We’re proud to be an independent charity, providing advice and guidance to more than 1.5 million individuals every year. Working with universities, employers and apprenticeship providers, UCAS is the gateway to higher education and employment opportunities across the UK.
We work with employers and training providers across the UK to connect students with apprenticeship opportunities and can help your organisation reach and recruit the right talent.
Reach future students and achieve your admissions goals through the power of UCAS’ trusted brand. We understand young people, their influences, and what drives their application decisions.
Offer students plenty of choice and match them with the right room, by connecting with them as they consider how and where to live while studying.
Meet the next generation, in their hometowns and cities. Showcase all you have to offer, answer their questions, inspire their decisions, and lay the foundations of a long-term relationship.
Through our range of multi-channel opportunities, UCAS helps brands reach strategically segmented audiences, working together to make every student experience the best it can be.
Supporting individuals exploring their next steps
As an independent charity, UCAS is the UK's shared admission service for higher education and offers information, advice and guidance for both young people exploring post-18 opportunities, and mature learners, to inspire and facilitate educational progress to university, college, or a degree apprenticeship.
By partnering with UCAS to support your student marketing strategy, or apprenticeship recruitment, you can feel reassured that that every pound spent is an investment into widening access and choice into higher education and career pathways.
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Feedback from our customers
Having access to a pool of over a million students is amazing in any sort of recruitment situation. But then to know that over half of them, or around half of them, are interested in apprenticeships is also great. I think it's quite difficult to find that many people, in one place, that are all interested in apprenticeships - so it's a great opportunity for us."
Liam Bradshaw-Shallow, Early Careers Attraction Coordinator, Sky
UCAS's marketing campaigns have been a game changer for us! Three months in and the digital media campaigns, especially on social media in our targeted cities, have shown impressive success rates. We're seeing click-through rates of 8-10%, a number we're genuinely proud of.
Shaan Clarke, Marketing Director, Collegiate UK
The insights from this work will support us, and our partners in the health and care system, to continue to build a nursing workforce that is highly skilled, critically thinking, and with the right values.
Dr Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer for England & Professor Mark Radford CBE, Chief Nurse, Health Education England, and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England
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