Imperial is one of those medical schools that sixth formers talk about in a slightly lowered voice. Second in the world. A science university that happens to train doctors. Six years instead of five. It's easy to assume the interview must be some brutal, academic grilling.
It isn't. Imperial's interview is six short Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) stations, each one marked by a different person, each one giving you five minutes to answer. The school publishes the six topics it tests, publishes how every answer is marked, and publishes exactly what University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) score got people through the door last year. Very little about it is a mystery, if you know where to look.
So this guide puts all of it in one place for 2027 entry: how Imperial chooses who to interview, how the MMI runs, how it's scored, when offers land, and 58 practice questions written in the style of Imperial's own stations. 💙
🏛️ An Introduction to Imperial College School of Medicine
Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM) sits inside the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, and it's one of the largest medicine departments in Europe. Its roots go back much further than the Imperial name. The school brought together some of London's oldest hospital medical schools, including St Mary's, where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, and Charing Cross and Westminster. That heritage still shapes where you'll spend your time: much of your study is based at the South Kensington and Charing Cross campuses, with clinical teaching across north and west London.
The degree itself is a six-year Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Science (MBBS/BSc), Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) code A100. Every student graduates with both qualifications, plus the Associateship of the Imperial College School of Medicine (AICSM), a nice extra letter-string for the CV.
The course runs in three phases:
- Phase 1 (Years 1 to 3): body systems teaching blended with case-based learning, early clinical skills and patient contact in community settings. Modules include Principles of Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention, and Clinical Research and Innovation. Year 3 brings three eight-week clinical placements, one of them in general practice in London.
- Phase 2 (Year 4): the compulsory BSc, with a supervised research project.
- Phase 3 (Years 5 and 6): full clinical immersion, a dedicated pathology course, an elective, and a Pre-Foundation Assistantship in the final term to prepare you for life as a junior doctor.
Your National Health Service (NHS) teaching hospitals include Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's and the Western Eye (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust), Chelsea and Westminster, West Middlesex, the Royal Brompton and Harefield, Hillingdon, Ealing and Northwick Park.
⭐ How Does Imperial Stand Out From Other UK Medical Schools?
🔬 The BSc isn't optional, and it's seriously good
Plenty of medical schools let you intercalate. At Imperial you must, and the menu is unusually broad. There are 16 BSc pathways, from Cardiovascular Sciences and Neuroscience and Mental Health through to Remote Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Surgical Design, Technology and Innovation, Global Health, Management, and even Humanities, Philosophy and Law. Exceptional students may be offered the chance to add a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
If you're the kind of applicant who likes asking why something works rather than just what to do, this is the course's biggest selling point.
⚙️ You're training inside a science and engineering powerhouse
Imperial focuses entirely on science, engineering, medicine and business. That matters more than it sounds. Your future classmates in the corridors are building surgical robots, modelling pandemics and designing new diagnostic devices, and the medical course leans into that through modules on research, innovation and technology in healthcare.
🩺 Early patient contact, in one of the most diverse regions in Europe
North-west London is a demanding and incredibly varied patient population. You'll meet patients early in Phase 1, and you'll learn with a big network of hospitals and community practices rather than one site.
💬 Students rate it, which isn't always true of famous medical schools
Big-name schools don't always score well on student experience. Imperial's School of Medicine does. It came first among London medical schools across all National Student Survey (NSS) themes and led the Russell Group in key themes including Academic Support, Assessment and Feedback, Organisation and Management, Student Voice, and Mental Health and Wellbeing. It also has its own dedicated medical school students' union, which students mention a lot.
