Student Information, characteristics

The request

Please provide the number of care-experienced student that:

• enrolled at Imperial College
• withdrew from their studies the same year as enrolment; 
• withdrew from their studies at any point

Imperial College response, IMPFOI-23-339, 7 July 2023

The request

1. The number of applications, offers and acceptances of Home undergraduate students, by school type. 

2. The number of applications, offers and acceptances of Home undergraduate students, by school type and region of domicile. 

3. The number of applications, offers and acceptances of Home undergraduate students for each of the following schools: 

• Westminster School, SW1P 3PB
• The Perse School, CB2 8QF
• Eton College, SL4 6DW
• St Paul’s Girls’ School, London, W6 7BS
• St Paul’s School, London, SW13 9JT
• Magdalen College School, Oxford, OX4 1DZ
• City of London School, EC4V 3AL
• Sevenoaks School, TN13 1HU
• Highgate School, N6 4AY
• Brighton College, BN2 0AL
• King’s College School, SW19 4TT
• North London Collegiate School, HA8 7RJ
• Manchester Grammar School, M13 0XT
• Tonbridge School, TN9 1JP
• Guildford High School, GU1 1SJ
• Latymer Upper School, W6 9LR
• Winchester College, SO23 9NA
• Dulwich College, SE21 7LD
• Royal Grammar School, Guildford, GU1 3BB
• Haberdashers’ School for Girls, Elstree, WD6 3BT

4. The number of applications, offers and acceptances of Home undergraduate students for all the 20 schools (i.e. the summed total) listed in Question 3.  

5. The number of applications, offers and acceptances of Home undergraduate students eligible for free school meals for those applying from the state maintained sector. 

Imperial College response, IMPFOI-23-293, 22 June 2023

FOI response, IMPFOI-23-293, admissions by school-type and region (xlsx)

The request

Please provide the following information:

• The number of alumni you have that are female
• What subject did they study
• How many of them are now business founders
• How many alumni do you have in total? (male and female)

Imperial Cllege response, IMPFOI-23-280, 20 June 2023

The College records show we have a total number of 74,816 female alumni.

Please see FOI Response, IMPFOI-23-280, female alumni for the subjects studied. Please note many alumni studied more than one course at Imperial hence the total of subjects studied is higher than the total number of female alumni.

Of the 23,272 female alumni where we have data on organisation relationship for them, 279 have ‘founder’ in their position, a further 78 have ‘owner’. Please note that we only hold such information where an alumnus volunteers this information so this data is unlikely to show the full extent of "business founders" among our female alumni.

We have a total of 243,735 living alumni. We have interpreted “alumni you have” to mean living alumni. We have also included all gender categories rather than restricting to just Male/Female (our database options are Unspecified, Non-binary or third gender, Unknown, Male or Female).

The request

Information for the admissions years 2021 and 2022 for MSc Soil Mechanics as a single subject or with Environmental Geotechnics, Engineering Seismology or Business Management

• Total number of applicants to each course
• Applicants by gender
• Applicants by ethnicity (Where data is held this should be broken down into specific ethnic groups e.g., White, Asian, Black, Chinese)
• Total number of enrolled students to each course
• Enrolled students by gender
• Enrolled students by ethnicity (Where data is held this should be broken down into specific ethnic groups e.g., White, Asian, Black, Chinese)

Imperial College Response (IMPFOI-22-550, 11 January 2023)

 FOI Response IMPFOI-22-550

The request

For the past 5 completed UCAS application cycles, how many care leavers applied to study at Imperial College, how many were offerred places and how many took up those places?

Imperial College response, IMPFOI-23-127, 9 March 2023

Please see information below that shows total numbers of care experienced applications received, offers made and places confirmed for each UCAS cycle between 2017 and 2021.

Please note that figures of five or fewer have been replaced by an asterisk.

