Clearing FAQs

UCAS Clearing is the period during summer when universities advertise remaining places on undergraduate courses. 

You can apply for a Clearing place if you want to study at university, but are not holding a place and/or have not met the conditions of your offers.

You can contact universities to try and secure a Clearing offer. You need all your exam results before you can enter Clearing.

Find out more about Clearing from UCAS.

You can use Clearing if you:

• are registered with UCAS (find out how to apply through UCAS)
• are not holding any offers
• have all your examination results.

You are automatically entered into Clearing if you apply late for your course (after 30 June).

If you’ve been accepted at another university but want to come to Aston University, you can call our Clearing team on 0800 9175923 to discuss your options.

If you applied for a course at Aston University and were unsuccessful, but you now meet the entry requirements for your chosen course, you can also apply through Clearing.

Clearing opens on 5 July 2024 for those applicants who have all their results.

If you are waiting for your results, you can apply once you have them on Thursday 15 August 2024.

All the courses in Clearing are listed on our website from 5 July 2024.

• Firstly check our Clearing courses page to see if the course you are interested in is still available in Clearing. We will not consider any applications for closed courses.
• Contact the call centre 0800 9175923 and select option 2 for Clearing. If you are an international student they need to complete an online application form on our International Clearing page.
• Alternatively you can submit an online application form (simply find the course you would like to apply for to find the form on Thursday 15th August 2024), or speak to someone over live chat by going to the main Clearing page.

Please note: We will not be able to consider any applications by email.

1. Log into UCAS

Check your UCAS account to see if your status says 'you are in Clearing' or 'Clearing has started'.

Find out how to apply through Clearing if you don’t have a UCAS account.

2. Search for courses

Browse our Clearing places to see which courses are available.

You should check you meet the entry requirements for the course you’re interested in. Our entry requirements will be displayed from Wednesday 14th August 2024.

3. Contact the Aston University Clearing team

When you have found a course you want to apply for and checked you meet our entry requirements, call our Clearing team on 0800 9175923 to see if we can make you an offer.

Make sure you have your UCAS Personal ID when you contact us.

You must contact us yourself. We can't discuss your application with other people, including parents and relatives.

We normally tell you on the phone, or after you've applied online, if we can make you an offer.

4. Accept our offer using UCAS Hub

After you have contacted us and we have made you an offer, you will get an email from us telling you what to do next.

This will normally involve logging into UCAS Hub and clicking 'add clearing choice' by a deadline, which we'll give you in your offer. Once you have your offer, you can refer yourself to the University.

If you already hold an offer to study with us you cannot apply for a different course in Clearing. Instead you will need to request a course change. We will consider requests for course changes on a case by case basis.

If a course is listed on our website as closed for Clearing we will not normally be able to consider a request to change course.

Please email ugadmissions@aston.ac.uk, with your UCAS / Student number and tell them the course you want to change to. The admissions team will then consider your request and respond to you directly.

On receipt of the Aston Clearing offer email, please log into your UCAS Hub to add Aston as your Clearing choice.

Aston’s institution code is A80 and you will find the UCAS course code on the relevant course page.

We are sorry to hear that you no longer wish to attend Aston.

If you hold an unconditional firm offer (UF) with Aston and wish to release yourself from this, you can use the ‘decline your place’ button on UCAS Hub. You can find more information on the UCAS website here.

Please note, you should only use this button if you are sure you no longer want to study at Aston.

If you have specific questions about your offer you can email ugadmissions@aston.ac.uk. Please note there may be a delay in response time during this busy period. Your question may be answered in these FAQs.

Alternatively you can call the Offer Holder and General Advice team on 0800 9175923 and select option 1.

From 8am on Results Day (Thursday 15 August), our Contact Centre will have the following opening hours. All times are BST.

Phone

Our Clearing hotline will have the following opening hours.

Call us on 0800 9175923

Thursday 15 August – 8:00 to 19:00

Friday 16 August – 8:00 to 18:00

Saturday 17 August – 10:00 to 16:00

Monday 19 August – 9:00 to 17:00

Tuesday 20 August – 9:00 to 17:00

Wednesday 21 August – 9:00 to 17:00

Thursday 22 August – 9:00 to 17:00

Friday 23 August – 9:00 to 17:00

Live chat

You can use our live chat on our website to apply through Clearing during the following times:

Thursday 15 August – 8:00 to 19:00

Friday 16 August – 8:00 to 18:00

Saturday 17 August – 10:00 to 16:00

Monday 19 August – 9:00 to 17:00

Tuesday 20 August – 9:00 to 17:00

Socials

You will also be able to apply through Clearing using our Instagram on Thursday 15 August and Friday 16 August. Simply DM us your full name and the course you are interested in.