Imperial College London

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{{Main|History of Imperial College London}}

The earliest college that led to the formation of Imperial was the Royal College of Chemistry, founded in 1845, with the support of Prince Albert and parliament. This was merged in 1853 into what became known as the Royal School of Mines.{{Cite web |url=http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Albertopolis/TheStoryOf/ImperialCollege/RoyalSchoolOfMines.aspx |title=Royal School of Mines – Imperial College |website=architecture.com |publisher=Royal Institute of British Architects |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915014903/http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Albertopolis/TheStoryOf/ImperialCollege/RoyalSchoolOfMines.aspx |archive-date=15 September 2012 }} The medical school has roots in many different schools across London, the oldest of which being Charing Cross Hospital Medical School which can be traced back to 1823, followed by teaching starting at Westminster Hospital in 1834, and St Mary's Hospital in 1851.{{Cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/college-developments/ |title=A timeline of College developments |website=imperial.ac.uk |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=27 December 2018 |archive-date=1 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301233401/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/college-developments/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite journal |last=Ballantyne |first=John |date=August 2004 |title=St Mary's: the History of a London Teaching Hospital |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=97 |issue=8 |pages=405–406 |issn=0141-0768 |pmc=1079568 |doi=10.1177/014107680409700816 }}{{Cite web |url=https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/charingcross.html |title=Lost Hospitals of London |website=ezitis.myzen.co.uk |access-date=27 December 2018 |archive-date=28 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128180036/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/charingcross.html |url-status=live }}

In 1851, the Great Exhibition was organised as an exhibition of culture and industry by Henry Cole and by Prince Albert, husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. An enormously popular and financial success, proceeds from the Great Exhibition were designated to develop an area for cultural and scientific advancement in South Kensington.{{Cite web |url=http://www.chr.org.uk/Museums/albertopolis2.htm |title=Albertopolis – the wisdom of Prince Albert |website=chr.org.uk |publisher=Cultural Heritage Resources |access-date=24 December 2018 |archive-date=20 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820071324/http://www.chr.org.uk/Museums/albertopolis2.htm |url-status=live }} Within the next six years the Victoria and Albert Museum and Science Museum had opened, joined by new facilities in 1871 for the Royal College of Chemistry, and in 1881 the opening of the Royal School of Mines and Natural History Museum.{{Cite web |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol38/pp233-247#h2-0003 |title=Imperial College |website=british-history.ac.uk |publisher=British History Online |access-date=24 December 2018 }}

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In 1881, the Normal School of Science was established in South Kensington under the leadership of Thomas Huxley, taking over responsibility for the teaching of the natural sciences and agriculture from the Royal School of Mines.{{cite web |url=http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Albertopolis/TheStoryOf/ImperialCollege/RoyalCollegeOfScience.aspx |title=Royal College of Science ─ Imperial College |website=architecture.com |publisher=Royal Institute of British Architects |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002170240/http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Albertopolis/TheStoryOf/ImperialCollege/RoyalCollegeOfScience.aspx |archive-date=2 October 2012 }} The school was renamed the Royal College of Science by royal consent in 1890.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWwKWnp9vaoC&pg=PA38 |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations |isbn=9780192800732 |year=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press }} The Central Institution of the City and Guilds of London Institute was opened as a technical education school on Exhibition Road by the Prince of Wales in 1884, with courses beginning in 1885.

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At the start of the 20th century, there was a concern that Great Britain was falling behind Germany in scientific and technical education. A departmental committee was set up at the Board of Education in 1904, to look into the future of the Royal College of Science. A report released in 1906 called for the establishment of an institution unifying the Royal College of Science and the Royal School of Mines, as well as – if an agreement could be reached with the City and Guilds of London Institute – its Central Technical College.{{cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol38/pp233-247 |pages=233–247 |title=Imperial College – Survey of London: Volume 38, South Kensington Museums Area |date=1975 |publisher=London County Council |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=9 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609032825/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol38/pp233-247 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46MOAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA16 |pages=16–17 |title=The Report of the Board of Education to the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council for the Year 1905–1906 |date=1906 |publisher=HMSO |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726152512/https://books.google.com/books?id=46MOAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

On 8 July 1907, Edward VII granted a Royal Charter establishing the Imperial College of Science and Technology. This incorporated the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Science. It also made provisions for the City and Guilds College to join once conditions regarding its governance were met, as well as for Imperial to become a college of the University of London.{{cite journal |journal=Nature |issue=1959 |volume=76 |url=https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1038_076056a0 |pages=56–57 |date=16 May 1907 |title=Imperial College of Science and Technology |doi=10.1038/076056a0 |bibcode=1907Natur..76...56. |doi-access=free }} The college joined the University of London on 22 July 1908, with the City and Guilds College joining in 1910.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vyPiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA85 |title=University of London, the Historical Record |date=1912 |publisher=University of London Press |page=85 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726152513/https://books.google.com/books?id=vyPiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} The main campus of Imperial College was constructed beside the buildings of the Imperial Institute, the new building for the Royal College of Science having opened across from it in 1906, and the foundation stone for the Royal School of Mines building being laid by King Edward VII in July 1909.

As students at Imperial had to study separately for London degrees, in January 1919, students and alumni voted for a petition to make Imperial a university with its own degree awarding powers, independent of the University of London.{{cite journal |journal=Science |url=https://archive.org/details/jstor-1643261/page/n1 |title=The London Imperial College of Science and Technology |pages=209–210 |date=28 February 1919 |volume=XLIX |issue=1261 |bibcode=1919Sci....49..209. |doi=10.1126/science.49.1261.209 }}{{cite journal |journal=Nature |issue=2632 |volume=105 |url=https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1038_105173a0/page/n1 |pages=173–175 |date=16 May 1907 |title=The Imperial College of Science and Technology |doi=10.1038/105173a0 |doi-access=free }} In response, the University of London changed its regulations in 1925 so that the courses taught only at Imperial would be examined by the university, enabling students to gain a Bachelor of Science.{{cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1920.shtml#college |title=Imperial College 1920–1929 |publisher=Imperial College |access-date=21 January 2019 |archive-date=29 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129062150/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1920.shtml#college |url-status=live }} In October 1945, George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Imperial to commemorate the centenary of the Royal College of Chemistry, which was the oldest of the institutions that united to form Imperial College. "Commemoration Day", named after this visit, is held every October as the university's main graduation ceremony.{{cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1940.shtml#college |title=Imperial College 1940–1949 |publisher=Imperial College |access-date=21 January 2019 |archive-date=14 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114130821/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1940.shtml#college |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/188666/imperial-celebrates-newest-graduates-commemoration-day/ |title=Imperial celebrates its newest graduates at Commemoration Day 2018 |date=17 October 2018 |publisher=Imperial College |access-date=21 January 2019 |archive-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122044448/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/188666/imperial-celebrates-newest-graduates-commemoration-day/ |url-status=live }} The college also acquired a biology field station at Silwood Park near Ascot, Berkshire in 1947{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BpqDQAAQBAJ&q=silwood+park+1947&pg=PA760 |title=The History of Imperial College London, 1907–2007: Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology, and Medicine |last=Gay |first=Hannah |date=2007 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=9781860947087 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726152708/https://books.google.com/books?id=2BpqDQAAQBAJ&q=silwood+park+1947&pg=PA760#v=snippet&q=silwood%20park%201947&f=false |url-status=live }}

