All your questions answered
If you require help with any kind of issue, from academic to personal, there are many forms of help available to you.
Please take a look at the Welfare and Advice information for students
Once you have accepted an offer in Student e-Service, you will be prompted to answer some questions regarding who will be responsible for the payment of your College fee (tuition fees).
If you are to fund your studies yourself, or if your family are to fund your studies, please select the ‘I accept responsibility for the payment of my own College Fee’ option
If you are to be sponsored, please select the’ Responsibilty for the payment of my College Fee will be accepted by a sponsoring organisation’. If details of your sponsor have not yet been finalised, please select the “self-funded” option and once details of your sponsorship have been confirmed, please email the details, remembering to state your CID, to the appropriate admissions team
You can request a visa letter to assist friends or family members who will attend your Graduation Ceremony from the Imperial College Graduation team.
For further guidance on bringing family members to the UK as visitors, please see the International Office website
The Academic Technology Approval Scheme was launched on 1st November 2007. Under this scheme, all non-EEA students who need a student visa to come to the UK to do a degree in certain subject areas, will be required to apply for ATAS clearance before applying for Student Entry Clearance (visa).
Any students already in the UK who need to extend their student visa to commence or continue on one of the relevant courses, will also need to get ATAS clearance before making a student visa extension application
Uploading a proposal summary for the first time: You may have received an email asking you to enter details of your research proposal into your Student e-Service record. If you have been asked to do this then please ensure that you do so, regardless of what information you may have already supplied to us. Please do not send us your summary by email.
To enter this information, please login to your Student e-Service account. Having logged in please click the ‘Course Information’ tab, followed by the ‘Research’ link in the top left hand hand corner. You can then paste or type your summary into the text box, remembering that you have a maximum of 2000 characters (note – not 2000 words). Once you have entered your summary please check it carefully before you click ‘Submit’, because once you do that you will be unable to amend it yourself.
Editing your summary: If you have submitted a summary then you are unfortunately not able to amend it yourself. If you do need to make a change please email the Records team with details of this.
Imperial College London’s TOEFL institution code is 0891.
If you are taking the TOEFL IBT (Internet based test), then please email a copy of your results to us and we can verify the results online. The email should be sent to the appropriate admissions team
If you are taking the TOEFL PBT, then you will need to ask ETS to send us your results, you will need to give them our institution code which is 0891.
If you are taking an alternative approved test and we make you an offer, we will need a copy certified by your school or an original.
