The Medicine with a Gateway Year programme is open to Widening Participation applicants who meet the UK (Home) fee status.
You will need to meet the following criteria:
- You should be aged 17 or over on 1 October in the year you start the programme
- You must have no more than three academic years between completion of mainstream education and the start of the Medicine with Gateway Year programme
- You should not have studied on another university Foundation or degree course
- You must not be attending an independent school
In addition, you must either:
Or:
- Fulfil two of the following contextual data criteria:
- Your home postcode is in an area of low participation (your POLAR4 Young Participation quintile should be 1 or 2 to qualify). You can check your postcode on the Office for Students website
- Your parents do not have a higher education qualification, such as a certificate, diploma or degree
- You applied for and received the UCAT Bursary
*Our definition of a care leaver, in accordance with the Children Leaving Care Act (2020), is a young person (under 25) who has been in the care of, or has been given accommodation by, their local authority for a period of at least 13 weeks since the age of 14, and before the age of 16. This can be a single period of 13 weeks, or multiple periods totalling 13 weeks or more.
Although applications from UK students are accepted, priority will be given to local applicants living in the Hull York Medical School region:
- City of York
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Hull
- North and North East Lincolnshire
- North Yorkshire
- Darlington, Stockton-On-Tees, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Hartlepool