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.

Culture

Imperial's male:female ratio for undergraduate students is somewhat uneven at approximately 65:35, although less so than the 10:1 ratio of the 1970s. This is widely believed to be correlated to its scientific focus.

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Imperial also has a reputation for independence within University of London. It also left the NUS (of which it was a founder member) three times.

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