Frequently requested information

Imperial College publish various sources of data about applications, offers and enrolled students.

The College Statistics Guide contains information on the number of applicants, whether the applicants were from the UK or abroad, numbers of enrolled students, by subject-area of study and details of degrees awarded.

The Student Statistics provide further detailed information on students including: age, nationality, ethnic origin, gender and declared disabilities. The Programme Statistics contain student data by subject-area of study, year of study and whether the student is from the UK or abroad.

The equality, diversity and inclusion student data provides further information about the characteristics of the Imperial College student body including gender, disability and ethnicity.

The Transparency information page shows the number of UK domiciled students who attained a particular degree or other academic award, or a particular level of such an award, on completion of their course with us by reference to: gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic background.

The Transparency page also includes undergraduate admissions statistics (scroll to the bottom of the page to the link “Download the Undergraduate Admission Statistics”) for the past 5 completed admissions cycles, including information on:

• Number of applicants, offers and places confirmed
• Average BMAT Scores
• Details of A level, IB and STEP Offers Made
• New Entrants' Achieved A level and IB Grades
• Admissions Rate by Nationality

AI and Student Misconduct Cases

Cases of academic misconduct are dealt with in accordance with the College’s Academic Misconduct Policy and Procedure. Minor cases are dealt with by the relevant department as summary offences. We do not collate figures on summary cases dealt with locally by departments. The published figures relate to those cases that are sufficiently serious to be dealt with by the Academic Misconduct Panel.

Imperial does not hold figures on which cases involved the use of AI prior to the 2023/24 academic year. This information will be collected going forward and reported on annually.

Academic misconduct cases involving the use of AI 2023/24

What is Imperials policy on the use of AI for coursework or graded submissions/exams?

Imperial’s approach is outlined in our Generative AI & Education Guidance Hub

In light of the wide variability with respect to the impact of generative AI tools, course leaders have autonomy to develop their own approach to how these tools can be used for coursework within the broad framework outlined.

Does Imperial have guidance for students on referencing AI if used in coursework or graded submissions/exams?

As indicated above, the detailed guidance is course specific within the overall framework outlined by the University.

Does Imperial have software that can detect the use of AI in coursework/graded submissions – similar to ones used to check for plagiarism? 

Turnitin provides a generative AI detection facility within their plagiarism software, for which Imperial has a site license. We are not currently using this capability University-wide, but use whatever technical tool we deem appropriate as evidence in cases of suspected academic misconduct.

What are the penalties if AI is not referenced or recorded correctly in coursework or graded submissions/exams?

Suspected infringement of our AI guidelines is treated in accordance with our policy on academic misconduct, see link above. 

Generative AI, Student Teaching and Assessments

All the data from the sector (e.g., collated by JISC student panels) and the limited data we have from Imperial (for example ECRI surveys) suggests that use of generative AI tools is widespread amongst students. In terms of concerns over the academic integrity of our education and the vulnerability of our assessments to students using generative AI to gain unfair advantage, please note the following:

• Imperial has a high proportion of formal exams relative to our sector comparators, and these off-line, timed, in person, invigilated exams are not susceptible to student use of generative AI tools; it is only ‘coursework’ that is susceptible.
• We have implemented assessment ‘stress testing’ workshops which provide staff with case studies, strategies and a tool-kit to help them ameliorate generative AI vulnerability in coursework (see: Anatomy of Assessment). There is an associated GenAI & Education Guidance Hub providing assessment guidance/principles. Our coursework has evolved in response to the availability of generative AI tools and become more testing of higher order thinking. 
• We have developed, tested and rolled-out IT ‘lock-down’ solutions for PC-cluster based exams (see: Learning and teaching newsletter) 
• Assessment of PhDs (and many Masters) is largely by in person viva voce exams – this traditional form of assessment is a robust means of assessment of ability despite the availability of generative AI tools.

Communication and education about the role of generative AI in education and society is also an important feature of our response. To this end, we have developed an online ‘Introduction to genAI for Students’ course which educates about the risks relating to academic integrity, plagiarism, bias, ethical considerations, intellectual property, data security, and the quality and reliability of information. A staff version is scheduled for launch in July.

We are also funding projects via the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) exploring the use of generative AI to aid timely feedback and assessment. We have also embedded 5x ‘AI Futurists’ in all Faculties to explore how our curricula should evolve to take into account generative AI capabilities and ensure our students are equipped to thrive and lead in the future.

