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Clearing 2025

Apply through Clearing

If you have your results and are applying through UCAS, you can apply to study at Heriot-Watt through Clearing now.

Check the A-level grades needed for Clearing 2025

See the A-level entry requirements for all programmes available through Clearing.

Search our degrees

This year, almost all of our degree programmes are available through Clearing for Rest of UK, giving you a wide choice of subjects and study routes to match your ambitions.

What is Clearing?

Clearing is your opportunity to join us in September 2025. It is a process designed to help you find an undergraduate or foundation course availability for the upcoming academic year with UCAS. You can use Clearing if you didn't receive the results you wanted, or simply changed your mind about your chosen university course.

Clearing information for students from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Find out about Heriot-Watt University Clearing vacancies for students from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

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Reasons to choose Heriot-Watt University

1st in Scotland and 2nd in the UK for graduate employability

According to Graduate Outcomes, 2024. You’ll also have lifelong access to our award winning Careers Service.

3 Year honours degree option

Begin your degree in year two and complete the typical Scottish four-year Bachelor Honours degree in three years whilst still getting the full Heriot-Watt student experience.

Guaranteed Accommodation

Stay in safe and secure housing on our beautiful parkland campus in Edinburgh within walking distance of facilities – all bills included.

Study at our Dubai or Malaysia campuses

Through our Go Global programme – for a semester, a year or longer – where will you go?

3 Year honours degree

We offer flexible options for your studies, including completing an undergraduate honours degree in three years instead of four. Joining us in year two means you can enter the job market at the same time as if you studied in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, all while enjoying the same perks as those joining us in first year.

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Find out more about some of our current students Clearing experiences

Virtual tour

Get the best of both worlds – study and live on our beautiful parkland campus and get easy access to Edinburgh city life.

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Important information for Scottish students

We are unable to consider applications from Scottish students for Clearing 2025. However, if you are still interested in joining Heriot-Watt in future years, you can either:

Apply through UCAS for September 2026 entry. Applications can be submitted from 2 September 2025 onwards.
Consider one of our college pathway routes, which upon successful completion could allow you to enter directly into year two or year three of your chosen degree.

For more information, please head to our FAQs page or get in touch with us directly.

Record of Prior Acceptance

Already have your results and ready to apply but haven’t applied through UCAS?

If you have not submitted an application through UCAS for the current application cycle for September 2025 intake, we may be able to accept you onto your chosen programme through a different route, which UCAS refer to as a ‘Record of Prior Acceptance’ or ‘RPA’ route. Please complete this form if you wish to apply through this route.

Apply now through RPA

Our foundation programme option

Are you worried about not getting the grades to get into university this year? Our foundation programme option is an alternative route to accessing your chosen degree and offers direct entry to second-year study across many of our undergraduate degrees.