Before we can confirm your admission, you need to meet the conditions of your offer.
Your offer and its conditions
You will be notified of your offer and its conditions by email. You can also view these in your Self-Service account.
Examples of offer conditions include:
- Academic conditions - for example, providing transcripts that show you meet a specified grade in a current or previous course
- English language requirements
- Visa requirements
- Financial conditions, to show you can cover your fees and maintenance costs
- Completing the
part-time attendance declaration, if you’re studying part-time
For more details, check the Offer Conditions Guide 2025-26.
How to meet the conditions of your offer
To meet your offer conditions, you need to upload supporting documents for each condition. You can do this in the relevant category of your Self-Service account.
- Do not email or post documents to us
- Do not contact us to confirm that they have been uploaded
We are unable to acknowledge receipt of documents. We will update your Self-Service when we have assessed each document.
We aim to assess documents within 5 working days. This can take longer at busy times and if documents need further consideration.
If your document successfully meets the condition, it will be marked as complete.
If any documents do not sufficiently meet a condition, we will tell you what else you need to do.
You will not be notified if anything changes in your Self-Service account. Check your Self-Service account regularly for updates and messages.
Academic conditions
If you do not meet your academic entry requirement, it will be up to the department or faculty to decide whether they still want to admit you.
If you do not meet the University’s minimum academic requirement (a 2:1 from a UK university or equivalent from an overseas university), the department will need to seek dispensation to admit you.
If you're currently studying at Cambridge
If you're already studying for a postgraduate degree at Cambridge, you do not need to provide the Postgraduate Admissions Office with evidence of your results. Your results will be communicated to us through an internal process. This will confirm whether you have met the academic conditions of your offer.
We are usually told your results after the deadline for meeting your offer conditions. This will not affect your offer.
When to upload your documents
You should start to upload your documents to your Self-Service account as soon as you receive your conditional offer.
If you are an international student and you need a visa, you should try to meet your offer conditions as early as possible. This will allow you to make your student visa application in time.
Many Colleges will not offer accommodation until all conditions are met. If you do not meet your offer conditions in time, you may miss out on College accommodation.
It is your responsibility to meet all conditions before the deadline or your offer will be withdrawn.
Deadlines for meeting your offer conditions
Check your offer certificate for the deadline for meeting your conditions. You can also use the table on this page.
If you have submitted documents by the deadline but we have not processed them, your offer will not be withdrawn. There is no need to contact us in this situation.
| Starting date | Deadline |
|---|---|
| 1 October (Michaelmas term) | 31 July |
| 5 January (Lent term) | 30 November |
| 10 or 17 April (Easter term) | 10 March |
Requesting an extension or deferring entry
If you are unable to meet your academic condition by these deadlines, you may apply for an extension if you have met all other outstanding conditions.
Request an extension via our contact form.
If your offer is for a research degree and you need more time, you should consider applying to defer entry.
Accepting your offer
Your offer certificate will show the deadline for accepting your offer. If you do not accept your offer by the deadline, we will withdraw your offer.
We encourage you to accept your offer as soon as you are ready. But, you should only accept if it is your firm intention to take up your place at Cambridge.
You can accept your offer via your Self-Service account. You can do this if you are still waiting for a funding decision and before meeting your other conditions.
You need to accept before we can issue a confirmation of admission certificate.
If you have any relevant, unspent criminal convictions, you must declare these when you accept.
Terms of Admission
By accepting your offer, you agree to the University’s postgraduate Terms of Admission, which set out your contractual relationship with the University and your College.
The terms cover things like:
- Fee obligations
- Course changes
- Intellectual property rights in your work
- Student discipline
Be sure to read the Terms of Admission for your specific year of entry carefully before you accept your offer:
If you need to cancel your acceptance
If you need to cancel your acceptance (for example, because you did not secure funding), you can withdraw your application before your course begins.
If you withdraw your application before registration you will not be liable for course fees. For the Master’s degree in Corporate Law there is a non-refundable reservation fee.
