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Where the official requirements live

U4S records where each institution publishes its admissions rules and when that page was last retrieved. It does not restate the rules, and it holds no grades, test scores or acceptance rates.

There is no chance calculator here, and there will not be one

U4S does not estimate anyone’s chance of admission. It holds no acceptance rates, no grade thresholds and no test-score minimums, and it will not guess at them from a programme’s name or an institution’s reputation.

This layer answers one question: where does this institution actually publish the rules? Every URL on these pages was found by following a link the institution put on its own site — from its homepage, from its study section, or from a programme’s own page — and then retrieving it. None were constructed from a URL pattern. That matters because a plausible admissions URL is easy to invent and usually resolves to something: a marketing page, a faculty variant, a page for a different category of applicant. The result looks identical to the real one.

What U4S deliberately does not hold: minimum grades, GPA conversions, IELTS or TOEFL thresholds, SAT, GRE or GMAT requirements, and acceptance rates. Those are the numbers a reader would act on, they differ by programme, by intake, by the qualification held and by where someone is applying from, and publishing one wrong does real damage. The data model has no field for any of them, so U4S cannot get them wrong.

Scope is kept strict for the same reason. Requirements published for one programme are not the institution’s general rules, and an institution-wide page does not govern a particular programme. The two kinds of record are stored separately and neither is ever shown in place of the other.

What has been located

Institution-level sources
411
Programme-level sources
165
Language-requirement pages
82
Document-requirement pages
16
Application portals
47
Deadlines published
7

No deadline is published yet. A deadline may only appear alongside the intake it belongs to, and reading an intake off a page is work a person does — a date with no year attached looks current forever, which is the commonest way an admissions page misleads.

How the application is made

On the institution’s own site
36
On a different domain
11
Not established
529

Counted from the located sources by comparing the application address with the institution’s own. Where they differ, an applicant leaves the university’s site partway through. U4S has not established who operates those systems, and does not describe any of them as a national or central service.

U4S does not know whether any programme is accepting applications. A portal that lists a programme is not a portal that is open for it: programmes appear before they open, after they close and while they are suspended.

No record in this corpus names the applicant category its rules are for. Domestic, EU/EEA and international applicants routinely face different routes, deadlines and fees at the same institution, so an unlabelled rule may not be presented as the reader’s rule.

U4S is not an application service. It does not submit applications, hold documents, pay fees, or contact institutions on anybody’s behalf.

Entry requirements change between intakes and differ by programme, by the qualification you hold and by where you are applying from. U4S records where the official requirements are published and when that page was last retrieved — nothing more. Students should verify current requirements on the official admissions page before relying on anything.

Institutions with a located admissions source

In registry order, which is alphabetical by country and then by name. An institution absent from this list has requirements like any other; U4S has simply not located where they are published.

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