What interview format does University of Manchester use for medicine?

University of Manchester runs a Multiple Mini Interview. It publishes five stations. Each station lasts 8 minutes.

When are Manchester medicine interviews?

University of Manchester publishes an interview window of December to March, hedged in its own wording. The school's exact sentence is quoted on this page.

University of Manchester Medicine Interview: Format, Stations and Dates

University of Manchester Medicine interviews with a Multiple Mini Interview. Every one of the five things a candidate needs to know is published, and every one of them is sourced below.

Manchester publishes all five of the things a candidate needs

Format, station count, station length, delivery and dates are all on Manchester's own pages, and each one is sourced below. That is unusual: most schools in this directory publish fewer.

What Manchester publishes about the format

Format: Multiple Mini Interview, a circuit of short independent stations.
Stations: Five stations.
Time per station: 8 minutes per station.
Online or in person: The applicant chooses.

Interview format, from University of Manchester: source (checked 2026-09-13)

University of Manchester in its own words

Five-station Multiple Mini Interview, each station marked by a separate interviewer, eight minutes per station with a two-minute gap between stations. The starting station is allocated at random and applicants move round in order until they have completed them all. No information is provided in advance, and there is no reading or writing component to any station.

When interviews run

Manchester publishes an interview window of December to March, in wording the school itself hedges.

Manchester on its interview timing

Usually December to early March, in a five-station MMI with each station marked by a separate interviewer, eight minutes per station with a two-minute gap between stations. Candidates selected for interview choose their preferred option of online via Zoom or on campus, and Manchester says both are assessed in exactly the same way. No information is provided in advance and there is no reading or writing component to any station; the starting station is allocated at random. No offer is made without an interview.

Interview timing, from University of Manchester: source (checked 2026-09-13)

Everything else about Manchester

This page covers the interview only. Manchester's UCAT position, A-level offer, SJT policy and admissions statistics are on its main entry requirements page.

University of Manchester Medicine: UCAT, A-levels and entry requirements