IMPERIAL BUSINESS SCHOOL MSC
Imperial Business School Personal Statement: Start with your programme
Prepare two separate personal statement answers: why Imperial and your community contribution, then an experience demonstrating values and impact. Each answer has its own 3,500-character limit in the supplied application form.
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Why do you want to study at Imperial Business School and how will you contribute to our community?
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Personal statement: a clear role for each answer
Personal Statement benefits from specific evidence rather than broad claims. Career planning explains your direction; the first PS answer connects school fit and contribution; the values answer shows how you acted in a real situation. Reusing an experience can be appropriate, but repeating the same explanation across all three answers wastes limited space.
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Common questions about personal statement
Do words or characters determine the limit?
Use the character limit for personal statement in the application form. The approximate word count is guidance. Our editor includes spaces and line breaks; verify the final count in the portal, particularly when using special Unicode characters.
Can I use a reference answer as my own?
Use examples to understand structure and explanation. Write about your own experience and verify every factual claim. AI assistance should help express your evidence, not supply an invented history.
Turn community contribution into an action
Describe a community contribution you could make through a specific activity, drawing on something you have already done. Keep that community contribution distinct from your values experience. Before editing the personal statement, check that each answer reveals a different part of your preparation.
Identify the purpose
Plan the Imperial business school personal statement as two separate answers: school fit and contribution, then values demonstrated through action. For the personal statement, assign each answer different evidence so the reader learns something new.
Select a specific experience
Build the personal statement from a situation, your responsibility, your action and an observed result. Keep uncertain details in your notes for checking. In the Imperial business school personal statement, describe your contribution without claiming the whole team’s achievement.
Explain the learning need
Use the personal statement to connect an experience with a capability you still need to develop. Verify any programme resource before naming it. For the personal statement, explain the connection rather than listing courses without personal reasons.
Give paragraphs different jobs
Structure the Imperial business school personal statement around learning needs, school fit and a practical contribution in the first answer. Use a decision and its impact in the second. Read the personal statement for repeated arguments across both answers.
Learn from an example
Read the personal statement for the link between a claim and its evidence. A hypothetical example illustrates a method. Apply the method to your own facts; the personal statement should never turn a sample’s history into yours.
Revise before shortening
Review the Imperial business school personal statement for relevance and support before editing individual phrases. Remove repeated introductions and unnecessary lists. Check the personal statement again after shortening: the reason for your choice must remain understandable, and the factual meaning must survive.
Confirm personal facts
Check the personal statement against your records. Revisit the Imperial business school personal statement when a suggestion changes responsibility. Finalise the personal statement only after confirming dates, roles and outcomes.
Check the application field
Count the personal statement in the field you intend to submit, including spaces and line breaks. Use the limit in your application portal. Compare the personal statement with your other answers and CV for conflicting dates or responsibilities.