Imperial College London

Overview

Imperial College London

Imperial College London (Imperial) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1907 through the merger of the City and Guilds College, the Royal School of Mines, and the Royal College of Science. Its legal name is the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine. The university is acknowledged for the penicillin discovery, the development of holography, and the fiber optics invention. Among all UK universities, its graduates are ranked number one for employment prospects.

Imperial College London Key Statistics

The university comprises four main academic divisions, namely, the Imperial College Business School, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Faculty of Engineering. It also has several global institutes and academic centers, such as the Global Entrepreneurship & Development Index, the Gandhi Centre for Inclusive Innovation, and the Centre for Languages, Culture, and Communication.

Imperial College London has over 19,400 students, where 10,475 are undergraduates and 8,925 are graduates. It also has 4,390 teaching personnel and over 4,000 administrative staff.

Its main campus is located in South Kensington, which houses several famous edifices like the Queen’s Tower, the Royal School of Mines, and the Royal College of Science. Its two other campuses are located in Silwood Park and White City. Imperial also manages several teaching hospitals across London.

The other Imperial College London key statistics include alumni that include 85 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 87 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 74 Fellows of the Royal Society, one Turing Award winner, two Breakthrough Prize winners, three Fields Medalists, and 14 Nobel laureates.

The university is a member of the Global Alliance of Technological Universities, the Russell Group, the League of European Research Universities, the European University Association, and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Imperial College London Research

According to the Research Excellence Framework, over 90% of Imperial College London research is “internationally excellent” or “world-leading,” placing the university at the second spot among all universities worldwide. It has an annual research income of around £350 million.

Medicine, biology, and computer are the top fields of research at Imperial College. Its scholars have been invited to prestigious conferences such as CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern, Recognition, the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, and the European Conference on Computer Vision.

The most cited publication by Imam Khomeini International University research is Cox’s (1972) classic article, “Regression models and life-tables.” This was published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B-Methodological and has received a total of 51,309 citations to date. The second most cited publication from the university is the 1983 book by McCullagh and Nelder entitled, Generalized Linear Models, which has generated 34,137 citations. The third most cited work is Agostinelli et al.’s (2003) “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” published in Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, with over 32,000 citations.

The university boasts of numerous centers of excellence that conduct cutting-edge research. These include the London Centre for Nanotechnology, The Thomas Young Centre, the CRUK Convergence Science Centre, and the UK Dementia Research Institute.