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About De Montfort Your route to De Montfort From Kings to De Montfort

Kings has a formal progression agreement from the Advanced Level Foundation to Bath

De Montfort University recognises and welcomes applications from students on Kings university degree preparation programmes.

Students are counselled and Offers made based on the formal tariff agreement between Kings and the university.

On successful completion of their studies at Kings, students can progress to De Montfort to continue their degree studies.

About De Montfort

DMU has been in existence for more than 150 years, beginning in 1870 as the Leicester School of Art. It was founded to provide education and training for workers from the city’s booming industries, and was renamed in 1992 after Simon de Montfort, the 6th Earl of Leicester who founded the first representative English parliament in 1265. Unusually for a campus university, De Montfort is located in the city centre and uses both medieval and 21st-century buildings.

Key Facts

Rankings

  • #113  in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025
  • #118 in the Guardian Good University Guide 2025
  • #105 in the Complete University Guide 2025

Latest enrolment

  • 26,000

Year founded

  • 1870

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  • DMU holds the top rating – gold – in the government’s Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Assessors commended “optimum” levels of contact time between students and staff and “outstanding” support for learning.
  • One of DMU’s recent developments is the flagship Vijay Patel Building, which brings together art and design courses and includes the Gallery, the city’s largest display space. Another recent improvement is the Yard — a £5.5 million four-storey extension for the Faculty of Business and Law.
  • A £6.5 million Digital Tech Learning Hub is currently in progress, combining creative teaching and learning facilities for cyber and computer science.
Location

Your route to De Montfort

Depending on the degree subject you want to pursue at De Montfort University, you will choose from:

Key facts

When

  • January 2025
  • September 2025

Where

  • Bournemouth
  • Brighton
  • London
  • Oxford

Duration

  • 1 academic year (3 terms)

Lessons

  • Average 21 hours per week plus homework and private study

Entry requirements

  • Academic: Good grades at high school or equivalent institution
  • Language: Minimum IELTS 5.5 (5.0 in Reading and Writing) or equivalent
  • Minimum age: 16.5

From Kings to De Montfort

Every year our students get accepted on a wide range of degrees at De Montfort University.

Below are examples of past progression.

Please note that for some nationality / degree combinations, we have had many students but we only mention once.

The subject ranking is from The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.

Student country Kings course Degree Subject ranking
Angola Degree pathway Business Information Systems 100
Student country Kings course Degree Subject ranking
Malaysia Degree pathway Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science 38 (Pharmacy and Pharmacology)
Student country Kings course Degree Subject ranking
China A-level Architecture 40
Kings alumni at De Montfort University

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The Kings Admissions Team