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Following World War II, there was again concern that Britain was falling behind in science – this time to the United States. The Percy Report of 1945 and Barlow Committee in 1946 called for a "British MIT"-equivalent, backed by influential scientists as politicians of the time, including Lord Cherwell, Sir Lawrence Bragg and Sir Edward Appleton.{{cite journal |author=Jean Bocock |author2=Lewis Baston |author3=Peter Scott |author4=David Smith |year=2003 |title=American influence on British higher education: science, technology, and the problem of university expansion, 1945–1963 |journal=Minerva |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=327–346 |doi=10.1023/B:MINE.0000005154.25610.b2 |jstor=41821255 |s2cid=143347639 }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qCRFBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 |title=Making Policy in British Higher Education 1945-2011 |author=Michael Shattock |date=1 October 2012 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |isbn=9780335241873 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726152515/https://books.google.com/books?id=qCRFBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} The University Grants Committee strongly opposed however, and so a compromise was reached in 1953, where Imperial would remain within the university, but double in size over the next ten years.{{cite web |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1952-06-11/debates/ffbd1622-6f13-4927-9e07-7dec170ee574/HigherTechnologicalEducation(GovernmentPolicy) |title=Higher Technological Education (Government Policy) |date=11 June 1952 |work=Hansard |access-date=22 January 2019 |archive-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223748/https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1952-06-11/debates/ffbd1622-6f13-4927-9e07-7dec170ee574/HigherTechnologicalEducation(GovernmentPolicy) |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1953-01-29/debates/efdd76ab-4f52-47cc-b094-66f297bb6980/ImperialCollegeOfScienceAndTechnology(Expansion) |title=Imperial College of Science And Technology (Expansion) |author=John Boyd-Carpenter |date=29 January 1953 |work=Hansard |author-link=John Boyd-Carpenter |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=9 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609094017/https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1953-01-29/debates/efdd76ab-4f52-47cc-b094-66f297bb6980/ImperialCollegeOfScienceAndTechnology(Expansion) |url-status=live }} The expansion led to a number of new buildings being erected. These included the Hill building in 1957 and the Physics building in 1960, and the completion of the East Quadrangle, built in four stages between 1959 and 1965. The building work also meant the demolition of the City and Guilds College building in 1962–63, and the Imperial Institute's building by 1967.{{cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp345-359#h3-0004 |pages=345–359 |title=The Imperial College of Science and Technology |year=1969 |publisher=Victoria County History |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=19 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419073934/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp345-359#h3-0004 |url-status=live }} Opposition from the Royal Fine Arts Commission and others meant that Queen's Tower was retained, with work carried out between 1966 and 1968 to make it free standing.{{cite web |title=The Queen's Tower |publisher=Imperial College |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/queens-tower/ |access-date=29 January 2019 |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223175214/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/queens-tower/ |url-status=live }} New laboratories for biochemistry, established with the support of a £350,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation, were opened by the Queen in 1965.{{cite web |url=http://www.wolfson.org.uk/media/2411/wf_sixty-years-of-philanthropy.pdf |pages=29, 57 |title=The Wolfson Foundation 1955–2015: Sixty Years of Philanthropy |publisher=The Wolfson Foundation |date=2015 |access-date=17 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202001135/http://www.wolfson.org.uk/media/2411/wf_sixty-years-of-philanthropy.pdf |archive-date=2 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1960.shtml |title=Imperial College – Centenary website – Timeline – 1960–1969 |website=imperial.ac.uk |access-date=19 December 2016 |archive-date=4 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204190205/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1960.shtml |url-status=live }}

In 1988, Imperial merged with St Mary's Hospital Medical School under the Imperial College Act 1988. Amendments to the royal charter changed the formal name of the institution to The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and made St Mary's a constituent college.{{cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/secretariat/public/college-governance/charters-statutes-ordinances-regulations/charters-and-statutes/CHARTER---July-2007--(Rev--Nov-2014).pdf |publisher=Imperial College |title=Charter and Statutes |at=Explanatory note |access-date=2 February 2019 |archive-date=13 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113034447/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/secretariat/public/college-governance/charters-statutes-ordinances-regulations/charters-and-statutes/CHARTER---July-2007--(Rev--Nov-2014).pdf |url-status=live }} This was followed by mergers with the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1995 and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1997, with the Imperial College Act 1997 formally establishing the Imperial College School of Medicine.{{Cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/publications/reporterarchive/0048/news01.htm |title=WEST LONDON MEDICINE – PAST AND FUTURE |website=Imperial College London |access-date=24 June 2018 |archive-date=25 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625022000/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/publications/reporterarchive/0048/news01.htm |url-status=live }}

In 2003, Imperial was granted degree-awarding powers in its own right by the Privy Council. In 2004, the Imperial College Business School and a new main college entrance on Exhibition Road were opened.{{cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/college-developments/ |title=A timeline of College Developments |website=Imperial College London |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=1 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301233401/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/college-developments/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_20-8-2008-11-23-23?newsid=42715 |title=New identity for Imperial College Business School |date=20 August 2008 |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=20 June 2017 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185821/http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_20-8-2008-11-23-23?newsid=42715 |url-status=live }} The UK Energy Research Centre was also established in 2004 and opened its headquarters at Imperial. On 9 December 2005, Imperial announced that it would commence negotiations to secede from the University of London.{{cite web |url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/P7134.htm |title=Imperial College London – Imperial College London to begin negotiations to withdraw from the University of London |publisher=Imperial.ac.uk |date=9 December 2005 |access-date=16 June 2011 |archive-date=11 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611132306/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/P7134.htm |url-status=live }} Imperial became fully independent of the University of London in July 2007.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/oct/05/highereducation.administration |title=Imperial College splits from University of London |work=The Guardian |access-date=27 November 2015 |date=5 October 2006 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208073605/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/oct/05/highereducation.administration |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wongls/icaas-web/news/stnews-2jan06/index.html |title=Imperial College top choice for Singaporean students |publisher=Comp.nus.edu.sg |access-date=23 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611055656/http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wongls/icaas-web/news/stnews-2jan06/index.html |archive-date=11 June 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.london.ac.uk/495.html |title=University of London: Updated position statement re: Imperial College London |publisher=London.ac.uk |access-date=16 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210104621/http://www.london.ac.uk/495.html |archive-date=10 December 2006 }}

In April 2011, Imperial and King's College London joined the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation as partners with a commitment of £40 million each to the project. The centre was later renamed the Francis Crick Institute and opened on 9 November 2016. It is the largest single biomedical laboratory in Europe. The college began moving into the new White City campus in 2016, with the launching of the Innovation Hub.{{Cite web |date=28 October 2016 |title=Imperial launches its new hub for innovation at White City |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/175572/imperial-launches-innovation-white-city/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190316011913/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/175572/imperial-launches-innovation-white-city/ |archive-date=16 March 2019 |access-date=4 April 2019 |website=Imperial News |publisher=Imperial College London}} This was followed by the opening of the Molecular Sciences Research Hub for the Department of Chemistry, officially opened by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan in 2019.{{cite web |last=Djaba |first=Andy |title=White City Woes |url=http://felixonline.co.uk/articles/2018-11-30-white-city-woes/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201000810/http://felixonline.co.uk/articles/2018-11-30-white-city-woes/ |archive-date=1 December 2018 |access-date=24 December 2018 |website=felixonline.co.uk}}

In 2014, Stefan Grimm, of the Department of Medicine, was found dead after being told that he was "struggling to fulfil the metrics" of his professorial post.{{cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/imperial-college-london-to-review-procedures-after-death-of-academic/2017188.article |title=Imperial College London to 'review procedures' after death of academic |access-date=6 December 2014 |date=27 November 2014 |archive-date=3 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203204424/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/imperial-college-london-to-review-procedures-after-death-of-academic/2017188.article |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.dcscience.net/2014/12/01/publish-and-perish-at-imperial-college-london-the-death-of-stefan-grimm |title=Publish and perish at Imperial College London: the death of Stefan Grimm |access-date=6 December 2014 |date=December 2014 |archive-date=3 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203150543/http://www.dcscience.net/2014/12/01/publish-and-perish-at-imperial-college-london-the-death-of-stefan-grimm/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/imperial-college-professor-stefan-grimm-was-given-grant-income-target/2017369.article |title=Imperial College professor Stefan Grimm 'was given grant income target' |access-date=6 December 2014 |date=3 December 2014 |archive-date=8 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208073000/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/imperial-college-professor-stefan-grimm-was-given-grant-income-target/2017369.article |url-status=live }} The college announced an internal inquiry into his death, and found that the performance metrics for his position were unreasonable, with new metrics for performance being needed.{{Cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/stefan-grimm-inquest-new-policies-may-not-have-prevented-suicide/2019563.article |title=Stefan Grimm inquest: new policies may not have prevented suicide |date=9 April 2015 |newspaper=Times Higher Education (THE) |access-date=23 January 2017 |archive-date=14 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614124855/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/stefan-grimm-inquest-new-policies-may-not-have-prevented-suicide/2019563.article |url-status=live }}

