Scholarship overview

  • Degree level

    Undergraduate

  • Value

    £2,500

  • Number of awards

    10

  • Academic year

    2026/2027

  • Tuition fee status

    Home, Overseas

  • Mode of study

    Full time

  • Available to

    Prospective students

  • Application deadline

    29/05/2026

  • Additional information

    admit.earth@imperial.ac.uk

  • Available to applicants in the following departments

    • Earth Science and Engineering

Eligibility criteria

Applicants who meet the Imperial criteria for Widening Participation (WP) are automatically eligible:

  • You are a care leaver or have spent time in care under a local authority, or
  • Your home address* postcode falls into England’s index of multiple deprivation quintile one, or
  • You currently receive Free School Meals or have been eligible to receive them in the past; or
  • Your home address* postcode falls into POLAR4 quintile 1 or 2 and you also meet one of the following criteria:
    • You are the first in your family to attend university
    • You attend an English school where the key-stage 5 performance is below Imperial's percentile threshold of 20%
    • You attend a school in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland where the Free School Meals percentile is above Imperial's percentile threshold of 80%

*Your home address is your place of permanent residence and not your school or boarding school.

 

In addition to those automatically eligible, the department may have capacity to offer to additional students, this will be confirmed after August 2026.

Please note: This scholarship is not available to continuing students.

Course specific information

Available for full-time undergraduate study in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering

Application process

Candidates will be automatically considered when they submit an application to study an undergraduate programme. 

 

If you have any additional questions, please contact us at admit.earth@imperial.ac.uk.

Contact

If you have any additional questions, please contact us at admit.earth@imperial.ac.uk.