📊 Rankings and Student Experience Ratings
🌍 Worldwide
- Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2027: 2nd in the world and 1st in Europe
- Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2026: 8th in the world
- QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, Medicine: 7th in the world
- THE World University Rankings by Subject 2026, Clinical and Health: 4th in the world
🇬🇧 In the UK
- Guardian University Guide 2027, Medicine: 1st
- Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, Medicine: 1st
- Complete University Guide 2027, Medicine: 3rd
- Overall university position: 5th in the Complete University Guide 2027 and the Guardian University Guide 2027
🎓 Student experience
- 1st in the UK for student experience in Medicine, according to the Times UK University Rankings 2026
- First across all NSS themes among London medical schools
- 99% of Faculty of Medicine graduates in work or further study, and 98% in highly skilled work or further study (2023–24 graduate outcomes data)
Rankings won't tell you whether you'll be happy somewhere. But when a medical school tops research and student satisfaction tables, it's worth asking at interview what they're doing right. Interviewers notice applicants who've done that homework.
🎯 How Does Imperial Decide Who to Call for an Interview?
Imperial's shortlisting is refreshingly simple. It happens in three stages.
Step one: do you meet the academic requirements?
For 2027 entry, the minimum A Level standard is A*AA, including Biology and Chemistry, with the A* in one of those two subjects. That's a tougher minimum than in previous cycles, so double-check your predictions.
- A Levels: A*AA including Biology and Chemistry (A* in either). General Studies and Critical Thinking aren't accepted. All qualifications must be taken in the same sitting.
- International Baccalaureate (IB): minimum 38 points with 6 in Higher Level Biology and Chemistry. The typical offer is 39 points with 7 and 6 in Higher Level Biology and Chemistry.
- GCSEs: not used, except that you need grade 6 (B) in English to show language proficiency.
- Extended Project Qualification (EPQ): not considered.
- Clinical work experience: not required, although you do need to understand what the job really involves.
Step two: your UCAT score does the heavy lifting
Once you've cleared the academic bar, Imperial selects for interview on the basis of UCAT scores. Each year it ranks candidates by UCAT and works out a threshold based on how many interview slots it has. In normal years, that means interviewing roughly the top third of applicants.
There's also a Situational Judgement Test (SJT) floor: Band 3 is the minimum, and Band 4 is discounted whatever your total.
📈 UCAT thresholds for 2026 entry (the most recent published)
- Home applicants: 2,320 total, SJT Band 1 to 3
- Overseas, European Union and fee-status query applicants: 2,310 total, SJT Band 1 to 3
- Widening participation and contextual applicants: 2,170 total, SJT Band 1 to 3
⚠️ These scores are out of 2,700, because Abstract Reasoning was removed from the UCAT from the 2025 sitting onwards (the old maximum was 3,600). Any Imperial threshold you see quoted from the 2025 entry cycle, its first year using the UCAT, is on the old scale and can't be compared with these figures. Thresholds also move every year with the strength of the applicant pool, so treat 2,320 as a guide, not a promise.
Step three: the personal statement waits until interview day
Imperial doesn't grade your personal statement at shortlisting. Instead, it hands it to the interviewer at the Commitment to Medicine station, who uses it to ask about your motivation, your experiences and anything you'd like to expand on. That station carries the same weight as the other five, so your personal statement still matters. It just matters later than you might expect.
🤝 Contextual admissions
A lower, contextualised UCAT cut-off applies if you:
- are flagged as a widening participation applicant when you apply, or
- have declared carer status and sent supporting evidence by 13 November 2026, or
- have taken part in certain Imperial outreach programmes, including Pathways to Medicine, Imperial STEM Potential, STEM Futures, the mA*ths and Further mA*ths Online Programmes, Accelerate, and the Imperial Sutton Trust Summer School and Work Experience.
Widening participation applicants predicted at least AAA (including Chemistry and Biology) who meet the contextual UCAT score are guaranteed an interview. If successful, they receive a contextual offer of A*AA where the A* can be in any subject.
One more rule worth knowing: for 2027 entry, Imperial only considers mitigating circumstances that came through the UCAT office. If something affected your test, it needed to go to UCAT, not straight to the medical school.
Once your score gets you the interview
Your UCAT gets you the interview. The interview gets you the offer.