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The South Kensington campus is the college's main campus, where most teaching and research takes place. It is home to many notable buildings, such as the Business School, Royal School of Mines, and Royal College of Science. It is also the original site of the Imperial Institute, whose Queen's Tower stands at the heart of the campus overlooking Queen's Lawn. As part of a cultural centre known as Albertopolis the campus is surrounded by many of London's most popular attractions, including the Royal Albert Hall and Kensington Palace, museums including the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum, and institutions such as the Royal College of Art, the Royal College of Music, and the National Art Library.

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The campus has many restaurants and cafés run by the college, and contains much of the college's student accommodation, including the Prince's Garden Halls, and Beit Hall, home to the college union, which runs student pubs, a nightclub, and a cinema on site. To the north, within easy walking distance of the college, are Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, with green spaces and sports facilities used by many of the student clubs.

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Imperial has a new second major campus in White City providing a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship. This campus was built on land previously owned by BBC.{{Cite web |title=White City Campus |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/white-city-campus/about/vision-and-strategy/ |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=12 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812141016/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/white-city-campus/about/vision-and-strategy/ |url-status=live }} The hub houses research facilities, postgraduate accommodation, as well as a commercialisation space.{{citation |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b6317348-1c96-11e4-98d8-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?siteedition=uk&_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fb6317348-1c96-11e4-98d8-00144feabdc0.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&_i_referer=&classification=conditional_standard&iab=barrier-app |title=Imperial unveils details of £3bn campus extension |first=Claer |last=Barrett |date=5 August 2014 |newspaper=Financial Times |location=London |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=17 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817004443/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b6317348-1c96-11e4-98d8-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?siteedition=uk&_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fb6317348-1c96-11e4-98d8-00144feabdc0.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&_i_referer=&classification=conditional_standard&iab=barrier-app |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/business/novartis-joins-rush-of-science-companies-moving-to-white-city-a4002746.html |title=Novartis joins rush of science companies moving to White City |date=28 November 2018 |website=Evening Standard |location=London |access-date=24 December 2018 |archive-date=24 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224171937/https://www.standard.co.uk/business/novartis-joins-rush-of-science-companies-moving-to-white-city-a4002746.html |url-status=live }} The campus is home to the Scale Space and incubator, Invention Rooms, a college hackerspace and community outreach centre.{{cite web |last=Fyles |first=Fred S. |title=College reaches out to White City community with Invention Rooms |url=http://felixonline.co.uk/articles/2017-11-03-college-reaches-out-to-white-city-community-with-invention-rooms/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224220200/http://felixonline.co.uk/articles/2017-11-03-college-reaches-out-to-white-city-community-with-invention-rooms/ |archive-date=24 December 2018 |access-date=24 December 2018 |website=felixonline.co.uk }} The White City campus also includes another biomedical centre funded by Sir Michael Uren.{{cite web |date=17 September 2019 |title=Sir Michael Uren, engineer who poured vast sums into charitable projects from a fortune built on recycling steel-industry slag – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/09/17/sir-michael-uren-engineer-poured-vast-sums-charitable-projects/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200531232959/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/09/17/sir-michael-uren-engineer-poured-vast-sums-charitable-projects/ |archive-date=31 May 2020 |access-date=31 May 2020 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London }}{{cite web |url=https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2018/07/open-cell-launches-affordable-biotech-hub-shepherds-bush |title=Open Cell launches affordable biotech hub in Shepherds Bush |date=31 July 2018 |website=Hammersmith & Fulham Council |access-date=31 July 2019 |archive-date=27 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227172631/https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2018/07/open-cell-launches-affordable-biotech-hub-shepherds-bush |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/thinkspace/partners-and-services/imperial-white-city-incubator/ |title=Imperial White City Incubator |work=Imperial College London |access-date=27 February 2020 |archive-date=27 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227172634/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/thinkspace/partners-and-services/imperial-white-city-incubator/ |url-status=live }}

Silwood Park is a postgraduate campus of Imperial in the village of Sunninghill near Ascot in Berkshire. The Silwood Park campus remains a centre for research and teaching in ecology, evolution, and conservation. It is set in 100 hectares of parkland used for ecological field experiments.

Imperial has teaching hospitals across London which are used by the School of Medicine for undergraduate clinical teaching and medical research. All are based around college-affiliated hospitals, and also provide catering and sport facilities. College libraries are located on each campus, including the Fleming library at St Mary's.{{cite web |title=St Mary's Fleming Library |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/library/use-the-library/our-libraries/st-marys-fleming-library/ |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=26 December 2018 |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226233134/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/library/use-the-library/our-libraries/st-marys-fleming-library/ |url-status=live }}

Imperial is organised into four faculties: the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, and the Imperial College Business School. {{As of|2024|post=,}} the academic departments are:{{cite web |title=Faculties and departments |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/Faculties-and-departments/ |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=19 September 2024}}

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Faculty of Engineering

• Aeronautics
• Bioengineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Computing
• Dyson School of Design Engineering
• Earth Science and Engineering
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Materials
• Mechanical Engineering

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Faculty of Medicine

• Brain Sciences
• Immunology and Inflammation
• Infectious Disease
• Institute of Clinical Sciences
• Metabolism, Digestion amd Reproduction
• Surgery and Cancer
• Institute of Clinical Sciences
• National Heart and Lung Institute
• School of Public Health

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Faculty of Natural Sciences

• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Life Sciences
• Centre for Environmental Policy

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Imperial College Business School

• Analytics and Operations
• Economics and Public Policy
• Finance
• Management and Entrepreneurship
• Marketing

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Imperial hosts centres to promote inter-disciplinary work under the titles of Global Challenge institutes, Imperial Centres of Excellence and Imperial Networks of Excellence. It also participates as a partner in a number of national institutes.{{cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/multidisciplinary-research/ |title=Multidisciplinary networks, centres and institutes |website=Imperial College |access-date=18 March 2023 |archive-date=18 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318204613/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/multidisciplinary-research/ |url-status=live }}

{{columns-start|num=2|width=75%}}Global Challenge institutes:

• Data Science Institute
• Energy Futures Laboratory
• Grantham Institute for Climate Change
• Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
• Institute for Security Science and Technology
• Institute of Global Health Innovation
• Institute of Infection

{{column|width=75%}}National institutes:

• Francis Crick Institute
• Rosalind Franklin Institute
• Alan Turing Institute
• Henry Royce Institute
• Faraday Institution
• UK Dementia Research Institute
• MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences{{columns-end}}

The Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication operates as Imperial College London's adult education centre, offering evening class courses in the arts, humanities, languages and sciences.{{cite web |url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/evening-classes |title=Evening classes and lunchtime learning |work=Imperial College London |access-date=2 September 2019 |archive-date=2 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902080224/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/evening-classes |url-status=live }} The university also houses two academic centres offering teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students in subjects outside of science, technology and medicine. The academic centres are the:

• Centre for Academic English
• Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication

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{{see also|President of Imperial College London|Provost of Imperial College London}}

