry outcomes

Group	Places	Applications	Interviews	Offers
Scottish	298	955	839	643
Rest of UK	222	164	133	as published
International	30	455	149	90

2026 entry UCAT, invited to interview (2700 scale)

Group	Lowest	Average
Scottish	1700	1960
Rest of UK	1720	1990
International	1730	2010

2025 entry outcomes (3600 scale)

Group	Applications	Interviews	Offers	Entrants
Scottish	900	863	736	257
Rest of UK	360	165	74	24
International	475	140	101	39

2025 entry lowest UCAT invited to interview (3600 scale)

Group	Lowest score
Contextual school leavers, home	2270
Non-contextual school leavers, home	2310
Non-contextual school leavers, rest of UK	2690
Non-contextual school leavers, international	2640

Summary of the selection model

Item	Detail
Scoring approach	UCAT scored relative to Aberdeen's own applicant pool (no fixed cut-off); UCAT uplift for SIMD20/SIMD40; personal statement used at interview
UCAT - how it is used	Scored relative to the whole Aberdeen applicant pool. Total of the four cognitive subtests only. SIMD20 applicants get a 10% uplift, SIMD40 a 5% uplift
UCAT threshold	No cut-off used
UCAT lowest accepted	2026 entry, lowest invited to interview (scale 2700): 1700 Scottish, 1720 rest of UK, 1730 international. 2025 entry (scale 3600): 2270 contextual home, 2310 non-contextual home, 2690 rest of UK, 2640 international Approximate current-scale equivalents, out of 2700: 2270 is about 1680, 2310 is about 1700, 2690 is about 1990, 2640 is about 1950.
UCAT average accepted	2026 entry, average invited to interview (scale 2700): 1960 Scottish, 1990 rest of UK, 2010 international
Interview format	Modified MMI, December to March
Interview to offer ratio	2026 entry, Scottish: 955 applications, 839 interviews, 643 offers (77% of interviewees), 298 places. International: 455 applications, 149 interviews, 90 offers, 30 places
Contextual offer	Adjusted entry AAB including Chemistry and one from Biology, Maths or Physics
Resits	Not accepted
Data status	Complete

Source

https://www.medschools.ac.uk/courses/university-of-aberdeen-a100/ ; https://www.abdn.ac.uk/smmsn/undergraduate/medicine/admissions-data/ ; https://www.abdn.ac.uk/smmsn/undergraduate/medicine/admissions-data/previous-admission-data/ ; https://www.abdn.ac.uk/study/international/english/undergraduate-degrees---english-requirements/

FOI-26-283: the full response, 17 September 2026

Figure	2025 entry (of 3600)	As /2700	National band	2026 entry (of 2700)	National band
Mean at interview, home	2510	1850	5th	1900	6th
Mean at interview, international	2800	2080	9th	1970	7th
Mean at interview, contextual	2500	1850	5th	1830	5th
Mean at OFFER, home	2610	1930	7th	1980	7th
Mean at OFFER, international	2790	2070	9th	2070	8th
Mean at OFFER, contextual	2520	1860	exactly 5th	1910	6th

Aberdeen own decile bands of its interviewed applicants

Aberdeen decile	2025 entry (of 3600)	2026 entry (of 2700)
1	1680 to 2280	1100 to 1700
2	2290 to 2380	1710 to 1780
3	2390 to 2460	1790 to 1830
4	2470 to 2520	1840 to 1880
5	2530 to 2560	1890 to 1930
6	2570 to 2620	1940 to 1970
7	2630 to 2680	1980 to 2030
8	2690 to 2750	2040 to 2090
9	2760 to 2850	2100 to 2190
10	2860 to 3440	2200 to 2610

THE LOWEST SCORE INTERVIEWED ANYWHERE IN THIS WORKBOOK. Aberdeen own first decile for 2026 entry starts at 1100. The 1st NATIONAL decile that year was 1580, so the whole of Aberdeen bottom band, 1100 to 1700, sits at or below the national 1st to 3rd. Aberdeen interviewed someone at 1100 out of 2700. Nothing else in this workbook comes close: the previous lowest interviewed was Aston at 1560 and the lowest OFFER was Brighton and Sussex at 1340. Aberdeen ranks rather than applying a threshold, so a low score is not an exclusion, it is simply fewer points.

