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{{short description|Public university in London, England}}
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{{Infobox university
 | name                 = Imperial College London
 | image_name           = Shield of Imperial College London.svg
 | image_size           = 160px
 | caption              = Coat of arms
 | established          = 1907 by royal charter<ref name="status">{{cite web|url = http://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/secretariat/college-governance/governance-structure/charitable-status/ |title=Charitable status |website=Imperial College London|access-date=4 June 2020}}</ref>
 | other_name           = The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
 | motto                = {{lang-la|Scientia, imperii decus et tutamen}}
 | mottoeng             = Scientific knowledge, the crowning glory and the safeguard of the empire
 | type                 = Public research university
 | endowment            = £220.1 million (2023)<ref name=AR2022-23>{{cite web |title=Annual Report and Accounts 2022–23 |url=https://issuu.com/imperialcollegelondon/docs/annual_report_2022-23 |website=Imperial College London |date=30 November 2023 |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref>
 | budget               = £1.256 billion (2022/23)<ref name=AR2022-23/>
 | president            = Hugh Brady
 | provost              = [[Biography:Ian Walmsley|Ian Walmsley]]
 | students             = 22,791 (2021/22)<ref name="Statistics Guide 2021-22">{{Cite web |title=Statistics Guide 2020–21 |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/planning/public/statistics-guides/Stats-Card-2021-22---FINAL.pdf}}</ref>
 | undergrad            = 11,722 (2021/22)<ref name="Statistics Guide 2021-22" />
 | postgrad             = 11,069 (2021/22)<ref name="Statistics Guide 2021-22" />
 | doctoral             = 4,686 (2021/22)<ref name="Statistics Guide 2021-22" />
 | city                 = London
 | country              = {{wipe|England}}
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 | colours              = {{color box|#003E74}} Imperial blue<ref>{{cite web|title=Brand colours |url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/brand-style-guide/visual-identity/brand-colours/|publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=28 November 2018}}</ref>
 | mascot               = [[Biology:Lion|Lion]]
 | website              = {{Official URL}}
 | logo                 = Imperial logo.png
 | academic_staff       = 4,440 (2021/22)<ref name="HESAStaff">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff/working-in-he|title=Who's working in HE? |website=www.hesa.ac.uk}}</ref>
 | administrative_staff = 4,115 (2021/22)<ref name="HESAStaff"/>
 | affiliations         = {{hlist| ACU|EUA|Global Alliance of Technological Universities|LERU|Russell Group|SES|[[Organization:Universities UK|Universities UK]]}}
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'''Imperial College London''' (full name ''Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine'', often known simply as ''Imperial'') is a public research university in [[Place:London|London]], England. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cultural area that included the Royal Albert Hall, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the [[Biology:Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] and several royal colleges.<ref name="Royal Albert Hall-2019">{{cite web |title=Prince Albert's cultural vision and the history of South Kensington: What is Albertopolis? |website=Royal Albert Hall|url=https://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2016/july/prince-alberts-cultural-vision-and-the-history-of-south-kensington-what-is-albertopolis/ |access-date=3 January 2019 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="Imperial College London-2018">{{cite web |title=Chemistry at Imperial |url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/natural-sciences/departments/chemistry/about/our-history/chemistry-at-imperial/ |access-date=24 December 2018 |website=Imperial College London |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 1907, Imperial College London was established by royal charter, unifying the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines and the City and Guilds of London Institute.<ref name="architecture-2012">{{cite web|title=City and Guilds College ─ Imperial College|url=http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Albertopolis/TheStoryOf/ImperialCollege/CityAndGuildsCollege.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002165842/http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Albertopolis/TheStoryOf/ImperialCollege/CityAndGuildsCollege.aspx|archive-date=2 October 2012|website=architecture.com|publisher=Royal Institute of British Architects}}</ref> In 1988, the Imperial College School of Medicine was formed by merging with St Mary's Hospital Medical School. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Imperial College Business School.

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Imperial College London focuses on science, engineering, business, and medicine. The main campus is in South Kensington, where most teaching and research takes place. A second campus in White City provides a platform for [[Social:Innovation|innovation]] and [[Social:Entrepreneurship|entrepreneurship]]. Facilities also include teaching hospitals throughout London that form an academic health science centre. The college was previously a member of the University of London and became an independent university in 2007.<ref name="GuardSplit" /> Imperial has a highly international community, with 59% of students from outside the UK and 140 countries represented on campus.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/international-students/|title=International students {{!}} Study|publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref><!--Academic Profile and Alumni-->

==History==
[[File:Prince Albert - Partridge 1840.jpg|thumb|upright|Prince Albert was the main patron of the early Royal Colleges and the development of an area of culture in South Kensington]]

=== 19th century ===
The earliest college that led to the formation of Imperial was the [[Organization:Royal College of Chemistry|Royal College of Chemistry]], founded in 1845, with the support of Prince Albert and parliament.<ref name="Imperial College London-2018"/>  This was merged in 1853 into what became known as the Royal School of Mines.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="timeline">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

In 1851, the [[History:The Great Exhibition|Great Exhibition]] was organised as an exhibition of [[Social:Culture|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 [[Biology:Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

[[File:Commonwealth Institute QE1 35.jpg|thumb|left|Imperial Institute, now the site of Queen's Lawn]]

In 1881, the Normal School of Science was established in South Kensington under the leadership of [[Biography:Thomas Henry Huxley|Thomas Huxley]], taking over responsibility for the teaching of the natural sciences and agriculture from the Royal School of Mines.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The school was renamed the Royal College of Science by royal consent in 1890.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="architecture-2012"/>