The council is the governing body of Imperial. The council consists of between 19 and 27 members, with an independent chair and ex officio members being the president, the provost, the chief operating officer, the president of Imperial College Union, and four senior staff members. There are also up to four further staff members (comprising one member elected by the academic staff, one further appointed member of academic staff and two members of the professional services staff), up to one further representative of Imperial College Union, and between nine and 13 other independent members, with the proviso that the independent members (including the chair) must comprise the majority.{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/secretariat/university-governance-and-key-documents/governance-structure/council/composition/|title= Composition and Membership|website=Imperial|access-date=19 September 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/secretariat/public/college-governance/charters-statutes-ordinances-regulations/charters-and-statutes/Charter-and-Statutes-13-December-2023.pdf|title=Charter and Statutes|date= 13 December 2023|at=3. THE COUNCIL (1) Membership of the Council|website=Imperial}} The president is the highest academic official and chief executive of Imperial College London.{{Citation |title=Past Rectors |url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/aboutimperial/imperial_people/pastrectors |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=21 March 2009 |archive-date=17 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081117104619/http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/aboutimperial/imperial_people/pastrectors |url-status=dead }} The position has been held by Hugh Brady, {{as of|August 2022|lc=y|since=y}}.{{Cite web |title=President Hugh Brady |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/leadership-and-strategy/president/ |website=Imperial College London |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716184834/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/leadership-and-strategy/president/ |url-status=live }} {{As of|2024|post=,}} the provost is Ian Walmsley and the chair is Vindi Banga.

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The college's endowment is sub-divided into three distinct portfolios:

• Unitised Scheme – a unit trust vehicle for the college, Faculties and Departments to invest endowments and unfettered income to produce returns for the long term
• Non-Core Property – a portfolio containing around 120 operational and developmental properties which the college has determined are not core to the academic mission
• Strategic Asset Investments – containing the college's shareholding in Imperial Innovations and other restricted equity holdings.{{cite web |title=Annual Report and Accounts 2020–21 |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/finance/annual-report/archive/annual-reports-and-accounts-2020-21/financial-review/income/ |access-date=1 March 2023 |publisher=Imperial College London |archive-date=1 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301215558/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/finance/annual-report/archive/annual-reports-and-accounts-2020-21/financial-review/income/ |url-status=live }}

In the financial year ending 31 July 2024, Imperial had a total income of £1.309 billion (2022/23 – £1.256 million) and total expenditure of £1.051 billion (2022/23 – £1.235 billion). Key sources of income included £507.5 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2022/23 – £452.1 million), £165.4 million from funding body grants (2022/23 – £183.3 million), £396.2 million from research grants and contracts (2022/23 – £383.1 million), £28.8 million from investment income (2022/23 – £24.1 million) and £35.5 million from donations and endowments (2022/23 – £51.5 million).

At year end, Imperial had endowments of £235.2 million (2022/23 – £220.1 million) and total net assets of £2.082 billion (2022/23 – £1.792 billion). It holds the eighth-largest endowment of any university in the UK.

Imperial is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, European University Association, Global Alliance of Technological Universities, League of European Research Universities and the Russell Group. It is a founding member of the Imperial College academic health sciences centre, the Francis Crick Institute and MedCity. Imperial is a long-term partner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the first formal large-scale collaboration agreement dating back to 1944 as part of World War II scientific effort.{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1944 |title=Imperial College and 'M.I.T.' |journal=Nature |volume=153 |issue=3873 |pages=104 |doi=10.1038/153104b0 |bibcode=1944Natur.153R.104. |issn=1476-4687 |doi-access=free }} The partnership between the two institutions continues with exchange programs for students and academic staff.{{Cite news |title=MIT expands partnership with Imperial College London |work=MIT News |url=https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-expands-multi-departmental-partnership-imperial-college-london-0222 |access-date=21 March 2018 |archive-date=3 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403140900/http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-expands-multi-departmental-partnership-imperial-college-london-0222 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=MIT and Imperial launch 'unparalleled' student exchange |work=Imperial News |publisher=Imperial College London |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/185057/mit-imperial-launch-unparalleled-student-exchange/ |access-date=21 March 2018 |archive-date=22 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322081856/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/185057/mit-imperial-launch-unparalleled-student-exchange/ |url-status=live }}

In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, Imperial's research profile was assessed as 66 per cent world class (4*) 30 per cent internationally important (3*) and 3 per cent internationally recognised (2*), with insignificant quantities of research in lower categories. This led to Imperial being ranked first in the UK on GPA and ninth for research power by Times Higher Education, with a GPA of 3.63 and research power 47.3 per cent of the top-ranked University of Oxford.{{Cite web |date=12 May 2022 |title=REF 2021: Quality ratings hit new high in expanded assessment |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2021-research-excellence-framework-results-announced |access-date=23 August 2022 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |archive-date=23 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123104719/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2021-research-excellence-framework-results-announced |url-status=live }}

The college promotes research commercialisation, partly through its dedicated technology transfer company, Imperial Innovations, which has given rise to a large number of spin-out companies based on academic research.{{cite web |url=http://www.imperialinnovations.co.uk/about/background/ |title=Background to the Group – Imperial Innovations |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731103858/http://www.imperialinnovations.co.uk/about/background/ |archive-date=31 July 2016 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.thememo.com/2015/11/30/imperial-innovations-imperial-college-turning-innovation-into-cash/ |title=How Imperial College is turning innovation into cash |date=30 November 2015 |access-date=17 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820074154/https://www.thememo.com/2015/11/30/imperial-innovations-imperial-college-turning-innovation-into-cash/ |archive-date=20 August 2018 |url-status=dead }} Imperial researcher Narinder Singh Kapany made critical contributions to the invention of fibre optics.{{Cite book |last=Goff |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5UtHAQAAQBAJ&q=imperial+college+invention+optic+fiber&pg=PA22 |title=Fiber Optic Video Transmission: The Complete Guide |date=8 October 2013 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-136-02490-0 |pages=22 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/249193/fibre-optics-pioneer-celebrated-with-portrait/|title=Fibre optics pioneer celebrated with portrait unveiling|author= Sara West|date=2 November 2023|website=Imperial}}

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The United States is the college's top foreign country for collaborations,{{Cite web |title=USA and Canada {{!}} About |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/introducing-imperial/global-imperial/usa-and-canada/ |access-date=29 November 2019 |publisher=Imperial College London |archive-date=19 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219163022/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/introducing-imperial/global-imperial/usa-and-canada/ |url-status=live }} and Imperial College has a long-term partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that dates from World War II.

In January 2018, the mathematics department of Imperial and the French National Centre for Scientific Research launched an "international joint research unit" ({{lang|fr|unité mixte internationale}}; UMI) at Imperial, known as

UMI Abraham de Moivre after the French mathematician, focused on unsolved problems and bridging British and French scientific communities.{{Cite press release |url=http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/3049.htm |title=Imperial College London and CNRS create joint laboratory to bring world's best mathematicians together |website= Centre national de la recherche scientifique |date=15 January 2018 |access-date=17 May 2018 |archive-date=17 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223520/http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/3049.htm |url-status=dead }} In October 2018, Imperial College launched the Imperial Cancer Research UK Center, a research collaboration that aims to find innovative ways to improve the precision of cancer treatments, inaugurated by Joe Biden as part of his Biden Cancer Initiative.{{Cite web |url=https://crukimperialcentre.co.uk/ |title=CRUK Imperial Center Website |publisher=CRUK Imperial Center |access-date=29 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526102426/https://crukimperialcentre.co.uk/ |archive-date=26 May 2020 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite press release |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/188531/joe-biden-delivers-inaugural-cancer-research/ |title=Joe Biden delivers inaugural cancer research lecture at Imperial |website=Imperial News |date=10 October 2018 |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=29 November 2019 |archive-date=18 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118032625/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/188531/joe-biden-delivers-inaugural-cancer-research/ |url-status=live }}

