Postgraduates

After you've applied

Accepting your offer

After we have received your application, you will be informed whether or not you have been successful within 28 days. You may be contacted for further information or be invited to come to an interview.

If we make you an offer, please let us know if you would like to accept that offer. You can do this by logging in to MyStudentRecord and clicking on the 'My Applications' page. If you have not already signed-up for a MyStudentRecord account, you will need to click on the ‘New User’ button and follow the on-screen instructions to create your password.

Shortly before the start of your course you will receive further instructions, including how to pay and how to register as a student. The correspondence that you receive from the University will include contact details which you can use if you have any queries. 

If you need a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) number to apply for a study visa, you will have to pay a deposit to be able to request your CAS number.

References

If you have not supplied references, the referees that you have nominated will be contacted and offered the opportunity to upload references via a secure link, or by email. We encourage you to check that the referees have been contacted and that they respond, as it is your responsibility to ensure that we receive references.

Your references should be from an academic contact unless you are applying for a post-experience programme (such as Education or an MBA) where a professional/industrial referee would be more appropriate.

Meeting the conditions of your offer

A conditional offer means that you are required to meet certain conditions before beginning your degree course with us.

A condition may be:

  • Completing an academic qualification such as successfully finishing your school studies or current course
  • Sending us further information, such as copies of qualifications and references
  • Achieving a certain score in an English language test

Please send evidence of meeting the conditions of your offer as soon as it is available. If you need to apply for a study visa, it is important that you do this so that we can send you an unconditional offer letter. You can upload your documents to MyStudentRecord. 

If your conditional offer asks you to meet the English language requirement for your course, you may wish to attend one of the English Language Teaching Unit's pre-sessional English courses. If you successfully complete the course and pass a University of Leicester English test, you can progress to your chosen degree programme. Please visit the English Language Teaching Unit website for more details and to apply. 

International students

If you need to apply for a study visa, you will need to pay a deposit and complete the steps listed above.

If you are an international or EU student (excluding Republic of Ireland) then in order to apply for a Student visa you need to be issued with a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) number. This is a unique reference number issued by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).  

There are five steps to applying for a CAS number from us:

  1. Accept your unconditional offer with us by paying your deposit. Your unconditional offer will be sent once you have met the conditions of your offer.
  2. You can request your CAS number from us no earlier than 5 months before the start of your course. We will email you with further instructions once you have firmly accepted your unconditional offer with us.
  3. Once we receive your CAS request form we will apply to UKVI for your CAS number.
  4. We will email you your CAS number, along with details of the documents we used to assess your application. If your CAS application is complete and we are not waiting for any information such as your passport number, then we aim to get your CAS to you by email within two working days. If you have applied through an agent, we will email it to both you and your agent. Please note, your CAS number is only valid for six months.
  5. If you are granted a visa, it will specify that you will study at the University of Leicester. You will not be able to use this visa to study at any other university in the UK.

Find out more about how to apply for your Student visa.

Research in some sensitive areas may require you to apply for an ATAS certificate before your visa. Your offer letter will make it clear if this is the case.

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