A four-year MB BCh in Swansea open to graduates of any discipline, home or international, where your test score earns the interview and the assessment day alone decides the offer.
By Dr Akash Gandhi · Last checked: 22 September 2026
Swansea graduate entry medicine is the four-year MB BCh (UCAS code A101), and you need a 2:1 honours degree in any subject (or a Merit in an integrated master's, or a 2:2 plus a Masters or PhD), GCSE Maths and English or Welsh at grade C, and a GAMSAT or UCAT score, with MCAT also accepted from international applicants.
Swansea invites the highest-scoring applicants on each test to an assessment day early in the New Year, made up of three face-to-face stations of 20 or 30 minutes. Once you are shortlisted, Swansea considers your test score no further: any offer rests solely on your performance at interview.
Swansea describes the course as unique in Wales and one of a handful in the UK open to graduates of any discipline from the UK, EU and overseas. For a September 2027 start the first-year fee is £9,790 for UK students and £48,350 for international students.
Swansea describes its Graduate Entry Medicine programme as unique in Wales and one of a handful in the UK open to graduates of any discipline from the UK, EU and overseas. You need to hold, or be predicted, one of three academic routes.
| Route | What you need | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Honours degree | 2:1 or above | Any subject |
| Integrated master's | Merit or above | Any subject |
| Lower second plus higher degree | 2:2 honours degree AND a pass in a Masters or PhD | Any subject |
If you are weighing Swansea against courses that restrict degree subject, the UK graduate entry medicine comparison sets the degree rules side by side.
Source: Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry); Medical Schools Council, Swansea MB BCh Medicine (A101) (Start date September 2027)
Swansea runs three test routes in parallel. Home applicants choose GAMSAT or UCAT; international applicants may also use MCAT. The minimum scores below are the ones Swansea publishes for entry in 2026. They are the floor for being considered at all, and the score that actually earns an interview can be higher.
| Test | Who can use it | Minimum score considered (2026 entry) | Which sittings count |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAMSAT | Home and international | 50 overall and 50 in Paper 3 | The last four sittings before the UCAS October deadline |
| UCAT | Home and international | 1900 (Situational Judgement bands not considered) | Tests taken in the year of application |
| MCAT | International only | 500 | Within 24 calendar months of the closing date |
The 2026 minimums are not a 2027 promise
Swansea labels these thresholds for 2026 entry and sets the real interview cut-off after applications close. Treat 1900 on the UCAT (a 2025-onwards score out of 2700) and 50 on the GAMSAT as the lowest scores Swansea would look at, and aim well above them. Our GAMSAT guide explains how the sections are scored.
Source: Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry)
Which test suits you depends on your degree, your timeline and your other choices. We tutor both, and a free call is enough to work out which one to sit.
Swansea selects in two stages. Your admissions test score decides whether you are invited to the assessment day, and once you are shortlisted it is considered no further.
Minimum requirements checked
Degree route, GCSEs and a valid admissions test. Swansea also asks every applicant to complete a Code of Professional Practice declaration after it receives the application.
Shortlist by test score
Applicants above the annual cut-off for their test are invited to the assessment day, held early in the New Year.
Three face-to-face stations
Each station lasts 20 or 30 minutes and may be an interview, a presentation or a role play. You may be questioned on your personal statement in one or more stations. Details of the day and anything to prepare are sent with the invitation.
Offers on interview performance alone
After the assessment day Swansea ranks overall performance, and only the highest-scoring candidates receive offers. Admissions test results are considered no further once you are shortlisted.
Stations are run by a trained panel of clinicians, academics, medical students and members of the public. Swansea lists the qualities it assesses as communication skills; problem solving; coping with pressure; insight and integrity; passion for medicine and resilience to succeed; organisation and research; and ethics and values. It reserves the right to change station formats between cycles without notice.
Because each station runs far longer than a typical multiple mini interview station, it may help to practise holding a 20-minute conversation or presentation under observation, for example through mock interviews.
