Received an offer?

Accepting the offer

If you receive an offer of a place on the MCL and you wish to accept it, you must formally register your acceptance via your online self-service account and take some additional steps in order to meet the conditions of your offer. 

Reservation fee

If you have received an offer of an MCL place and you wish to accept it, you must pay a reservation fee of £3,000 within one month of the Postgraduate Admissions Office (PAO) notifying you of the offer. This amount will be applied against your course fee once you take up your place. Failure to pay the reservation fee on time will result in the revocation of the offer of a place on the MCL.

Meeting offer conditions

All offers of a place on the MCL course are conditional in the first instance, as they automatically come with college membership and finance conditions attached. In addition, applicants who are engaging in academic studies when they apply are likely to have academic conditions attached to their offer. While MCL applicants who have to pass a language test should do so before the application deadline, those who have not done so will have a language condition attached to their offer.

To take up your place on the MCL at the beginning of the academic year in October you must meet all the conditions of your offer by the date during the summer that PAO specifies. If you do not do so your offer will lapse. Once you have satisfied the conditions attached to your offer you must send the evidence to the PAO, who will record your conditions as met on your self-service account.

College membership

When the Postgraduate Admissions Office sets your MCL course offer your application file will be sent, sequentially, to the college choices you nominated on your application form. If your nominated colleges cannot offer a place, other colleges will be contacted. Once the process is complete the PAO and the relevant college will notify you of your college membership. Further information about the college membership allocation process is available on the PAO website.

Multiple offers

If in addition to the MCL you have applied for admission to the University of Cambridge LLM programme or another University of Cambridge course for the same year of entry and have received an offer of a place, you must choose between the offers. The election is irrevocable and permanent. Please note that no one who accepts an offer to join the MCL programme will be allowed to transfer to the LLM, or vice versa.

Obtaining a visa

If you need a visa to study at Cambridge, obtaining the relevant documentation is your responsibility. Please see the PAO's webpage on immigration for details on the procedure for obtaining a visa to study at Cambridge. Delays can easily occur with the granting of a visa so you should begin the process as early as possible.