To apply for any undergraduate course at Imperial you need to use UCAS' (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) online application system.

Learn more about filling in your UCAS application on our How to apply pages.

All applicants, no matter where they're from, need to apply via UCAS, which is the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for the UK.

You make your application in UCAS' online system, Apply.

You don’t need to do it all at once – you can save your progress and sign back in anytime.

For more guidance on applying via UCAS, please see our How to apply pages.

There are two main undergraduate application deadlines. These depend on whether you're applying for medicine or also applying to Oxford or Cambridge.

For more details about when to apply for an undergraduate course, please visit our When to apply section.

2023 entry deadlines

• 18:00 on 15 October 2022 for medicine courses
• 18:00 on 25th January for all other Imperial courses

• Navigate to the Personal details section where you can update your email address.
• UCAS will email you at the new address with a verification code – enter this in Track to confirm it's the right email address. You cannot do this over the phone as it would negate the verification process.

You can choose up to five courses.

There’s no preference order and your chosen universities/colleges won’t see where else you’ve applied until after you reply to any offers you get.

If you're applying to medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, or veterinary science, you can only apply to a maximum of four courses in any one of these subjects.

You can only apply once in a cycle and if you've applied in previous cycles and want to apply again, you'll have to submit a new application.

We aim to give a decision by 31 March for the next academic year of entry.

With the exception of our MBBS Medicine programme, candidates who have retaken exams may still be considered for entry.

However, submitting grades based on resits may be noted by our Admissions tutors. Where there are extenuating circumstances, these should be outlined in the reference which is supplied as part of your application by a teacher, adviser or professional who knows you academically.

If you choose to take exams in place of qualifications awarded via alternative methods (non-exam based awards) due to exam cancellations during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, these will not be counted or considered as resits.

If you're happy with Imperial but you'd like to change the course you applied for, you'll need to get in touch with the relevant Admissions team.

In the message, please specify:

• which course you have already applied for
• the course you wish to considered for instead

We will consider all change requests, though we may not always be able to approve them, depending on the point that we receive your request.

If you have a specific query that is not covered in these pages, please contact the relevant Admissions team.

You may apply for a deferral of entry, under exceptional circumstances. 

Requests for deferral are considered at the discretion of our academic departments.

They are based on a change of circumstances that is outside your control, and could not have been foreseen, that will prevent you from taking up your offer on the course starting date.

Please contact the academic department you have applied to if you wish to request a deferral.

They will send you the criteria for considering your request.

You can find the contact details for your department in the 'contact us' section of the webpage for your chosen course.  

Taking time out before your degree course can give you a chance to further develop your skills, build your application and experience, increase your exam results or give you the opportunity to travel and work in a different country.

At Imperial, gap years that have been used well are generally viewed positively.

Please be sure to explain how you intend to use your gap year in your personal statement.

Our institution code is I50. 

Please see our Submitting your offer conditions page for information. 

If we want to offer you a place, but you have not yet taken your exams, then we would usually make you a 'conditional offer'.

This means we will guarantee you a place at Imperial subject to you satisfying the conditions of your offer, such as achieving certain scores in your final qualifications and gaining an ATAS certificate for certain courses.

You can submit your results after you have applied; this is usual practice in the UK and is the reason why you must specify which exams you are due to take on your UCAS application.

The entry requirements vary depending on the course you're applying for.

Please see the relevant course page for details. 

You can see the full list of qualifications accepted for undergraduate study at Imperial on our Country Index. 

The grades listed here are the minimum required for entry to the College and may be higher for your course of interest, due to the demanding and competitive nature of our programmes.

For more detail, please see the entry requirements on our course pages.

You'll also find contact details on these pages in case you have any further questions about the course or the entry requirements for the qualifications you're studying.

Foundation Years are specialised courses for overseas students whose home qualifications are not usually accepted for study at UK universities.

Imperial does not offer its own Foundation Year. However, the vast majority of Imperial departments accept students from the following two UK Foundation courses:

• UCL UPCSE: the University Preparatory Certificate for Science and Engineering
• Warwick IFP : an International Foundation Programme with an Engineering specialisation

If you are studying one of the above Foundation Years and wish to apply for undergraduate study at Imperial, please contact your department of interest to check that they accept Foundation Years and if so, what grades are required for entry.

You can find the contact details for each department in the 'contact us' section of each course page. 

In assessing your academic potential, we review all the material information available to us form your UCAS application.

However, our entry requirements are based on A-level or equivalent level qualifications.

The only GCSE grade that we may consider with respect to entry requirements is your English language grade if you are using the results of this qualification to show that you meet our required English language standard for entry, or a relevant modern foreign language for courses with a year abroad.