Updated May 2025

Information and statistics on animal research at Imperial can be found on the animal research pages of our website.

Scope Covered: Scope 1&2 (kgCO2e), Scope 3 (tCO2e)

FOI Imperial College Scope 1-3 Emissions 2008-2023.xlsx

Data Reference: 

•  Imperial Annual Sustainability Report: Strategy and policies 
• HESA: Table 3 - Emissions and waste | HESA

Please note that there may be discrepancies between the data in the above file and HESA dataset, these differences are due to the following reasons:

• The Scope 3 emissions data combine figures from both Annual Sustainability Report and HESA submissions. The most accurate and consistent values were selected for the file.
• We have identified one historic error in the HESA data; however, HESA does not allow anyone to re-submit data retrospectively. This error has been corrected in the attached file.
• The HESA emissions are categorised slightly differently from our Annual Sustainability Report. You can see more information about the Annual Sustainability Report methodology on our website.

The Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA), Office for Students and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish an extensive range of statistical information about applicants to and students at universities, including student characteristics data, subjects studied, progression, attainment and outcomes. In many cases, this information is available by individual provider as well as for the sector as a whole.

HESA Data and analysis

UCAS Data and analysis

Official statistics - Office for Students

The figures provided show the number of Freedom of Information Act requests  and Internal Reviews responded to and the percentage of those responses that were within the 20 working day response time. Figures on the number of Internal Reviews and Information Commissioner's Office enquries are also included.

FOI compliance 2019-2022 (pdf) 

Imperial College does not and will not seek by any agreement to silence students or staff who come forward to raise complaints of sexual harassment, abuse or misconduct, or other forms of harassment and bullying. A formal settlement agreement made with a student or member of staff regarding other matters may contain a confidentiality clause with regards to the terms of the settlement; this would preclude the terms of the settlement being released, i.e. the amount of the settlement, but would not prevent the student or member of staff from confirming the fact of the settlement or making disclosures in accordance with the requirements of any legal proceedings.

The Equality, diversity and inclusion data monitoring  pages of our website include information about the characteristics of Imperial College staff including age, disability, ethnicity, sex, gender transition, nationality, religion, sexual orientation and contract types.

Information on the support and services available to members of Imperial College staff is available on the Health & Wellbeing section of the College website.

Cases of academic misconduct are dealt with in accordance with the College’s Academic Misconduct Policy and Procedure. Minor cases are dealt with by the relevant department as summary offences, figures on summary cases are not held centrally. The figures provided are for those cases that are sufficiently serious to be dealt with by the Academic Misconduct Panel. 

Student academic misconduct cases 2017-18 to 2023-24 (pdf)

The student admissions by application centre (school) contains a list of applications, offers, rejections  by the University.  The figures have been broken down by year. Agregate  figures of UK, EU and International applications are reported and broken down by institution.

Application figures by School 2020-24

The student admissions by school-type data contains figures on applications to and offers made by Imperial College by the institution types that applicants had attended before applying to Imperial College. Figures for the College overall are provided as well as figures broken down by Faculty and Department.

Applications and offers by department and school type 2018-2022

Imperial College has compiled an information sheet which addresses the most frequently asked questions we receive under FOI regarding admissions to Medicine (A100). Please see the Freedom of Information FAQs on the Introducing our Imperial College London Medicine degree web page.

There are various contectual admissions schemes at Imperial College that aim to increase the representation of students from disadvantaged or underrepresented backgrounds.

The table below contains information, for the 2018 to 2022 UCAS admissions cycles, on the number of undergraduate applicants classified as meeting contextual (or 'widening participation') criteria, offers made and places confirmed. 

Further information on contextual offers by type of school attended by the applicant, broken down by application cycle, 2018-2022: Contextual applications, offers & confirmations by schools type 2018-2022 (pdf)

Imperial College has compiled an information sheet which addresses the most frequently asked questions we receive regarding student Counselling and mental health support; this will be updated annually.

Counselling-FOI-FAQs 2025 (pdf) (updated January 2025)

Information about bursaries and scholarships can be found in the Fees and Funding section of the website.

Information about the current rent payable for Imperial College accommodation can be found in the Accommodation section of the College website.

Information about rents payable for previous years can be found in the ICL Halls Rents 2018-19 to 2024-25 (xlsx) workbook.

The College’s Student Support Zone contains information about support services available to students.

Student withdrawals 2017-18 to 2021-23 (pdf)