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Requirements: 2027 entry. Historical data below are not 2027 requirements or a prediction of your outcome. Follow the sources for full eligibility, college, contextual and international-qualification conditions.
Entry requirements
2027 entry · Source checks: 2026-10-19 · Required, recommended and conditional items are distinguished below.
Academic qualifications
A-level minimumRequired
A*A*A: A* Mathematics, A* Physics, A in a third subject.
Standard application route. Status labels use the current date in the UK; exact cut-offs use the stated UK time. Past deadlines remain visible. Test windows do not specify your individual appointment.
Timeline endpoint
Imperial · UCAS equal consideration deadline
13 Jan 2027
Each node is one milestone, in date order; spacing is not proportional to time. Select a node to read details and official sources.
Select a milestone below
Gold = key deadline · Hollow = support / information · Ordered by month, not to scale. Support deadlines matter if you need them.
● Key deadline● Test / interview○ Support / information
Priority is an editorial guide. Bursary and access-arrangement deadlines remain essential if you need that support.
Read each population and year before comparing. “Applications per place” is not an offer rate. No offer rate is shown where compatible application and offer counts have not been verified.
Published historical measures; scopes differ between rows and universities
Measure / value
Year, population & source
Applications per place 7 : 1
2025 Physics course page; not applications per offer[7] ↗
Course key facts
Officially verified
Offer holders & entrant backgrounds
These are aggregate observations. Offer conditions, offer-holder measures and entrant achievements are labelled separately. None is an invented representative student profile.
2025 entry offers
Typical A-level offer: A*A*A (three A-levels)
Offer conditions, not achieved grades; university’s at-least-50% definition
International Baccalaureate — Typical offer · Officially verified
Evidence gaps
Offer-holder A-level / IB distributions — Pending verification Not verified in this Beta. The reviewed sources do not establish a complete dataset; this is not a claim that none is published.[7] ↗
Offer-holder ESAT score distributions — Pending verification Not verified in this Beta. The reviewed sources do not establish a complete dataset; this is not a claim that none is published.[7] ↗
Annual applications / offers / acceptances series — Pending verification Not verified in this Beta. The reviewed sources do not establish a complete dataset; this is not a claim that none is published.[7] ↗
2027 departmental decision period — Pending verification Not verified on the reviewed course page. No date inferred.[7] ↗
Competitions and admissions tests
Assessment requirements and verification gaps are shown above. This Beta does not assign an admissions advantage or probability uplift to competition medals: that relationship has not been verified here. Competition-specific evidence is pending review.
UAT-UK states that ESAT has no pass/fail score and is considered alongside other application information. [9] ↗
References for this programme
Direct links are also attached to each factual record. Publication date, verification date and entry year are distinct.
Imperial College London · university · Last verified: 2026-10-19 Section: Entry requirements (expanded A-levels, IB and ESAT); How to apply; Key facts · Publication date: Not specified
Year-specific /2027/ URL redirects here. Start date October 2027 verified. Typical-offer values explicitly refer to 2025 offers, not achieved grades. Web fetch returned 403; live page was read in Chrome.
UAT-UK · test-provider · Last verified: 2026-11-03 Section: October 2026 and January 2027 tables · Publication date: Not specified
January 2027 booking opens 28 October 2026 at 15:00 GMT, as shown in the official key-dates table on 3 November 2026; supersedes the previously recorded 26 October date.
