First of all, let’s unpick what UCAS does. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. It’s the centralised service that students use to apply to university. Basically, pretty much everyone who wants to study an undergraduate degree in the UK will have to apply through UCAS. They have a thorough and genial monopoly over the university application systems in the UK.Students use UCAS’s online services, namely its ‘Apply’ function, to put together and send off their university applications. It’s pretty much all done online, so you don’t have to flap around with bits of paper. Essentially, they are there to make sure your application to university runs smoothly.