[[File:Royal-College-of-Science,-Imperial-College-Road.jpg|thumb|Royal College of Science]]

===20th century===
At the start of the 20th century, there was a concern that Great Britain was falling behind {{wipe|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.<ref name="bh">{{cite book|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol38/pp233-247|title=Imperial College|date=1975|work=Survey of London: Volume 38, South Kensington Museums Area|publisher=London County Council|editor=F. H. W. Sheppard|pages=233–247|via=british-history.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The college joined the University of London on 22 July 1908, with the City and Guilds College joining in 1910.<ref name="architecture-2012" /><ref name="UoLHistRec">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="bh" />

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 BSc.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
[[File:Imperial College Royal School of Mines.jpg|thumb|left|Royal School of Mines]]

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> The college also acquired a biology field station at Silwood Park near Ascot, Berkshire in 1947<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Following the Second World War, 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 [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]"-equivalent, backed by influential scientists as politicians of the time, including Lord Cherwell, Sir [[Biography:Lawrence Bragg|Lawrence Bragg]] and Sir [[Biography:Edward Victor Appleton|Edward Appleton]].<ref name="bocock">{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> The University Grants Committee strongly opposed however,<ref name="bocock" /> and so a compromise was reached in 1953, where Imperial would remain within the university, but double in size over the next ten years.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="VCH">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp345-359#h3-0004|pages=345–359|work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1, Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, the Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes To 1870, Private Education From Sixteenth Century|chapter=The University of London: The Constituent Colleges|title=The Imperial College of Science and Technology|year=1969|publisher=Victoria County History|editor1= J S Cockburn |editor2=H P F King |editor3=K G T McDonnell|via=British History Online}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> New laboratories for biochemistry, established with the support of a £350,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation, were opened by the Queen in 1965.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="1960s">{{Cite web |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1960.shtml |title= Imperial College – Centenary website – Timeline – 1960–1969 |website= www.imperial.ac.uk |access-date= 19 December 2016 }}</ref>

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.<ref name="charternote">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

=== 21st century ===
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.<ref name="A timeline of College Developments2">{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/college-developments/|title=A timeline of College Developments|website=Imperial College London}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> The [[Organization:UK Energy Research Centre|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Imperial became fully independent of the University of London in July 2007.<ref name="GuardSplit">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 |df= dmy-all }}</ref>

In April 2011, Imperial and [[Organization:King's College London|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.<ref name="WhiteCity">{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/175572/imperial-launches-innovation-white-city/|title=Imperial launches its new hub for innovation at White City|website=Imperial News|date=28 October 2016 |publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=4 April 2019}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Djaba-2018">{{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|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Campuses==
[[File:Goldsmiths Extension and Main Entrance from across Exhibition Road.jpg|thumb|Imperial College Business School and College Main Entrance|222x222px]]

=== South Kensington ===
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 [[Biology:Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]], Science Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum, and institutions such as the [[Organization:Royal College of Art|Royal College of Art]], the [[Organization:Royal College of Music|Royal College of Music]], and the National Art Library.

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.

[[File:A Walk in the Park - geograph.org.uk - 546153.jpg|thumb|Many students enjoy Kensington Gardens]]

=== White City ===
Imperial has a new second major campus in White City providing a platform for [[Social:Innovation|innovation]] and [[Social:Entrepreneurship|entrepreneurship]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=White City Campus|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/white-city-campus/about/vision-and-strategy/}}</ref> The hub houses research facilities, postgraduate accommodation, as well as a commercialisation space.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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|access-date=24 December 2018}}</ref> The campus is home to the Scale Space and [[Organization:Business incubator|incubator]], Invention Rooms, a college hackerspace and community outreach centre.<ref>{{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|language=en-US}}</ref> The White City campus also includes another biomedical centre funded by Sir Michael Uren.<ref>{{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|publisher=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

=== Silwood Park ===

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

=== Hospitals ===
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Organisation and administration==
=== Faculties and departments ===
Imperial is organised by four faculties: the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, and the Imperial College Business School.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculties and departments|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/Faculties-and-departments/|publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref>

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'''Faculty of Engineering'''
* Aeronautical Engineering
* Bioengineering
* Chemical Engineering
* Civil & Environmental Engineering
* Computing
* Dyson School of Design Engineering
* Earth Science & Engineering
* Electrical & Electronic Engineering
* Materials
* Mechanical Engineering
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'''Faculty of Medicine'''
* Brain Sciences 
* Immunology & Inflammation
* Infectious Disease
* Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction
* Surgery and Cancer
* Institute of Clinical Sciences
* National Heart and Lung Institute
* School of Public Health
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'''[[Organization:Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences|Faculty of Natural Sciences]]'''
* Chemistry
* Mathematics
* [[Organization:Blackett Laboratory|Physics]]
* Life Sciences
* [[Organization:Centre for Environmental Policy|Centre for Environmental Policy]]
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'''Imperial College Business School'''
* Analytics & Operations
* Economics & Public Policy
* Finance
* Management & Entrepreneurship
* Marketing
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=== Interdisciplinary centres ===
[[File:53_Princes_Garden.tif|thumb|upright|Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis]]

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/multidisciplinary-research/|title=Multidisciplinary networks, centres and institutes|website=Imperial College|access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref>

{{columns-start|num=2|width=75%}}'''Global Challenge institutes:'''
* [[Organization:Data Science Institute|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
{{columns-end}}

=== Academic centres ===

Imperial College also houses two academic centres, formerly the Department of Humanities, offering teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students in modern languages, arts and humanities subjects, social sciences and other subjects which fall outside of the standard remit of science, technology and medicine. The aim of these centres is to provide training in study skills, such as the acquisition of English language proficiency, but also to encourage innovatory and interdisciplinary approaches to science, technology and medicine, which might make use of study of the arts, humanities, languages and social sciences. The academic centres are the:

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

The Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication also operates as Imperial College London's adult education centre, offering evening class courses in the arts, humanities, languages and sciences.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Governance===
[[File:Cour intérieure Imperial College.jpg|thumb|Faculty Building, designed by Norman Foster]]

The council is the governing body of Imperial.  The council consists of the Chairman, the President, the Provost, the President of Imperial College Union, 4 senior staff members, and between 9 and 13 lay advisory members (who are not employees of Imperial).

