Mature and affiliated students - Affiliated students
If you’re a graduate with an approved degree from another university, you can apply to take a Cambridge BA course as an affiliated student. This means you could take a degree in a year less than usual. Most Colleges admit some affiliated students. Some Colleges don’t admit affiliated students for Architecture and only Lucy Cavendish, St Edmund’s and Wolfson consider affiliated applications for Medicine or Veterinary Medicine. You are advised to contact the College you are considering applying to in order to ensure they accept affiliated students in the course you are interested in.
To make a formal application you need to submit a UCAS application. Please note that affiliated students must choose a College; open applications are not possible. Applicants from outside the EU will also need to complete a Cambridge Online Preliminary Application (COPA). The standard deadline for receipt of applications is 15 October. However, the mature Colleges (Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish, St Edmund’s and Wolfson) will consider affiliated applicants as part of a second application round.
Medicine
As a graduate wishing to study Medicine you have two options:
- you can apply as an affiliated student to the standard Medicine course at Lucy Cavendish, St Edmund’s or Wolfson Colleges;
- and/or you can apply to the Graduate Course in Medicine at Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish or Wolfson Colleges. Please note there is an additional application form for the Graduate Course in Medicine.
You may apply for both courses if you wish. However, if you choose to do so, you must apply to the same College for both courses (either Lucy Cavendish or Wolfson).
Fees and finance
As an affiliated student you will be liable to pay both tuition fees and a separate College fee.
UK/EU students commencing courses in 2012-13 that lead to a qualification which is equivalent to, or at a lower level than, a qualification already held (ELQ students) will be charged £9,000 per year.
The College fee varies slightly between Colleges, but is typically in the range £4,400 to £5,200 per year. Affiliated students from the UK (except Scotland) and EU who are studying Architecture, Medicine or Veterinary Medicine may be entitled to a College Fee Loan through the appropriate student finance award agency.