University of Bristol Dentistry: UCAT, A-Levels & Interview Requirements
University of Bristol has not published a fixed UCAT cut-off for 2027 entry. Here's how UCAT, A-levels, SJT and the interview all fit together for dentistry.
- 2027 UCAT cut off
- Not published
- How the UCAT is weighted
- Once minimum academic entry requirements are met, applications are scored with 100% weighting on the UCAT combined subtest score (excluding SJT), which is used to select candidates for interview. UCAT is also the primary tie-breaker between applicants with identical interview scores.
- SJT policy
- UCAT Situational Judgement Test must be sat but is explicitly excluded from the score used to select applicants for interview; no separate SJT band cut-off is published.
- A-level requirements
- Standard offer AAA including Chemistry and one of Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Contextual offer ABB, with the A in Chemistry and a B in one of Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. GCSE: grade 7 or A in Mathematics to meet the advanced numeracy requirement, and grade 4 or C in English to meet the standard literacy requirement, or equivalent qualifications. These figures are published on Bristol's 2027-entry course page.
- Interview
Bristol describes its interview without calling it an MMI or a panel, online, December to March.
Bristol does not publish three of the five things a candidate needs before an interview.
Bristol interview: full format, stations, dates and what is not published
- Resits
- University of Bristol publishes no resit policy. That is not the same as resits being accepted, and it is worth asking admissions directly before relying on either reading.
- Personal statement
- Not a weighted component, but it is the last tie-break. Bristol states: 'We no longer use the personal statement or reference as a weighted component of our selection criteria. Should we need to differentiate between applicants who have identical scores at interview when making offers, UCAT scores will be used as our primary differentiator.' Bristol also publishes what it looks for in that case: 'Should we need to differentiate between applicants who have identical scores in the UCAT, we may use the personal statement to help make final decisions. In these cases, we look for: Evidence of Work Experience & motivation and understanding of dentistry; Evidence of team work or Non academic achievement; Evidence of contribution to society.' Shortlisting for interview is still 100% UCAT once the academic requirements are met.
What the UCAT had to be, 2026 entry
University of Bristol does not publish one.
That is the university's own position, not a gap in our research. Any specific number quoted for University of Bristol elsewhere is somebody's reconstruction from reported scores, not a figure the medical school has confirmed. Treat it accordingly.
Bristol applies a 100% UCAT weighting to shortlisting for dentistry once the academic requirements are met, and the personal statement and reference are no longer weighted components. Its admissions statement sets no cut-off in advance and states that a score cannot be used with certainty to predict an interview invitation for the current cycle. Its course page publishes the realised figures afterwards: for 2026 entry the final UCAT threshold score to be invited to interview was 2340 for home applicants and 1970 for overseas. Those are last cycle's landing point rather than a bar to measure a score against, which is why no threshold figure is shown beside one. A separate figure of 2480 circulating for Bristol relates to the Gateway to Dentistry course for 2025 entry, not to the standard BDS.
University of Bristol application data, checked 2026-09-01.
Applications, interviews and offers
University of Bristol publishes no figures for this course.
Bristol publishes admissions statistics by faculty and school rather than by course, so nothing it publishes is about A206 specifically, and it publishes no interview count at any level. For the 2022 cycle, the most recent in its dataset, undergraduate applications to Bristol Dental School as a whole were 1,550 home and 155 overseas, producing 125 and 5 offers and 55 and 0 registrations. Every one of those figures is rounded to the nearest 5 under Bristol's HESA rounding and suppression policy, which means a published 0 may be a real 1 or 2. The school-level total covers every undergraduate dental programme together, not the BDS alone. Bristol's own advice on the same page is that applicants should not use the admission statistics as a guide to whether they might receive an offer.
University of Bristol application data, checked 2026-09-23.
National benchmark, for context
For context, the UCAT Consortium's own 2026 statistics report a mean cognitive score of 1918 (out of 2,700) across 42,359 tests, with the median (5th decile) at 1920 and the top decile at 2250+. This is a national figure, not University of Bristol's own threshold, since University of Bristol doesn't publish one for the current cycle.
UCAT Consortium, Test Statistics 2026Standard A-level offer: Standard offer AAA including Chemistry and one of Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Contextual offer ABB, with the A in Chemistry and a B in one of Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. GCSE: grade 7 or A in Mathematics to meet the advanced numeracy requirement, and grade 4 or C in English to meet the standard literacy requirement, or equivalent qualifications. These figures are published on Bristol's 2027-entry course page. SJT policy: UCAT Situational Judgement Test must be sat but is explicitly excluded from the score used to select applicants for interview; no separate SJT band cut-off is published. Worth knowing: Once academic requirements are met, selection for interview is scored on the UCAT with 100% weighting, using all subtests except the Situational Judgement Test. Bristol sets no cut-off in advance and publishes where the line actually fell afterwards, and both halves of that matter. Its admissions statement says there is no cut-off score for the UCAT and that a specific score cannot be used with certainty to predict an interview invitation, because the threshold moves year on year with the strength of the cohort. Its course page then names the realised figures: for 2026 entry the final UCAT threshold score to be invited to interview was 2340 for home applicants and 1970 for overseas. Interviews are held remotely on Zoom and last approximately 45 to 60 minutes in what Bristol calls a Structured Interview Format, with four assessors. That is longer than a typical MMI circuit, but Bristol does not classify the format as either a panel or an MMI and neither word appears in its published material, so this page does not classify it either. Always confirm against the official page before applying, since this is the most recent published position rather than a guarantee for the live cycle.
Source: University of Bristol's own admissions page. Last checked 14 September 2026.
Every figure above is taken from that page. Where University of Bristol publishes nothing, this page says so rather than quoting a number reconstructed from student reports.
Schools worth comparing University of Bristol against
- Bristol MedicineMedicine at the same university
- Cardiff DentistryAlso asks AAA at A-level
- Leeds DentistryAlso asks AAA at A-level
- Glasgow DentistryAlso asks AAA at A-level
- Liverpool DentistryAlso asks AAA at A-level
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