UCL admissions statistics

UCL acceptance rates and your chances, course by course

UCL's own figures for 2026 entry: offer rates from 13.7% to 39.8% across the five courses we cover. Pick a course for its statistics and, where the data allows, your own chances.

  • Law

    LNAT
    Applications
    3,948
    Interviewed
    –
    Offer rate
    14.6%

    2025 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released

    What the data shows

    UCL set a minimum LNAT of 23 for 2021 entry, and none of the 2,494 listed applicants below it got an offer.

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  • Computer Science

    TARA
    Applications
    2,558
    Interviewed
    –
    Offer rate
    23.4%

    2026 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released. Statistics only, no calculator

    What the data shows

    BSc applications fell from 4,081 for 2024 entry to 1,962 for 2026, the first year of TARA, while offers rose from 298 to 428.

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  • Computer Science and Mathematics

    TARA
    Applications
    474
    Interviewed
    –
    Offer rate
    23.0%

    2026 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released. Statistics only, no calculator

    What the data shows

    2026 was the first year UCL made offers for this MEng: 109 from 474 applications.

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  • Mechanical Engineering

    TARA
    Applications
    5,882
    Interviewed
    –
    Offer rate
    13.7%

    2026 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released. Statistics only, no calculator

    What the data shows

    635 of the 803 offers for 2026 entry were for the MEng; the BEng offer rate fell to 4.6%.

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  • Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

    TARA
    Applications
    512
    Interviewed
    –
    Offer rate
    39.8%

    2026 entry, from the university's own figures. Interview counts not released. Statistics only, no calculator

    What the data shows

    The offer rate has run between 25.8% and 40.2% since the first intake in 2023.

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Why you can trust this

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UCL acceptance rates by course

2026 entry, from UCL's admissions statistics.

Offered a place, 2025 or 2026 entry
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
40%
Computer Science
23%
Computer Science and Mathematics
23%
Law
15%
Mechanical Engineering
14%
Applicants, interviews and offers by course, 2025 or 2026 entry.
CourseTestAppliedInterviewedOffersOffer rate
Robotics and Artificial IntelligenceTARA512 applicationsNot released20439.8%
Computer ScienceTARA2,558 applicationsNot released59923.4%
Computer Science and MathematicsTARA474 applicationsNot released10923.0%
LawLNAT3,948Not released57814.6%
Mechanical EngineeringTARA5,882 applicationsNot released80313.7%
Applicants, interviews and offers by course, 2025 or 2026 entry. Source: university admissions statistics. Law figures are for 2025 entry, the latest released. UCL counts applications, so one person applying to two programmes counts twice.

Questions about UCL admissions

Which UCL course is hardest to get into?

Of the courses we cover, Mechanical Engineering had the lowest offer rate for 2026 entry: 13.7% (803 offers from 5,882 applications), against 39.8% for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Which UCL courses use TARA?

Six UCL degrees require TARA for 2027 entry: Computer Science (BSc and MEng), Computer Science and Mathematics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and Mechanical Engineering (BEng and MEng). Mechanical Engineering is new to the test for 2027. UCL has released no offer rates by TARA score, so these courses have statistics pages without a calculator.

GhostPrep is independent of University College London. Figures describe past applicants and are an estimate for planning, with no guarantee of any outcome.