Neil Ferguson's 16 March 2020 report entitled "Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand" was described in a New York Times article as the coronavirus "report that jarred the U.S. and the U.K. to action".{{Cite journal |pages=20 |last1=Ferguson |first1=Neil M |last2=Laydon |first2=Daniel |last3=Nedjati-Gilani |first3=Gemma |last4=Imai |first4=Natsuko |last5=Ainslie |first5=Kylie |last6=Baguelin |first6=Marc |last7=Bhatia |first7=Sangeeta |last8=Boonyasiri |first8=Adhiratha |last9=Cucunubá |first9=Zulma |last10=Cuomo-Dannenburg |first10=Gina |last11=Dighe |first11=Amy |last12=Fu |first12=Han |last13=Gaythorpe |first13=Katy |last14=Thompson |first14=Hayley |last15=Verity |first15=Robert |last16=Volz |first16=Erik |last17=Wang |first17=Haowei |last18=Wang |first18=Yuanrong |last19=Walker |first19=Patrick GT |last20=Walters |first20=Caroline |last21=Winskill |first21=Peter |last22=Whittaker |first22=Charles |last23=Donnelly |first23=Christl A |last24=Riley |first24=Steven |last25=Ghani |first25=Azra C |journal=Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine |title=Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand |date=16 March 2020 |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf |access-date=22 March 2020 |archive-date=16 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316223332/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=Behind the Virus Report That Jarred the U.S. and the U.K. to Action – The New York Times |access-date=22 March 2020 |first1=Mark |last1=Landler |first2=Stephen |last2=Castle |website=The New York Times |date=17 March 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/world/europe/coronavirus-imperial-college-johnson.html |archive-date=14 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414223140/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/world/europe/coronavirus-imperial-college-johnson.html |url-status=live }} Since 18 May, Imperial College's Dr. Samir Bhatt advised the state of New York for its reopening plan.{{cite web |title=Amid Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, Governor Cuomo Announces State is Bringing in International Experts to Help Advise the State's Reopening Plan |url=https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-announces-state-bringing-international-experts |website=New York State |access-date=20 May 2020 |archive-date=20 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520081800/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-announces-state-bringing-international-experts |url-status=live }} The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, said at the time that "the Imperial College model, as we've been following this for weeks, was the best, most accurate model."

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!2020

|-

| Applications{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}{{cite web |title=UCAS Undergraduate Sector-Level End of Cycle Data Resources 2024 |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024 |at=Show me... Domicile by Provider |website=ucas.com |date=December 2024 |publisher=UCAS |access-date=7 February 2025}}

| 32,990

| 30,725

| 28,620

| 28,700

| 25,650

|-

| Accepted{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}

| 3,255

| 3,135

| 3,090

| 3,305

| 3,450

|-

| Applications/Accepted Ratio{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}

| 10.1

| 9.8

| 9.3

| 8.7

| 7.4

|-

| Offer Rate (%){{efn-lg|name=ukjune}}{{cite web|title=2024 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group|date=7 February 2025|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024/2024-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|publisher=UCAS|access-date=7 February 2025}}

| 32.8

| 33.1

| 30.1

| 32.5

| 42.9

|-

| Average Entry Tariff{{Cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards |title=University League Tables entry standards 2025 |work=The Complete University Guide |access-date=26 July 2024}}

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|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2023/24)

|-

!Domicile{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1|title=HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year|publisher=HESA|access-date=3 April 2025}} and Ethnicity{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/whos-in-he/characteristics|title=Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics|date=3 April 2025|publisher=HESA|access-date=3 April 2025}}

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|-

|British White{{efn|Not be confused solely with White British}}

|align=right| {{bartable|21|%|2||background:red}}

|-

|British Ethnic Minorities{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as Asian, Black, Mixed Heritage, Arab or any other ethnicity except White.}}

|align=right| {{bartable|29|%|2||background:green}}

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|align=right| {{bartable|10|%|2||background:blue}}

|-

|International Non-EU

|align=right| {{bartable|41|%|2||background:gray}}

|-

! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate Widening Participation Indicators{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table |work=The Times}}

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|Female

|align=right| {{bartable|40|%|2||background:purple}}

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|Low Participation Areas{{efn|Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.}}

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In the academic year 2021/22, the ratio of applicants to admissions was 9:1 for undergraduates and 7.7:1 for postgraduates.{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Statistics Guide 2021–22 |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/planning/public/statistics-guides/Stats-Card-2021-22---FINAL.pdf |access-date=24 November 2022 |website=Imperial College London }} The university gave offers of admission to 30.1% of its undergraduate applicants in 2022, the 7th lowest offer rate across the country.{{cite news |title=Cambridge to scrap 'unjust' state school targets |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/cambridge-to-scrap-state-school-targets/ |work=The Telegraph |access-date=11 March 2024 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240331190103/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/cambridge-to-scrap-state-school-targets/ |archive-date=31 March 2024 }} The undergraduate courses with the highest ratios of applicants to admissions were computing (19.2:1), mathematics (14.6:1) and mechanical engineering (11.2:1).

The postgraduate courses with the highest ratios of applicants to admissions were computing (21:1), mathematics (17.9:1), and electrical engineering (14:1). Imperial is among the most international universities in the United Kingdom,{{Cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/most-international-universities-world-2018 |title=Most international universities in the world 2018: top 200 |date=14 March 2018 |work=Times Higher Education (THE) |access-date=19 March 2018 |archive-date=21 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321125626/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/most-international-universities-world-2018 |url-status=live }} with 50% of students from the UK, 16% of students from the EU, and 34% of students from outside the UK or EU.{{Cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/worlds-most-international-universities-2017 |title=The World's Most International Universities 2017 |date=1 February 2017 |work=Times Higher Education (THE) |access-date=10 February 2018 |archive-date=10 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310191156/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/worlds-most-international-universities-2017 |url-status=live }} The student body is 39% female and 61% male.{{cite web |title=Where do HE students study? |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider |website=hesa.ac.uk |publisher=Higher Education Statistics Authority |access-date=9 February 2018 |archive-date=4 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104163711/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider |url-status=live }} 36.5% of Imperial's undergraduates are privately educated, the fourth highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities.{{cite web |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/01-02-2018/widening-participation-tables |title=Widening participation: UK Performance Indicators 2016/17 |website=hesa.ac.uk |publisher=Higher Education Statistics Authority |access-date=1 February 2018 |archive-date=10 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210002143/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/01-02-2018/widening-participation-tables |url-status=live }}

The college's main library is located next to Queen's Lawn and contains the main corpus of the college's collection. It previously also housed the Science Museum's library until 2014.{{Cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/140906/science-museum-library-closes-prepare-research/ |title=Science Museum Library closes to prepare for new research centre |website=Imperial News |date=24 January 2014 |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=25 December 2018 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225080900/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/140906/science-museum-library-closes-prepare-research/ |url-status=live }} The Fleming library is located at St Mary's in Paddington, originally the library of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, with other hospital campuses also having college libraries.{{Cite web |url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/library/use-the-library/our-libraries/ |title=Our libraries |website=imperial.ac.uk |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=25 December 2018 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225080904/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/library/use-the-library/our-libraries/ |url-status=live }}

{{Main|Imperial College Faculty of Medicine|Imperial College Healthcare}}

The Imperial Faculty of Medicine was formed through mergers between Imperial and the St Mary's, Charing Cross and Westminster, and Royal Postgraduate medical schools and has six teaching hospitals. It accepts more than 300 undergraduate medical students per year and has around 321 taught and 700 research full-time equivalent postgraduate students.

