UCAS has a second deadline date in 2025 that lets you apply for a sixth university course. UCAS Extra runs from February 26 to July 4 and allows students who are not already holding an offer from their original five university choices to apply to an extra course.
This means that if you have received decisions from all five universities and have either been unsuccessful or declined your offers, you can use Extra to apply for another course.
How to use UCAS Extra
Find a course you want to apply to through UCAS.Use the filter ‘Show courses with vacancies’ in the UCAS search tool and contact the university to check if they’ll consider you.
When applying for related or alternative subjects, double check the entry requirements, as these can differ from course-to-course.
Apply for the new course through your application portal. Add the course details to your UCAS application and submit it.
After you submit your UCAS Extra choice
If after three weeks you don’t hear back, you can either continue to wait or add a new choice.
Universities have until July 17 to make their decisions, so it might be worth waiting it out if it’s a course you really want.
If you’re not offered a place or decline your offer, you can search for other courses and add another Extra choice.
It’s also important to note that if you did not use up all five choices in your initial application then you can simply add on another course to your application without using Extra, as long as it’s before June 30.
And if you don’t get the offer you want through Extra, from the July 5 you will be able to apply through Clearing.