The President is the highest academic official and chief executive of Imperial College London.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The position has been held by Hugh Brady, {{as of|August 2022|lc=y|since=y}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=President Hugh Brady|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/leadership-and-strategy/president/|website=Imperial College London}}</ref>  The current Provost is [[Biography:Ian Walmsley|Ian Walmsley]], and the current Chair is John Allan.<ref>{{cite web|title=Composition and Membership|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/secretariat/college-governance/governance-structure/council/about-council/composition/|publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=14 January 2018}}</ref>

=== Finances and endowment ===
[[File:Royal Albert Hall Crop, London - Nov 2012.jpg|thumb|Graduation ceremonies take place in the Royal Albert Hall]]
In 2020/21, Imperial had a consolidated income of £1,079.3 million. 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.<ref name="AR2020-21">{{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=2023-03-01|publisher=Imperial College London}}</ref>

=== Affiliations and partnerships ===
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 [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], with the first formal large-scale collaboration agreement dating back to 1944 as part of the Second World War scientific effort.<ref name="Imperial College and 'M.I.T.'">{{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}}</ref> The two institutions still share a strong bond with exchange programs for their students and academic staff.<ref name="MIT News-2018">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Imperial News-2018">{{Cite news |title=MIT and Imperial launch 'unparalleled' student exchange |language=en-GB |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}}</ref>

In the field of [[Mathematics]], Imperial College London has a joint venture with [[Organization:King's College London|King's College London]] and [[Organization:University College London|University College London]] running the London School of Geometry and Number Theory, which offers doctoral training in mathematic aspects of number theory, geometry and topology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lsgnt-cdt.ac.uk/|title=Home – LSGNT|website=www.lsgnt-cdt.ac.uk}}</ref>

==Academic profile==
===Rankings===
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| ARWU_W = 23
| LEIDEN_W = 17
| QS_W = 6
| THE_W = 8
| LINE_1 = 0
| Complete = 6
| The_Guardian = 5
| Times/Sunday_Times = 5
| LINE_2 = 0
| TEF = Gold
| REF = 1
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====Global====
In the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Ranking, Imperial is ranked 10th in the world and 3rd in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|date=25 August 2020|title=World University Rankings 2021|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2021/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats|access-date=11 September 2020|website=Times Higher Education}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-universities-europe|title=Best universities in Europe|date=21 November 2018|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref>

In the 2024 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking, Imperial is ranked 6th in the world and 3rd in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title=QS World University Rankings 2024|publisher=Top Universities|access-date=27 June 2023|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2024?&tab=indicators}}</ref>

In the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Imperial is ranked 23rd in the world and 6th in Europe.<ref name="ARWU-2022">{{cite web |title=ARWU 2022 |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2022 |access-date= |publisher=ARWU |language=}}</ref>

In the USNEWS 2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings, Imperial is ranked 13th worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=USNEWS 2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings}}</ref>

====Innovation====
In the 2023 QS MBA Rankings for the MBA specialization of [[Social:Entrepreneurship|entrepreneurship]], Imperial is ranked 3rd in the world and 1st in Europe.<ref name="QS-2021">{{Cite web |date= |title=MBA by Specialization – Entrepreneurship 2021 |url=https://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings/specialization/entrepreneurship/2021 |access-date= |website=QS |language=en}}</ref>

In the 2019 Reuters World's Most Innovative Universities, Imperial is ranked 1st in [[Social:Innovation|innovation]] in the UK and 2nd in Europe.<ref name="Reuters-2018">{{cite news |date=11 October 2018 |title=Reuters |newspaper=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amers-reuters-ranking-innovative-univ/reuters-top-100-the-worlds-most-innovative-universities-2018-idUSKCN1ML0AZ}}</ref>

====Career prospects====
In the 2019 Guardian University Guide and Complete University Guide, Imperial graduates are ranked 1st amongst UK universities in employment prospects.<ref>{{cite web|title=Career University Guide|url=http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?o=Graduate+Prospects&v=wide&y=2016|website=Career Prospects|access-date=19 May 2016|archive-date=24 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624130403/http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?o=Graduate+Prospects&v=wide&y=2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?o=Graduate%20Prospects|title=Top UK University League Tables and Rankings 2020|website=thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref>

A 2018 Department for Education report found that Imperial boosted female graduates earnings 31.3% above the average female graduate, and male graduates similarly saw a 25.3% increase in earnings above the average male graduate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Undergraduate degrees: relative labour market returns (Table 7: HEI – conditional impact on earnings five years after graduation) |date=7 June 2018 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/undergraduate-degrees-relative-labour-market-returns |access-date=17 December 2018 |publisher=Department for Education}}</ref>

{{as of|2018}}, ''The Guardian'' notes that Imperial graduates pick up the highest salaries in the UK in the first year after graduation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Collinson |first=Patrick |date=23 September 2018 |title=Graduates of Imperial College beat Oxbridge on earnings |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/24/graduates-of-imperial-college-beat-oxbridge-on-earnings |access-date=22 May 2019 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

