University Officers' Training Corps

The University Officers' Training Corps (UOTC), also known as the Officers' Training Corps (OTC), are British Army reserve units, under the command of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which recruit exclusively from universities and focus on training and developing leadership. Their role is to allow university students the opportunity to undertake modules of Reserve Officer training designed to fit around their degree and to develop the leadership abilities, skills and experience of their members, which could be useful in a future career in the British Army, or skills and training that can be utilised in a civilian career. While in the UOTC, Officer Cadets will undertake the Reserve Officer Training Modules (Alpha & Bravo).

University students serving with the UOTC are personnel of the Army Reserve, and are attested and paid when on duty. They are classed as Group B (Non Deployable), whilst in the UOTC. Students undergoing service with the UOTC hold the rank of Officer cadet. Students have no obligation to pursue further service in the armed forces when they leave university and can resign from the UOTC at any time. UOTCs are led by officers and non-commissioned officers from the Regular Army and wider Army Reserve.

Each UOTC unit is effectively an independent regiment (since 2011, six UOTCs are in joint units, Tayforth UOTC and Aberdeen UOTC form the Aberdeen and Tayforth Officers' Training Regiment, Leeds UOTC and Sheffield UOTC form the Yorkshire Officers' Training Regiment, and Liverpool UOTC and Manchester and Salford UOTC form the North West Officers' Training Regiment) with its own cap badge and other insignia, its own stable belt and its own customs and traditions.

UOTCs also organise non-military outdoor pursuits such as hill walking and mountaineering, as well as fielding teams in other sports which compete against other UOTCs and regiments. There are also opportunities for officer cadets to represent the Army in sports.