2017 UCAS cycle

Applications Received:   45

Offers Made:                     13

Places Confirmed:            *

2018 UCAS cycle

Applications Received:   57

Offers Made:                     17

Places Confirmed:            *

2019 UCAS cycle

Applications Received:   58

Offers Made:                     26

Places Confirmed:            6

2020 UCAS cycle

Applications Received:   52

Offers Made:                     20

Places Confirmed:            *

2021 UCAS cycle

Applications Received:   57

Offers Made:                     24

Places Confirmed:            10

The request

Please provide demographic information about of students who have participated in an exchange programme abroad, or have studied abroad. Information such as their gender, religious background and ethnic background. 

Imperial response, IMPFOI-24-318, 1 August 2024

FOI Response, IMPFOI-23-218, Characteristics of students who have studied abroad

The request

Do you collect data from staff and/or students on any of the following topics:

1. Occupation of a person’s parent/guardian/carer when they were a child
2. Type of secondary school a person attended (e.g., state, grammar, private)
3. The highest qualification of a person’s parent/guardian/carer (e.g., O Levels, BSc,/BA)
4. Whether a person was eligible for free school meals at any point during their school years
5. Gender identity, and if it is the same as sex registered/sex assigned at birth
6. Age
7. Disability
8. Gender reassignment
9. Marriage and civil partnership
10. Pregnancy and maternity
11. Race
12. Religion or belief
13. Sex
14. Sexual orientation

Imperial College response, IMPFOI-23-343, 19 July 2023

FOI Response, IMPFOI-23-343, data collected about staff and students (pdf)

The request

Please provide a breakdown of these admissions statistics for the Design Engineering course (UCAS code: 28G3) from 2022: Number of male first year applicants for the course, number of female first year applicants for the course, number of offers to males for the course, number of offers to females for the course, enrollment for the course for males, and enrollment for the course for females.

Imperial College response (IMPFOI-23-030, 7 February)

FOI response IMPFOI-23-030 (pdf)

The Request

• The number of students studying A100 medicine.
• The number of students studying A100 medicine who have declared that they are dyslexic, for the academic years 2023 and 2013.

Imperial response, IMPFOI-24-290, 2 July 2024

The total number of students studying A100 Medicine is 2072.

The number of A100 students declaring they have a “Learning difference such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or AD(H)D” (this is a HESA definition) in 2013 was 49 and in 2023 was 94. The increase may be partly due to the fact that in 2013 we recorded only those disabilities that were declared on the students’ application, as opposed to asking them on enrolment. We now ask on enrolment and a value must be entered, even if that is “Prefer not to say”.

FOI request and response, IMPFOI-23-646, 21 December 2023

1. Out of the total number of students with 'home fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the 2022-23 academic year, what proportion of students had refugee status?
0.0781%

2. Out of the total number of students with 'international fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the 2022-23 academic year, what proportion of students had asylum seeker status?
0

3. What were the main nationalities of applicants with refugee status and asylum seeker status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the 2022-23 academic year (rank from most to least common)?
Iran, Syria, Yemen and Iraq

4. Out of the total number of students with 'home fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the 2016/17 academic year, what proportion of students had refugee status?
0.0194%

5. Out of the total number of students with 'international fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the 2016/17 academic year, what proportion of students had asylum seeker status?
0

6. What were the main nationalities of applicants with refugee status and asylum seeker status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the 2016/17 academic year (rank from most to least common)?
Libya and Syria

FOI request and response, IMPFOI-23-242, 22 June 2023

1. For the past three years, percentage of staff identifying as LGBTQIA+ by Faculty and job family.

FOI response IMPFOI-23-242 LGBTQIA+ staff data (pdf)

2. For the past three years, percentage of students identifying as LGBTQIA+ by Faculty, fee status and level of study

FOI response IMPFOI-23-242 LGBTQIA+ student data (xlsx)

3. Statistical data from the past 3 years which indicates LGBTQIA+ student satisfaction or experience in comparison to non-LGBTQIA+ staff/students.

We do not collect staff satisfaction data by sexual orientation or identity status of staff.

