Student Alternative 2021/22 - UCAS Personal Identifier
Student Alternative 2021/22Fields required from institutions in All fieldsUCAS Personal Identifier | return to field list |
| Type | field |
| Short name | UCASPERID |
| Description |
This field records the 10-character code issued by UCAS. |
| Applicable to | England |
| Coverage | All students who entered any of their current instances via a UCAS scheme and who have been issued a UCAS Personal Identifier |
| Notes |
The UCAS Personal Identifier together with the UCAS Application Scheme Code forms the UCAS Application Identifier. The UCAS Personal Identifier is sometimes presented using hyphens between characters 3 and 4 and between characters 6 and 7. These hyphens are not to be included in this field. This information will be available from UCAS via the *J transaction. This field is not required for students who did not enter a current Instance via UCAS. |
| Quality rules |
Quality rules to follow
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| Reason required | To facilitate validation between UCAS and HESA data. |
| Part of | |
| Field length | 10 |
| Minimum occurrences | 0 |
| Maximum occurrences | 1 |
| Schema components |
Element: UCASPERID
Data type: UCASPERIDType |
| Related fields | |
| Owner | UCAS |
| Version | 1.0 |
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