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Your exam grades are important to us, but other things count too. Our approach is about you as an individual, and about giving you every opportunity to succeed with us. If we feel you have the right qualities and commitment to excel and to become a valued member of our university community, we will be keen to offer you a place. Our admissions team will assess your application individually, considering your educational and personal circumstances and making sure that everyone is given an equal opportunity to show their achievements. Our students bring so many different experiences, talents and strengths to our community – this is where you’ll use your personal statement to show us everything you have to offer. We want to get to know you. This might be through seeing your portfolio or at interview, where we’ll have opportunities to find out about you, your values and what inspires you. We welcome many qualifications including the ones described here – as well as A-levels. Most of our courses have entry requirements that sit within a range. You can see the UCAS tariff points for your course on the course finder in this prospectus starting on page 110. Full requirements for each course including any specific subjects that you’ll need are on our website, www.brighton.ac.uk/courses.
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The UCAS tariff
The UCAS tariff translates your achievements across different types of qualifications into points, enabling us to assess all kinds of achievements, academic and vocational. Find out more about how your qualifications translate at www.ucas.com/tariff-calculator.
BTEC and combined qualifications
We welcome applications from students with BTEC diploma qualifications, as well as students with a combination of BTEC, A-levels and other qualifications. We know that students with BTEC qualifications are prepared for an applied approach to learning, which is relevant to many of our courses.
GCSE
GCSEs are not a main requirement for most of our courses – where they are required you’ll need them as well as your A-levels, BTEC or other qualifications. Check the website to find out if your course has GCSEs as a requirement.
Access to HE diploma
Our Access entry requirements vary depending on the course, but the minimum requirement is to pass with 60 credits (at least 45 credits at level 3). Find out more about specific entry requirements on the website.
International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma
Entry requirements vary but IB students can expect to receive conditional offers for between 26 and 32 IB points.
