UCAS Clearing Dates 2023
Sitting your A Level exams can be a stressful time and it can be even more stressful when you’re trying to apply to university. Revision, paperwork, and deadlines can get on top of you and make life seem really tough.
Results day can be equally stressful, especially if you don’t get the results you need to get into your first choice of university. If this happens, if you didn’t get any university offers, or you declined all of your university offers you’ll need to go through Clearing to get a university place.
Clearing has its own deadlines and course vacancies fill quickly, particularly for popular courses, so you’ll need to be prepared if you want to get into university. Spaces usually fill within the first week after results day and phoning each university until you get an offer if the key to being successful during Clearing.
Be organised, have a list of course vacancies and universities that you’re interested in, and keep a note of everyone you speak to regarding your application. You could get an answer straightaway or you might be contacted soon after with an offer or decline.
To make sure you know what’s going on and to help you get organised and keep on top of all the application deadlines we’ve put together a UCAS Clearing 2023 dates timeline:
- 25th January 2023 – deadline for UCAS applications for most undergraduate courses.
- 23rd February 2023 – UCAS Extra opens.
- 30th June 2023 – deadline for UCAS applications for all subjects and universities. Applications received after this date will automatically be entered for Clearing.
- 4th July 2023 – UCAS Extra closes.
- 8th August 2023 – SQA results are published. Scottish Clearing course vacancy lists are published.
- 17th August 2023 – A Level, GCE, Diploma, and Irish Leaving Certificate results are published. Clearing course vacancy lists will are published on UCAS Track and in The Daily Telegraph.
- 21st September 2023 – deadline for applications for 2023 entry.
- 17th October 2023 – Clearing closes for 2023 entry.