The scoring matrix, released in full

UCAT decile	Marks awarded
10	57 or 60
9	51 or 54
8	45 or 48
7	39 or 42
6	33 or 36
5	27 or 30
4	21 or 24
3	15 or 18
2	9 or 12
1	3 or 6

Each decile carries two possible marks and Aberdeen has not said what decides which. Worth asking. The spread is the point: 57 marks separate the top decile from the bottom, so the UCAT is doing a great deal of work in the ranking. Aberdeen also confirmed it does not score GCSEs at all.

SJT bands of applicants interviewed

Cycle and group	Band 1	Band 2	Band 3	Band 4
2025 home	149	435	378	35
2025 international	17	60	53	8
2025 contextual	25	86	93	16
2026 home	284	490	229	19
2026 international	46	63	24	9
2026 contextual	55	109	76	9

ABERDEEN INTERVIEWS BAND 4, in both cycles and in every group. 35 home applicants in 2025 and 19 in 2026, plus contextual and international in both years. Most schools in this workbook reject band 4 outright. For a student who has come out of the SJT badly, Aberdeen is one of the few places still open.

Places

298

Entry year	Home	International
2025	279	30
2026	268	30

Home places fell by 11 between the two cycles while international stayed at 30. Contextual applicants have no set allocation of places. Aberdeen answered question 1 by pointing to its own published admissions data pages, which do carry the volumes, and noted that 2026 offers accepted are not final because the cycle has not fully closed.

Source: University of Aberdeen FOI-26-283, response 17 September 2026 under FOISA 2002. National decile placements calculated in this workbook.

Entry requirements

Item	Detail
Country	Scotland
Course (UCAS code)	MBChB Medicine (A100)
GCSE	Grade 6 in English Language and Maths. Biology and Physics recommended. A spread of grades 6-9 expected, especially sciences
A level	AAA including Chemistry and one from Biology, Maths or Physics, plus one other
Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers	S5 AAAAB including Chemistry and two of Maths, Biology/Human Biology or Physics, plus two others; S6 BBB at Higher/Advanced Higher
IB	36 points overall; HL 6,6,6 including Chemistry and one of Biology, Physics or Maths; SL three subjects averaging 6
English language	Medicine sits in Aberdeen's higher tier: IELTS Academic/UKVI 7.0 overall with Speaking 7.0, Writing 6.0, Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5. Equivalents: TOEFL iBT 100, Cambridge B2 First/C1 Advanced 185, Oxford ELLT 8.0, LanguageCert Academic 75, PTE Academic 70, Trinity ISE III with distinction in writing
Resits accepted?	No

Volumes, places and competition

Item	Detail
Figures cover	Scottish applicants, 2026 entry
Applications	955
Interviewed	839
Offers	643
Interviews per place	2.82
Offers per interview	0.77

How the UCAT is turned into a score

Item	Detail
Is a UCAT points conversion published?	No points conversion has been published. What the University does say about the UCAT is in the row below.
How the UCAT is used, in the University’s own words	Scored relative to the whole Aberdeen applicant pool. Total of the four cognitive subtests only. SIMD20 applicants get a 10% uplift, SIMD40 a 5% uplift UCAT scored relative to Aberdeen's own applicant pool (no fixed cut-off); UCAT uplift for SIMD20/SIMD40; personal statement used at interview

Entry requirements and places, as shown on the comparison table

Item	Detail
SJT - how the band is used	Not part of the score. Aberdeen ranks on the four cognitive subtests only. No band exclusion is published.

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Compiled by Crack The UCAT from universities’ own published pages and from Freedom of Information responses. Figures describe completed admissions cycles and are a guide, not a prediction. Free to read, and free to link to — please credit and link back to this page rather than copying the tables elsewhere.