We operate a fair, rigorous and transparent admissions process to ensure we attract the best and brightest students. All qualifications, international, home or otherwise (including our own foundation programme) are benchmarked to A-levels and offers are made accordingly.

That means that A-level entry requirements at Warwick are the same for international students as they are for UK students.

Our International Foundation Programme (IFP) is a one-year course specifically for overseas students with school qualifications which are not recognised as part of our admissions requirements for direct entry (e.g. students from Ukraine). For this reason, we do not accept students onto this pathway who have studied A Levels, IB Diploma or any other qualification which allows progression directly to a UK university.

Applications are carefully assessed on merit and school grades, which are benchmarked for each country, before being accepted onto the IFP. Students will only be accepted onto an undergraduate degree if they successfully pass their foundation programme and meet the demanding academic targets they are set, which are equivalent to our direct entry requirements.

For context, fewer than 100 first year undergraduate students came via the IFP last year, out of a total of nearly 6,000. Around 75% of our undergraduates are from the UK and this proportion has increased over recent years.

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