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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was formed on 1 October 2007 by the merger of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust (Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital and Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital) and St Mary's NHS Trust (St. Mary's Hospital and Western Eye Hospital) with Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine.{{cite web |url=http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/index.htm |title=About us – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Internet |publisher=Imperial.nhs.uk |access-date=23 March 2011 |archive-date=2 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202094802/http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/index.htm |url-status=dead }} It is an academic health science centre and manages five hospitals: Charing Cross Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, and Western Eye Hospital. The Trust is currently one of the largest in the UK and in 2012/13 had a turnover of £971.3 million, employed approximately 9,770 people and treated almost 1.2 million patients.{{cite web |url=http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/prdcons/groups/public/@corporate/@communications/documents/doc/id_040038.pdf |title=Annual Report 2012/13 |access-date=28 April 2013 |publisher=Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222133347/http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/prdcons/groups/public/@corporate/@communications/documents/doc/id_040038.pdf |archive-date=22 December 2014 }}

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Other (non-academic health science centres) hospitals affiliated with Imperial College include Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospital, West Middlesex University Hospital, Hillingdon Hospital, Mount Vernon Hospital, Harefield Hospital, Ealing Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital, St Mark's Hospital, St Charles' Hospital and St Peter's Hospital.{{cite web |title=Meet the Council |url=http://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/foundationtrust/members_council/meetTheCouncil.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706070615/http://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/foundationtrust/members_council/meetTheCouncil.html |publisher=Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust |archive-date=6 July 2009 |access-date=14 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}

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Imperial College London is widely recognised as one of the UK's elite universities.{{cite book |author=M. Finn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xwm4BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT100 |title=The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition |date=20 February 2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-49151-0 |page=100 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023230357/https://books.google.com/books?id=xwm4BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT100 |archive-date=23 October 2023 |url-status=live}}{{cite book |author1=Claire Maxwell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_5o3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 |title=Elite Education and Internationalisation: From the Early Years to Higher Education |author2=Ulrike Deppe |author3=Heinz-Hermann Krüger |author4=Werner Helsper |date=26 September 2017 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-59966-3 |page=85}}{{cite book |author=Brian Barry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Y3VgA9Kr5cC&pg=PA62 |title=Why Social Justice Matters |date=4 March 2005 |publisher=Polity |isbn=978-0-7456-2992-6 |page=62 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627200243/https://books.google.com/books?id=9Y3VgA9Kr5cC&pg=PA62 |archive-date=27 June 2024 |url-status=live}} According to the 2025 QS World University Rankings, Imperial was ranked 2nd worldwide, following MIT, and 9th by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Imperial is known for its hardworking entrepreneurial culture, which blends business studies with a science-based curriculum.{{Cite news |last=Hall |first=Rachel |date=24 September 2022 |title=Imperial College London: inside the university that is in the business of studying |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/24/imperial-college-london-inside-the-university-that-is-in-the-business-of-studying |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726152506/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/24/imperial-college-london-inside-the-university-that-is-in-the-business-of-studying |archive-date=26 July 2024 |access-date=16 March 2024 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}} Facilities such as the Enterprise Lab—which one in eight students uses and which reports a 79 per cent startup survival rate—demonstrates a commitment to innovation. Reflecting this, the 2023 QS MBA Rankings by Career Specialisation ranked its MBA programme 3rd worldwide for entrepreneurship.{{Cite web |date=8 May 2024 |title=QS MBA by Career Specialisation Rankings 2023: Entrepreneurship |url=https://www.topmba.com/specialisation-rankings/entrepreneurship |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324212829/https://www.topmba.com/specialisation-rankings/entrepreneurship |archive-date=24 March 2024 |access-date=3 July 2024 |website=TopMBA.com |language=en}}

Imperial is also recognised for its interdisciplinary scientific research. Its strategic collaborations with institutions around the world have led to advancements that inform industries and public policy. The college’s basic and translational research reinforces its reputation as an institution where research and entrepreneurship complement one another.

Imperial's focus on practical subjects—engineering, science, medicine, and business—along with its emphasis on entrepreneurship and industry collaborations, has made it a leader in the UK for career outcomes. In 2024, Imperial was ranked 1st in the UK for highly skilled employment or further studies by the Complete University Guide,{{Cite web |date=7 June 2023 |title=You're hired! Imperial grads are the most likely to get good job offers in the whole UK |url=https://thetab.com/uk/london/2023/06/07/youre-hired-imperial-grads-are-most-likely-to-get-the-best-job-offers-in-the-whole-uk-50532 |access-date=17 March 2024 |website=The Tab |archive-date=17 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317033719/https://thetab.com/uk/london/2023/06/07/youre-hired-imperial-grads-are-most-likely-to-get-the-best-job-offers-in-the-whole-uk-50532 |url-status=live }} the Guardian University Guide,{{Cite news |title=The Guardian University Guide 2024 – the rankings |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2023/sep/09/the-guardian-university-guide-2024-the-rankings |access-date=16 March 2024 |website=The Guardian |date=9 September 2023 |archive-date=15 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215180913/https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2023/sep/09/the-guardian-university-guide-2024-the-rankings |url-status=live }} and the Times Good University Guide.{{Cite web |last=szadmin |date=13 September 2013 |title=The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide: New recruits are not job ready according to survey |url=https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/the-times-and-the-sunday-times-good-university-guide-new-recruits-are-not-job-ready-according-to-survey/ |access-date=16 March 2024 |website=News UK |archive-date=16 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316191447/https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/the-times-and-the-sunday-times-good-university-guide-new-recruits-are-not-job-ready-according-to-survey/ |url-status=live }} An analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency salary data for 2021 found that Imperial graduates had the highest median salaries of any UK university.{{Cite web |date=18 September 2021 |title=UK Graduate Salaries 2021 – Highest Paid Graduates by UK University Ranking 2021 – UACU UK |url=https://uacu.uk/articles/3177/uk-graduate-salaries-2021/ |access-date=17 March 2024 |archive-date=17 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317032131/https://uacu.uk/articles/3177/uk-graduate-salaries-2021/ |url-status=live }}

For the {{HESA year}} academic year, Imperial had a total full-time student body of {{HESA student population|INSTID=0132}}, consisting of {{HESA undergraduate population|INSTID=0132}} undergraduate students and {{HESA postgraduate population|INSTID=0132}} postgraduates.{{HESA citation }} 50.7% of the student body is from outside of the UK.{{cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/world-ranked-universities-most-international-students |title=World-ranked universities with the most international students |access-date=30 September 2015 |work=Times Higher Education |archive-date=2 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802022811/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/world-ranked-universities-most-international-students |url-status=live }} 32% of all full-time students came from outside the European Union in 2013–14,{{cite web |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/dox/pressOffice/sfr210/071277_student_sfr210_1314_table_3.xlsx |title=2013/14 Students by HE provider, level, mode and domicile |publisher=Higher Education Statistics Agency |access-date=8 November 2015 |format=XLSX |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231845/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/dox/pressOffice/sfr210/071277_student_sfr210_1314_table_3.xlsx |archive-date=3 March 2016 }} and around 13% of the International students had Chinese nationality in 2007–08. Imperial's male to female ratio for undergraduate students is uneven at approximately 64:36 overall, and 5:1 or higher in some engineering courses. However, medicine has an approximate 1:1 ratio with biology degrees tending to be higher.{{cite web |url=http://www.unistats.com/ |title=Search best UK universities, make university comparisons and see student satisfaction ratings and UCAS points |publisher=Unistats |access-date=23 March 2011 |archive-date=18 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118135524/http://www.unistats.com/ |url-status=live }}

{{wide image|Imperial College - South Kensington Campus.jpg|600px|Queen's Lawn at South Kensington Campus}}

Imperial College Union is the students' union and is run by five full-time sabbatical officers elected from the student body for a tenure of one year, and a number of permanent members of staff. It is split into constituent unions aligned with the faculties of the college, carrying on the association with the original constituent colleges of Imperial, the Royal College of Science Union, City and Guilds College Union, Royal School of Mines Students' Union and Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union. The Union is given a large subvention by the university, much of which is spent on maintaining over 300 clubs, projects and societies.{{cite web |author=Dave Parry |url=http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/money/FinanceFiles/list.shtml |title=Imperial College Union |publisher=Union.ic.ac.uk |access-date=16 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430052412/http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/money/FinanceFiles/list.shtml |archive-date=30 April 2006 }}

Examples of notable student groups and projects are Project Nepal which sends Imperial College students to work on educational development programmes in rural Nepal{{cite web |url=http://felixonline.co.uk/archive/IC_2011/2011_1504_A.pdf |title=Felix : The student voice of Imperial College London |publisher=Felixonline.co.uk |access-date=10 March 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003703/http://felixonline.co.uk/archive/IC_2011/2011_1504_A.pdf |url-status=dead }} and the El Salvador Project, a construction based project in Central America.{{cite web |url=http://www.elsalvadorproject.org.uk/2012/sponsors.html |title=Sponsors |publisher=Elsalvadorproject.org.uk |access-date=10 March 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023404/http://www.elsalvadorproject.org.uk/2012/sponsors.html |url-status=dead }} The Union also hosts sports-related clubs such as Imperial College Boat Club and Imperial College Gliding Club. The Union operates on two sites, with most events at the Union Building on Beit Quad at South Kensington, with mostly medical school events at the Reynold's bar, Charing Cross.

