Graduate Entry Medicine at King's College London: 2027 Entry

A102 is for honours graduates in the biomedical and life sciences, and for healthcare professionals with equivalent academic qualifications. The formal rule is a 2:1 in a Biosciences subject with both Biology and Chemistry content, predicted or achieved, and you must be able to evidence it by the beginning of August in the year of entry.

The list is not exhaustive. King's encourages graduates of other biomedical or life sciences degrees to apply if they feel their degree contains at least two thirds bioscience content, but it cannot review transcripts before you apply, so you judge this yourself from your modules.

1. 1

   Sit the UCAT in the year you apply

   King's has no threshold UCAT score in any year. It gives the overall score averaged across the subtests more weight than individual subtest scores, and takes the Situational Judgement Test into account when shortlisting.

2. 2

   Shortlisting on four factors

   Selectors look at your predicted or achieved 2:1 in a bioscience degree, personal statement, reference and UCAT score, in the context of your educational background. King's names examination results and the UCAT as perhaps the most important factors.

3. 3

   Interview between November and May

   No offers are made without an interview, and you must be available for one to be considered. Details come through King's Apply with the invitation.

4. 4

   Decision by the end of May

   King's asks interviewees not to expect a decision until the cycle finishes in May, and aims to notify everyone by the end of May at the latest.

King's has not published the A102 interview format for 2027 entry: the format paragraph on the A102 page is dated to the 2022/3 cycle. For 2026 entry, the A103 page says interviews were conducted remotely, and the A105 page says interviews in the current cycle are remote and assess values and personality-based attributes, knowledge of topical medical issues, ethical reasoning and communication.

King's publishes figures for all its medicine programmes combined, with no year stated: about 4,500 applications a year for a total of 410 places (the A105 page gives about 5,500), and around 1,200 to 1,400 applicants interviewed across all programmes. It does not publish separate A102 numbers.

King's weights the overall UCAT score above individual subtest scores, so it may help to spread your preparation across all the cognitive subtests, for example with UCAT tutoring, and to prepare topical medical issues and ethical reasoning for the interview with interview coaching.

A105 is a different course from A102, new for 2026 entry. King's describes it as the first accelerated medicine programme in the UK designed specifically for qualified healthcare professionals. It builds the bioscience and population science foundation for medicine while adapting some of the early clinical elements of a conventional degree.

A105 interviews in the current cycle are remote, and King's runs a fit-to-sit policy, so mitigating circumstances cannot be applied to interview performance afterwards; raise any problem with the admissions team at the time. As with A102, requirements must be evidenced by early August of the year of entry.