Target Group
Undergraduate students
Initiative Theme
Marketing
Outreach
Student recruitment
Initiative institution
Imperial College
Application type
Athena Swan Initiative
Publication date
The Department has an active outreach program to encourage applications from all genders and backgrounds. In the academic year 2016-17, they delivered 40 outreach activities, reaching around 12,000 people. Staffing at these activities was 58% female. This has resulted in increasing the ratio of female students from 41% in 2014 to over 50%, while the Master's intake has increased to 42%, and female postgraduate research student enrolment has increased to 41%. There has been a jump in female undergraduate applications and acceptances for 2018-19 entry – female students made up 52% of our applicants, 54% of our offer holders and 53% of our expected students.