Offer Holder Events

What are Offer Holder Events?

If we make you an offer for an undergraduate course at UWE Bristol, we’ll invite you to join us at an Offer Holder Event. We run this in spring each year for most of our courses. We’ll invite you to join us at an event on campus, and if you can’t attend in person, you’re welcome to join us at a virtual event instead.

Why attend an Offer Holder event

Learn more about your course

We'll invite you to attend course related activities lasting up to 2.5 hours. These activities include sessions such as:

• welcome talks
• one-hour course tasters
• taster lectures
• tours of the facilities.

Course taster sessions are different to Open Day course talks, so if you’ve attended one of those already and you’re wondering whether you should attend a course taster, we encourage you to go along — it’s a great chance to learn about your course in more depth.

These sessions are an excellent way to experience what it’s really like to study your course. You’ll get a feel for university teaching and you can meet your course tutors and current students, so you can ask them all your course questions.

Meet staff from our support services

You’ll also have the opportunity to meet staff from our student support services and ask them your questions.

• Admissions
• Student Money Advice
• Accommodation
• Disability Services and more.

Getting the most from the event

There are many different sessions running at the Offer Holder Event, so it’s worth familiarising yourself with all that’s going on before the day to get the most from your experience. The event is open until 15:00, so you’ll have plenty of time to fit all your activities in.

• Make time for both course-related and support service sessions
  Course-related sessions will take place in the morning or afternoon, so allow some time to go along to the support service sessions that run all day.
• Take a campus and accommodation tour
  If you’re coming on to campus, make sure you take advantage of a tour with our Student Ambassadors to get a real feel for student life here.
• Visit the Centre for Sport, Centre for Music and the Students’ Union
  Why not pop along there and find out about what’s on offer? Some of our current students will be giving talks in the Students’ Union — the ideal way to find out about uni life from students already here.

Parents and supporters’ sessions

While you’re in taster sessions, we run parent and supporters’ sessions — a chance for them to ask any questions. The taster sessions are for the Offer Holders only, so we encourage parents and supporters to come along to one of these sessions, which are tailored to their needs and explain how to support your transition to university.

The sessions will focus on:

• the opportunities and challenges of university life
• how to prepare you for higher education.

There are a range of sessions during the day in the schools and from support services. You can book these sessions for parents and supporters when you register. 

Travel and parking

Find out more information on how to travel to our Offer Holder Events.

We make Open Events accessible for all

At UWE Bristol we’re committed to being inclusive and accessible. Find out how we make sure everyone can access our Open Events.

Can I attend a virtual event instead?

We encourage you to come along to an Offer Holder Event on campus if you can, as it’s the best way to get a feel for the place and see what it’s like to be a student here.

If you can’t make it along though, we offer a virtual event for most courses and can meet you virtually instead.

What's next?

If you’ve received an offer from us, look out for an invite in your inbox and sign up for one of our Offer Holder Events.

If you have questions, please email us at open@uwe.ac.uk and we’ll be happy to help you.