===Research===
Imperial was ranked 1st in the U.K overall in rankings produced by ''Times Higher Education'' based upon the [[Social:Research Excellence Framework|Research Excellence Framework]] results 2021.<ref name="Imperial College London-2022" /><ref name="TimesHE-2022">{{Cite web |date=2022-05-12 |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=2022-08-23 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>

In the 2021 [[Social:Research Excellence Framework|Research Excellence Framework]], 96.6% of Imperial's research is “world-leading” (66.3% achieved the highest possible 4* score) or “internationally excellent” (30.3% achieved 3*).<ref name="Imperial College London-2022">{{Cite web |title=Results |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/ref/results-2021/uoa-overall-scores//ref/results/ |access-date=23 August 2022 |website=Imperial College London |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="TimesHE-2022" />  The REF found that 93% of Imperial's [[Computer science|computer science]] research was found to be world-leading, achieving the highest possible 4* score.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Imperial overall scores by UoA |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/ref/results-2021/uoa-overall-scores/ |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=Imperial College London |language=en-GB}}</ref>

The college promotes research commercialisation, partly through its dedicated [[Engineering:Technology transfer|technology transfer]] company, Imperial Innovations, which has given rise to a large number of spin-out companies based on academic research.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Imperial was a critical contributor of the discovery of [[Chemistry:Penicillin|penicillin]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=1999 |title=Imperial College London – Fleming's early research is honoured |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/college.asp?P=2590 |access-date=29 November 2019 |website=imperial.ac.uk}}{{dead link|date=March 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and the invention of fiber optics.<ref>{{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 |language=en}}</ref>

The {{wipe|United States}} is the college's top collaborating foreign country, with more than 15,000 articles co-authored by Imperial and U.S.-based authors over the last ten years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=USA and Canada {{!}} About {{!}} Imperial College London |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/introducing-imperial/global-imperial/usa-and-canada/ |access-date=29 November 2019 |website=imperial.ac.uk}}</ref>   Imperial College has a long-term partnership with the [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], that dates back from [[Social:World War II|World War II]].<ref name="Imperial College and 'M.I.T.'" />[[File:Translation & Innovation Hub, White City North Campus.jpg|thumb|upright|Innovation Hub]]In January 2018, the mathematics department of Imperial and the French National Center for Scientific Research launched UMI [[Biography:Abraham de Moivre|Abraham de Moivre]] at Imperial, a joint research laboratory of mathematics focused on unsolved problems and bridging {{wipe|United Kingdom}} and {{wipe|France}} scientific communities.<ref>{{Cite web|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=www2.cnrs.fr|date=15 January 2018 |language=fr|access-date=17 May 2018}}</ref>  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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crukimperialcentre.co.uk/|title=CRUK Imperial Center Website|website=crukimperialcentre.co.uk|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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|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|language=en|access-date=29 November 2019}}</ref>

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 ''{{wipe|New York Times}}'' article, as the coronavirus "report that jarred the U.S. and the U.K. to action".<ref name="imperialcollege_Ferguson_etal_20200316">{{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}}</ref><ref name="NYT_Landler_20200317">{{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 = {{wipe|The New York Times}} | date = 17 March 2020 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/world/europe/coronavirus-imperial-college-johnson.html}}</ref> Since 18 May, Imperial College's Dr. Samir Bhatt has been advising the state of New York for its reopening plan.<ref name="new york state">{{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}}</ref> 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."<ref name="new york state" />

===Admissions===
{| class="floatright"
|
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5px"
|+UCAS Admission Statistics
!
!2022
!2021
!2020
!2019
!2018
|-
| '''Applications'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC22>{{cite web |title=UCAS Undergraduate Sector-Level End of Cycle Data Resources 2022|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-sector-level-end-cycle-data-resources-2022 |at=Show me... Domicile by Provider|website=ucas.com |date=December 2022 |publisher=UCAS |access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>
| 28,620
| 28,700
| 25,650
| 23,380
| 21,310
|-
| '''Accepted'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC22/>
| 3,090
| 3,305
| 3,450
| 2,860
| 2,805
|-
| '''Applications/Accepted Ratio'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}
| 9.3
| 8.7
| 7.4
| 8.2
| 7.6
|-
| '''Offer Rate (%)'''{{efn-lg|name=ukjune}}<ref name="offer rate22">{{cite web|title=2022 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group|date=2 February 2023 |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-sector-level-end-cycle-data-resources-2022/2022-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|publisher=UCAS|access-date=2 February 2023}}</ref>
| 30.1
| 32.5
| 42.9
| 43.0
| 41.8
|-
| '''Average Entry Tariff'''<ref name="CUG Entry">{{Cite web | url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards | title=University League Tables entry standards 2024 |work=The Complete University Guide}}</ref>
| {{n/a}}
| 206
| 198
| 194
| 190
|}
{| style="font-size:80%;float:left"
|{{notelist-lg|refs=
{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme|Main scheme applications, International and UK}}
{{efn-lg|name=ukjune|UK domiciled applicants}}
}}
|}
|}
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"; style="font-size:85%; text-align:right;"
|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition
|-
!Domicile<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider|title=Where do HE students study?: Students by HE provider|work=HESA|at=HE student enrolments by HE provider|access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref> and Ethnicity<ref name="HESA 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=31 January 2023|publisher=HESA|access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
|British White
|align=right| {{bartable|22|%|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|25|%|2||background:green}}
|-
|[[Social:European Union|International EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|13|%|2||background:blue}}
|-
|International Non-EU
|align=right| {{bartable|40|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate [[Social:Widening participation|Widening Participation]] Indicators<ref>{{cite web |title=Widening participation: UK Performance Indicators: Table T2a - Participation of under-represented groups in higher education |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/performance-indicators/widening-participation |website=Higher Education Statistics Authority |publisher=hesa.ac.uk |access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="Times23">{{cite web |date=16 September 2022 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/good-university-guide-in-full-tp6dzs7wn |work=The Times}}</ref>
|-
|Female
|align=right| {{bartable|41|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
|Private School
|align=right| {{bartable|34|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
|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.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2||background:black}}
|}

