Archive of Previous Regulations

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Previous academic and examination regulations

Regulations (A) 2021-22

These regulations apply to the following cohorts:

  • All first year undergraduate students that commenced in September 2021
  • All second year undergraduate students that commenced in September 2020
  • All third year undergraduate students that commenced in September 2019

These regulations also apply to postgraduate taught students that registered from September 2019 on the following programmes:

Faculty of Medicine 

  • MRes Biomedical Research
  • MRes Cancer Biology
  • MRes Clinical Research
  • MRes Experimental Neuroscience
  • MRes Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention
  • MSc Allergy
  • MSc Applied Genomics
  • MSc Cardiovascular and Respiratory Healthcare
  • MSc Genes, Drugs and Stem Cells – Novel Therapies
  • MSc Human Molecular Genetics
  • MSc Immunology
  • MSc Medical Ultrasound
  • MSc Molecular Biology and Pathology of Viruses
  • MSc Molecular Medicine
  • MSc Reproductive and Developmental Biology
  • MSc Translational Neuroscience

Faculty of Natural Sciences

  • MSc Environmental Technology

These regulations also apply to postgraduate taught students that registered from September 2020 on the following programmes:

Faculty of Engineering

  • MSc Applied Machine Learning
  • MSc Engineering for Biomedicine

Faculty of Medicine

  • MSc Healthcare and Design

Imperial College Business School

  • MSc Finance
  • MSc Finance and Accounting
  • MSc Financial Technology
  • MSc International Management
  • MSc Investment and Wealth Management
  • MSc Management
  • MSc Risk Management and Financial Engineering
  • MSc Strategic Marketing

These regulations also apply to postgraduate taught students that registered from September 2021 on the following programmes:

Faculty of Engineering

  • MSc Advanced Aeronautical Engineering
  • MRes AI and Machine Learning
  • MSc Advanced Computational Methods for Aeronautics Flow Management Fluid Structure Interaction
  • MSc Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
  • MSc Composites: The Science, Technology and Engineering Application of Advanced Composites
  • MSc Environmental Data Science and Machine Learning
  • MSc Environmental Engineering
  • MSc Hydrology and Water Resources Management
  • MSc Soil Mechanics

Faculty of Medicine

  • MRes Clinical Research (Human Nutrition)
  • MSc Health Policy
  • MSc Patient Safety
  • MEd Surgical Education

Natural Sciences

  • MSc Applied Mathematics
  • MSc Digital Chemistry
  • MSc Global Statistics
  • MRes Machine Learning and Big Data in the Physical Sciences
  • MSc Machine Learning and Data Science
  • MSc Pure Mathematics
  • MSc Statistics

Imperial College Business School

  • MRes Business
  • MSc Business Analytics
  • MSc Economics and Strategy for Business
  • Global Online MBA

Imperial College London (Educational Development Unit)

  • PGCert/PGDip/Med University Learning and Teaching
  • MSc Science Communication
  • MSc Science Media Production

Regulations for Students
Regulations for Students [pdf]

Single Set of Taught Academic Regulations
Single Set of Taught Academic Regulations [pdf]

Regulations (B) 2021-22

These regulations apply to the following cohorts:

  • All undergraduate students entering Year 4 or above from September 2021
  • Postgraduate taught students in the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Imperial College Business School not listed under ‘Regulations A’

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

Regulations for Students [pdf]

GENERAL REGULATIONS

General Regulations [pdf]

Student Withdrawals and Appeals procedure [pdf] (General Regulations, Appendix 1)

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

Undergraduate

Academic Regulations - BSc/BEng/MSci/MEng [pdf]

Academic Regulations - MBBS/BSc Medicine [pdf] 

Postgraduate Taught

Academic Regulations - Postgraduate Taught [pdf] Including Postgraduate Diplomas and Postgraduate Certificates

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

Undergraduate

Examination Regulations - BSc/MSci/BEng/MEng [pdf]‌

Postgraduate Taught

Examination Regulations - Postgraduate Taught [pdf] Including Postgraduate Diplomas and Postgraduate Certificates

Regulations (Research) 2021-22

Regulations for Students

General Regulations

Academic Regulations

Examination Regulations

  • ‌Conduct of Oral Examinations for Research Degrees and Related Matters (under review)

 

Short Courses Regulations 2021-22

Regulations for Students [pdf]

General Regulations [pdf]

Regulations - Short Courses [pdf]

These regulations apply to the following cohorts:

  • All first year undergraduate students that commenced in September 2020
  • All second year undergraduate students that commenced in September 2019

These regulations also apply to postgraduate taught students that registered from September 2019 on the following programmes:

