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St George’s – now part of City St George’s, University of London – is a medical school based on the St George’s Hospital site in Tooting, south west London. It’s ranked 23rd for Medicine in the Complete University Guide 2027, up seven places from 30th last year, and 33rd out of 40 in the Guardian University Guide 2027, where it scores 100 for career prospects – and 98% of its medicine graduates are in work and/or study 15 months after the course.
St George’s curriculum is organised into integrated learning weeks, drawing upon case-based and problem-based learning tutorials, to offer a patient-focused approach. The first two years – the “clinical science years” – are built around six “life modules” (life support, life maintenance, life protection, life cycle, life structure and life control) and three themes: basic and clinical sciences; professional skills; and patients, populations and society.
The curriculum is delivered through a range of teaching methods, including:
You’ll also gain the following clinical experience throughout the course:
You’ll be assessed through year specific knowledge tests, clinical competency assessments and the longitudinal “Becoming a Doctor” domain, and in your final year you’ll sit the national Medical Licensing Assessment (an Applied Knowledge Test plus a Clinical and Professional Skills Assessment) and the Prescribing Safety Assessment before you graduate.
For more information relating to the course structure and the teaching and learning, visit the Medicine MBBS course page or download the MBBS Curriculum Information brochure.
The Tooting campus shares its site with St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, described by the university as “a major London teaching hospital” and one of the largest in the UK – so you’ll be learning in a clinical setting from day one.
In addition to the experiences you’ll gain at St George’s Hospital, you may also undertake placements within the following:
Primary care placements sit alongside these hospital sites, in the same regions.
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Student selected components (SSCs) give you the opportunity to study areas of interest to you during the course – a foundation SSC in Year 1, an in-depth SSC in Year 2, a project in the T year (choosing from audit, data-set analysis and service evaluation or arts and humanities-based projects), and two five-week SSCs in your final year. The five-week elective (SSCF2) after your final assessments will also provide the opportunity to explore an aspect of medicine of your choice, within a practical setting, including the option to observe a healthcare system in another country.
In addition to this, St George’s also offers the option of an intercalated degree, which allows you to take one year out of your medical course to study for an intercalated BSc degree once you’ve passed Years 1 and 2. Current iBSc options are Medical Science and Clinical Pharmacology, and you can also intercalate at another institution. Alternatively, you can apply competitively for an intercalated master’s programme, including Genomic Medicine MSc, Medical Ethics, Law and Humanities MA, Sports Cardiology MSc and Biomedical Science MRes. You can find out more about the intercalated options here.
Away from the curriculum, the Students’ Union (CSGSU) supports a broad range of student-led clubs and societies, and Tooting-based teams take part in the historic inter-medical-school sporting competitions. Tooting is also famous for its RAG Week, normally held in February, with an annual fundraising target of £100,000.
St George’s offers an accelerated four-year Graduate Entry programme (A101); however, graduates can also apply for the five-year MBBS programme, allowing you to undertake the additional year of study if you’d prefer. As St George’s accepts applicants with a minimum 2:1 honours degree in any discipline, the option to undertake the five-year standard entry route might be particularly appealing if your previous degree was not science or health related. You can find out more information about the Graduate Entry route here.
Other selling points you could mention at interview include:
The typical entry requirements for 2027 entry are:
You’ll also need to meet the UCAT requirements (see below), and for non-graduate applicants all qualifications apart from GCSEs must have been completed within the previous five years. St George’s had 165 home places and 19 overseas places for 2025/6 entry, with overseas places limited to around 9% of the cohort and graduates to around 25% of the five-year course. The full-award Access to Medicine Diploma is accepted (60 level 3 credits, with 39 at Distinction and 6 at Merit, and all Chemistry and Biology credits at Distinction), as are Cambridge Pre-U and Scottish Highers – but you can’t apply on the basis of an Access Diploma if you already hold a degree or have completed A Levels in the required subjects in the last five years. You can find the full list on the course page, and compare schools in our guide to medicine entry requirements.
Widening access: eligible UK applicants without a degree can receive a contextual offer two grades lower than the standard offer – so AAA becomes ABB – with the reduction spread across two subjects and applied to A Level, IB and Scottish Higher requirements. You’ll qualify if you meet one criterion in Group 1 (care experienced, a young carer, a refugee or asylum seeker, or an estranged student) or two criteria in Group 2 (such as free school meals, a lower-performing school, or living in an area with low progression to higher education or high deprivation). Contextual applicants still need to meet all other requirements, including the UCAT. There’s also pre- and post-application support, including travel bursaries for open days and interviews, an interview webinar and a Fitness to Practise bursary, plus a Healthcare Shadowing Scheme run with St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Full details are on the contextual offers page.