A mid-range score can win offers when your interview is strong, and even a high one can fall short without preparation. Our interview course is taught in small groups by NHS doctors, with realistic MMI practice and feedback on every station.
🎤 How Does Imperial Interview? Style, Structure and Timings
Imperial uses Multiple Mini Interviews. The school's reasoning is simple and worth remembering on the day: lots of separate assessments mean that a candidate who has a weaker moment at one station can still be judged fairly on the rest.
The structure
For 2026 entry, the MMI had:
- Six stations
- Five minutes to answer the questions at each station
- A separate score for every station, with the six scores combined into your total
Imperial's own advice is not to rush. Five minutes is longer than it feels, and the school explicitly says it helps to think before you speak.
Who's interviewing you?
Expect a mix of trained academic and clinical staff. Each interviewer sees only their own station, and only the Commitment to Medicine interviewer has your personal statement in front of them.
💻 Online or in person?
This is the part to check carefully each year. In past cycles, Imperial has run some of its interview process online, and applicants from earlier years describe a recorded, one-way component alongside a live circuit. For 2027 entry, the Medical Schools Council lists Imperial's interview method as in-person and online MMIs, and Imperial says your invitation will explain in detail how the interview will work.
So don't assume. Read the invitation email properly, note the platform and timings, and if anything is unclear, contact the interviews team at the address on Imperial's admissions process page. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, learning difficulty or long-term health condition, get in touch early.
⚠️ Add Imperial to your email safe-senders list (and ask your school to do the same). Invitations go out by email on a rolling basis, and every year someone finds theirs in a spam folder.
📅 When Are Imperial Interviews Held?
- UCAS deadline for 2027 entry: Thursday 15 October 2026 at 18:00 UK time
- UCAT scores reach Imperial: November
- Interview invitations: sent on a rolling basis from December
- MMIs: typically held throughout January and February
Imperial hasn't published individual interview dates for the 2027 cycle. If you're invited, book quickly, keep your calendar clear, and don't read anything into whether your invitation arrives early or late in December.
🧮 What Is the Interview Scoring Method?
This is where Imperial is more open than most.
Every station is marked out of 10 points:
- 6 points for content, which is what you say
- 4 points for communication, which is how you say it
With six stations, that's a total out of 60. The admissions team then reviews your scores across the whole MMI and decides whether to make an offer. The offer threshold changes every year, and it differs for widening participation applicants.
Three things follow from that marking scheme, and they should change how you practise:
- Communication is 40% of every mark. A brilliant idea mumbled in a rush loses points. Structure, clarity, pace and plain English matter as much as cleverness.
- There's often no right answer. Imperial says interviewers are assessing your ability to explain your thinking.
- Changing your mind isn't a disaster. If you rethink halfway through, interviewers consider how well you reflect and think on your feet. Say so out loud: "Actually, having thought about that, I'd change my view because..." That's a strength, not a wobble.
📬 When Are Offers Released?
Imperial communicates every outcome only through UCAS. Decisions come after the interview period, so don't expect anything during January. In recent cycles, applicants have typically heard from around March, and every on-time applicant will have a decision by the UCAS deadline for universities in May.
Most offers are conditional on your grades. Unconditional offers usually go to applicants who already hold their results, for example after a gap year.
If it's a no, Imperial says it offers feedback on the interview process and welcomes reapplications. It even has a dedicated page on making the most of a gap year.
🔢 How Many Are Interviewed, and How Many Get Offers?
Imperial's target intake is 345 places, capped by the government: 271 Home and 74 Overseas.
Here's how many applicants Imperial invited to interview in recent cycles:
- 2026: 870 (253 international)
- 2025: 852 (280 international)
- 2024: 844 (226 international)
- 2023: 975 (135 international)
For the 2025 entry cycle, Imperial's published admissions statistics show around 2,149 applications, roughly 661 offers and 357 places confirmed. Imperial describes that as an applications-to-places ratio of about 6:1.
