We support post-18 and mature learners in progressing to university, college, or apprenticeships. Through research, consultancy, and innovation, we empower aspirational choices, working with schools, employers, and others to deliver trusted, customer-focused services.
UCAS provides guidance to young and mature learners, supporting progression to higher education, colleges, or degree apprenticeships. We work with schools, colleges, career services, employers, and professional bodies, offering research, consultancy, and advisory services. Committed to innovation and excellence, we empower people to make informed choices, connecting the world to UK higher education. As a fast-growing organisation, we prioritise customer focus, efficiency, and creating an environment where people thrive and succeed.
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Change your cookie settingsInspiring others to shape their future starts with our people. Thrive with hybrid working, collaboration, and a team driven to empower and support.
UCAS inspires people to make informed choices. Our goal is to build on our work in HE admissions to connect students to more possibilities in apprenticeships, technical education, lifelong learning and for more international students to use UCAS as the gateway to study in the UK.
UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, is an independent charity, and the UK's shared admissions service for higher education.
Our mission is to empower others to make the right choices for their future, whether they are students, parents, or institutions. We’re a successful and fast-growing organisation, which helps hundreds of thousands of people every year. We're committed to delivering a first-class service to all our customers — they're at the heart of everything we do. We believe that success starts with our people. UCAS is a place for you to grow, challenge convention, and thrive. We offer development academies, leadership progression, and a flexible hybrid working model to ensure you can balance work and personal needs. With 30 days’ annual leave, volunteer days, and a mentoring scheme, we create a supportive and collaborative environment where your ideas and achievements are celebrated. Innovation drives us. We build digital tools that inform and inspire a diverse audience, and we’re constantly evolving to meet the needs of the education sector. We empower our employees to make a difference while providing a supportive and collaborative working space. We’re passionate about maintaining a work-life balance, and offer a beautiful office where people flourish with a subsidised restaurant, gym, and vast greenspace. Join us and be part of an organisation that delivers trusted services, drives positive change in education, and creates a meaningful impact on individuals and communities across the UK.
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Visit our websiteWe are a national UK brand, instantly recognisable to over one million students every year who use our services. We are trusted by applicants, teachers, universities and colleges, and governments for our independence. You will find UCAS to be a dynamic, digital, medium- sized business with a national and international reach, and pivotal to making a real impact on individual’s lives. Our mission guides everything we do, but we operate with a commercial mindset – our focus on value and efficiency for our customers is key.
At UCAS, we empower people to shape futures—starting with our own. We foster innovation, collaboration, and personal growth, offering wellbeing events, leadership development, and flexibility through hybrid working. Our culture values every idea, celebrates achievements, and supports you to thrive. From cutting-edge tech to a beautiful office with great perks, UCAS is a place where purpose meets potential, and success is shared.
Our values set us apart and guide everything we do: Be Ambitious – striving to be aspirational, focused, and optimistic; Be Smart – leveraging knowledge to stay connected, flexible, and succinct; Be Inclusive – embracing representation, collaboration, and open-mindedness; and Be Trusted – upholding honesty, transparency, and evidence-based impartiality.