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Sports facilities at Imperial's London campuses include four gyms, including the main Ethos gym at the South Kensington Campus, two swimming pools and two sports halls.{{cite web |author=Imperial College London |url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/sports/facilities |title=Imperial College Sports Facilities |publisher=imperial.ac.uk |access-date=21 March 2012 |archive-date=2 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102121155/http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/sports/facilities |url-status=dead }} Imperial has additional sports facilities at the Heston and Harlington sports grounds. On the South Kensington campus, there are a total of six music practice rooms which consist of upright pianos for usage by people of any grade, and grand pianos which are exclusively for people who have achieved Grade 8 or above.{{cite web |author=Imperial College London |url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/arts/blythcentre/facilities/practicefacilities |title=Imperial College Music Facilities |publisher=imperial.ac.uk |access-date=21 March 2012 |archive-date=2 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102120912/http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/arts/blythcentre/facilities/practicefacilities |url-status=dead }}

There are two student bars on the South Kensington campus, one at the Imperial College Union and one at Eastside.{{cite web |author=Imperial College Union |url=http://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/food-drink/ |title=Food and Drink |publisher=imperialcollegeunion.org |access-date=21 March 2012 |archive-date=22 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322050815/https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/food-drink/ |url-status=live }}

There are a number of pubs and bars on campus and also surrounding the campus, which become a popular social activity for Imperial's students. The Pewter tankard collection at Imperial College Union is the largest in Europe, with the majority of clubs and societies having tankards associated with their clubs.{{cite web |title=Questions about Tankards |url=https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/food-drink/union-bar/questions-about-tankards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523182226/https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/food-drink/union-bar/questions-about-tankards |archive-date=23 May 2017 }}

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Imperial College Radio (ICRadio) was founded in November 1975 with the intention of broadcasting to the student halls of residence from a studio under Southside, actually commencing broadcasts in late 1976. It now broadcasts from the West Basement of Beit Quad over the internet.{{cite web |url=http://www.icradio.com/ |title=Imperial College Radio, London, UK |publisher=Icradio.com |access-date=16 June 2011 |archive-date=5 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705004951/http://www.icradio.com/ |url-status=dead }}

Imperial College Television (ICTV) is the university's TV station, founded in 1969 as STOIC (Student Television of Imperial College) and operated from a small TV studio in the Electrical Engineering block. The department had bought an early AMPEX Type A 1-inch videotape recorder and this was used to produce an occasional short news programme which was then played to students by simply moving the VTR and a monitor into a common room. A cable link to the Southside halls of residence was laid in a tunnel under Exhibition Road in 1972.

Felix is weekly student newspaper, first released on 9 December 1949.{{cite web |url=http://www.ic.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1940.shtml |title=Imperial College – Centenary website – Timeline – 1940–1949 |website=ic.ac.uk |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=26 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726122355/http://www.ic.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1940.shtml |url-status=live }} In addition to news, Felix also carries comic strips, features, opinions, puzzles and reviews, plus reports of trips and Imperial College sporting events.File:RGETeam.jpg is a student-led project to demonstrate the potential of zero-emission cars.]]

The Imperial College Boat Club is the rowing club of Imperial and was founded on 12 December 1919. The college's boat house is located in Putney on the Thames, and has been refurbished, reopening in 2014.{{Cite web |url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/estates-projects/construction-projects/completed-projects/putney-boathouse-development/ |title=Putney Boathouse development‌ |website=Imperial College London |access-date=25 December 2018 }}

Imperial College has over 60 sports clubs,{{Cite web |url=https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/activities/a-to-z |title=Imperial College Union A to Z of Societies |website=Imperial College Union |access-date=24 February 2020 |archive-date=7 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307045516/https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/activities/a-to-z |url-status=live }} of which many participate in the British Universities and Colleges Sport Association leagues such as American Football, Rugby, Badminton, Lacrosse, Football, Ice Hockey, and many others.

File:South Side looking up, Beit Hall, Beit Quadrangle.jpg File:Eastside and Southside Halls, Prince's Gardens in snow.jpgImperial's Exploration Board was established in 1957 to assist students with a desire for exploration. Trips have included Afghanistan, Alaska, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Fiji, the Himalayas, Iran, Morocco, Norway, Tanzania, Thailand, Ukraine, and the Yukon.{{cite web |title=Exploration Club |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/college-developments/ |website=A timeline of College Developments |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=1 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301233401/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/college-developments/ |url-status=live }}

The Imperial College Dramatic Society (DramSoc){{Cite web |url=https://www.dramsoc.org/ |title=DramSoc |website=DramSoc |access-date=25 December 2018 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801184239/https://www.dramsoc.org/ |url-status=live }} is one of two major theatrical arts societies, with the other being the Musical Theatre Society, and it was founded in 1912.{{cite news |title=Dramatic Changes |url=http://felixonline.co.uk/issuearchive/issue/367/download/ |access-date=28 June 2015 |agency=Felix Newspaper |issue=371 |date=9 December 1974 |archive-date=14 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314012727/http://felixonline.co.uk/issuearchive/issue/367/download/ |url-status=dead }} The society puts on three major plays each year, in addition to several smaller fringe productions. It is additionally one of the London-based dramatic societies to participate in the London Student Drama Festival,{{cite web |title=London Student Drama Festival |url=http://ucludrama.org.uk/london-student-drama-festival-2/ |website=UCLU Drama |publisher=UCLU Drama Society |access-date=28 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102125/http://ucludrama.org.uk/london-student-drama-festival-2/ |archive-date=1 July 2015 }} and regularly attends the Edinburgh Fringe. DramSoc is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the Union's theatrical space, the Union Concert Hall.

