Undergraduate (BSc)

Our undergraduate degrees are based at our South Kensington campus in London in the Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Ernst Chain buildings, which are named after Imperial Nobel Prize winners who discovered antibiotics.  We have excellent laboratory and computational teaching facilities, which are supported by major investments in state-of-the-art equipment for our undergraduate labs.  Biological Sciences students studying ecology will have the opportunity to use the excellent field facilities at our Silwood Park campus in Berkshire, which is a leading international centre for research and teaching in ecology, evolution, and conservation.

We offer a broad range of BSc degrees, including some taught jointly with the Imperial College Business School and the Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication. 

However, the key decision is whether you apply to study a degree from either our Biological Sciences or from our Biochemistry/Biotechnology degree stream. Please do not apply for more than one BSc within a stream or you will be wasting a choice on your UCAS form (e.g. do not apply for C100 Biological Sciences and C500 Microbiology: choose one or the other).

For all our Biological Sciences Degrees, the first year is the same for all students no matter which particular degree they are enrolled on.

For all our Biochemistry and Biotechnology Degrees the first two years are the same for all students no matter which particular degree they are enrolled on.

Because of this, it is possible to change your choice of BSc at registration or at any time in the first year and a half for each degree stream. The change must be to another degree within the same stream (e.g. from one Biological Sciences degree to another).

Transferring between the two degree streams is not possible (e.g. transfers from Biological Sciences to Biochemistry will not be possible).