Source: Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry)
The programme is built around how patients present to doctors. You gain clinical experience on placement from the first term, and on campus you learn through lectures and tutorials, case-based learning, integrated clinical methods, and anatomy and clinical skills sessions.
Applicants with a PhD may also look at the Foulkes Foundation Fellowship, which Swansea signposts for this course.
Source: Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry); Medical Schools Council, Swansea MB BCh Medicine (A101) (Start date September 2027)
| Fee status | Year 1 fee | Later years |
|---|---|---|
| UK | £9,790 | May rise in line with the maximum fee set by the Welsh Government |
| International | £48,350 | Rises by 3% for each subsequent year of study |
Applications go through UCAS by the October deadline (15 October 2026 for 2027 entry), and Swansea has no facility for late or direct applications. If you want a second pair of eyes on your statement before then, see our personal statement help.
Source: Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry); UCAS, 2027 entry deadline for most courses in medicine (2027 entry)
15 October 2026, 18:00
UCAS deadline for 2027 entry medicine courses
UCAS, 2027 entry deadline for most courses in medicine (2027 entry)
After you apply
Release GAMSAT or MCAT scores to Swansea through the test provider; complete the Code of Professional Practice declaration
Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry)
Early in the New Year (2027)
Assessment day for shortlisted applicants; exact dates not published
Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry)
31 July 2027
Last date for pending degree results to be confirmed
Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry)
September 2027
Course starts
Swansea University, Medicine (Graduate Entry), MB BCh course page (Fees for a September 2027 start; test minimums stated for 2026 entry)
Chester GEM
Also accepts any degree subject and UCAT, GAMSAT or MCAT, with international applicants welcome.
Ulster GEM
Also open to any degree subject, but GAMSAT only and with priority for Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland residents.
Cardiff GEM
Another Welsh graduate route, open only to graduates of a short list of feeder degrees.
Bangor GEM
Graduate entry medicine in north Wales, UCAT only and for UK residents with Home fee status.
See every UK course side by side in the graduate entry medicine comparison table, or read the full Swansea medical school profile for the five-year course, rankings and admissions statistics.
Graduate entry guides
Help with a graduate application
Practise in the format this school uses, with mock MMI and panel interviews and written feedback after every session.
Yes. Swansea accepts a 2:1 honours degree in any subject, and describes its programme as open to graduates of any discipline.
You still need GCSE Maths and English or Welsh at grade C and a GAMSAT or UCAT score.
Only with a postgraduate degree. A 2:2 honours degree qualifies if you also hold, or will complete, a pass in a Masters or PhD in any subject.
Swansea's published minimum for 2026 entry was a UCAT score of 1900, with Situational Judgement bands not considered.
The score that earns an interview is set each year from the number of applications and can be higher than the minimum. Only a UCAT taken in the year you apply counts.
For 2026 entry Swansea considered GAMSAT scores of at least 50 overall and 50 in Paper 3, from the last four sittings before the UCAS October deadline.
As with UCAT, the annual interview cut-off may be higher than this minimum.
Yes. International applicants can use GAMSAT, UCAT or MCAT (minimum 500 for 2026 entry). The first-year international fee for a September 2027 start is £48,350, rising 3% a year.
It is an assessment day early in the New Year with three face-to-face stations of 20 or 30 minutes each, which may be interviews, presentations or role plays.
Panels include clinicians, academics, medical students and members of the public, and you may be asked about your personal statement.
No. Your GAMSAT, UCAT or MCAT score is used only to shortlist for interview. Swansea bases any offer solely on performance at the assessment day.
No. Swansea does not accept deferred applications for this course and considers deferral requests from offer holders only in exceptional circumstances.
Last checked: 22 September 2026. Universities update entry requirements during the cycle, so confirm on Swansea's own pages before you apply.
Photo: Grove Building, Swansea University by Eugenus78, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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