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Visually compare your demographic trends with competitors.
UCAS Tracker (Enhanced)
Your data-driven ally for recruitment success.
How UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) works
UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) provides deep insight, benchmarking, and competitor comparisons - all through an interactive dashboard with unlimitied access for your provider.
Updating daily, UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) gives you unrivalled insights so you can understand and improve your performance, enhance your perspective, and track trends.
UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) introduces cutting edge features for detailed insights, including benchmarking against tariff groups, filtering data views by domicile, and highlighting drivers of your changing trends.
Alongside features such as simplified idenitifcation of subject area performance and the ability to compare data across three cycles, UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) delivers a super-charged user experience.
Key features
Your change drivers
Identify the "why" behind applicant behaviour shifts with AI-powered root cause analysis.
Subject deep dives
Analyse specific subject areas to understand trends and tailor your approach.
Decision tracking
Monitor Decision and Reply state trends and identify areas for improvement.
Apply centres
Track your year-on-year school trends, and pinpoint where you might be under-performing to swiftly target your school liasion.
Entry Cycle data
Manage capacity with Entry Cycle data and get a better picture of the students intending to start during this cycle, not just those who've applied during this cycle.
Essential functionality
The UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) dashboard allows for improved data interaction and visualisation, and provides tools for a better understanding of your position against competitors.
- Access data from three cycles for simplified comparisons.
- Identify subject areas of both high and low performance simply.
- Customise and sort data tables, enabling you to identify your biggest change in numbers, market share, and proportional change - all compared to your competitors or the sector.
- Customise Course Groups - look at your own course level data at a school or faculty level.
What providers think
“The daily updates and visual appeal of UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) have been a huge benefit this year, allowing us to report on numerous metrics which provide key insights to the department, faculties, and executive.”
University of South Wales
Explore UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) with ease
- Daily data updates: Stay up to date with the latest applicant activity.
- Customisable views: Tailor tables and charts to your specific needs.
- Data export: Download data for further analysis in your own systems.
UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) highlights
- Elevate your insights - Benchmark against tariff group, sector, and your usual competitor groups, to gain insights into how you stack up against similar providers.
- Understand your performance - Review your performance across previous cycles, with adjustable data comparison points and the ability to switch between data comparisons and days to deadline.
- Enhance your perspective - Filter data views by domicile to benchmark your international or regional recruitment performance. Choose from EU, Non-EU, England, N. Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
- Gain a comprehensive snapshot of your data - Explore your provider’s demographic profile and trends, by drilling down into essential data points.
- Identify areas for expansion - Granular geographic and subject areas insight enables you to identify potential areas for expansion or outreach, highlighting where the competition are winning, and you’re missing out.
- Enhanced decision analysis - Benchmark your performance across various decision states, like Firm and Insurance replies, to understand your conversion rates.
- Enhance demographic profiling of your applicants - Identify changes in the make up of your applicant body and compare to wider trends.
- Track school-level trends - Benchmark your performance against sector norms at Local Education Authority level, identifying strengths or areas for improvement.
- Supplement your student number planning - Analyse your numbers by start month, compare them to last year's data, and benchmark your performance against your competitors.
Check out the UCAS Tracker Guide
Find out more about UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) with our helpful guide, including key features and top tips for efficient use. Useful information
Who has access to UCAS Tracker (Enhanced)?
Providers who choose to subscribe to UCAS Tracker will be able to manage their own user access. Permissions to any user can be assigned by your ucas.com admins. There is no limit on the number of UCAS Tracker users a provider has.
If you are unsure whether your provider has, or should have, access to the UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) versions, please contact your Customer Manager or email [email protected].
How much does UCAS Tracker (Enhanced) cost?
The cost of UCAS Tracker for the 2025 entry cycle will be defined by your 2023 cycle acceptance numbers:
> 2,000 acceptances - £6,500
500-1999 accpetances - £5,200
< 500 accpetances - £3,900
How to access UCAS Tracker
To access UCAS Tracker please ensure you have registered for an account on ucas.com/providers.
Any member of staff at your organisation can be given access to UCAS Tracker (Basic) now by your ucas.com administrators.
- Sign in to ucas.com, and, from the providers homepage, click on the ‘Dashboards, Open Days, Provider Pages & Users’ button
- Select the ‘User management’ tab (only admin users can see this tab)
- If the user to be assigned UCAS Tracker access doesn’t already have a ucas.com account, in the ‘Add new user’ section enter their email address and tick the ‘UCAS Tracker (Basic access)’ or (Enhanced access) *if already subscribed to Application and Decision Tracker* box.
- If the user to be assigned UCAS Tracker access does already have a ucas.com account, search for them (by name or email address) using the search bar, then tick the ‘UCAS Tracker (Basic access)’ or (Enhanced access) box.
Accessing UCAS Tracker once assigned access
- Sign in to ucas.com, and, from the providers homepage, click on the ‘Dashboards, Open Days, Provider Pages & Users’ button:
- Select the ‘Dashboards’ tab:
- Click on ‘UCAS Tracker (Basic access)’ or the UCAS Tracker (Enhanced access) *if already subscribed to Application and Decision Tracker* (if the button doesn’t appear, it means you don’t have the relevant access and an admin user at your organisation will need to assign you)
Migration of Customised Course Groups
If you're using the Faculty Groups functionality in Application & Decision Tracker, your groups have now been migrated into UCAS Tracker.
- Your Faculty Groups (now known as Customised Course Groups in Tracker) have now been migrated to Tracker from Application and Decision Tracker. This integration introduces an enhancement to the Course Deep Dive page, allowing you to leverage all the available features for your unique course groupings, to track your performance and profile.
- If you don't have existing faculties in Application and Decision Tracker, all of your course codes will appear in a group named 'Unassigned'.
- There is no benchmarking data shared for your customised course groups – just the numbers for your own courses.
Follow our guide for building Custom Course Groups in App Track here.
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Elevate your insights with UCAS Tracker (Enhanced)
To learn more about UCAS Tracker (Enhanced), get in touch with your Customer Manager.
Please note that numbers in UCAS Tracker reflect application cycle data rather than entry year figures, so they may differ from your internal reporting.