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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Every course at the Royal Veterinary College requires you to meet minimum academic qualifications and
grading. This is to ensure that you are adequately equipped with the skills and knowledge, as well as a
foundation of scientific understanding, to successfully complete your course. Our entry requirements
express the qualifications and grades that you have already achieved or are expected to achieve.
For a full list of entry requirements, including academic qualifications and non-academic criteria,
please visit f www.rvc.ac.uk/study/undergraduate

BACHELOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE BVetMed D100
BACHELOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE WITH INTERCALATED YEAR D101
BACHELOR OF VETERINARY SCIENCE D105

GCSE (or alternative Level 2 qualifications are required in Welsh Baccalaureate
addition to Level 3 qualifications e.g. A-Levels) Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (A) with two A-Levels in
Five GCSEs at grade 7 (A) including Combined Science (or Biology (A) and Chemistry (A).
individual science subjects; Biology and Chemistry), with at
least a grade 6 (B) in English Language and Mathematics. Scottish Highers/Advanced Highers:
Advanced Highers at AA in Biology and Chemistry in addition
A-Level* to five Highers (AAAAB), including Biology, Chemistry and at
AAA including Biology and Chemistry, and a third subject which least National 5 in English and Mathematics (B). If you have
should not overlap with Biology or Chemistry and cannot include bypassed one or more of these subjects at National 5, you will
General Studies.
need this subject/grade at Highers level.
International Baccalaureate Irish Leaving Certificate
666 at Higher Level including Biology and Chemistry.
H1,H1,H2,H2,H2,H2 including Biology and Chemistry.
If not already holding accepted qualifications in Maths and English, H1 required in one of these sciences. If not included in
grade 5 in either MYP Mathematics (standard or extended) or the above, O3 is required in English and Mathematics.
SL Mathematics Analysis and approaches OR SL Mathematics
Applications and interpretation: analysis and approaches and a French Baccalauréat
minimum of 5 in SL English A (or grade 6 in English B) is required.
Pass the Baccalauréat général with 14 overall. 16 required
Level 3 Extended Diploma in ‘Applied Science’ grade D*D*D*, in Earth & Life Sciences and Physics-Chemistry, both of which
‘Applied Science (Biomedical Science)’ grade D*D*D* or ‘Animal need to be your enseignements de spécialité and taken through
Management (Science)’ grade D*D*D*. Specific units mandatory, to terminale. Mathematics needs to be sat in the penultimate
please see our website for full details. year, and grade 12 achieved. [OIB Anglais: if 14 is achieved in
English, no further English language qualification is required.]
Cambridge Pre-U
Minimum grade D3 in three Principal subjects including Biology Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE)
and Chemistry.
Pass the HKDSE with grades 555 in Biology, Chemistry and one
other elective subject, plus grade 4 in Maths and grade 5 in English
Access to HE Diploma
(Science based) Distinctions in 15 Level 3 credits in Biology core subjects. We will consider Maths as a third elective subject
and 15 Level 3 credits in Chemistry. Merit required in all other provided both the compulsory and the extended modules are taken
graded Level 3 credits. with grades 5* (compulsory section) and 5 (extended section).

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