Applying and selection

The application form and selection process

Interview days are a crucial part of the selection process for nursing courses at Bucks. In your personal statement, you should show examples of your educational achievement, motivation to study nursing and the qualities you possess which you believe make you a good candidate. The application form will ask you to provide one referee, who can either be an academic referee or employer referee. Your referee should have known you for at least one year.

If you are selected to come to an interview day, you will take part in a small group or individual interview and complete a numeracy and a literacy test (successful completion of these tests is required as a condition of entry). We will make a decision on whether to offer you a place following your interview and you will then be informed via the usual UCAS channel or directly by us if you have applied for the part-time mode of study.

The offer process

UCAS will communicate the decision made by Bucks New University, and the University will then write to you detailing the offer being made. Unconditional offers are made in a minority of cases, usually when the applicant has already gained the appropriate qualifications for entry.

Documentation

At interview stage we will ask you to provide original personal and academic documents to support your application. Without these documents, Bucks New University will be unable to offer any student a place on a nursing course.