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Bodies awarding UK medical degrees

The GMC decides which bodies or combinations of bodies are entitled to award UK primary medical qualifications (PMQs).

In most cases, a medical school is associated with one university which issues the degrees to graduates. But a few medical schools operate under combinations of universities and legally it is the combination that can hold examinations for the purpose of awarding PMQs.

Currently these bodies and combinations of bodies are:

  • The University of Aberdeen
  • The University of Birmingham
  • The University of Bristol
  • The University of Cambridge
  • Cardiff University
  • The University of Dundee
  • The University of East Anglia
  • The University of Edinburgh
  • The University of Glasgow
  • The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
  • King's College London
  • The University of Leeds
  • The University of Leicester
  • The University of Liverpool
  • The University of London
  • The University of Manchester
  • The University of Newcastle
  • The University of Nottingham
  • The University of Oxford
  • The Queen's University of Belfast
  • The University of Sheffield
  • The University of Southampton
  • University College London
  • The University of Wales
  • The University of Warwick
  • A combination of the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex
  • A combination of the University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth
  • A combination of the University of Hull and the University of York
  • A combination of the University of Leicester and the University of Warwick.

You can look at the GMC's quality assurance reports about individual UK medical schools.

For more information about UK medical schools, look at the website of the Medical Schools Council.