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Clearing 2026

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First Year Essentials Kit

Apply to UEL through Clearing this summer and receive a support package worth £1,000, including support with travel, shopping, fitness and entertainment. T&Cs apply

First Year Essentials Kit

What is Clearing?

UCAS Clearing helps you find and apply for courses with places still available. Explore the answers to your Clearing questions below.

How Clearing works

Clearing FAQs

Our top Clearing tips

How to transfer to UEL

Accommodation

We have student accommodation at our Docklands campus. Explore our ensuite rooms, prices and payment plans.

Our room types and prices

Fees and funding

Find out about your course fees, funding and support available. 

Fees and funding

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Student Finance and Clearing

Got your results?

Find out if we have a place for you.

By answering a few simple questions, we’ll be able to advise you on your Clearing options. If you're applying with UCAS points and want to find out which courses may be available to you at the University of East London, you can easily check your total using the UCAS points calculator.

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What qualifications or experience do you intend to apply with?

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Why University of East London

Discover how UEL prepares students for future careers with industry-aligned courses, career coaching and a Career Passport to showcase skills

Why UEL

Careers Guarantee

Your future is our priority. We teach the skills and creativity needed to help you to remain adaptable in a rapidly changing world. As a career-focused institution we are committed to preparing you for careers of the future, and we believe anyone with the ambition and will to thrive can make their career aspirations come true.

Our careers guarantee has been designed to give you a pathway to your future career.

Our Careers Guarantee

1. Experience guaranteed

Learning by doing, UEL is giving students direct contact with employers, projects and practical challenges before they graduate.

2. Skills guaranteed

This pillar focuses on preparing students for work by helping them strengthen their professional, interpersonal and practical abilities.

3. Support guaranteed

UEL gives ongoing guidance so students have access to advice, resources and coaching as they plan their next steps.

4. Enterprise guaranteed

This is aimed at students who want to create their own path, with access to advice, networks and practical start-up support.

5. Impact guaranteed

This is education with purpose, preparing graduates to succeed while also contributing to real-world change.

  • University of the Year for Teaching Quality (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025)
  • 2nd in London & 4th in England for Overall Positivity (National Student Survey 2025)​
  • Fastest-rising university in London for graduate employability (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2025)

More reasons to choose UEL

  • Our location

    East London is one of the best places in the world to be a student. Our location boasts easy access to all the incredible opportunities London has to offer.

  • Campus Tours

    Come and explore our amazing campuses and facilities as a student ambassador answers all your questions and gives you an insight to student life.

What our students say

Pariss sat at a table with a laptop
Having the ability to find a course through clearing that aligned with my career path felt like a second chance in life to do something that I really wanted to do, in a field I felt passionate about. I’m really grateful to UEL for the opportunity.

Pariss Sailsman

BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice

Daisha Lewis sat in a lecture theatre
Having not secured my chosen university place, Clearing made the process of choosing a course easier and less stressful in a time when my educational journey was uncertain.

Daisha Lewis

BA (Hons) Media and Communications

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Want to know more about our courses, student life or East London? Talk to one of our student ambassadors or course leaders to learn more.

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Clearing FAQs

How does Clearing work?

Clearing is an opportunity to secure a place at a UK university. It runs every year from July to September. 

During Clearing, you can contact different universities to see which courses they have places left on for the upcoming academic year. 

You might already have some university offers, missed out on your ideal grades, or just want to go somewhere else. Clearing means you can apply directly to a university and get an offer quickly,

When does Clearing open?

Clearing opens on 2 July.

Most Clearing activity takes place around A-level results day but you can get in touch as soon as you have all your results.  

We'll be available from 7am on results day to support you with your applications and enquiries - call us or apply through our online form.

Which courses are in Clearing?

Normally most of our undergraduate courses are in Clearing - this means you can call us or apply online for the course you wish to study at UEL. If you're not sure yet or you still have questions, please get in touch and we can advise you.

More Clearing FAQs

Call us, apply online or visit our USS campus

Clearing is not available for international students. Please submit your application via the apply links on the relevant course page.