Your offer

Your offer letter

If your application for a postgraduate taught or postgraduate research course at Surrey is successful, you will be able to access a formal offer letter that you can use for official purposes.

• For postgraduate taught programmes, you can access this through our applicant portal.
• For postgraduate research programmes, you can access this through the Surrey self-service portal.

If you’ve received a conditional offer, make sure you check the conditions carefully. If you don’t understand the conditions, contact the Admissions team immediately.

A conditional offer might mean you need to:

• Achieve certain grades in your exams
• Upload certificates of your qualifications
• Meet an English language requirement
• Provide a new personal statement.

Alternative offers

It might be that we can't make you an offer for the course that you've applied for, but we can make you an offer for an alternative course. If this happens, we'll let you know through the applicant portal.

Accepting your offer

If you want to proceed, we recommend you accept your offer as early as possible.

You will need to firmly accept your offer to secure your place on the course. Any requested deposits will need to be paid, or requested evidence of a formal sponsorship provided.

• To accept an offer for postgraduate taught programmes through our applicant portal, please refer to the ‘select your enrolment status’ section to proceed.
• For postgraduate research programmes, please see the 'firmly accept your offer' task on the Surrey self-service portal.

Students progressing on to another programme within Surrey and applicants with ‘Home’ fee status are not required to pay the initial deposit. 

Please note that applicants for programmes offered by Guildford School of Acting and MBA are still required to pay the deposit regardless of their fee status.

Deadline to accept your offer

The deadline to firmly accept your offer will depend on when you were made the offer. You'll be able to see your deadline on when you log in.

• For postgraduate taught programmes, you can view your deadline in the applicant portal.
• For postgraduate research programmes, you can view your deadline in the Surrey self-service portal.

If you are not able to firmly accept your offer by the deadline, it may still be possible to confirm your place after the date if we have space on the course. We will withdraw an application if we do not have space on the course.

Providing evidence of your qualifications

If you’ve been asked to supply copies of qualifications you’ve already got, these can be uploaded to your application through our applicant portal. Once we have reviewed your documents we will update your application, or if necessary, we will request further documentation.

If you are unsure of what we are requesting, or have difficulties uploading you documents, please contact the admissions team for support.

We will need a:

• Certificate for your qualifications
• Transcript
• Mark sheet or score report if possible
• Copy of your official documents (if these aren’t in English, we will also need an official English translation).

Learn more about additional entry requirements for international students.

Deadlines to provide evidence

February entry

If you receive a conditional offer to start a postgraduate taught course in February, by the following dates you should have taken the following action, unless otherwise agreed with us:

• 10 January 2025 - if you require a student visa
• 27 January 2025 - if you don't need a visa

Some requested documents may have deadlines that are stricter. Please check the “upload supporting evidence” task on the applicant portal for more details. We encourage applying for accommodation as soon as you are enrolled and have received your student number. 

September entry

If you receive a conditional offer to start a postgraduate taught course in September, you should provide evidence that you have met all of the conditions outlined in your offer before:

• 23 July 2025 - if you require a student visa
• 1 August 2025 - if you don't need a visa and you have applied for university accommodation (to meet our accommodation deadline)
• 8 September 2025 - if you do not require a student visa or university accommodation.

Unless otherwise agreed with us.

Some requested documents may have deadlines that are stricter. Please check the “upload supporting evidence” task on the applicant portal for more details.

Once all conditions are met

Once all conditions have been met, your status will be updated and you'll be able to view your unconditional offer letter on the applicant portal. Your offer must be unconditional in order for you to register on your course.

If you're from outside the UK and need a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) for your visa application, your offer must be unconditional before we can issue your CAS.

Next steps...

• Find out how to pay your postgraduate tuition fees
• Apply for your student accommodation
• Discover our financial support for postgraduate students.