How To Apply

You can apply to most of our full time, taught postgraduate courses, using the online system, UKPASS. For most of the others courses, there is a paper form which you can download. Check the individual course page to find out which application system to use.

For Postgraduate Research Degrees, visit our Postgraduate Research website.

UKPASS

To apply for one of our courses via UKPASS, follow the link from the individual course page. You will be taken through a registration process, and then you can create your application online. You do not have to complete the application form all at once, you can save your details and return to it at a later date.

You can attach scanned documents to your application (up to 3MB in size), or send them to the email (or postal) address supplied.

Once you have completed your application, you submit it online, and we will receive it.

After we receive your application, we check the documents you have sent, and will send you an acknowledgement by email - we aim to do this within one week. For more information on how we process your application, see Your Application Journey below.

For more information on the UKPASS application process, download our Applying through UKPASS guide (5MB).

If you require assistance using UKPASS, please contact the UKPASS Customer Service Unit via email on enquiries@ukpass.ac.uk or by telephone +44 (0)871 334 4 447 (Monday to Friday, 08:30-18:00 UK time).

The main exceptions to UKPASS are:

• PG Certs in Adult Care & Protection and Child Care & Protection
• Advanced Practice (Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions) courses
• MSc Applied Professional Studies programmes
• Most Distance Learning courses
• PGDip Legal Practice (applicants apply on the Law Society form)
• MMEd Medical Education
• PGDE Primary & Secondary Education (applicants apply through GTTR)
• MSc Social Work (applicants apply through UCAS)
• Courses which are still "subject to approval" (visit the individual course page)

For research degrees, visit our Research website.

Starting Date for Postgraduate Study

Most full-time and part-time courses have one start date which is mid-September.

Some courses have two intakes - January and September:

• Some School of Accounting & Finance courses
• Most courses in the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy
• School of Law LLM degrees
• MSc International Business
• MSc Biomedical Engineering
• MSc Spatial Planning

Visit our January intake webpage for the full, up to date, list

The main exceptions to this are:

• MSc Business Intelligence, which starts in January only
• MSc Computing Research, which starts in January only
• Postgraduate Diploma in Education courses which start in August
• Distance learning courses which each have their own start dates

Closing Date for Applications

• For most courses, there is no formal closing date for UK/EU students applying direct to the University although early application is essential if sponsorship requiring the recommendation of an academic school is being sought. Exceptions are shown on individual course pages.
• Applications for courses starting in September will not be accepted from overseas applicants after 31 July.
• Applications for courses starting in January will not be accepted from overseas applicants after 30th November.
• For GTTR courses the closing date is 15 December in the year before commencing postgraduate study
• For UCAS courses the closing date is 15 January in the year you wish to study

The Application Journey

The following documents should accompany your completed application:

• Home Students - a photocopy/scan of your University Degree Certificate and a scanned copy of your transcript/marksheet.
• International Students (outwith UK/EU) (qualifications not obtained at a UK university) - photocopies/scans of:
  • your University Degree Certificate
  • a University transcript/marksheet in English of your degree curriculum
  • an English Language proficiency certificate (IELTS, TOEFL, CPE, IGCSE)
• International Students (qualifications from a UK university) - a photocopy/scan of your University Degree Certificate and a scanned copy of your transcript/marksheet.
• Art and Design Applicants - an outline of your proposed study plus a portfolio of recent, relevant work
• References - you can send your references in several ways:
• you should attach scanned documents to your UKPASS application*
• you or your referee can send by post with your full name, and UKPASS or University of Dundee id number, to the address shown on our Contact Us webpage
• you or your referee can send by email with your full name, and UKPASS or University of Dundee id number, to postgrad-admissions@dundee.ac.uk

*If you are unable to upload your supporting documents onto your UKPASS application, you can scan and email your supporting documents to postgrad-admissions@dundee.ac.uk. Please quote your University of Dundee or UKPASS id number in the subject field of the email.

Once you have returned your completed application it will be forwarded to the appropriate selectors for consideration. Please allow up to 2 weeks for an update. One of three decisions will be made, and we will inform you, via email and UKPASS (where appropriate):

• Unconditional Offer - if you already satisfy the entry requirements
• Conditional Offer - if you can satisfy the entry requirements stated by the admission tutors
• Rejection - if you are not considered to be suitably qualified

An admissions pack (including matriculation/enrolment details, and a visa letter, if relevant) will be sent out once you have:

• an Unconditional offer, and have informed the University of Dundee that you accept this offer
OR
• a Conditional offer, and have informed the University of Dundee that you accept this offer, and have also informed us that you have met the conditions of your offer
  
  AND, in order to satify the new UK Immigration (Tier 4) Visa requirements, applicants requiring a Visa to study in the UK must have also:
  
• sent the University a photocopy/scan of their passport (which should include passport number, name and full passport details, and any existing visas), and had this approved, and
• sent the University evidence of the qualifications that they have obtained.

More information will be available here shortly on the new UK Immigration Points-based System (PBS, Tier 4) (see www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/).