Now put those two sets of numbers together. Roughly two in five applicants were interviewed, and of those 852 interviewees, roughly three in four received an offer.
Read that carefully, because it's the most encouraging statistic in this article. At Imperial, the hardest door is the first one. Get the interview, and you're in a genuinely strong position. Your job is to not throw it away.
🗂️ What Topics Are Covered in the Imperial Interview?
Imperial tells you its main station topics directly. They may vary from year to year, but the published list is:
- 🤝 Teamwork and leadership
- 🩺 Motivation to study medicine
- 👩⚕️ Understanding the role of a doctor
- 💙 Empathy and breaking bad news
- ⚖️ Ethics and values-related scenarios
- 📈 Data interpretation
Behind those topics sit the qualities Imperial says it looks for in applicants:
- A motivated and realistic approach to medicine as a career
- Capacity to deal with stressful situations and to multitask
- Commitment to the values of the NHS Constitution
- Evidence of working as both a leader and a team member
- Empathetic understanding, communication skills and maturity of character
- A likely contribution to university life
And it describes the professional values it wants to see: compassionate, resilient, responsible, non-discriminatory, responsive (able to manage ambiguity and make decisions on incomplete data) and well rounded.
That word "responsive" is a big clue. It explains why Imperial has a data interpretation station when most medical schools don't.
⚠️ Nobody outside Imperial's admissions team knows the real stations, and you should be sceptical of anyone who claims otherwise. The questions below are written in Imperial's station style, one topic per station and five minutes per answer, covering exactly what the school says it tests.
💬 48 Imperial-Style MMI Practice Questions
Set a timer for five minutes. Answer out loud. If your interview is online, practise to a camera. Don't script anything; build a structure instead.
🩺 Station: Commitment to Medicine and Motivation
At Imperial, this interviewer has your personal statement. Expect follow-up questions on anything you wrote.
- Why do you want to study medicine, and what specifically made you decide?
- You mention a particular experience in your personal statement. Tell us more about it, and what it changed in your thinking.
- Why medicine rather than nursing, physiotherapy or becoming a physician associate?
- What do you think will be the hardest part of a six-year medical degree, and how have you prepared for it?
- Describe something you've read, watched or listened to recently about medicine that challenged your view of the career.
- What have you done outside school that tells us you'd contribute to university life?
- Imagine it's ten years from now and you're a junior doctor. What does a hard day look like, and why do you still want it?
- Tell us about something from your work experience or volunteering that didn't go to plan. What did you learn?
💡 Strong answers name a specific moment, then reflect on it. "I've always wanted to help people" is the weakest sentence in medical admissions. Show the interviewer why you, specifically, chose this.
👩⚕️ Station: Understanding the Role of a Doctor
- What qualities make a good doctor, and which of them do you most need to develop?
- Who makes up a multidisciplinary team in a hospital, and what does the doctor bring that others don't?
- How is the role of a general practitioner (GP) different from that of a hospital doctor?
- The General Medical Council (GMC) expects doctors to follow Good Medical Practice. What do you think that means for a doctor's behaviour outside work?
- Doctors are expected to be scientists as well as clinicians. What does that mean in practice?
- How do you think the role of a doctor will change over the next 20 years, for example with artificial intelligence?
- What are the biggest pressures on doctors working in the NHS today, and how might they affect patient care?
- What part do doctors play in preventing illness, rather than just treating it?
🤝 Station: Teamwork and Leadership
- Tell us about a time you led a team. What went well, and what would you do differently?
- Describe a time a team you were part of failed. What was your contribution to that?
- Is a good leader always a good team member? Use an example to explain your view.
- A member of your group project keeps missing meetings and the deadline is in three days. What do you do?
- Tell us about a time you had to follow a decision you disagreed with.
- You're juggling exam revision, a part-time job and a leadership role in a club, and all three need you this week. How do you prioritise?
