Bodies awarding UK medical degrees

We decide which organisations can award UK primary medical qualifications. In most cases, a medical school is part of a single university which gives degrees to medical graduates. In some cases, universities come together to run a single medical school. These combinations of universities form a single body for the purposes of holding examinations for and awarding primary medical qualifications.

Who can award UK medical degrees?

• The University of Aberdeen
• The University of Birmingham
• The University of Bristol
• The University of Buckingham
• The University of Cambridge
• Cardiff University
• The University of Dundee
• The University of East Anglia
• The University of Edinburgh
• University of Exeter Medical School
• The University of Glasgow
• The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Keele University
• King’s College London
• Lancaster University
• 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
• Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry
• Queen Mary University of London
• The Queen’s University of Belfast
• St George's Hospital Medical School
• Swansea University
• The University of Central Lancashire
• The University of Sheffield
• The University of Southampton
• University College London
• The University of Warwick
• A combination of the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex
• A combination of the University of Hull and the University of York

Recent changes to the list

• We added Lancaster University to our list in April 2017.
• We removed a combination of the University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth in March 2018. This is because it stopped issuing primary medical qualifications, but the degrees it awarded up until then are still valid.
• We added Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry in March 2018.
• We added University of Exeter Medical School to our list in March 2018.
• We added University of Buckingham to our list in May 2019.
• We added University of Central Lancashire to our list in March 2020.