The Techtonics are an all-male a cappella group from Imperial College London, and are a part of the Imperial College A Cappella Society.{{Cite web |url=https://www.union.ic.ac.uk/arts/acappella/ |title=Imperial A Cappella Society |website=Imperial College Union |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603164127/https://www.union.ic.ac.uk/arts/acappella/ |url-status=live }} The group was formed in 2008, and has since risen to prominence in the world a cappella scene. The group is best known for winning the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella in 2016.{{Cite web |url=https://varsityvocals.com/results-page/?fwp_year=2016 |title=Results |website=Varsity Vocals |date=12 August 2015 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603162015/https://varsityvocals.com/results-page/?fwp_year=2016 |url-status=live }}

{{main|Imperial College Halls of Residence}}

Imperial College owns and manages ten halls of residence in Inner London, Acton and Ascot, Berkshire. Over three thousand rooms are available, with first year undergraduates guaranteed a place in one of the six main college residences (subject to certain requirements). The majority of halls offer single or twin accommodation with some rooms having en suite facilities. Bedrooms are provided with basic furniture and with access to shared kitchens and bathrooms. All rooms come with internet access and access to the Imperial network.{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/csmarketing/docs/accommodation_guide_2024-25|title=Accommodation Guide|publisher=Imperial College|date=2024|access-date=19 September 2024}}

Most students in college or university accommodation are first-year undergraduates. The majority of older students and postgraduates find accommodation in the private sector, help for which is provided by the college private housing office. However a handful of students may continue to live in halls in later years if they take the position of a "hall senior", and places are available for a small number of returning students in three small halls.{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/students/accommodation/continuing-students/|title= Continuing students|website=Imperial|access-date=19 September 2024}} The accommodation in Ascot is only for postgraduate students based at the Silwood Park site.{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/students/accommodation/prospective/pg/accommodation/silwood-park/|access-date=19 September 2024|title=Silwood Park (not based in London)|website=Imperial}}

{{Main|List of Imperial College London people}}

File:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Nobel.jpg|Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

File:Professor Abdus Salam.gif|Abdus Salam

File:Blackett.jpg|Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

File:Geoffrey Wilkinson (ca. 1976).jpg|Geoffrey Wilkinson

File:Brian-May_with_red_special.jpg|Sir Brian May CBE

File:Professor_Martin_Hairer_FRS.jpg|Sir Martin Hairer

Nobel laureates have included: Sir Ernst Boris Chain (medicine); Abdus Salam, Sir George Paget Thomson, Lord Patrick Blackett and Dennis Gabor (physics); and Sir Norman Haworth, Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Sir Derek Barton and Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (chemistry).{{cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/introducing-imperial/our-people/award-winners/nobel-winners/ |title=No el winners|website=Imperial College |access-date=7 December 2024 }} Fields medalists have included Klaus Friedrich Roth, Sir Simon Donaldson and Martin Hairer.{{Cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/introducing-imperial/our-people/award-winners/fields-medallists/ |title=Fields medallists |website=Imperial College London |access-date=7 December 2024 }}

Academics: Sir Tom Kibble, co-discoverer of the Higgs Boson; Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England; Sir Edward Frankland, originator of the theory of chemical valency; Sir William Crookes, discoverer of the thallium;'CROOKES, Prof. Sir William', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-195207 accessed 2 April 2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227112339/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-195207|date=27 February 2021}} Thomas Huxley, advocate of the theory of evolution; George E. Davis, founding father of chemical engineering; Sir Alec Skempton, one of the founding fathers of soil mechanics;{{Cite journal |last=Chandler |first=Richard J. |date=December 2003 |title=Sir Alec Westley Skempton. 4 June 1914 – 9 August 2001 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2003.0030 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=49 |pages=509–519 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2003.0030}} Sir John Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the vacuum tube; Narinder Singh Kapany, inventor of fibre optics; Sir Steven Cowley, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford;{{Cite book |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-261946 |title=Who's Who |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |chapter=Cowley, Prof. Steven, President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since 2016 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U261946}} Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Member of the House of Lords;{{cite journal |title=Brown of Cambridge, Baroness (Julia Elizabeth King) |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-41612 |url-status=live |journal=Who's Who & Who Was Who |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U41612 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305073624/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-41612 |archive-date=5 March 2021 |access-date=26 July 2024}} Dame Judith Hackitt, Chair of the Health and Safety Executive; and Huw Thomas, Physician to the Queen.{{Cite book |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-282180 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U282180 |chapter=Thomas, Prof. Huw Jeremy Wyndham, (Born 25 Feb. 1958), Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, St Mary's Hospital, London, since 1994; Professor of Gastrointestinal Genetics, Imperial College London, since 2007; Physician to the Queen and Head of HM Medical Household, since 2014 |title=Who's Who |year=2014 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-date=4 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604051539/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-282180 |url-status=live }}

Other alumni have included:

Adventure and Exploration: Sir Roger Bannister, ran the first four-minute mile;{{Cite book |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-6405 |title=Who's Who |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |chapter=Bannister, Sir Roger (Gilbert), (Born 23 March 1929), Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1985–93; Hon. Consultant Physician, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, WC1 (Formerly Consultant Physician, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases), 1963–96; Hon. Consultant Neurologist: St Mary's Hospital and Western Ophthalmic Hospital, W2 (Formerly Consultant Neurologist); Oxford Regional and District Health Authorities, 1985–95 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U6405 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605131708/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-6405 |archive-date=5 June 2024 |url-status=live}} Andreas Mogensen, first Danish astronaut; David Warren, inventor of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder;{{Cite news |date=18 July 2019 |title=This little-known inventor has probably saved your life |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49012771 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240513104018/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49012771 |archive-date=13 May 2024 |access-date=26 July 2024 |publisher=BBC News}} Nikolas Tombazis, chief car designer at McLaren and Ferrari;{{Cite book |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-32829 |title=Who's Who |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |chapter=Robins, Sir Ralph (Harry), (Born 16 June 1932), Chairman, Rolls-Royce PLC, 1992–2003 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U32829 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605040751/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-32829 |archive-date=5 June 2024 |url-status=live}} and Nicola Fox, Head of Science at NASA.{{Cite news |date=17 March 2023 |title=Women should never be afraid to ask questions, NASAs, new science chief |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/17/women-should-never-be-afraid-to-ask-questions-nasas-new-science-chief |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726154108/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/17/women-should-never-be-afraid-to-ask-questions-nasas-new-science-chief |archive-date=26 July 2024 |access-date=26 July 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

Politics: Sir Julius Vogel, former Prime Minister of New Zealand;'VOGEL, Hon. Sir Julius', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-191871 accessed 2 April 2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225164726/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-191871|date=25 February 2021}} Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India;'GANDHI, Rajiv', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-172595 accessed 2 April 2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715002830/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-172595|date=15 July 2021}} Teo Chee Hean, Senior Minister of Singapore (formerly Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore); Edem Tengue, Minister of maritime economy of the republic of Togo; Henry Charles Stephens, politician; Chen Jining, Mayor of Beijing, Secretary of Shanghai;[https://www.imperial.ac.uk/civil-engineering/alumni/alumni-profiles/phd-graduate-1993---chen-jining/ PhD graduate 1993 – Chen Jining] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919191236/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/civil-engineering/alumni/alumni-profiles/phd-graduate-1993---chen-jining/|date=19 September 2020}} – website of Imperial College London Dyah Roro Esti Widya Putri, member of House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia;

Business: Ralph Robins, CEO of Rolls-Royce; Chew Choon Seng, CEO of Singapore Airlines; Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, chairman of the Tata Group;{{Cite book |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-268705 |title=Who's Who |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |chapter=Mistry, Cyrus Pallonji, (Born 4 July 1968), Chairman, Tata Sons LTD, since 2012 (Director, since 2006) |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U268705 |doi-broken-date=15 April 2025 |access-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726154124/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-268705 |archive-date=26 July 2024 |url-status=live}} Ian Read, CEO of Pfizer; Iain Conn, Managing Director of BP; Danny Lui, co-founder of Lenovo; Michael Cowpland, founder of Corel;{{Cite web |date=22 July 2006 |title=DANNY LUI |url=http://www.greatergoodradio.com/2006/07/22/danny-lui/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915022615/http://www.greatergoodradio.com/2006/07/22/danny-lui/ |archive-date=15 September 2022 |access-date=15 September 2022 |website=Greater Good Radio – Leaders Inspiring Leaders}} Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard and philanthropist; Michael Birch, entrepreneur; Andrew Rickman, UK's first tech billionaire;{{Cite news |date=2020-03-09 |title=The tech boss who lost more than a billion |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51737336 |access-date=2024-12-08 |language=en-GB}} and Sir Michael Uren, businessman and philanthropist.

Literature and Music: H. G. Wells, author; Simon Singh, author; Brian May, guitarist of rock band Queen; Pallab Ghosh, BBC correspondent; and Hannah Devlin, science journalist.

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