Applications for September 2025 entry

The Faculty of Education will accept applications for September 2025 entry from 8 October 2024.

We have a limited number of places on each course, so we recommend that applications are made as early as possible in the cycle to prevent you missing out. Once this limit has been reached, we will no longer be able to consider further applications. For further information please see our current course vacancies.

Application process

1. Search for our courses on the .gov website: University of Cambridge (C05)
2. Apply for your PGCE course on the .gov website
3. Once accepted on to your course apply for college membership.

Enquiries about PGCE courses should be addressed to the PGCE Office.

Search our PGCE courses

Search for our courses: University of Cambridge (C05)

Apply for your PGCE course

Applications for all PGCE courses are made online through the DfE apply service: Apply for your PGCE course 

References

• You will need to provide two references.
• If you have been in higher education within the last five years, one referee must be an academic one.
• If you have worked in a school or college setting, one of your references must be from the headteacher of that school or college.
• If you receive an offer, you may be asked to invite additional referees to meet our referencing requirements.

Selection for interview

Candidates are selected for interview based on the information provided on their application form only. If you are already a qualified teacher in a different country, your application will not be progressed to interview; please click here for further information about how to become a teacher in England.

Cambridge College Membership

Cambridge is a collegiate university, which means College membership is a requirement for all PGCE students. 

Arrangements for college membership are made by the PGCE office only after an applicant has been formally offered, and has accepted, a place on the PGCE course.

Candidates may choose two colleges to whom their application for membership will be sent in order of preference.  If neither are able to offer membership, a college will be assigned by the PGCE office.

Further information on college membership.

Data Protection

The University and the Colleges will use the details you provide on your DfE application, together with additional information provided by any referee, provided by you on your safer recruitment declaration prior to interview, and recorded following any interview process. If you receive an offer, we will also request suitability checks for safeguarding and safer recruitment purposes, and may request additional evidence to fulfil any offer conditions. More information is included in the University's data protection statement for students.

Admissions Complaints and Appeals

Please note, there is no appeal against academic judgements made by the University. However, if you believe that there has been a procedural error, there was bias in the decision-making process, or if there were circumstances unknown to the University, which, for good reason you did not inform the University of in your application, and which would have had a material impact on the admission decision, you should write in the first instance to the Head of the PGCE and Undergraduate Office. Guidance for applicants is here.