[[File:Imperial Institute Tower c1960 - geograph.org.uk - 132052.jpg|alt=|thumb|upright|Queen's Tower]]
[[File:Alexander Fleming Building.jpg|alt=|thumb|Queen Elizabeth II opening the Alexander Fleming Building]]
In the academic year 2021/22, Imperial had an admissions rate of 11.1% for undergraduate admissions and 13.0% for postgraduate admissions: The ratio of applicants to admissions was 9:1 for undergraduates and 7.7:1 for postgraduates.<ref name=":14b">{{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}}</ref> [[File:St Mary's Hospital - geograph.org.uk - 2790489.jpg|thumb|St Mary's Hospital, London]]

The undergraduate courses with the highest ratios of applicants to admissions were [[Computing|computing]] (19.2:1), [[Mathematics|mathematics]] (14.6:1) and [[Engineering:Mechanical engineering|mechanical engineering]] (11.2:1).<ref name=":14b" />

The postgraduate courses with the highest ratios of applicants to admissions were computing (21:1), mathematics (17.9:1), and electrical engineering (14:1).<ref name=":14b" />

Imperial is among the most international universities in the United Kingdom,<ref name="TimesHE-2018">{{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|language=en}}</ref><ref name="HESA-2016" /> with 50% of students from the UK, 16% of students from the EU, and 34% of students from outside the UK or EU.<ref name="TimesHE-2018" /><ref>{{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|language=en}}</ref><ref name="HESA-2018" /> The student body is 39% female and 61% male.<ref name="HESA-2018">{{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}}</ref> 36.5% of Imperial's undergraduates are privately educated, the fourth highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities.<ref name="HESA-2016">{{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}}</ref>

===Libraries===
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.<ref>{{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|language=en|access-date=25 December 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Medicine===
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.
[[File:Imperial College London Diabetes Centre.jpg|thumb|Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, Abu Dhabi]]
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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="annrep201213">{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{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  }}</ref>

== Controversies ==
=== Accusations of bullying ===
In 2003, it was reported that one third of female academics "believe that discrimination or bullying by managers has held back their careers".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/apr/18/highereducation.education|title=Female staff 'feel bullied' at Imperial College|access-date=6 December 2014|newspaper={{wipe|The Guardian}}|date=18 April 2003|last1=Woodward|first1=Will}}</ref> Imperial has since won the Athena SWAN Award, which recognises employment practices that are supportive of the careers of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.

In 2007, concerns were raised about the methods that were being used to fire people in the Faculty of Medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/crude-recipe-for-a-chicken-run-sector/209175.article|title=Crude recipe for a 'chicken-run' sector|access-date=6 December 2014|date=31 May 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Colquhoun | first = David | year = 2007 | title = How to get good science. | journal = Physiology News | volume = 69 | pages = 12–14 | url = http://dcscience.net/colquhoun-goodscience-jp-version-2007.pdf }}</ref> In 2014, Stefan Grimm, of the Department of Medicine, was found dead after being threatened with dismissal for failure to raise enough grant money.<ref>{{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}}</ref> His last email before his death accused his employers of bullying by demanding that he should get grants worth at least £200,000 per year.<ref name="blog">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> The college announced an internal inquiry into Stefan Grimm's death, and found that the performance metrics for his position were unreasonable, with new metrics for performance being needed.<ref>{{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)|language=en|access-date=23 January 2017}}</ref>

The issue of bullying within the staff at Imperial resurfaced in November 2020 when Alex Sobel, the Labour MP for Leeds North West asked the Secretary of State for Education in a written question on 24 November what steps the Office for Students had taken in response to a report by Jane McNeill QC dated 25 August which found that bullying had taken place at Imperial under the President (Alice Gast) and the Chief Financial Officer. Michelle Donelan, the Conservative MP for Chippenham, responded for the Department for Education that "The Office for Students (OfS) is considering the information it has received in relation to this matter, in line with their normal processes. As is standard practice, the OfS cannot comment on individual cases".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-24/120131|title=Bullying: Imperial College London. Question for Department for Education|access-date=4 December 2020|date=24 November 2020|archive-date=5 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205101437/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-24/120131|url-status=dead}}</ref> The college was accused of a cover-up by the Universities and Colleges Union in December 2020 when it refused to publish McNeill's report, even in redacted form. The Chair of Council said that the report was kept confidential to preserve the anonymity of people who gave evidence, that its recommendations had been accepted by the senior leadership team, and that these recommendations were being implemented in full. A disciplinary panel decided that Gast's dismissal as president was not warranted and spokesperson for the college said that she had "offered wholehearted apologies to those affected".<ref>{{cite web| last= Quinn| first= Ben| title= Imperial College accused of cover-up over claims of bullying by president| url= https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/dec/07/imperial-college-accused-of-cover-up-over-claims-of-bullying-by-president | date= 7 December 2020| work= {{wipe|The Guardian}}| access-date= 7 December 2020 }}</ref>

On 14 February 2021, it was announced that the OfS would formally investigate allegations of bullying.<ref>{{Cite web|date=14 February 2021|title=Imperial College under investigation by OfS over bullying scandal|url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/14/imperial-college-london-university-investigated-bullying-scandal|access-date=14 February 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>

