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Biology at Imperial insane drop-out rate?

A friend of mine recently got an offer from Imperial for Biology. He seems to be choosing between UCL and Imperial for his firm and the latter apparently has a 21% dropout rate for his course compared to 9% at UCL. Would be appreciated if anyone knows why this rate is so high/do other factors make up for it?
Thanks in advance!

21? u stoopd

nah I'm not! haha

for those that do want to see evidence though it's just below the middle of the page
http://university.which.co.uk/imperial-college-london-i50/biology-3-years-9000-c100-38411

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 3

username1221160

It seems to have a 1% drop out rate.

https://unistats.direct.gov.uk/subjects/study/10003270FT-C100/ReturnTo/Search

I can only assume that the 21% is either an error if or it represents people are transferring to other biology degrees/other degrees.

Reply 4

TomManiac

That makes a lot more sense, a fifth of the students throwing away their 9 grand investment seemed ludicrous. Cheers!

Reply 5

Munrot07

Original post by TomManiac

I am at Imperial now studying Biology and it really isn't that high but there are a few drop outs as the Biology course here is very demanding and very hard (and very rewarding and fun too). It definitely isn't 21% though...that's 33 people in our year and it definitely isn't that much :P

Also some things on that link are wrong. 23% of the first year isn't practical exams...0% is. 25% is coursework though.