See below for helpful information on entry requirements for undergraduate courses.

We accept a wide range of qualifications and experience to join our degree courses.

UK Qualifications for entry to undergraduate programmes

General

The University will make both graded offers and use the UCAS tariff where required. This is so that the offers made to applicants are as clear as possible.

This presentation has been put together by the Student Recruitment and Outreach team in October 2020.

Watching the following video will give an introduction to the UCAS application process and how to write personal statements which may be of interest to school/college students, teachers and parents. For further information please contact outreach@rau.ac.uk.

The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) is a small and specialised land-based institution.

While we have comparatively high levels of diversity in our postgraduate community, recruitment to the undergraduate programmes has traditionally come from those who reside within English rural communities, which are not diverse.

Welcome to Fossehill, the equine enterprise, for the Royal Agricultural University. We are a BHS Approved livery yard, which is open from dawn till dusk, 365 days a year to meet yours and your equestrian needs for both horse and rider. 

I've been riding since I was two years old. I've been competing since I was about nine. I want to go into veterinary medicine, so it was a good step through.

I found out about the RAU one day in my old college library, and I looked up the website and just thought, this looks incredible, the alumni have gone on to do so many amazing things.

I'm so happy I came to the RAU, the friends I've made here will be friends for life, the contacts I've made will be so useful for the future.

We're often asked, you know, what does the land agent do? What does the rural land manager do? What does an estate manager do? You could go work on a large estate, you might be advising somebody who just owns an acre or two of land, you might want to go and work with one of the big national firms; Strutt and Parker, Bidwells, Savills. But your character might actually be better placed going into a more local firm.

The topic of business lets me focus on any business because it applies to the entire world and every person that has a job and I can focus on gigantic corporations or I can look at something closer to home like the local shops in town because business and money always goes from the top down and affects every person on the scale.

The health benefits of exercise and physical activity are well known. Regular exercise is good for your health, it's good for your mind and it's a great stress buster!

Situated in the heart of the Campus, the RAU Gym offers a safe, friendly and more personal training environment to suit all your needs. Fitted out with a range of cardiovascular machines, resistance machines and free weights, the RAU Gym has everything you need to achieve a healthy body and a healthy mind.

Membership is reasonably priced and you can pay annually or termly.

With the aim of reducing environmental impacts while addressing societal demands for safe, nutritious and affordable meat and dairy products, PATHWAYS is about identifying and increasing sustainable practices along the supply and production chains of the European livestock sector.

Coordinated by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and comprising 28 partners from 12 countries, this 5-year (2021-2026) €9 million Horizon 2020 project contributes to the EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy which is at the heart of the EU Green Deal. 

The leading executive level policy programme for those engaged in the agricultural and land-based sector at a senior level.

Do you possess a strong aspiration to lead within the wider agricultural and associated industries? Are you looking to become a more effective leader?