==Student life==

===Student body===
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.<ref name="HESA citation">{{HESA citation}}</ref> 50.7% of the student body is from outside of the UK.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 32% of all full-time students came from outside the [[Social:European Union|European Union]] in 2013–14,<ref>{{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}}</ref> and around 13% of the International students had Chinese nationality in 2007–08.<ref name="statscard 2010" />

Imperial's male to female ratio for undergraduate students is uneven at approximately 64:36 overall<ref name="statscard 2010" /> and 5:1 or higher in some engineering courses. However, medicine has an approximate 1:1 ratio with biology degrees tending to be higher.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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

===Imperial College Union===
Imperial College Union is the [[Social:Students' union|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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> Examples of notable student groups and projects are Project Nepal which sends Imperial College students to work on educational development programmes in rural Nepal<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and [[Engineering:El Salvador Project|the El Salvador Project]], a construction based project in Central America.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.

=== Facilities ===
[[File:Ethos Gym.jpg|alt=|thumb|Ethos Gym]]
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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

There are two student bars on the South Kensington campus, one at the Imperial College Union and one at Eastside.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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 [[Chemistry:Pewter|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.<ref>{{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 |df= dmy-all }}</ref>

[[File:Imperial College Farmers Market, Prince's Gardens.png|thumb|The weekly college farmer's market]]

=== Student media ===
====Imperial College Radio====
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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

====Imperial College TV====

Imperial College TV (ICTV) is Imperial College Union's TV station, founded in 1969 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. Besides the news, early productions included a film of the Queen opening what was then called College Block.

====Felix Newspaper====

''Felix'' is weekly student newspaper, first released on 9 December 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ic.ac.uk/centenary/timeline/1940.shtml|title=Imperial College – Centenary website – Timeline – 1940–1949|website=ic.ac.uk}}</ref> 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|thumb|[[Engineering:Racing Green Endurance|Racing Green Endurance]] is a student-led project to demonstrate the potential of zero-emission cars.]]

===Student societies===
====Imperial College Boat Club====

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 was recently refurbished, reopening in 2014.<ref>{{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|language=en-GB|access-date=25 December 2018}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The club has a number of notable accolades, such as three alumni of the college in the gold medal-winning GB 8+ at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

====Sports====

Imperial College has over 60 sports clubs,<ref name=AtoZSports>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/activities/a-to-z|title=Imperial College Union A to Z of Societies|website=Imperial College Union|language=en-GB|access-date=24 February 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref name=AtoZSports/>

====Exploration Club====
[[File:South Side looking up, Beit Hall, Beit Quadrangle.jpg|thumb|Beit Hall]][[File:Eastside and Southside Halls, Prince's Gardens in snow.jpg|thumb|220px|Prince's Gardens in the snow, surrounded by college halls of residence]]Imperial'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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Exploration Club|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/college-developments/|website=A timeline of College Developments}}</ref>

====Dramatic Society====

The Imperial College Dramatic Society (DramSoc<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dramsoc.org/|title=DramSoc|website=DramSoc|language=en-GB|access-date=25 December 2018}}</ref>) is one of two major theatrical arts societies, with the other being the Musical Theatre Society, and it was founded in 1912.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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====

The Techtonics are an all-male a cappella group from Imperial College London, and are a part of the Imperial College A Cappella Society.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.union.ic.ac.uk/arts/acappella/|title=Imperial A Cappella Society|website=Imperial College Union|language=en-GB|access-date=3 June 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://varsityvocals.com/results-page/?fwp_year=2016|title=Results|website=Varsity Vocals|date=12 August 2015|language=en-GB|access-date=3 June 2020}}</ref>

===Student housing===

Imperial College owns and manages twenty-three halls of residence in Inner London, Acton, and Ascot. Over three thousand rooms are available, guaranteeing first year undergraduates a place in College residences.

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/current-students/accommodation/public/College-Accommodation-Licence-19-20.pdf|title=College Accommodation Licence (2019–2020)|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814162928/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/current-students/accommodation/public/College-Accommodation-Licence-19-20.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Most of them are considered among the newest student halls at London universities.

Most students in college or university accommodation are first-year undergraduates, as they are granted a room once they have selected Imperial as their firm offer with UCAS. 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 the Evelyn Garden halls.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/campus-life/accommodation/halls/returning-students-accommodation/ | title=Accommodation for returning students | access-date=27 December 2021 | archive-date=26 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426131521/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/campus-life/accommodation/halls/returning-students-accommodation/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> Some students also live in International Students House, London.

