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Make full use of everything we offer for free or as part of your capitation fee. Promote your university or college. Access unrivalled data to understand your application position and identify historic trends. Streamline your systems and data returns.

Capitation fee

Customers of UCAS pay an annual ’capitation fee’ for our support and services. The fee is charged per cycle, regardless of when a provider joins UCAS.

Fees are charged based on the number of applicants ‘placed’ with a provider by the close of each admissions cycle. The fees are charged per applicant, with a minimum fee applicable for smaller providers.

The capitation fee is invoiced twice a year – 60% in August, and the remaining 40% in February.

Fees for the 2025 UCAS Undergraduate admissions cycle are:

Per applicant: £35.25 (including VAT)

Minimum charge: £3,755 (including VAT)

Boost your marketing and student recruitment

Get noticed by millions of students and their influencers each year. From open days listings and Accommodation Search to the UCAS International App and Clearing Plus, we can help you boost your student numbers across the full conversion funnel.

Marketing and student recruitment

Provider pages

Get your brand in front of students and their influencers even earlier with our new provider pages, housed within the Hub. 

Accommodation Search

Shine a spotlight on your student digs to reach and engage the audiences most likely to join you. Our Accommodation Search tool features hundreds of student living spaces.

Open days and events listings

Promote your open days and events for free on ucas.com and reach our huge audience of students, parents and advisers. 

UCAS International App

Display your undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities, expand your global footprint and increase your student diversity.

Collection Tool

Your portal to manage and promote your courses to your market all in one place. You can also manage applications to your UG & UC courses by setting vacancy statuses and eligibility criteria.

Clearing Plus (standard listing)

List your institution on our Clearing portal. Promote your strengths so students can compare you against others.

Streamline your admissions activities

Simplify your admissions services, including your HESA returns. We bring fairness and transparency, with solutions that are more effective than ever before. From Confirmation and Clearing support to results processing, we’re here to support you at busy times.

Admissions

Higher education providers

Sign in to access provider services, guides, and information.

Link products

Use our link products to manage your applications.

Test and training environments

Links to the HEP1, HEP2, and HEP3 test environments.

2024 recuitment cycle

Your season-by-season guide on how to optimise your 2024 activity. 

Records of Prior Acceptance (RPAs)

What is an RPA and when should you use one — for UCAS Undergraduate providers.  

JISC return

Get data on the final number of students who accepted an offer, making the JISC Student Record Return easier.

Access unrivalled data insights

Give meaning and value to your data. Make it work for you. We put a wealth of practicable knowledge at your fingertips. From PERS and App Track to detailed End-of-Cycle Reports, use our data to help monitor your progress against your targets and goals.

Data and insights

UCAS Tracker

From the 2025 cycle onward, UCAS Tracker will provide your only source of unrounded, in-cycle data, that’s updated daily, replacing the existing Application and Decision Tracker.

Application and Decision Tracker

Providing data from early September through to Extra in July, this is your only source of in-cycle application and decision data that's unrounded and updated weekly. From the 2025 cycle, this will be replaced by UCAS Tracker.

PERS (Provider EXACT Record Supplies)

Receive self-serve datasets enabling you to analyse your own performance throughout and/or at the end of the application cycle.

Outreach Evaluator (STROBE)

Increase participation of under-represented students. Evaluate your effectiveness against competitors, then adapt your strategies to share opportunities with the right students.

Contextual data

Supercharge how you reach and engage underrepresented groups. Understand education, background and more, to forecast and prepare for enrolments.

Insight Reports

Access high-impact reports on the latest educational topics to help inform future plans – from changing employment industry trends to LGBTQ+ student views.

End of cycle data resources

Evaluate the shape and size of your market segments using published current and historic data. Get a wide-angle view of the UK youth market. 

Deadline Reporting

We produce digestible data visualisations after each deadline, enabling you to benchmark your performance against the sector and competitors.

Equality and diversity

Additional resources to support under-represented groups through the admissions process, and to ensure objectivity and consistency in approaches, including support with unconscious bias and positive action.

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