Feeling down on your luck? These are the easiest UK unis to get into in 2024

As students return to their unis, sixth formers and people on procrastination gap years have to find one to get into. If you’ve been doomscrolling through The Daily Mail’s university guide and you’re starting to panic about your prospects, fear not! We’ve compiled a list of the easiest UK unis to get into in 2024.

As part of The Guardian’s new university rankings, it worked out the average amount of UCAS points that successful applicants to each uni had. UCAS Tariff points are how unis compare the braininess of students who were made to do different qualifications in sixth form. You can get points for Level 3/SCQF Level 6 qualifications, such as A Levels, the International Baccalaureate, Extended Project Qualifications, and some music exams (weirdly enough). Guess you’re now wishing that you’d stuck with the violin lessons in primary school. So, the lower the average entry tariff is, the less accomplished the students that the uni takes in are, and so the easier that uni should be for you to get into. Make sense?

The easiest UK uni to get into in 2024 is London Metropolitan University. You should only need about 102 UCAS points to get into it. That’s equivalent to about two Cs and one B at A-Level. Not far behind it is the University of Bedfordshire, with 108 UCAS points. Although, be aware that The Guardian put the Uni of Bedfordshire at the bottom of its league tables for the seventh year in a row.

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I’m afraid there aren’t any Russell Group unis on this list. You might have to start mentally preparing yourself to be a disappointment to your parents. However, if you are feeling particularly brainy today, then you could check out the hardest UK unis to get into. Be warned: some of the Russell Group unis on there have really high requirements. To get into the University of St Andrews, you’d need a whopping 212 points. That’s basically three A*s and an A at A-level, or 36 IB points, or seven distinctions in Grade 8 music exams.

Here are the easiest UK unis to get into, ranked from lowest average entry tariff to highest.

=61. University of Keele – 132 UCAS points

=61. Birmingham City University – 132 UCAS points

=54. University of Salford – 131 UCAS points

=54. University of Leicester – 131 UCAS points

=54. Goldsmiths, University of London – 131 UCAS points

Goldsmiths is the easiest University of London uni to get into

=54. University of Chester – 131 UCAS points

=54. University of Central Lancashire – 131 UCAS points

=54. University of Bradford – 131 UCAS points

=54. Bangor University – 131 UCAS points

=50. University of Reading – 130 UCAS points

=50. University of Hull – 130 UCAS points

=50. University of Huddersfield – 130 UCAS points

=50. Aberystwyth University – 130 UCAS points

=47. University of Worcester – 129 UCAS points

=47. University of the West of England – 129 UCAS points

=47. Kingston University – 129 UCAS points

=43. Staffordshire University – 128 UCAS points

=43. University of South Wales – 128 UCAS points

=43. Nottingham Trent University – 128 UCAS points

=43. Glyndr University – 128 UCAS points

=39. University of Sunderland – 127 UCAS points

=39. University of Portsmouth – 127 UCAS points

=39. University of Lincoln – 127 UCAS points

=39. University of Kent – 127 UCAS points

=35. University of Essex – 126 UCAS points

=35. University of Derby – 126 UCAS points

=35. University of Cumbria – 126 UCAS points

=35. University of Coventry – 126 UCAS points

=33. University of Winchester – 125 UCAS points

=33. Brunel University – 125 UCAS points

=31. Teesside University – 124 UCAS points

=31. Leeds Beckett University – 124 UCAS points

=28. Liverpool Hope University – 123 UCAS points

=28. Greenwich University – 123 UCAS points

=28. Bath Spa University – 123 UCAS points

27. University of Brighton – 122 UCAS points

=23. York St John University – 121 UCAS points

=23. Sheffield Hallam University – 121 UCAS points

=23. University of Gloucestershire – 121 UCAS points

=23. University of Bolton – 121 UCAS points

=19. St Mary’s University Twickenham – 119 UCAS points

=19. Solent University – 119 UCAS points

=19. University of Hertfordshire – 119 UCAS points

=19. University of Bournemouth – 119 UCAS points

=17. University of East London – 118 UCAS points

=17. Birmingham Newman University – 118 UCAS points

16. University of Northampton – 117 UCAS points

=14. University of Westminster – 116 UCAS points

=14. Anglia Ruskin University – 116 UCAS points

Just say ‘Yah, I go to uni in Oxford’ and don’t specify which one

=11. Oxford Brookes University – 115 UCAS points

=11. University of Middlesex – 115 UCAS points

=11. London South Bank University – 115 UCAS points

=9. De Montfort University – 114 UCAS points

=9. Buckinghamshire New University – 114 UCAS points

=6. University of Wolverhampton – 112 UCAS points

=6. University of West London – 112 UCAS points

=6. University of Suffolk – 112 UCAS points

5. Leeds Trinity University – 110 UCAS points

=3. Roehampton University – 109 UCAS points

=3. Canterbury Christchurch University – 109 UCAS points

2. University of Bedfordshire – 108 UCAS points

1. London Metropolitan University – 102 UCAS points

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