- Why does teamwork matter so much for patient safety?
- A junior colleague tells you they're too nervous to speak up when they spot problems. How would you help them?
💡 Use a simple structure for experience questions: Situation, Task, Action, Result and Reflection (STARR), which Imperial's own students recommend. The reflection is where most of the marks live.
💙 Station: Empathy and Breaking Bad News
Some of these will be role plays. Talk to the person, not about the situation.
- You've been looking after your neighbour's cat while they're away, and it ran out of an open window and hasn't come back. Your neighbour has just arrived home. Speak to them.
- Your younger sibling has been looking forward to a school trip for months, and you've just learnt it's been cancelled. Tell them.
- You work on a hospital reception desk. A patient who has travelled an hour has just learnt their appointment is cancelled for the second time. They're very upset. Speak to them.
- Your best friend didn't get the grades for their university offer, and you got yours. They've asked to meet. How would you approach the conversation?
- What's the difference between empathy and sympathy, and why does it matter in medicine?
- How would you know whether a difficult conversation with a patient had gone well?
- Tell us about a time you supported someone who was struggling. What did you do, and what would you change now?
- What makes breaking bad news so difficult for doctors, and how can they do it well?
💡 Doctors often use a framework called SPIKES: Setting, Perception, Invitation, Knowledge, Emotions and empathy, Strategy and Summary. You don't need to name it, but its shape helps: find out what they know, warn them, tell them clearly, then stop talking and let them react.
⚖️ Station: Ethics and Values-Related Scenarios
Weigh both sides, then commit to a view. That's the skill being marked.
- A 15-year-old asks you not to tell her parents that she's been prescribed the contraceptive pill. What issues does this raise?
- An adult patient refuses a blood transfusion for religious reasons, even though they may die without it. What should the doctor do?
- A new cancer drug extends life by four months and costs £90,000 per patient. Should the NHS fund it?
- You're a medical student and you smell alcohol on a doctor's breath before a ward round. What do you do?
- Should people who continue to smoke be given lower priority for some operations?
- A friend on your course posts a photo from placement on social media in which a patient's name is visible. What should you do?
- What are the four pillars of medical ethics, and can you describe a situation where two of them conflict?
- Should doctors be allowed to help terminally ill adults end their own lives if they ask to? Explain your reasoning.
📈 Station: Data Interpretation
This is Imperial's most distinctive station. You won't need advanced maths; you need to think clearly about what numbers do and don't show.
- A newspaper says a new drug "halves your risk of heart attack". In the trial, heart attacks fell from 2 in every 100 people to 1 in every 100. Explain what that headline means, and whether it's misleading.
- Hospital A reports that 4% of patients die after a particular operation. Hospital B reports 2%. A friend says Hospital B is obviously better. What would you want to know before agreeing?
- A study finds that people who drink coffee every day live longer than people who don't. Does this mean coffee makes you live longer?
- In one London borough, childhood measles vaccination fell from 92% to 85% over five years, and measles cases rose from 3 to 40 a year. What might explain this, and what further information would you want?
- A graph shows emergency department attendances rising every winter and falling every summer for five years. Describe the pattern and suggest three reasons for it.
- A survey of 40 patients at one GP surgery found that 90% were satisfied with their care. The surgery says this proves its care is excellent. How reliable is that conclusion?
- A screening test correctly picks up 95 out of every 100 people who have a disease. If you test positive, does that mean there's a 95% chance you have it? Talk through your thinking.
- A chart shows that the number of people waiting longer than a year for treatment has fallen this year. A politician says waiting lists are fixed. What questions would you ask?
💡 A good data answer has four parts: describe what you see, interpret it, spot the limitations (sample size, confounding factors, missing information) and say what you'd want to know next. Correlation isn't causation, absolute risk isn't relative risk, and one surgery's survey isn't the country.
