For China domestic PGT applicants, please go to this PGT how to apply page for details.

For international applicants and Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan applicants:

Your application should also include:

• One recommendation letter on headed paper, signed and/or stamped
• Academic transcripts and degree certificates (results so far, or completed)
• English language test score report if already received (IELTS/PTE Academic)
• Personal statement
• One photocopy of the main pages from your passport

• One 2*2 inch color bareheaded photo with white background (Note: the head occupies two thirds of the size of the photo; no less than 320 × 240 pixels, the aspect ratio is 4: 3; the size is 100-500kb; jpg format)

*Please note you should not submit any supporting materials (including essays) that you would like to be returned to you. It is the University's policy not to return application materials.

For Hong Kong students, please provide a copy of Hong Kong Permanent Identity Card.

For Macau students, please provide a copy of Macau Permanent Identity Card. 

For Taiwan students, please provide a copy of both sides of Mainland travel permit for Taiwan residents.

For any further enquiries please contact:  global@nottingham.edu.cn

We advise you to pay the application fee either:

A.    via UNNC Finance online payment system: 
(Google chrome is recommended; applied for all international VISA、Master、JCB、AE card)

If you are currently in mainland China and would like to pay the application fee in CNY, please click here.

(The payment will be CNY 200/person. We accept local online banking, Alipay and Wechat.)

OR

B.    via bank transfer/telegraphic transfer (TT).
Here is the University bank account for students to pay fees. Please arrange payments into the account below:

Please note that the application fee is non-refundable and the transaction fee is beared by students.

Please remark applicant's name on the receipt, scan it and upload on the application system once you have made the payment.

Once we’ve received your completed application, and all supporting documentation, it takes approximately 4 to 6 weeks to process complete applications. 

• If you are successful in gaining a place at the University, you will receive an email, in addition to an offer. Please read the materials in the package carefully – it will outline your next steps and any conditions on our offer of admission. 
• If you are not admitted into your first choice of degree, we will automatically consider you for the second choice you applied for.

Deferral requests made after the registration start date of the year will no longer be considered. Applicants must make their request to defer before the registration start date during the admissions cycle. Students can apply for a deferral by contacting Admissions Office with details of offer holders requesting deferrals. Deferral requests can only be made once and will be approved at the discretion of the academic school or department. The maximum period allowed for deferral is one academic year. Please note that the academic qualifications must be valid at applicants’ revised start date. For offer holders whose first language isn’t English, the English Language qualifications/tests must also be valid at the revised start date.

Applicants whose request to defer is approved, will be asked to confirm that they still intend to take up their place and for an update on certain personal details, closer to the start of their course, (for a September entry course, we will contact all applicants before the end of March). 

In order for an offer to be deferred the student must pay the tuition fee deposit. Note: this deposit is now RMB10,000.

For further information on this please contact the Student Recruitment and Admission office.

*According to changes in the finance policy, UNNC will no longer open the choice to defer, except to international and HMT applicants who cannot start on-site study due to Covid-19 or other force majeure. For applicants who have received an unconditional offer in the 2022 admission circle, UNNC will waive application fee for those applicants for 2023 Entry. 

Refunds of tuition deposits are issued only in the following instances and the cost of remittance is to be borne by the offer holder:

• Unable to secure a student visa to study at UNNC
• Failure to meet conditions of an offer (Nottingham scholarship winner only)
• Cases of extraordinary mitigating circumstances (documentary evidence must be required)

For more detailed information about the deposit, please refer to the  Deposit FAQs.