Information for students applying to study an undergraduate degree at Kingston University for 2025 entry
Congratulations if you have already received an offer to study an undergraduate degree with us in 2025.
We've dedicated this page to keeping you updated with all the information you need to know as you commence your journey to enrolling as an undergraduate student at Kingston University.
On this page you'll find the all-important steps you'll need to take to join us at Kingston. There are also links to useful pages on our website, such as information on our Offer Holder Days, planned webinars, finance and bursaries.
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Your steps to joining Kingston
- Stay in touch
- Book to attend an Offer Holder Day
- Apply for student finance, funding and bursaries
- Accept your offer
- Apply for accommodation
- Check your fee status
- Make contact with your course team
- Join Head Start
- Take part in the Big Read 2025
- Get your results
- Complete your enrolment
- Get involved in Welcome Week
Future Skills
Knowledge to give you the edge
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.
As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.
At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.
Key contacts
Here's a list of the key teams that you might need to contact along your journey to becoming a student at Kingston, and how you can get in touch with them.
Step 1
Stay in touch
This is possibly the most important thing to do. We usually communicate with you by email, so please remember to:
- give us and UCAS your correct email address and check it regularly
- make sure our emails are not treated as junk mail. To do this, add ‘@kingston.ac.uk' to your 'safe senders' list
- make sure you have not unsubscribed from emails from us. If you think you may have, just send us an email at UKenquiries@kingston.ac.uk and we will opt you back in.
Step 2
Book to attend an Offer Holder Day
It's very important that you join us at one of our Offer Holder Days on:
- Saturday 8 March 2025
- Wednesday 9 April 2025
Both are exclusive events for our undergraduate applicants. They will enable you to test drive your course and meet your soon-to-be classmates and lecturers.
Step 3
Apply for student finance, funding and bursaries
If you are a UK student, you can apply for a student loan from February/March 2025 onwards.
You don't need to have made your final choice of university before applying, it is more important that you don't miss the May deadline.
If you apply 'on time' (we suggest before Easter), it's guaranteed your loan will arrive in time for the start of term. If you apply later than this, your loan may be delayed.
Step 4
Accept your offer
As soon as you hear back from all your university choices, you can select Kingston as your firm choice using your UCAS Hub account.
You don't have to wait until after the Offer Holder Day if you know for sure you want to accept our offer.
There are a series of important deadlines depending on when you receive your offers, so please make sure you keep your eye on UCAS Hub to ensure you don't miss any.
Step 5
Apply for accommodation
Only when you have firmly accepted us as your first choice institution will you be able to book accommodation.
Join us at a webinar, Offer Holder Day or an Open Day to talk to our staff about what is on offer.
Step 6
Check your fee status
The cost of your course fees varies depending on the course and your status as either a Home or International student. All course fees are published on the relevant course pages on our website.
In order for your fee status to be assessed you will need to provide further details on our Online Student Information System (OSIS), which is the portal where we store your information. You will receive an email from our admissions team with information to access OSIS.
Step 7
Look out for emails from your course team
From May onwards you'll start to receive more formal communications from us regarding Welcome and enrolment.
You'll hear from people like your course leaders who will give you some insight in to what to expect when you start your course, plans for Welcome Week and anything you need to do in the summer to prepare, such as a reading list or a summer activity.
Don't miss out, add UKenquiries@kingston.ac.uk to your safe sender list.
Step 8
Join Head Start
It's natural to feel apprehensive about starting university and that's why we've designed Head Start.
Head Start is free for students to attend and is held on campus and online. It takes place over the summer months and will help prepare you for life as an undergraduate student boosting confidence to succeed in higher education.
Below is just a taste of what will happen at Head Start next summer. The decision as to whether this will be online or in person (or both options available) will be made in April.
- Meet current students and find out what it's really like to study at Kingston University and start making friends with other new students.
- Take part in exclusive question panels including our accommodation, health and wellbeing and money advice teams.
- Join academic skills sessions to gain valuable advice and guidance about studying at university.
- Meet Kingston Students' Union to find out how to get involved in clubs and societies.
Step 9
Take part in the Big Read 2025
Each year we send all of our new students a special, limited-edition copy of a carefully selected book. The idea is to give everyone the chance to be part of one big book club - and have something in common to talk about before you get here.
Watch out for our announcements of events taking place throughout the summer and join the biggest book club ever - you'll have an opportunity to meet the author when you get here.
Read more about our 2024 Big Read, Everything is Everything by Clive Myrie, and our virtual book club events.
Step 10
Get your results
If you're waiting for your results, we're here to support you. If things go well, we'll be celebrating with you, but if things don't quite go according to plan, then give us a call – you may be able to secure a place though Clearing.
On A-level results day, UCAS sends us some results directly. You can look on UCAS Hub to check your application status. This is where you'll see if you have met your conditional offer or not.
Our results hotline is 0800 0483 334 and opens in June each year.
Step 11
Complete your enrolment
Enrolment is the process of becoming an official Kingston University student. It is online and involves you providing us with information that creates your student record.
You'll be invited by email to complete the first stage of your online enrolment from mid August, but only when your status is ‘unconditional firm' – so it's really important if you're holding a conditional offer that you send us proof of meeting your conditions (e.g. your exam results) as soon as possible.
It's important to complete your enrolment as soon as possible when we ask you to do it as it will unlock things like your course timetable and student funding.
Congratulations – you made it!
Get involved in Welcome Week
When you have completed steps 1 to 11, you'll be a Kingston University student!
During Welcome Week, you'll:
- take part in your course induction, where you'll meet your lecturers and get all the practical information you need to know before you begin your studies
- complete a Welcome to Kingston module, which will give you the lowdown on each of the support areas available to you and how you can access the support when you need it
- take part in a variety of Welcome and Freshers' events and activities – whatever your interests there will also be some fun and social activities for you to enjoy too.
Welcome Week is a great way to make sure our students settled into life at Kingston, giving you the opportunity to meet new friends and have some fun.
You'll receive detailed Welcome and Induction emails from us throughout the summer, so don't miss out, add UKenquiries@kingston.ac.uk to your safe sender list.
Other areas to explore
Accommodation
Start exploring your future home away from home.
Applicant webinars
Join our online events designed to prepare you for life at Kingston.
Bursaries
We provide a number of bursaries to support our students gain their degree.
Facilities
We invest in our facilities to create the perfect study environment for you.
Kingston upon Thames
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Student life
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Student support
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Students' Union
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