Does pharmacy have a lot of spaces open for clearing after results day?

Hi, does anyone know if many places go out for pharmacy undergraduate in clearing?

I am worried about my uni place for September and I am just making sure I will have a decent chance really.

I am an offer holder already and have put a firm and insurance choice down so I am aware I cannot use UCAS extra.

Does anyone know what unis usually have pharmacy clearing places available usually over the years?

I will have to wait till results day, if I don’t get into my firm I would rather do pharmacy than what my current insurance choice is. I am being a worrier really but just wanted to ask, thank you xx

According to the statistics on the UCAS web site, there were 4,675 accepted applicants for Pharmacy in the 2022 application cycle:



By playing with the "Acceptance route" drop-down, we can break these numbers down as:

110: Direct Clearing - where the applicant has applied via Clearing without an initial application through the main scheme
115: Extra
870: Main scheme Clearing - where an applicant was unsuccessful in the main scheme (i.e. applied before 30 June) and subsequently found a place using Clearing
2,825: Main scheme firm choice
395: Main scheme insurance choice
245: Other main scheme choice
115: RPA

So, the answer to your "if many places go out for pharmacy undergraduate in clearing" question is, "Yes, 980 of them did last year." I don't know an accurate was to establish which universities these Clearing places were at.

(You can find the tool which allows you to pull up all this type of data here.)

Ignore all 'last year' statistics etc.

This year there has been a massive increase in Pharmacy applications - at some Unis up by 45%.

This means there are likely to far fewer clearing places than in any previous years.
There might be spaces at places like Lincoln, De Montfort, Sunderland, Huddersfield etc but until Results Day, no-one knows for certain.

Hi, does anyone know if many places go out for pharmacy undergraduate in clearing?

I am worried about my uni place for September and I am just making sure I will have a decent chance really.

I am an offer holder already and have put a firm and insurance choice down so I am aware I cannot use UCAS extra.

Does anyone know what unis usually have pharmacy clearing places available usually over the years?

I will have to wait till results day, if I don’t get into my firm I would rather do pharmacy than what my current insurance choice is. I am being a worrier really but just wanted to ask, thank you xx

Hi @Tinyy7,

Thank you @McGinger for the mention.

As McGinger mentions it does often vary from year to year, but there is a UCAS tool which shows how many places are left on each course for clearing as each university is required to submit these numbers. Clearing officially opens on 5 July so if you go here on this day, you should be able to check if there are any pharmacy places in clearing before results day: https://www.ucas.com/events/2023-entry-clearing-opens-413116

This gives you time to think over your options and pull together a plan

Best wishes,
Lewis

Social Media and Content Officer, UoH

you should be able to check if there are any pharmacy places in clearing before results day

Hi,

I am an offer holder for another course which I have firmed, its a conditional place, and I have an insurance choice of biomed at uni of Leeds but I would rather do pharmacy than biomed which I realised after I had submitted ucas and it was too late to change.

Because of this, does this mean I cannot enter the clearing page to see pharmacy places on 5th July because I have 2 offers? This is my first time using ucas, I am a gap year applicant so dont have my colleges support so this is all very confusing to me so I would greatly appreciate any help.

I had messages saying ‘ dont wait till results day to get a pharmacy offer ‘ as last year I got AAB in a levels and im resitting the B grade this year so I do have the grades for pharmacy already hence why people are saying that. However I was confused because If I started ringing unis now if they gave me an offer/ interview then offer or something wouldnt it get automatically rejected on ucas because I have already picked a firm and insurance?

So I have to wait til results day to see my resit grade, if I got a B again and didnt get into my firm course then I would decline my place at Leeds and then would I enter clearing? Is it only at that point I can see if there’s pharmacy places left?

My worry is due to the increase in pharmacy places I have a low chance at getting into a good uni through clearing for pharmacy…

Sorry for this longgg message any help is appreciated