Section: Accepting Your Offer

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Accepting Your Offer

This page provides information for applicants about how to accept their offer, and what happens next.

For pre-arrival information - including information on your degree programme, course choices, and induction - see our new Pre-Arrival page.

Types of Offer

Once your application is complete, you can expect to receive an offer within 6 weeks (may be slightly longer at busy times of the year).

There are two kinds of offer:

  1. Unconditional offer - you will receive this if you have already met the minimum entry requirements for your degree programme
  2. Conditional offer - you will receive this if you have not met one or more of the minimum entry requirements for your degree programme. You may be made a conditional offer if, for example
  • You are still studying on your undergraduate degree - in which case your condition may be that you need to obtain at least a good 2:1 or equivalent.
  • English is not your first language, and your formal English qualifications do not meet our minimum requirements - in which case your condition may be to meet the formal English language requirements.

If you meet the specified conditions, your offer will be converted to unconditional.

  • You must have an unconditional offer in order to begin your studies here.
  • You will be informed of your offer by a message within the EUCLID system on which you apply - not via email. Please remember to check!

Offer response deadlines/Deferrals

You will be informed of your offer by a message within the EUCLID system on which you apply - not via email. You will need to accept your offer, regardless of whether it is conditional or unconditional. Your offer letter will include a link enabling you to accept the offer.

The deadline on the offer letter says you have to accept (or decline) your offer within a month. Please note:

  • we can extend this deadline if you want - please let us know on pgadmissions.sps@ed.ac.uk
  • if you accept an offer, you can always decline later if you need to.
Note that this deadline is the deadline by which you have to accept your offer. It is not the deadline by which you need to meet the conditions of a conditional offer.

Unfortunately, we are unable to allow deferrals for those applicants holding an offer for our Taught MSc Programmes. Applicants holding a firmly accepted offer for our MSc by Research or PhD Programmes can defer (once only) with the agreement of the Programme Director.

Information on the fees payable is included in your offer letter. Please note, queries about fees should be sent to fees@ed.ac.uk, not to the School.

Visas & Certificates of Acceptance for Study (CAS)

Students who come from outside the EU/EEC will require a visa and CAS.

The University's International Office, not the School, provides advice and information on visas.  Please see their immigration and visa webpage at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/international-office/immigration/

If your query is not answered there, you can contact them on  international@ed.ac.uk

The College Office provides advice and information on CASs, please contact: hsspgvisas@ed.ac.uk

Note: you must have a firm, unconditional offer before you will receive any information about visas or CASs.

We only provide hard copy letters for overseas applicants who need visas, unless specifically requested otherwise.

Pre-arrival

For pre-arrival information - including information on your degree programme, course choices, and induction - see our new Pre-Arrival page.

Queries

If you have any queries please visit our frequently asked questions page.

This page was published on 27 October 2011


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