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Lancaster vs St George's

Lancaster and St George's are both UK medical schools, but the path to an offer at each is meaningfully different. Lancaster is based in Lancaster (England) while St George's sits in London (London), and the regional context shapes everything from fee status to NHS-deanery destination.

Their UCAT thresholds are remarkably close (within ~30 points), so the deciding factors are GCSE weighting, interview format and personal-statement use. St George's is the older institution (founded 1733); the other (founded 2020) has shaped its medical school around modern integrated-curriculum thinking.

Side-by-side comparison

Lancaster

Lancaster

Quick comparison

Location
Lancaster, UK
A-Level offer
AAA at A-level including any 2 of Biology, Chemistry and Psychology - OR AAB with grade B in a 4th subject or EPQ
TrueScore
1950
UCAT home cut-off
1920+ /2700 (2026 entry official cut-off, non-contextual)
Interview format
Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI)
Post-interview chance
Home student: 261/587 = 44%; International: 6/19 = 32%
Decision date
March onwards

St George's

London

Quick comparison

Location
London, UK
A-Level offer
A*AA or AAA at A-level (offer depends on cohort strength). Predicted AAA required including Chemistry and Biology / Human Biology.
TrueScore
1950
UCAT home cut-off
~1950+ /2700 (2025 entry cut-off ≈ 1950; 2024 entry was 2018)
Interview format
Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI)
Post-interview chance
Home Undergrad (2024): 247/677 = 36% (or 423/686 = 62% inc. deferred); Overseas Undergrad: 25/146 = 17% (or 58/152 = 38% inc. deferred)
Decision date
Rolling-basis after Interviews have finished
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Lancaster vs St George's - in detail

UCAT thresholds compared

Lancaster's published UCAT threshold for home applicants is around 1920, while St George's sits at approximately 1950.

Their UCAT bars are statistically indistinguishable (within 30 points), so the UCAT is unlikely to be your differentiator between them.

Contextual / widening-participation cut-offs differ — Lancaster: 1870+ /2700 (2026 entry contextual); St George's: not separately disclosed. Eligible applicants should weight this heavily when choosing.

A-Level and academic profile

Lancaster requires AAA including Chemistry and Biology.

St George's requires AAA including Chemistry and Biology.

Both demand the same A-Level grade band, so academic prediction is unlikely to differentiate your application between them — provided you meet the required subject combination at each.

Interview formats

Both Lancaster and St George's use MMI interviews, so the underlying prep approach is the same — practise ethics frameworks, NHS hot-topic answers and (for MMI) structured station responses against a timer.

Interview windows: Lancaster interviews in December - March; St George's in November - February.

Post-interview offer rate

Lancaster: Home student: 261/587 = 44%; International: 6/19 = 32%. St George's: Home Undergrad (2024): 247/677 = 36% (or 423/686 = 62% inc. deferred); Overseas Undergrad: 25/146 = 17% (or 58/152 = 38% inc. deferred).

Post-interview odds give you the clearest signal of how competitive each school is at the final stage — a school with a 60% post-interview success rate is structurally easier to convert than one at 25%, even if the interview thresholds look identical on paper.

What makes each distinctive

Lancaster: Newer medical school with a focus on regional healthcare in north-west England. Personal statement is not used in selection and interviewers do not have access to it. SJT band 4 is auto-rejected - bands 1-3 are equal.

St George's: Strong holistic-care and soft-skills emphasis. SJT used post-interview in offer making (B1 = 15 pts, B2 = 10, B3 = 5, B4 = nothing). St George's is also generous with deferred-entry offers, often made to borderline applicants in lieu of rejection.

Which is right for you?

Regionally, the choice often comes down to cost of living and NHS-deanery preferences — Lancaster feeds into the England foundation programme network; St George's into the London network.

Your firm/insurance choice should ultimately weight: where your UCAT and predicted grades sit relative to each school's threshold, which interview format you can prepare for most credibly, and where you'd actually want to live for five or six years.

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Where to go next

LancasterEntry requirements, interview format and key dates in fullSt George'sEntry requirements, interview format and key dates in full

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School data reviewed by the NextGen MedPrep editorial team — last reviewed 4 August 2026.