🏫 Questions Specific to Imperial
Imperial wants to know that you chose it on purpose, not because it was near the top of a list. These ten questions are built around what makes the course different. Prepare every one properly.
- Why Imperial, rather than another London medical school?
- At Imperial, every student completes a BSc in Year 4. Which pathway interests you most, and why?
- Imperial is a university of science, engineering, medicine and business. How might working alongside engineers and scientists make you a better doctor?
- You'd have the chance to take part in research during your degree. Tell us about a piece of medical research or an innovation that has interested you.
- Much of our teaching uses team-based learning and flipped classrooms, where you prepare before sessions and apply your knowledge in groups. How do you learn best, and how would you adapt to this style?
- We look for students who can make decisions on the basis of incomplete information. Tell us about a time you had to do that.
- Our students work with an extremely diverse patient population across north and west London. What challenges and opportunities does that create?
- Imperial is a large medical school in a big, expensive city. How will you look after your wellbeing and build a support network here?
- What would you contribute to Imperial beyond your studies?
- Which of the values in the NHS Constitution matters most to you, and how have you shown it?
💡 For question 50, don't just name a pathway. Link it to something you've actually done or read, and say what question you'd love to explore. "I'd like to do Remote Medicine because of my Duke of Edinburgh expedition, where I started wondering how you'd manage a serious injury eight hours from help" beats "I find neuroscience fascinating" every time.
🗣️ What Students and Applicants Say
The themes below come up again and again in applicant forums, open day conversations and chats with current students. They're composite impressions, not official statements, so treat them as flavour rather than fact.
"The data station threw me, until I realised it wasn't really a maths test." This is the single most common comment. Applicants expect calculus and get a chart, a headline or a survey result. The ones who did well say they just talked through what the numbers showed and what they didn't show.
"Five minutes felt like ages." Lots of applicants run out of things to say at the two-minute mark. Those who felt calm had a simple structure ready, rather than a memorised answer.
"The interviewers were kinder than I expected." Despite Imperial's reputation, students often describe the interviewers as warm, encouraging and genuinely interested.
"Know your own personal statement." Applicants who'd forgotten details of what they wrote were caught out at the Commitment to Medicine station. Reread it the night before.
"The BSc year is what sold it to me." Current students regularly say the compulsory BSc is the best year of the course, and the thing that makes Imperial graduates stand out later.
"It's intense, and London isn't cheap." Students are honest that the workload is heavy and that living costs bite. Many say the medical school's own students' union, sports clubs and peer-teaching societies are what make the place feel smaller than it is.
🚀 Top Tips to Succeed at the Imperial Interview
1. Check your predictions against the new A*AA minimum. For 2027 entry, Imperial wants an A* in Biology or Chemistry. If you're predicted AAA without a contextual flag, talk to your teachers now.
2. Respect the SJT floor. Band 4 rules you out at Imperial however high your total. Bands 1 to 3 all keep you in the running.
3. Practise the data station deliberately. Most applicants never rehearse it. Spend twenty minutes a week reading health statistics in the news and asking: what does this actually show, and what's missing? Learn the difference between relative and absolute risk, correlation and causation, and why sample size matters.
4. Communication is 40% of every mark. Slow down. Signpost: "I'd like to make three points." Use plain English. Pause instead of filling silence with "like" and "basically".
5. Think before you speak. You have five minutes, and Imperial itself tells you not to rush. Taking ten seconds to plan an answer looks thoughtful, not stuck.
6. Reread your personal statement. The Commitment to Medicine interviewer has it. Be ready to expand on every experience you mentioned, and to say what you learnt, not just what you saw.
7. Use STARR for experience questions. Situation, Task, Action, Result, Reflection. Spend the most time on the last two.
8. Weigh both sides in ethics, then land. A balanced answer that reaches a clear, justified conclusion scores better than either a one-sided rant or an endless "on the other hand".