== Notable alumni, faculty and staff ==
<gallery class="center">
File:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Nobel.jpg|Sir [[Biography:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood|Cyril Norman Hinshelwood]]
File:Rajiv Gandhi (1987).jpg|Rajiv Gandhi, 6th Prime Minister of India{{efn|Attended; did not graduate.}}
File:Professor Abdus Salam.gif|[[Biography:Abdus Salam|Abdus Salam]]
File:Alexander Fleming 3.jpg|Sir [[Biography:Alexander Fleming|Alexander Fleming]]
File:Blackett.jpg|Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
File:Sir William Crookes 1906.jpg|Sir [[Biography:William Crookes|William Crookes]]
File:Thomas Henry Huxley - Project Gutenberg eText 16935.jpg|Thomas Huxley
File:John Pendry 2014b.jpg|Sir [[Biography:John Pendry|John Pendry]]
File:Portrait of H. G. Wells.jpg|H.G. Wells
File:Geoffrey Wilkinson (ca. 1976).jpg|[[Biography:Geoffrey Wilkinson|Geoffrey Wilkinson]]
File:Dame_Sally_Davies_FMedSci_DBE_FRS.jpg|Dame Sally Davies
File:Brian-May_with_red_special.jpg|Sir Brian May CBE
File:Nobel_Prize_24_2013.jpg|[[Biography:Peter Higgs|Peter Higgs]]
File:Lord_Winston_2011_(Portrait).jpg|Robert Winston, Baron Winston
File:Professor_Martin_Hairer_FRS.jpg|Sir [[Biography:Martin Hairer|Martin Hairer]]
</gallery>
Nobel laureates: (medicine) [[Biography:Alexander Fleming|Sir Alexander Fleming]], Sir Ernst Boris Chain, [[Biography:Frederick Gowland Hopkins|Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins]], [[Biography:Andrew Huxley|Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley]], [[Biography:Rodney Robert Porter|Rodney Robert Porter]], (physics) [[Biography:Abdus Salam|Abdus Salam]], [[Biography:George Paget Thomson|Sir George Paget Thomson]], Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, [[Biography:Dennis Gabor|Dennis Gabor]], [[Biography:Peter Higgs|Peter Higgs]], (chemistry) [[Biography:Norman Haworth|Sir Norman Haworth]], [[Biography:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood|Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood]], [[Biography:Derek Barton|Sir Derek Barton]], [[Biography:Geoffrey Wilkinson|Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson]], [[Biography:George Porter|Sir George Porter]].<ref name="Imperial.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/introducing-imperial/our-people/award-winners/|title=Award winners &#124; Imperial College London|publisher=Imperial.ac.uk|access-date=10 March 2015}}</ref>

Fields medalists: [[Biography:Klaus Roth|Klaus Friedrich Roth]], [[Biography:Simon Donaldson|Sir Simon Donaldson]], [[Biography:Martin Hairer|Martin Hairer]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/introducing-imperial/our-people/award-winners/fields-medallists/|title=Fields medallists|website=Imperial College London|language=en-GB|access-date=13 July 2018}}</ref>

Academic affiliations include: Sir Tom Kibble, co-discoverer of Higgs Boson;<ref>'KIBBLE, Sir Thomas (Walter Bannerman)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, [[Organization:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]], 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-23025 accessed 2 April 2017]</ref> Sir Tejinder Virdee, experimental particle physicist;<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-257519|isbn = 978-0-19-954089-1|doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U257519|chapter = Virdee, Sir Tejinder Singh, (Born 13 Oct. 1952), Professor of Physics, Imperial College London, since 1996|title = Who's Who|year = 2013}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  [[Biography:Narinder Singh Kapany|Narinder Singh Kapany]], inventor of fibre optics;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/technology/narinder-s-kapany-dead.html|title=Narinder S. Kapany, 'Father of Fiber Optics,' Dies at 94|first=Clay|last=Risen|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/latest-headlines/story/nobel-question-mark-58572-2009-10-15|title=Nobel question mark|author=Dinesh C. Sharma |date=October 15, 2009 |magazine=India Today}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.rediff.com/report/2009/oct/08/how-india-missed-another-nobel-prize.htm|title=How India missed another Nobel Prize|first=Shivanand|last=Kanavi|website=Rediff}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2021/dec/12/narinder-singh-kapany-therelentless-innovator-behind-the-science-of-fibre-optics-2393969.html|title=Narinder Singh Kapany: The relentless innovator behind the science of fibre optics|website=The New Indian Express|date=11 December 2021 }}</ref> [[Biography:John Pendry|Sir John Pendry]], theoretical solid state physicist;<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-30495|isbn = 978-0-19-954089-1|doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30495|chapter = Pendry, Sir John (Brian), (Born 4 July 1943), Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Imperial College London (Formerly Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London), since 1981 (Head, Department of Physics, 1998–2001); Dean, Royal College of Science, 1993–96|title = Who's Who|year = 2007}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold, physical organic chemistry pioneer;<ref>'INGOLD, Sir Christopher (Keik)', 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-53971 accessed 2 April 2017]</ref> Sir William Henry Perkin, discoverer of the first synthetic organic chemical dye [[Chemistry:Mauveine|mauveine]];<ref>'PERKIN, Sir William Henry', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, Feb 2015 [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-189845 accessed 2 April 2017]</ref> Sir Edward Frankland, originator of the theory of chemical valency;<ref>'FRANKLAND, Sir Edward', 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-186130 accessed 2 April 2017]</ref> Sir William Crookes, discoverer of [[Chemistry:Thallium|thallium]];<ref>'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]</ref> Sir Alan Fersht, chemist;<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Fersht, Sir Alan (Roy), (born 21 April 1943), Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 1988–2010; Fellow, since 1988, and Master, 2012–18, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Hon. Director, Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering (formerly MRC Unit for Protein Function and Design), 1989–2010; Emeritus Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, since 2010 |date=1 December 2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U15668 |title=Who's Who }}</ref> [[Biography:David Phillips (chemist)|David Phillips]], chemist;<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Phillips, Prof. David, (born 3 Dec. 1939), Professor of Physical Chemistry, 1989–2006, Hofmann Professor of Chemistry, 1999–2006, now Professor Emeritus, and Dean, Faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences, 2002–06, Imperial College London |date=1 December 2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30743 |title=Who's Who }}</ref> [[Biography:Harold Hopkins (physicist)|Harold Hopkins]], contributed to the theory and design of optical instruments;<ref>'HOPKINS, Prof. Harold Horace', 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-173215 accessed 2 April 2017]</ref> [[Biography:Alfred North Whitehead|Alfred North Whitehead]], mathematician and philosopher;<ref>'WHITEHEAD, Alfred North', 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-233372 accessed 2 April 2017]</ref> Sir Steven Cowley, physicist and president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford;<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-261946|isbn = 978-0-19-954089-1|doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U261946|chapter = Cowley, Prof. Steven, President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since 2016|title = Who's Who|year = 2015}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and Sir John Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the [[Physics:Vacuum tube|vacuum tube]].<ref>'FLEMING, Sir (John) Ambrose', 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-225450 accessed 2 April 2017]</ref>
In biology and medicine; [[Biography:Thomas Henry Huxley|Thomas Huxley]], advocate of the theory of evolution; Azeem Majeed. Clinical Academic and Public Health Specialist; Wendy Barclay, virologist; Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England;<ref>{{cite journal|title=Davies, Dame Sally (Claire)|journal= Who's Who & Who Was Who|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-13126|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U13126|isbn= 978-0-19-954088-4}}</ref> David Livingstone, medical missionary and Clare Lloyd, biologist.
In engineering; Sir Alec Skempton, one of the founding fathers of soil mechanics; George E. Davis, regarded as the founding father of chemical engineering; [[Biography:Olgierd Zienkiewicz|Olgierd Zienkiewicz]], a pioneer of the Finite Element Method; Dame Julia Higgins, polymer scientist;<ref>{{cite journal|title=Higgins, Dame Julia (Stretton)|journal= Who's Who & Who Was Who|url= http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-20092|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U20092|isbn= 978-0-19-954088-4}}</ref> Dame Judith Hackitt, former Chair of the [[Organization:Health and Safety Executive|Health and Safety Executive]];<ref>{{cite journal|title=Hackitt, Dame Judith (Elizabeth)|journal= Who's Who & Who Was Who|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-151505|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U151505|isbn= 978-0-19-954088-4}}</ref> Dudley Maurice Newitt, scientific director of the Special Operations Executive;<ref>{{cite journal|title=Newitt, Dudley Maurice|journal= Who's Who & Who Was Who|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-157958|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U157958|isbn= 978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref> and Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, engineer and Member of the House of Lords.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Brown of Cambridge, Baroness (Julia Elizabeth King)|journal= Who's Who & Who Was Who|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-41612|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U41612|isbn= 978-0-19-954088-4}}</ref>

