UKPASS UKPASS UKPASS (UK Postgraduate Application and Statistical Service) is the UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service), postgraduate application service. UKPASS is operated from UCAS offices in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. UKPASS was launched by UCAS in 2007. UKPASS offers a Course Search facility for all postgraduate courses in the UK, and an application service to the 21 institutions currently using UKPASS. Applications can be submitted online through the UKPASS website. Applicants can make up to ten applications, with core data pre-populated from one application to the next. Applicants track the progress of their applications and reply to offers online. The website gives
Master's degree in Europe takes three years (with the exception of the teaching courses, where a bachelor's degree lasts for four years). The master's degrees are either fully integrated five-year programmes (admission does not require undergraduate degree) leading up to a graduate degree, or two-year courses at graduate level which require an already completed undergraduate degree. Following the graduate level, education is given at the doctoral level, usually through a four-year research fellowship leading to a PhD. Before the implementation of this system, various titles were given in accordance with the field of study and the length of the course. For instance, a three-year