Is UCL or King's harder to get into? Both UCL and KCL have rigorous admission standards reflecting their esteemed reputations and high demand for places. UCL typically receives more applications due to its global standing and extensive course offerings, resulting in a slightly more competitive admissions process.
In 2023-2024, KCL received 70,252 applications and gave out 29,024 offers, translating to an overall acceptance rate of 41% across its undergraduate programmes ing to official admissions statistics released by KCL.
Wherever possible, we aim to provide a final decision within 8-12 weeks of application receipt. However, for our most competitive programmes this may take longer as we will be making assessments across all applications received. This is known as a “gathered field” process.
Some responses might come through after a few days, but it might end up being a few weeks or even months.
As per the data published by UCAS -- 30th January 2020, the overall King's College London acceptance rate is around 12.2%-13%. This means that out of 100 applications that KCL receive, the university approves around 12 to 13 applications that allow or permit students to study at the King's College London.
King's aims to make decisions on applications within 4-8 weeks, though some of our very competitive postgraduate taught programmes operate a 'gathered field' process for applicants who meet the advertised entry requirements and may therefore take longer.
Deferred entry / gap years King's is happy to consider you if you wish to take a year out to gain some specific experience, earn funds in preparation for your studies or generally broaden your interests. However, deferrals may not be granted on competitive health courses such as medicine or dentistry.
Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) shows than King's College London (KCL) has gone from awarding first class honours to 25% of its students in 2015 to 41.1% in 2022. The 16.1% jump in first class attainment came mainly at the expense of second class degrees, which fell by 10.1% over this period.
A deferral agreement is a legally binding document between parties that agree to postpone a specific action or obligation to a later date.
Here are some examples of deferrals: Insurance premiums. Subscription based services (newspapers, magazines, television programming, etc.) Prepaid rent.