9. Practise role plays out loud with a real person. Breaking bad news is a skill, not a fact. Warn the person, say it clearly, then stop talking and let them react.
10. Know why Imperial, in detail. The compulsory BSc and its pathways, research and innovation, team-based learning, the north-west London patient population, and the strong student experience scores. Say what those mean for you.
11. Read the invitation like it's an exam paper. Format, platform, timings and rules can change between cycles. Check every detail, test your technology if it's online, and plan your journey if it's in person.
12. Treat every station as a fresh start. Different interviewer, separate score. If one station goes badly, the next interviewer has no idea. Leave it behind.
13. Do a proper mock. Self-practice builds fluency, but it can't tell you how you come across to a trained examiner. If you want a full, timed MMI circuit with real interviewers and written feedback, that's exactly what our MMI Courses are built for. 👉 Book a Mock MMI Circuit
📌 Key Facts at a Glance
💙 Medical school: Imperial College School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
💙 Course: MBBS/BSc Medicine, six years, UCAS code A100
💙 Main study locations: South Kensington and Charing Cross campuses, plus hospitals across north and west London
💙 Application deadline for 2027 entry: 15 October 2026, 18:00 UK time
💙 A Level minimum: A*AA including Biology and Chemistry, A* in one of them (contextual: A* in any subject)
💙 IB minimum: 38 points with 6 in Higher Level Biology and Chemistry
💙 GCSEs: not used, except grade 6 (B) in English
💙 Admissions test: UCAT, used to shortlist for interview
💙 UCAT thresholds (2026 entry, out of 2,700): 2,320 Home · 2,310 Overseas · 2,170 contextual
💙 SJT: Band 3 minimum; Band 4 discounted
💙 Personal statement: not graded at shortlisting; used at the Commitment to Medicine station
💙 Interview type: Multiple Mini Interview, six stations, five minutes to answer each (2026 entry)
💙 Delivery: in-person and online MMIs listed; confirmed in your invitation
💙 Station topics: teamwork and leadership · motivation · role of a doctor · empathy and breaking bad news · ethics and values · data interpretation
💙 Scoring: 10 points per station (6 content, 4 communication), 60 in total
💙 Interview invitations: rolling from December
💙 Interviews held: typically January and February
💙 Offers: through UCAS only, after the interview period
💙 Places: 345 (271 Home, 74 Overseas)
💙 Interviewed (2026 cycle): 870
💙 2025 cycle: around 2,149 applications, 852 interviewed, roughly 661 offers
💙 Fees for 2027 entry: £10,050 a year (Home) · £61,550 a year (Overseas)
💙 Rankings: 2nd in the world (QS 2027) · 7th in the world for Medicine (QS 2026) · 1st for Medicine in the Guardian University Guide 2027
Good luck. At a medical school where around three in four interviewees received an offer last cycle, the interview isn't the wall. It's the part you can prepare for. 💙
🔗 Useful Links
- Blue Peanut MMI Courses — timed mock circuits with examiner feedback
- Blue Peanut — Current NHS hot topics and how to discuss them at interview
- Imperial College London — Medicine MBBS/BSc course page, 2027 entry
- Imperial College School of Medicine — Admissions process and MMI guidance
- Imperial College School of Medicine — Admissions timeline
- Imperial College London — Medicine A100 Admissions Freedom of Information (FOI) FAQs, 2026
- Imperial College School of Medicine — MBBS Virtual Open Day
- Imperial College School of Medicine — Widening participation
- Imperial College School of Medicine — Work experience guidance
- Imperial College School of Medicine — Intercalated BSc programme and pathways
- Imperial College London — League tables and rankings
- Medical Schools Council — Imperial College London Medicine (A100)
- University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) — official website
- General Medical Council — Good Medical Practice
- NHS Constitution for England
Blue Peanut interview course
Done reading about your score? Start preparing to win the offer.
Small-group interview and MMI preparation taught by NHS doctors, in Manchester, London or live online.