St George’s uses the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format for its interview.
This consists of six interview questions, each lasting approximately five minutes, with a 60-second break between each one – and every response is assessed separately and independently by a different interviewer. The MMI is a values-based process designed to assess your suitability for studying medicine and working in the NHS, including qualities such as empathy, integrity and respect.
For the most recent cycle, five-year MBBS (A100) interviews were held online through the SAMMI-Select platform on Wednesday 3 December and Tuesday 9 December 2025. You’re asked a series of pre-recorded questions and record your answers, which are then reviewed and scored by trained interviewers; you should allow up to an hour for checks, recording and upload, complete a practice set-up first, and finish the interview in one sitting. The use of AI tools is strictly prohibited and detection software is used. Graduate Entry (A101) interviews ran from 9 to 16 February 2026, in person at the Tooting campus or online, with six short stations that can include questions, practical tasks or role play. If you apply for both courses and qualify for both, you’ll only interview once.
For 2027 entry, expect a similar pattern – interviews for the five-year course in December 2026 and Graduate Entry interviews in February 2027 – but St George’s notes that some of this information may change for the 2027 application cycle, so check the selection process page before your interview. Decisions aren’t made until all interviews are complete, and in the last cycle all applicants who applied by the UCAS deadline and attended an interview received their outcome by 13 May.
Most medical schools require you to pass an admissions exam before you’ll be invited for interview.
Admissions exam for St George’s: University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT)
The UCAT assesses your characteristics, attitudes and professional behaviours against those required for medical school. The exam is divided into 4 subtests: Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning and Situational Judgement (SJT). Abstract Reasoning has been removed from the test.
For 2027 entry, the UCAT is being held between 13 July and 24 September 2026. St George’s Med School select applicants for interview based on their UCAT scores. You’ll need a minimum of 500 in each individual subtest plus an overall cut-off score that’s calculated each year, and eligible applicants are then ranked by total UCAT score within four separate groups – home non-graduates, overseas non-graduates, home graduates and overseas graduates – because of the caps on overseas and graduate places. Everyone who reaches the cut-off for their group is invited to interview, and in previous years around 800–1200 applicants have been interviewed. Your personal statement is read but isn’t formally assessed or used to decide interviews. For 2027 entry, St George’s will also consider your SJT band in its decision making, and after interviews it ranks MMI and SJT scores to decide offers; UCAT scores may be used again to rank the post-interview waiting list. Extenuating circumstances can’t be considered in relation to UCAT scores.
Published overall cut-off scores for the five-year MBBS (Clearing scores, where different, are in brackets) are:
| Cycle | Non-graduates – Home | Non-graduates – Overseas | Graduates – Home | Graduates – Overseas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1880 | 1640 | 1880 | 1630 |
| 2025 | 2600 (2550) | 2750 (2550) | 2600 (2550) | 2770 (2550) |
| 2024 | 2690 | 2700 | 2690 | 2700 |
Source: MBBS Medicine admissions statistics.
Only the 2026 figures are on the current four-subtest format. The 2024 and 2025 cut-offs were scored out of 3600 on the previous five-subtest format, so they aren’t directly comparable. St George’s stresses that the cut-off depends on the strength of the applications received each year, so previous scores can’t be used to predict future ones. If you’re applying for the four-year Graduate Entry course (A101) you’ll sit the GAMSAT instead, needing at least 50 in each section plus the annual overall cut-off (56 in the 2026 cycle), with the March 2025, September 2025, March 2026 and September 2026 sittings all accepted for the 2027 cycle.
To help you to successfully prepare for all sections, the free Medibuddy AI-powered, adaptive question bank carefully selects questions based on your strengths and weaknesses within the syllabus, to ensure that you’re focusing on areas which will have the biggest impact on your UCAT score.
You can also clearly see in the question bank dashboard the areas you have “mastered” and those which you need to focus more time on.
It’s crucial that you prepare well for all areas to ensure that you get the best UCAT score possible and secure your interview place!
For more information and guidance, see our complete guide to the UCAT and our UCAT preparation tips.
You can also see how other medical schools use the test in our guide to UCAT universities.
Tuition fees for students starting the five-year MBBS in 2027/28 are:
Undergraduate fees are set in line with the maximum permitted by the UK Government and may increase in later years in line with government policy, and you may be eligible for NHS Bursary support from Year 5. Check the course page and the finance pages for the latest information.
Good luck with your application to St George’s! For more help, take a look at our guides to applying to medical school and the best medical schools in the UK.