FOI response IMPFOI-23-242, LGBTQIA+ student satisfaction (xlsx)

4. Data collected on reported incidents of hate crimes, bullying, harassment and discrimination as a result of staff or student LGBTQIA+ identities (i.e. homophobia and/or transphobia) in the previous 12 months.

Please see the summary data of reports made using the Report and Support tool: Report and Support data

5. Initiatives that your university has in place to support LGBTQIA+ students/staff, including training and specific EDI resources.
6. Details of processes and resources that you have in place to specifically to support trans and/or non-binary staff and students.

Support for staff

Support for students

Trans staff policy

Supporting Trans and Non-Binary Gendered Students - Policy and Guidance

LGBTQ+ equality

FOI request and response, IMPFOI-24-355, 14 August 2024

Students are asked whether their parents went to university. The responses from A100 Medicine are set out in the table below.

Response to Parental Education question for new A100 students by year of entry

The request

For the 2022/23 academic year, how many postgraduate international students were studying at your university? Please provide a breakdown of nationalities as well as an overall number.  

Imperial College response, IMPFOI-23-515, 28 September 2023

FOI Response, IMPFOI-23-515, nationality of all PG students 2022-2023 (pdf)

Imperial College response, IMPFOI-24-023, 25 January 2023

The request

Please provide the following information: 
1.    A breakdown of students by faith/religion for the past 3 academic years.
2.    Details of the chaplaincy service available to students, by faith. 
3.    The availability of and location of chaplains.
4.    How their services can be accessed.
5.    How often have the services been used in the past three years.
6.    Who funds the chaplains.
7.    Provision for humanists.
8.    Faith/prayer rooms for students.

Imperial College London response, IMPFOI-24-068, 4 March 2024

1. Imperial students' religion/faith:

2. Please see the information about Chaplaincy services on the Imperial website.

3. The availability of and location of the chaplains is as follows:

• College Chaplain (Anglican) 5 days a week and at other times when required
• Mindfulness Chaplain and generic Chaplain 2.5 days a week a week and at other times when required
• Buddhist Faith Advisor and generic Chaplain 2.5 days a week and at other times when required
• Catholic Chaplain – 2 sessions a week and at other times when required
• Jewish Chaplain – as requested by students
• Bahai’ Faith Advisor and Hindu Faith Advisor as requested by students.

4. Chaplains are located in the Chaplaincy Multi-Faith Centre on the main campus.  The Jewish Chaplain, The Bahai’ Faith Advisor and Hindu Faith Advisor are not based at Imperial but visit as needed and are available online. They engage with students via drop-in-request, self-referral, through groups and projects, partnerships with College and Student Union, and referrals from other College services and staff.

5. We do not hold data on how often the services are accessed.

6. The College Chaplain is paid by the Church of England with a contribution from College for multi-faith service to students of faith or philosophical world views. The mindfulness Chaplain/generic chaplain and the Buddhist Faith Advisor/generic chaplain are funded by the College. The Catholic Chaplain is paid by the Catholic Church. The Jewish Chaplain is paid by the Jewish Chaplaincy Trust.

7. While not designated as a 'Humanist Chaplain', the pastoral needs of humanist students are met by our Mindfulness Teacher and Chaplain who provides a non-religious way of responding to needs to students who do not identify with any religious tradition.

8. Please see the information about rooms for prayers and faith-related activities on the Imperial website: Prayer & Faith-Related Facilities Policy

The Request 

• How many people are currently studying at your university?
• How many of these are over 50? Could you please also break them down by age group if possible (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90+)
• What specific courses are students over 50 studying at your university? Please could you specify for each course, how many students there are over the age of 50

Imperial College Response (IMPFOI-23-001, 19 January 2023)

 FOI Response IMPFOI-23-001

The request

Please provide a breakdown of British undergraduate students admitted for each academic year between 2019-2022 in terms of their home region of the United Kingdom.

Imperial College response, IMPFOI-23-398, 8 August 2023

FOI response, UK offers by permanent residence, IMPFOI-23-398