If your course requires an ATAS (Academic Technology Approval Scheme) certificate, please upload a copy of it (all pages).

Your CAS statement will confirm whether you need an ATAS, or not.

If you are not a student visa holder and do not have a CAS, your offer letter should outline if your course requires an ATAS certificate.

ATAS is a certificate issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) which gives you security clearance to study certain subject sensitive subject areas in the UK.

The subjects are those where students’ knowledge could be used in programmes to develop Advanced Conventional Military Technology, weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery, for example, certain science subjects such as mathematics, engineering, technology or medicine at a postgraduate level (including most integrated master’s courses such as MEng, MPhys, MSci and PhD).

More information regarding ATAS can be found here:

• https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/iss/AdditionalSupport/ATAS/
• https://www.gov.uk/guidance/academic-technology-approval-scheme#important-notice-for-atas-applicants