UCL Interview Dates 2026: Every Course That Interviews
By Michael Thompson · Education Specialist; 10 years teaching the IB at Bromsgrove School · Published 26 October 2026 · Updated 28 October 2026
UCL interviews for 32 of its 151 undergraduate courses, and each department runs its own round from November to April. This page lists the interview dates for every UCL course that interviews, from the University's own course pages, with the format and the mode, the Medicine MMI in detail, and the 119 courses where an interview is possible but not routine.
Key Takeaways
- UCL interviews for 32 courses: out of 151; a further 119 may interview some applicants.
- Department by department: dates run from November to April, and each department sets its own.
- Medicine: December to March (rolling invitations, normally at least one week's notice); MMI, up to eight stations.
In This Article
- UCL interview dates 2026 at a glance
- Interview dates by course
- Medicine at UCL
- Courses that may interview
- How this page was built
- What to do next
1. UCL interview dates 2026 at a glance
UCL interviews for 32 of the 151 undergraduate courses in its prospectus: Medicine, Pharmacy, Architecture, the engineering and computer science courses with an Integrated Foundation Year, and a handful of others. Each department runs its own round, and together they stretch from November to April: Architecture from mid-November, Medicine from December, Pharmacy to April and the Integrated Foundation Year courses in the spring. Five of the 32 give no dates on the course page. Another 119 courses say an interview is possible, which at UCL mostly means the language degrees.
Invitations come from the department running the interview. Only one course page says how much warning to expect: Medicine (rolling invitations, normally at least one week's notice); the other departments publish dates only.
2. Interview dates by course
Courses with the same arrangements share a row. Course names link to our directory for the entry requirements.
3. Medicine at UCL
Medicine MBBS BSc: December to March (rolling invitations, normally at least one week's notice). The format is MMI with up to eight stations of five minutes, online or in person.
Who is invited, as the course page describes it:
- After checking minimum academic requirements, eligible candidates are ranked on total UCAT score (SJT breaks ties) and the top scorers invited
- Access UCL (contextual) applicants' UCAT scores reviewed separately
- Overseas applicants selected separately for 24 places
- Invitations are sent on a rolling basis from December to March
The page on the UCL medicine interview sets out the stations, what is assessed and how many applicants are interviewed and offered a place. Every UK medical school's dates and format are on medicine interview dates by school.
4. Courses that may interview
UCL lists an interview as possible on 119 courses: the 73 joint-honours pairs of two languages in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (Hebrew and Italian, Hebrew and Spanish and the like), a further 40 single- and joint-honours language degrees (French, German, Scandinavian Studies and Icelandic and their combinations with English, Film Studies, History of Art, Latin American Studies, Management Studies, Philosophy or Serbian/Croatian), and Natural Sciences BSc, Natural Sciences MSci, Comparative Literature BA, Comparative Literature with Study Abroad BA, Education, Society and Culture BA, and Early Childhood Education BA.
5. How this page was built
Interview dates, format and mode come from each course's page in UCL's undergraduate prospectus. Each page was read on 18 October 2026 and the figures were exported on 21 October 2026; nothing on this page is estimated, and where a university does not publish a figure the page says so. Universities change interview arrangements between cycles, so treat the course page you are applying to as the final word and this page as the way to compare courses side by side.
6. What to do next
Check your course above for its dates or its rolling window and keep that period flexible. If you are applying for Medicine, read the MMI format carefully: up to eight short stations reward a different kind of preparation from one long conversation, and the guide to how to get into medicine in the UK covers the format. The hub page on Oxbridge and medicine interviews 2026 links every interview page on this site.
FAQ
Does UCL interview for every course?
No. UCL interviews for 32 of its 151 undergraduate courses and says an interview is possible on 119 more. The tables on this page list both.
When are UCL medicine interviews?
December to March (rolling invitations, normally at least one week's notice). The format is MMI with up to eight stations, online or in person.
Are UCL interviews online?
Mostly not stated. Of the 32 interviewing courses, 25 give no mode on the course page; Medicine is online or in person; the five Architecture courses and European Social and Political Studies (Dual Degree) interview online.
How much notice does UCL give for an interview?
Only one course page says how much warning to expect: Medicine (rolling invitations, normally at least one week's notice); the other departments publish dates only.
References
- UCL: undergraduate courses - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/undergraduate-courses