With unrivalled student reach, choose how you want to engage and recruit.
Access a large audience
We have unrivalled reach to the UK's student audience – all interested in the routes and products they'll need for the next stage in life. They know the information we share with them is trustworthy and they're ready to engage with your brand. Here's how you can reach and recruit them.
85% of students cited UCAS as their go-to source
Over 10,300,000 average monthly page views
Up to 80% open rates (from journey emails in 2021)
ucas.com 1 Dec 2020 – 30 Nov 2021
Get in front of students early
Be visible when students start their research – so you're front of mind when it comes to decision making.
Thousands of students, parents, and teachers come to UCAS events to meet universities, colleges, employers, and commercial brands. Showcase your brand in trusted and lively spaces.
Accommodation Search
A home away from home is a top priority for students. Promote your accommodation offer and help your brand stand out.
Employer Profile
Promote the best bits about working for your organisation to attract the highest calibre of specialist talent to your roles.
Advertise your latest offers and discounts to students searching for new products and services to enrich their student experience.
Career Finder
Advertise your hottest roles to hundreds of thousands of students and graduates on our Career Finder. They’re all actively searching for their perfect fit.
Bespoke campaigns using first-party data
Get the right students on the right channels – targeted advertising through our unrivalled data.
Get the right students on the right channels. We're one of the biggest education sites in the UK, and we're ahead of Google when it comes to students seeking information.
SMS
Reach a vast student audience who are rarely without their devices. SMS is a quick way to reach students with content that can help them with their next steps.
Meet student needs with a single message. Data-driven targeted communications will help you meet your campaign goals with content students want to see – with options including demographic, location, and academic subject targeting.
Direct mail
Stand out from digital-only competitors through DMs, which are sent in UCAS branded envelopes to help students find the products or services they're looking for.
Display advertising
Get relevant messages across different stages of students’ university journey – with keyword targeting, visibility on key content pages or in a student's application.
Align with UCAS' trusted brand
Showcase your brand as part of UCAS' trusted content – appear alongside our information and advice to build affinity and trust.
Reach students and influencers with our communications. Aligned to application status, they land exactly when they're most likely to be looking for your content.
University/college-specific opportunities
We've specific offerings for universities and colleges, to help them cut through and reach their target students.
Let your best advocates promote your university or college. We’ve got 4,000 active ambassadors having 80,000 conversations about campus life.
Showcase your undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and scholarships on UCAS International's mobile-first, multilingual platform. Use targeted campaign messages to attract potential applicants from key international markets. Our platform is purposefully designed to engage and inform international students, helping them discover the opportunities you offer.
See what you need to do to regain applicant share, grow more in successful areas, and untap new geographies that are home to applicants who'll enjoy your courses.
Promote your open days and events for free on ucas.com and reach our huge audience of students, parents and advisers.