Faculty of Medicine

  • MRes Biomedical Research
  • MRes Cancer Biology
  • MRes Clinical Research
  • MRes Experimental Neuroscience
  • MRes Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention
  • MSc Allergy
  • MSc Applied Genomics
  • MSc Cardiovascular and Respiratory Healthcare
  • MSc Genes, Drugs and Stem Cells – Novel Therapies
  • MSc Human Molecular Genetics
  • MSc Immunology
  • MSc Medical Ultrasound
  • MSc Molecular Biology and Pathology of Viruses
  • MSc Molecular Medicine
  • MSc Reproductive and Developmental Biology
  • MSc Translational Neuroscience

Faculty of Natural Sciences

  • MSc Environmental Technology

These regulations also apply to postgraduate taught students that registered from September 2020 on the following programmes:

Faculty of Engineering

  • MSc Applied Machine Learning
  • MSc Engineering for Biomedicine

Faculty of Medicine

  • MSc Healthcare and Design 

Imperial College Business School

  • MSc Finance
  • MSc Finance and Accounting
  • MSc Financial Technology
  • MSc International Management
  • MSc Investment and Wealth Management
  • MSc Management
  • MSc Risk Management and Financial Engineering
  • MSc Strategic Marketing

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

These regulations apply to the following cohorts:

  • All undergraduate students entering Year 3 or above from September 2020
  • All Faculty of Engineering postgraduate taught students
  • All Imperial College Business School postgraduate taught students
  • All Faculty of Natural Sciences postgraduate taught students EXCEPT students commencing from September 2019 in the Centre for Environmental Policy
  • Faculty of Medicine postgraduate taught students registered from September 2019 onwards on the following programmes:
    • PGDip Digital Health Leadership
    • MSc Epidemiology
    • MSc Genomic Medicine (September 2020 entrants are subject to a different set of regulations)
    • MSc Health Data Analytics and Machine Learning
    • MSc Healthcare and Design
    • MPH Public Health
    • Global Master of Public Health
    • MEd Surgical Education
    • MSc Surgical Innovation
    • MRes Molecular and Cellular Basis of Infection (September 2020 entrants are subject to a different set of regulations)

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes
Short Courses

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes

These regulations are for current students on programmes which commenced prior to or in the academic year 2019-20.

These regulations apply to all first year undergraduate students that commenced in September 2019. It also applies to postgraduate taught students that commenced the following programmes in September 2019:

  • MSc Environmental Technology (CEP)
  • MSc Immunology
  • MSc Paediatrics and Child Health
  • MRes Experimental Neuroscience
  • MSc Molecular Medicine
  • MSc Translational Neuroscience
  • MRes Clinical Research
  • MSc Allergy
  • MSc Applied Genomics
  • MSc Human Molecular Genetics
  • MSc Molecular Biology and Pathology of Viruses
  • MRes Biomedical Research
  • MRes Cancer Biology
  • MSc Reproductive and Developmental Biology
  • MSc Health Policy
  • MSc Patient Safety
  • MRes Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention
  • MSc Genes, Drugs and Stem Cells – Novel Therapies
  • MSc Medical Ultrasound
  • MSc Cardiovascular and Respiratory Healthcare

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

These regulations apply to all undergraduate students entering Year 2 or above from September 2019. They also apply to continuing postgraduate taught students (who commenced before September 2019) and new postgraduate taught students from the following:

Imperial College Business School

CHERS/CLCC

Faculty of Engineering

Faulty of Natural Sciences (excluding Centre for Environmental Policy)

Faculty of Medicine (from the following programmes)

  • PGDip Digital Health Leadership
  • MSc Epidemiology
  • MSc Genomic Medicine
  • MSc Health Data Analytics and Machine Learning
  • MSc Healthcare and Design
  • MPH Public Health
  • Global Master of Public Health
  • MEd Surgical Education
  • MSc Surgical Innovation
  • MRes Molecular and Cellular Basis of Infection

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes
Short Courses

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes

These regulations are for current students on programmes which commenced prior to or in the academic year 2018-19.

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes
Short Courses

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes
Short Courses

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
  • BSc, MSci, BEng, MEng, MBBS degrees [pdf]
  • Representations concerning decisions of Boards of Examiners* (Examination Regulations, Appendix 1) 
  • ‌Academic Misconduct: Cheating offences policy and procedures* (Examination Regulations, Appendix 3) 
Master's Level Programmes
  • Master's level degrees [pdf] Including Postgraduate Diplomas and Postgraduate Certificates‌‌‌
  • Representations concerning decisions of Boards of Examiners*  (Examination Regulations, Appendix 1)
  • Academic Misconduct: Cheating offences policy and procedures* (Examination Regulations, Appendix 3) ‌
Research Programmes

*Document is pending approval

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes
Short Courses

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

Undergraduate
Master's Level Programmes
Research Programmes

*Document is pending approval

In December 2015 the Senate approved changes to the College's governance structure with effect from January 2016. As a result the current regulations may occasionally refer to committees which have now been disbanded. For advice and guidance please contact the Senate and Review team.

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REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

REGULATIONS FOR STUDENTS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

GENERAL REGULATIONS

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

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