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# ucas.com

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## Website

ucas.com

Choose your future | UCAS Find and apply for universities, explore apprenticeships and career options. Get trusted advice, compare your choices, and take the next step towards your future.

youtube.com

[What I Wish I Knew Before Starting Uni 🎓](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kVBxQDHGR4o)

What I Wish I Knew Before Starting Uni 🎓 The latest video on its YouTube channel

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:20 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 86 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

86 / 100

High truth signals

Top 10% of businesses we’ve checked

## Business details

Registered with: Charity Commission, charity 1024741 Matched on the Charity Commission register

Memberships: ABTA [Its about page](https://www.ucas.com/discover/are-you-thinking-about-a-gap-year) Claimed by the business, not checked.

Sells: Digital services

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 29 years

Address: [UCAS Rosehill New Barn Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3LZ](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=UCAS%20Rosehill%20New%20Barn%20Lane%20Cheltenham%20Gloucestershire%20GL52%203LZ)

Email address: Not found

Phone number: [+44 371 468 0468](tel:+44%20371%20468%200468)

Contact page: [ucas.com/contact-us](https://ucas.com/contact-us)

Website: [ucas.com](https://ucas.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ucasonline) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/ucas_online) [X.com](https://twitter.com/ucas_online) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ucas) [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@ucas_online?lang=en) [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/UCASonline)

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

No reviews we could read We looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/ucas.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is ucas.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 86 out of 100, high truth signals: 9 public checks clear, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

We read 5 of its pages: contact, about, returns, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has a review page on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find a customer rating or an email address.

### Positives

- We read 5 of its pages · contact, about, returns, terms and privacy.
- Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
- It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/ucas.com).
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Not found

- Reviews information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### What they offer

Find and apply for universities, explore apprenticeships and career options. Get trusted advice, compare your choices, and take the next step towards your future.

— UCAS, in their own words

Sources [Its homepage](https://www.ucas.com/)

### Latest YouTube video

[What I Wish I Knew Before Starting Uni 🎓](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kVBxQDHGR4o)

Correct as of 12 Nov 2026, 21:20

### How to check if ucas.com is legit

To check if ucas.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about ucas.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details Found: type (wikipedia), employees, revenue

Country

Where the company is based: UK

Why we believe that: the site's structured data states its country, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode

Registration

VAT number: Not found

From Wikipedia

Type (Wikipedia): charitable organization

Employees: 492

Revenue: 35023142 pound sterling

Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCAS)

Official registers Registered with the Charity Commission as charity 1024741 since 13 August 1993. Matched on its website and its name.

Charity number: 1024741

Registered since: 13 August 1993

Latest income: £58,723,000

What it does: UCAS is an independent charity, and remains committed to its vision of being at the heart of connecting people to higher education. We do this by providing information, advice, and admissions services to inspire and facilitate progression in education.

Domain registration Its website address was registered 29 years ago

- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 29 years

Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=ucas.com)

Website details We read 5 of its pages: contact, about, returns, terms and privacy

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: [+44 371 468 0468](tel:+443714680468)

Contact page found: Yes

Hosting company: Cloudflare, Inc.

What its pages say

Ways to contact them: [+44 371 468 0468](tel:+443714680468)

In their own words: “Gap years can be used to enhance your CV, travel, learn new skills, and much more. Find out more and get some inspiration here. A gap year offers you the opportunity to gain skills and experiences, while giving you time to reflect and focus on what you want to do next.”

Sources [Homepage](https://ucas.com/) [Contact page](https://ucas.com/contact-us) [About page](https://ucas.com/about-us) [Are you thinking about a gap year](https://ucas.com/discover/are-you-thinking-about-a-gap-year) [Returns page](https://ucas.com/providers/our-products-and-services/managing-applications/hesa-return) [Terms page](https://ucas.com/ucas-terms-explained) [Privacy page](https://ucas.com/about-us/policies/privacy-policies-and-declarations)

Search engines and AI Lets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by default Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by default GPTBot

Anthropic: Allowed by default ClaudeBot

Google AI: Allowed by default Google-Extended

Apple AI: Allowed by default Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Allowed by default CCBot

Meta: Allowed by default meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by default Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed by default PerplexityBot

Sources [robots.txt](https://ucas.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/ucas.com)

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/ucas.com) · Unknown · Unknown

App Store Its app, SmartLead UCAS, is on Apple's App Store.

App: SmartLead UCAS

App Store page: [https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/smartlead-ucas/id1346058726](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/smartlead-ucas/id1346058726)

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 50,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 50,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: none

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 50,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up ucas.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 United States 35.0%
- 2 Singapore 20.2%
- 3 United Kingdom 18.6%
- 4 Germany 8.2%
- 5 Hong Kong 3.2%
- 6 Canada 2.1%
- 7 Brazil 1.7%
- 8 Netherlands 1.3%
- 9 India 1.0%
- 10 France 1.0%

Top 10 of 37 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/ucas.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago

Website archive history: 27 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19981212/ucas.com)

Social presence It is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 344,824 followers on Facebook

Found · Platform · Audience

Found by Truth Signal · [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ucasonline) · 344,824 followers

Found by Truth Signal · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/ucas_online) · 91,000 followers

Found by Truth Signal · [X.com](https://twitter.com/ucas_online) · 142,700 followers

Found by Truth Signal · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ucas) · Unknown

Found by Truth Signal · [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/UCASonline) · 18,900 subscribers

Found by Truth Signal · [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@ucas_online?lang=en) · 37,800 followers

· · 635,224 followers total

YouTube channel: 309 videos, 18,900 subscribers, last upload 24 Aug 2026

YouTube Data 8,073 views a video, 393 views a day and a new video every 20.6 days

[UCAS](https://www.youtube.com/@ucasonlineofficial) @ucasonlineofficial

Views per video 2,494,435 views ÷ 309 videos: 8,073

Views a day 2,494,435 views ÷ 6,352 days: 393

Views per subscriber 2,494,435 views ÷ 18,900 subscribers: 132

New subscribers a day 18,900 subscribers ÷ 6,352 days: 3

Subscribers per 1,000 views 18,900 subscribers ÷ 2,494,435 views × 1,000: 7.6

Subscribers per video 18,900 subscribers ÷ 309 videos: 61

Days between videos 6,352 days ÷ 309 videos: 20.6

Channel age 22 June 2009 to 12 November 2026: 17 years 4 months

Subscribers: 18,900

Views: 2,494,435

Videos: 309

Started: 22 June 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Language: Not stated

Topics: Knowledge, Lifestyle, Society

Made for children: Not stated

Website in its description: Not stated

Trailer: Yes

Sources [Its YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@ucasonlineofficial) [YouTube Terms of Service](https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) Read 12 November 2026

### What data this site collects about you

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Tag Manager

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

Uses Cookiebot to ask which cookies you allow.

Source [Its homepage](https://ucas.com/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DKIM key: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: reject

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt

Certificate type: DV

Certificate expires: 8 Feb 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ajay.ns.cloudflare.com
faye.ns.cloudflare.com

Address: 104.18.28.88
104.18.29.88

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=ucas.com&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source ucas.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source ucas.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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- Social Followers
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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 86, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/ucas.com/report/2026-11.md

## Cite

Truth Signal, UCAS: truth score 86 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/ucas.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/ucas.com.json
