Imperial College London

Imperial College London is a college of the University of London which focuses on science and technology, and is located in the South Kensington district of West London. Although properly titled Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, since 2002 the college has adopted the style Imperial College London and prefers simply Imperial for short.

Academics

:Also see the List of Imperial College London people

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Imperial offers undergraduate and postgraduate education. Its research and teaching are organised into four faculties, each headed by a principal. The faculties include that of engineering, medicine, physical sciences, and life sciences. In addition to the four faculties, a Business school exists, as well as a Humanities department. However, the humanities department's main purpose is to provide elective subjects and language courses outside the fields of science for students in the other faculties and departments.

Related Topics:
Undergraduate - Postgraduate - Faculties - Engineering - Medicine - Physical sciences - Life sciences

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Imperial is generally seen as one of the toughest academic institutions in the UK as it stands out in rewarding the least percentage of top honours as well as failing the highest proportion of students (even though its students' average A-Level grades are one of the highest in the country), out of the top five UK universities.

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Academic and research staff number around 3,000. Of these, 53 are Fellows of the Royal Society, 57 are Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and one Fields Medallist. Distinguished past members of the College include 14 Nobel Laureates and one Fields Medallist.

Related Topics:
Royal Society - Royal Academy of Engineering - Fields Medallist - Nobel Laureate

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Imperial has been consistently ranked in the top three in the UK for academic prowess by newspaper league tables. Recent tables show that - despite being science-based - it is overall behind only Oxford and Cambridge, whilst topping most of the engineering and medicine tables.

Related Topics:
Newspaper league tables - Oxford - Cambridge

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On a worldwide basis, league tables published by the Times Higher Education Supplement, Imperial was ranked 5th in the world for Engineering and IT (1st in Europe), 4th in the world for medicine, 10th for science, and 14th overall.

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