Your personal statement is a really important part of your application where you can convey why you want to study your chosen course and why you'd make a valuable addition to the Imperial community.

For advice and guidance on what to include, please see:

• our top tips on writing a personal statement, including a short video
• advice on the UCAS website about how to write a personal statement

If your application is with your school or college but hasn’t yet been sent to UCAS, they can return it to you so you can make changes.

Once it has been sent to UCAS, you cannot amend your personal statement. 

If you have applied to Imperial as one of your choices, the relevant Admissions team will be able to advise whether you can send an amended version directly. This may not be possible as your application may already have been processed.

The majority of our departments interview applicants who demonstrate potential on their UCAS form.

Where an interview is part of the selection process for the course, it will be referenced in the entry requirements section on our course pages. 

You'll also find more detail about the interview under the header 'Selection process' in the entry requirements section.

The format of the interview, and who will conduct it, varies depending on the department you've applied to.

Your interview may form part of a recruitment day, which could also involve other activities to test your potential such as a group task, discussion or a written test. 

If you are shortlisted, we will send you more detail before the day so you know what to expect.

If you are invited to an interview, there are a number of things you can do to help prepare:

• Re-read and familiarise yourself with your personal statement. You may be asked follow-up questions based on things you wrote about in your statement.
• Research if your school offers mock interviews and attend one if available. 
• Practise interview techniques with your parents or guardians, working on things like body language, eye contact and answering questions in a clear and concise way.
• Think of questions you may want to ask at the interview – the interview is as much your chance to see whether the course is right for you as it is for the department to see if you’re a good fit.

UCAS charges an application fee of £20 for a single choice, or £26 if you are applying for more than one course. 

If you're applying via your school or college, they will let you know whether and when you should pay them, so that they can pay UCAS on your behalf.

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No, you do not need to pay a deposit for undergraduate study.

If you don’t achieve the grades in your Imperial offer, we will carefully reconsider your application during the confirmation period.

Your department will then take a decision about whether to confirm your place based on the grades you have achieved and the spaces available at that time.

If your place with Imperial is not confirmed, you may end up being placed with your insurance choice institution (if you have one and if they accept your grades).

If you are unsuccessful at securing a place with either your firm choice or insurance choice university, you still have options:

• Either reapply for 2022 entry in the new UCAS cycle (you may choose to resit or retake exams at the next available opportunity) or
• Enter into UCAS Clearing to try to secure a place for 2021 entry

Imperial does not typically enter into Clearing, which is a UCAS process that lets you apply for a course which still has places for 2021 entry.

This year, Clearing is open from 5 July – 19 October 2021.

You should check universities’ websites and UCAS for details of which courses have Clearing places.

You are welcome to submit an application before taking an English language test.

If you do so, and we choose to make you an offer, demonstrating that you meet the relevant English language standard will form part of your offer conditions.

You will need to send us the results of an accepted English language test by the deadline specified in your offer.

We encourage you to make preparations to take an English language test as soon as you can to make sure you meet the relevant standard (either standard or higher – see our course pages for details).

We accept many different English language proficiency tests and qualifications.

For a full list, visit our English language requirements page.

As a sponsor of Student Route visas (formerly Tier 4), we can make our own assessment of applicants’ English language ability.

To do so, we require you to provide official evidence of the accepted English language test you have taken.

Once this English language requirement is satisfied, your Confirmation for Acceptance of Studies (CAS) – required as part of a Student Route visa application – will include a statement which confirms the College has made its own assessment of your English language proficiency. This means you will not need to provide this evidence on your visa application.

The only exception to this is pre-sessional English students, who are studying below degree level. They will need to take a Home Office approved English language test and provide evidence on this on their visa application.

Your CAS statement will be available in your My Imperial student portal after you have completed both of these actions:

• you have satisfied all your offer conditions
• you have uploaded your passport to My Imperial

We aim to upload your CAS within two weeks of these actions being completed.

We can only issue your CAS five months before the start of your programme so the majority will be issued from April onwards. 

As a result of changes to the UK Visa and Immigration process, non-EEA nationals who apply for a student visa will need to collect a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) within 10 days of arriving in the UK.

Normally BRPs are delivered to a local post office for collection. However, Imperial is also allowing students to collect BRPs from the South Kensington Campus.

In order for your BRP to be delivered to Imperial, as part of your visa application process you will be need to enter the Alternative Collection Location (ACL) code 2HE497 when asked to.

You can find more information about this on our International Student Support pages.

EEA nationals

If you are from the EEA and you need to apply for a student visa, your immigration permissions will be issued electronically; you will not be issued a BRP.