ESAT scores and Imperial offers
What ESAT score do I need for Imperial? Imperial publishes no ESAT pass mark, and the same score led to very different outcomes by department.
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- 8.0 to 9.051%24/47
- 7.0 to 7.942%35/84
- 6.0 to 6.932%58/180
- 5.0 to 5.933%137/421
- 4.0 to 4.921%152/707
- 3.0 to 3.94%22/556
- 2.0 to 2.90%0/245
- 1.0 to 1.90%0/54
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Questions people ask
What ESAT score do I need for Imperial?
Imperial publishes no ESAT pass mark, and the same score led to very different outcomes by department. In 2025, applications whose modules averaged 6.0 to 6.9 received offers in 71 of 92 cases in Aeronautics, 129 of 212 in Physics, 57 of 181 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 58 of 180 in Mechanical Engineering.
What do Home WP and Overseas mean?
They are the groups Imperial's dashboard reports: Home applicants in widening participation (WP) and not, and Overseas applicants. Imperial's own pages explain who counts as WP.
Why is Design Engineering different?
It uses two modules, Mathematics 1 and Mathematics 2, so its department score is out of 18, not 27. Its outcomes also do not rise evenly with score: in 2025 its interviewed applicants without offers averaged 5.7, above offer holders at 4.7.
Is there ESAT data for Imperial Life Sciences?
No. Imperial published no 2025 ESAT outcomes for Life Sciences, so this tool does not cover it.
Why leave out zero scores?
A department score of 0 cannot come from real module scores, which start at 1.0. Imperial does not say what these records are, so we keep them out of the rates and show how many there are.
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How we work this out
What it does
What happened to 2025 Imperial applications in your department and score band, from Imperial's own outcomes dashboard.
The seven Imperial departments that used the ESAT for 2025 entry: Aeronautics, Chemical, Civil and Environmental, Design, Electrical and Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering, and Physics. 8,704 applications with a department score, split into the groups Imperial reports: Home (widening participation or not) and Overseas.
Method
- Imperial's public dashboard counts applications by department, group, department score and outcome: an offer, interviewed without an offer, or not interviewed.
- The department score is the sum of the module scores. We divide it by the number of modules, three or two for Design Engineering, and put applications into one-point bands of that average, 1.0 to 1.9 up to 8.0 to 9.0.
- In each band we count applications and offers and give the share with a 95% Wilson range. Bands under 30 applications show counts only.
- Where a department records interviews, we also show the share that got an offer or an interview. That is not an interview-invitation rate: the dashboard does not show whether every offer followed an interview.
- 1,712 records with a department score of 0, which cannot be a real sum of module scores, are left out of every rate. Their count is shown for each group.
Published figures
Every 2025 department and band, offers out of applications
Counted from Imperial’s public dashboard, all applicant groups together, zero-score records left out. Rates are shown only where a band has at least 30 applications.
| Department | All scored | Zero-score records left out | 1.0 to 1.9 | 2.0 to 2.9 | 3.0 to 3.9 | 4.0 to 4.9 | 5.0 to 5.9 | 6.0 to 6.9 | 7.0 to 7.9 | 8.0 to 9.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aeronautics | 338/1,430 | 269 | 0/43 (0%) | 0/202 (0%) | 2/401 (0%) | 74/398 (19%) | 124/222 (56%) | 71/92 (77%) | 47/51 (92%) | 20/21 |
| Chemical Engineering | 406/779 | 197 | 2/34 (6%) | 6/107 (6%) | 82/192 (43%) | 134/214 (63%) | 113/145 (78%) | 38/48 (79%) | 22/28 | 9/11 |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | 280/343 | 152 | 5/14 | 27/50 (54%) | 86/99 (87%) | 90/100 (90%) | 49/56 (88%) | 19/19 | 3/4 | 1/1 |
| Design Engineering | 187/699 | 101 | 5/19 | 15/71 (21%) | 44/163 (27%) | 59/166 (36%) | 33/139 (24%) | 12/64 (19%) | 13/50 (26%) | 6/27 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 432/1,434 | 298 | 2/18 | 16/96 (17%) | 48/247 (19%) | 85/352 (24%) | 100/354 (28%) | 57/181 (31%) | 54/111 (49%) | 70/75 (93%) |
| Mechanical Engineering | 428/2,294 | 414 | 0/54 (0%) | 0/245 (0%) | 22/556 (4%) | 152/707 (21%) | 137/421 (33%) | 58/180 (32%) | 35/84 (42%) | 24/47 (51%) |
| Physics | 728/1,725 | 281 | 0/30 (0%) | 0/113 (0%) | 16/289 (6%) | 180/463 (39%) | 238/403 (59%) | 129/212 (61%) | 87/118 (74%) | 78/97 (80%) |
Sources
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- Imperial College London: Understanding your ESAT and TMUA scores (2025 outcomes dashboard), Public dashboard, refreshed 9 January 2026: counts by department, fee and widening-participation group, department score and outcome (2026)