Who is eligible for a contextual offer at Imperial College London?

To be considered for a contextual offer from Imperial College London you need 'home' fee status, plus one of the following: care experience, an IMD quintile 1 area, free school meals or (a POLAR4 quintile 1-2 area and (being first in your family at university, a school with A-level results in the bottom 20% nationally or a school with a free-school-meals rate in the top 20% nationally)).

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Imperial College London contextual offer checker

Imperial College London makes contextual offers for 2027 entry: lower-grade offers for applicants from backgrounds that are underrepresented at university. It looks at IMD, POLAR4, your school, care experience and more. It also guarantees an interview or offer to some applicants.

Enter your postcode and school and our free checker automatically looks up IMD and POLAR4 for you, then asks a few quick questions to work out whether you qualify for a contextual offer from Imperial College London for 2027 entry.

Roughly two minutes with no sign-up to check your circumstances against every university's scheme.

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Who qualifies

Everyone must

Have 'home' (UK) fee status

Plus any one of these

Courses: Eligibility doesn't lower the grades: it gives a guaranteed interview and an offer at Imperial's minimum entry level (AAA at A-level or equivalent), if you meet that minimum and any admissions-test or interview thresholds. The checker answers for Imperial College London as a whole, so check the policy for the course you're applying to.

Guaranteed offers and other routes

A guaranteed interview at departments that interview if you're eligible for the contextual offer. Predicted grades of at least AAA (or equivalent) and the department's contextual admissions-test threshold, where there is one.
A guaranteed offer at the department's minimum entry level if you're eligible for the contextual offer. Predicted grades of at least AAA (or equivalent), clear motivation in your personal statement, and above the department's minimum in any admissions test or interview.

The checker tells you which of these your answers meet, except routes that depend on completing a programme.

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Summarised from Imperial College London's published contextual offer policy. Meeting the criteria means Imperial College London may make you a contextual offer, not that it will, and some courses (often medicine, dentistry and other heavily oversubscribed courses) have their own rules. Always check the university's own policy before relying on it. Data updated 5 November 2026.