Note: The University of Warwick offers an accelerated four-year Graduate Entry Medicine (MBChB) only.
Warwick Medical School runs the UK’s largest graduate-entry medicine programme, taking 203 graduates from any degree background each year. Warwick is ranked 5th out of 40 for Medicine in the Guardian University Guide 2027, with a perfect score of 100 for career prospects and almost 87% of students satisfied with their teaching. It sits lower down the Complete University Guide 2027 Medicine table, in 33rd place, so it’s worth looking at both tables alongside what the course itself offers.
The University of Warwick Medical School’s curriculum is centred around case-based learning, using a range of teaching methods to support learning, including:
You’ll be allocated to a small learning group of around 8 – 10 students from different backgrounds and with different experiences, and in Year 1 you’ll stay in the same group all year. Anatomy is taught at the purpose-built Clinical Education Hub, which opened in 2023, using Warwick’s collection of plastinated prosections and cross sections from Gunther von Hagens’ Plastinarium in Germany. In your final year you’ll sit the national Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) and the Prescribing Safety Assessment. You can find out more about the course structure at Warwick Medical School here.
During the programme, you’ll undertake the following clinical placements:
The 'Specialist Clinical Placements’ will cover the following eight specialties:
Warwick Medical School’s key partner trusts are:
Warwick uses these four hospital sites and approximately 80 GP practices in the Coventry and Warwickshire area for teaching across the four years. During the programme, you'll spend time within hospital settings in Coventry, Nuneaton, Rugby and Warwick, with primary care and community placements located within roughly a 40-mile radius – some of them rural. You can find out more here.
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You'll have opportunities to explore areas of interest in more depth through student selected components (SSCs) in year 2 and 3, and an elective period in year 4. You can choose to undertake your elective outside of the UK to experience medical practice in a different country.
Year 2 SSC options change from year to year, but have recently included Global Health, Clinical Ethics and Law, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Sleep, Health and Society and The Digital Doctor. In Year 3 you can take an area of interest further through your own in-depth enquiry and research project, which you can link to your Year 2 SSC if you’d like to. The Year 4 elective lasts six weeks and is at your own expense, but a number of elective bursaries are available to help.
Outside of the curriculum, the University of Warwick Medical Society (MedSoc) runs a little like a “mini-SU” for Warwick Medical School, supporting over 60 affiliated student societies covering sports, specialty interests, the arts, culture and charity work.
Warwick Medical School boasts the largest graduate-entry course and a “diverse intake” of students, providing a wealth of experience and different backgrounds to enrich small group sessions and discussions.
Other selling points you could mention at interview include:
The typical entry requirements for 2027 entry are:
You’ll also need at least 70 hours of health or social care work experience completed in the three years before the UCAS deadline, across at least two different settings or roles, which you’ll evidence through an online questionnaire and references after you apply. Your personal statement is checked for plagiarism but isn’t scored, Warwick doesn’t accept deferred entry or transfers, and up to 13 of the 203 places each year are available to international students. You can check the full details on the course page, and compare schools using our guide to medicine entry requirements.
Widening access: Warwick offers contextual admissions to UK home fee status applicants who are care leavers or care experienced, recent refugees or asylum seekers, estranged from their parents, or who have had sustained free school meals eligibility. Additional indicators include receiving a UCAT bursary, being the first generation in your family to go to higher education, or having significant caring responsibilities. Eligible applicants get a 20-point reduction in the Verbal Reasoning cut-off and a 60-point uplift to their total UCAT score in shortlisting. You need to submit a separate contextual admissions form with evidence by 31 October. There are also WPH Charitable Trust and Warwick Medical School bursaries of up to £3,000 for students from a widening participation background, and the Warwick Bursary of up to £2,500 a year for students from lower income families.
Warwick Medical School uses the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format for its interview. All candidates take part in six MMI stations, and the whole process takes around two hours. The details of the stations change each year, but the values and competencies assessed are:
You’ll be observed and scored at each station by trained assessors, who come from a range of backgrounds including medical professionals, academics, current students and lay people with an interest in medical education. Around 500 candidates are invited to MMIs each year, and shortlisting is based on your academic achievement, your total UCAT score and your work experience submission.
For 2027 entry, MMIs will be held in person at Warwick on 15 – 18 December 2026. Online interviews for applicants studying or working outside the UK will take place on 13 January 2027. You’ll be invited in early December to choose a session on a first come, first served basis, and alternative dates can’t be accommodated. Offers are usually made within two months of the MMI, so around late February. You can find out more information about Warwick Medical School’s interviews and their application process here.
Most medical schools require you to pass an admissions exam before you’ll be invited for interview.
Admissions exam for Warwick: University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT)
The UCAT assesses your characteristics, attitudes and professional behaviours against those required for medical school. The exam is now divided into 4 sections: 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. Warwick Med School rank applicants by UCAT score, combined with points for your highest academic qualification. You also need to achieve at least the overall mean score of ALL test-takers on the Verbal Reasoning sub-test – that was 600 for 2026 entry, and the 2027 entry figure will be confirmed once the UCAT Consortium publishes final scores at the end of the testing cycle. There’s no absolute minimum total score, and SJT bands aren’t used at all in Warwick’s admissions process.
The lowest, average and highest UCAT total scores of applicants invited to interview were:
| Entry year | Lowest | Average | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1910 | 2080 | 2610 |
| 2025 | 2450 | 2750 | 3490 |
| 2024 | 2450 | 2750 | 3400 |
Scores for 2025 and 2024 entry are on the previous five-subtest format, where the cognitive total was out of 3600, so they aren’t directly comparable with 2026 entry onwards, when the maximum total became 2700. For 2026 entry, Warwick received 1,326 applications, interviewed 549 applicants and made 311 offers for 203 places.
Source: Warwick MB ChB course information – admissions facts and figures.
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.
You can also see how other medical schools use the test in our guide to UCAT universities.
Tuition fees for students starting in 2026/27 are:
Home students who normally live in England may be eligible for the NHS Bursary in years 2, 3 and 4. Fees for 2027/28 haven’t been confirmed yet, so check the tuition fees page for the latest information.
Good luck with your application to Warwick Medical School! For more help, take a look at our guides to applying to medical school and the best medical schools in the UK.