Non-academic affiliations include: [[Biography:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells]], author;<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Parrinder |first1=Patrick |chapter=Wells, Herbert George (1866–1946), novelist and social commentator |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=6 January 2011 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/36831 }}</ref> [[Biography:Nikolas Tombazis|Nikolas Tombazis]], chief car designer at McLaren and Ferrari; Ralph Robins, CEO of [[Company:Rolls-Royce Motor Cars|Rolls-Royce]];<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-32829|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U32829|chapter=Robins, Sir Ralph (Harry), (Born 16 June 1932), Chairman, Rolls-Royce PLC, 1992–2003|title=Who's Who|year=2007}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Brian May, guitarist of rock band Queen;<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-247368|isbn = 978-0-19-954089-1|doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U247368|chapter = May, Dr Brian Harold, (Born 19 July 1947), guitarist, songwriter and producer; Owner, London Stereoscopic Company, since 2008|title = Who's Who|year = 2008}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Chew Choon Seng, CEO of Singapore Airlines; Sir Julius Vogel, former Prime Minister of New Zealand;<ref>'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]</ref> Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India;<ref>'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]</ref> Teo Chee Hean, Senior Minister of Singapore (formerly Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore); Edem Tengue, Minister of maritime economy of the republic of Togo; Huw Thomas, Physician to the Queen;<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/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}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Sir Roger Bannister, ran the first four-minute mile;<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-6405|isbn = 978-0-19-954089-1|doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U6405|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|title = Who's Who|year = 2007}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> David Warren, inventor of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder;<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49012771|title=This little-known inventor has probably saved your life|work=BBC News|date=18 July 2019}}</ref> Andreas Mogensen, first Danish astronaut; Winston Wong, entrepreneur; Alan Howard, hedge fund manager and philanthropist; Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, former chairman of the Tata Group;<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-268705|isbn = 978-0-19-954089-1|doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U268705|chapter = Mistry, Cyrus Pallonji, (Born 4 July 1968), Chairman, Tata Sons LTD, since 2012 (Director, since 2006)|title = Who's Who|year = 2014| doi-broken-date=1 February 2024 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Michael Birch, entrepreneur; Henry Charles Stephens, politician; Sir Michael Uren, businessman and philanthropist; Ian Read, CEO of [[Company:Pfizer|Pfizer]], Pallab Ghosh, BBC correspondent, Hannah Devlin, science journalist; Chi Onwurah, politician;<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/188594/mp-chi-onwurah-as-engineer-often/|title=MP Chi Onwurah: "As an engineer, I was often the only Black person in the room" |publisher= Imperial College London|work=Imperial News|access-date=10 November 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref> Dyah Roro Esti Widya Putri, member of House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia; Nicola Fox, Head of Science at [[Organization:NASA|NASA]];<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/17/women-should-never-be-afraid-to-ask-questions-nasas-new-science-chief |title= Women should never be afraid to ask questions, NASAs, new science chief|work=The Guardian|date=17 March 2023}}</ref> Danny Lui, co-founder [[Company:Lenovo|Lenovo]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 July 2006 |title=DANNY LUI |url=http://www.greatergoodradio.com/2006/07/22/danny-lui/ |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=Greater Good Radio - Leaders Inspiring Leaders |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Biography:Simon Singh|Simon Singh]], author；Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai.

== See also ==
* Albertopolis
* Armorial of UK universities
* Education in London
* List of universities in the UK

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