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About Keele Your route to Keele From Kings to Keele

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

Keele 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 Keele University to continue their degree studies.

About Keele

Founded in 1949, Keele has Britain’s largest single-site campus, covering 600 acres of parkland in the heart of England, near Stoke. The university is within an hour’s drive of Manchester and Birmingham. It has a particular reputation for excellence in the medical and health studies, and the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences is one of the UK’s leading centres of applied research in primary care. The Guardian Good University Guide currently ranks Keele 8th in the UK for Medicine.

Key Facts

Rankings

  • #57 in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025
  • #72 in the Guardian Good University Guide 2025
  • #61 in the Complete University Guide 2025
  • #4 for Nursing, #14 for Radiography, #17 for Medicine, #20 for Pharmacy and Pharmacology (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025)

Latest undergraduate enrolment

  • 8,000

Latest postgraduate enrolment

  • 2,000

Year founded

  • 1949

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  • The University was awarded Gold for Teaching Excellence (Teaching Excellence Framework 2023).
  • The university is made up of three faculties: Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences and Natural Sciences.  
  • Keele was ranked number 1 in England for overall Student Satisfaction (NSS 2018 – broad-based universities).
  • The University has 95% graduate employability (HESA – Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education 2019/20). 
Location

Your route to Keele

Depending on the degree subject you want to pursue at Keele 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 Keele

Every year our students get accepted on a wide range of degrees at Keele 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.

Kings course Degree Subject ranking
Degree pathway Business Management and Marketing 58
Degree pathway Business Management and Media 58
Kings course Degree Subject ranking
Degree pathway Computer Science and Physics 93
Kings course Degree Subject ranking
Degree pathway Geology (Applied Geophysics) 27
Degree pathway Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry 38
Degree pathway Geoscience 27
Kings course Degree Subject ranking
Degree pathway Medicine 17
Kings course Degree Subject ranking
Degree pathway International Relations
Kings alumni at Keele University
"I want to go to medical school to complete my MBBS and then apply to be a medical officer in the British Royal Navy"
Aleene
Keele University

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The Kings Admissions Team