Changing courses at UCL

Hi guys, I'm a soon to be first year at UCL, and my current course is under the Institute of education.

I went with this course due to my confidence being knocked down on results day - my grades came to me as ABB, which wasn't satisfactory for STEM courses at this uni. However, I did have a social science (psychology) under my belt, so I thought that maybe a non STEM course at the same uni would be the next best thing for me.

A couple weeks after results day, my remark came back, and my grades changed to AAB. I am very happy with this outcome, but also unsettled. I'd love to try and transfer to a less competitive STEM course, but I'm worried about the process of transferring. Has anyone who goes to UCL ever successfully transferred courses to another department? I don't want to be too detailed, but there are similarities between the course I want and the course I'm on - would this help my case?

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artful_lounger

Universities Forum Helper

There's a specific mechanism to request this, there's absolutely no guarantee of it however. You will also still need to meet all the standard entry criteria for the new course.

I'd note whether you do a STEM or non-STEM degree is completely irrelevant, and research has found that in the UK STEM and non-STEM graduates have equivalent career and salary outcomes within 10 years of graduation.

Unless you dislike the course you applied to (in which case I'd note more for posterity than anything: you shouldn't have applied to it), I don't really see there being any particular benefit to this. If you don't like the course you applied to I would suggest requesting the change of course and if not accepted, relinquishing your offer and reapplying in a gap year to a course you actually want to do.