How do Durham allocate places

How do Durham university allocate its prospective student to its many colleges. Or, do you apply to the college when an offer is made? I am due to start year 12, so knowing this will help me aid in my selection prices. I am a BAME and am interested in Exeter and Durham to hopefully study Finance.

Reply 1

artful_lounger

Universities Forum Helper

Original post by Hospitality

See here: https://www.durham.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/how-to-apply/durhams-colleges-and-your-application/

When you get an offer you can rank college choices and then will be assigned to one when they consider how everyone has ranked them. Some are a lot more oversubscribed than others - University College I gather seems to have the most people ranking it 1st normally and obviously can't accommodate everyone, so a lot who rank that 1st may end up at a different college they ranked. That said I think there are good reasons to not want to rank University College - I understand students have to share rooms (not flats, rooms) in first year at least, which may not be to everyone's taste!

Reply 2

Durham Students

Official Rep

Original post by Hospitality

Hiya

Glad to know you're considering Durham. The link mentioned above is really helpful and will give you a full breakdown of the process. But briefly, you don't have to fill out your college choices in your UCAS application. Once you send it off and if you receive a conditional offer, you'll get a link from the university asking you to rank the colleges in order of your preference from 1 to 17. Colleges are provisionally allocated before results day and are usually confirmed after results day.

Hope that helps :smile: