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Imperial College London

January 08, 2023

Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cultural area that included the Royal Albert Hall, Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and royal colleges.[7][8] In 1907, Imperial College was established by a royal charter, which unified the Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, and City and Guilds of London Institute.[9] 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.

Imperial College London
TypePublic research university
Established1907 by royal charter[1]
Endowment£202.1 million (2020)[2]
Budget£1.072 billion (2020/21)[2]
PresidentHugh Brady
ProvostIan Walmsley
Academic staff
4,435 (2020) [3]
Administrative staff
4,075 (2016/17)[4]
Students22,791 (2021/22)[5]
Undergraduates11,722 (2021/22)[5]
Postgraduates11,069 (2021/22)[5]
4,686 (2021/22)[5]
Location
London
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United Kingdom
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Colours  Imperial blue[6]
Affiliations
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Websiteimperial.ac.uk

Imperial focuses exclusively on science, technology, medicine, and business. The main campus is located in South Kensington, and there is an innovation campus in White City. Facilities also include teaching hospitals throughout London, and with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust together form an academic health science centre.

Imperial joined the University of London in 1908, becoming an independent university in 2007.[10] Imperial has a highly international community, with 59% of students from outside the UK and 140 countries represented on campus.[11][12]

History

 
Prince Albert was the main patron of the early Royal Colleges and the development of an area of culture in South Kensington
Main article: History of Imperial College London

19th century

The earliest college that led to the formation of Imperial was the Royal College of Chemistry, founded in 1845, with the support of Prince Albert and parliament.[13] This was merged in 1853 into what became known as the Royal School of Mines.[14] 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.[15][16][17]

In 1851, the Great Exhibition was organised as an exhibition of culture and industry by Henry Cole and by Prince Albert, husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. An enormously popular and financial success, proceeds from the Great Exhibition were designated to develop an area for cultural and scientific advancement in South Kensington.[18] Within the next six years the Victoria and Albert Museum and Science Museum had opened, joined by new facilities in 1871 for the Royal College of Chemistry, and in 1881 the opening of the Royal School of Mines and Natural History Museum.[19]

 
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 Thomas Huxley, taking over responsibility for the teaching of the natural sciences and agriculture from the Royal School of Mines.[20] The school was renamed the Royal College of Science by royal consent in 1890.[21] 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 early 1885.[9]

20th century

At the start of the 20th century, there was a concern that Britain was falling behind Germany in scientific and technical education. A departmental committee was set up at the Board of Education in 1904, to look into the future of the Royal College of Science. A report released in 1906 called for the establishment of an institution unifying the Royal College of Science and the Royal School of Mines, as well as – if an agreement could be reached with the City and Guilds of London Institute – their Central Technical College.[22][23]

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.[24] The college joined the University of London on 22 July 1908, with the City and Guilds College joining in 1910.[9][25] 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.[22]

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.[26][27] 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.[28]

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.[29][30] The college also acquired a biology field station at Silwood Park near Ascot, Berkshire in 1947[31]

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 MIT"-equivalent, backed by influential scientists as politicians of the time, including Lord Cherwell, Sir Lawrence Bragg and Sir Edward Appleton.[32][33] The University Grants Committee strongly opposed however,[32] and so a compromise was reached in 1953, where Imperial would remain within the university, but double in size over the next ten years.[34][35] 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.[36] 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.[37] New laboratories for biochemistry, established with the support of a £350,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation, were opened by the Queen in 1965.[38][39]

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.[40] 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.[41]

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.[42][43] The UK Energy Research Centre was also established in 2004 and opened its headquarters at Imperial. On 9 December 2005, Imperial announced that it would commence negotiations to secede from the University of London.[44] Imperial became fully independent of the University of London in July 2007.[10][45][46]

In April 2011, Imperial and King's College London joined the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation as partners with a commitment of £40 million each to the project. The centre was later renamed the Francis Crick Institute and opened on 9 November 2016. It is the largest single biomedical laboratory in Europe. The college began moving into the new White City campus in 2016, with the launching of the Innovation Hub.[47] 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.[48]

Campuses

 
Imperial College Business School and College Main Entrance

South Kensington

Imperial's main campus is based in South Kensington. Notable buildings include the Business School opened by Queen Elizabeth II, which serves as the college's main entrance, the Queen's Tower, which sits at the heart of the campus, the Royal College of Science, and the Royal School of Mines.

As part of Albertopolis, a cultural centre based on the vision of Prince Albert, the campus is adjacent many of London's most popular attractions, including Kensington Palace and the Royal Albert Hall, museums including the Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Science Museum, and institutions including the Royal College of Art, the Royal College of Music, and the National Art Library.[49][50] Many students take advantage of the ample green spaces that are an easy walking distance to Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park.[51]

 
Many students enjoy Kensington Gardens

White City

Imperial has a new second major campus in White City providing a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship.[52] The hub houses research facilities, postgraduate accommodation, as well as a commercialisation space.[53][54] The campus is home to the Scale Space and incubator, Invention Rooms, a college hackerspace and community outreach centre.[55] The White City campus also includes another biomedical centre funded by Sir Michael Uren.[56][57][58]

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.[59]

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 Imperial College Business School.[60]

Faculty of Engineering

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

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Imperial College Business School

  • Analytics & Operations
  • Economics & Public Policy
  • Finance
  • Management & Entrepreneurship
  • Marketing
 
Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis

Global institutes

Imperial hosts global centres to promote inter-disciplinary work:

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.[61]

Governance

 
Faculty Building, designed by Norman Foster
See also: President of Imperial College London and Provost of Imperial College London

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.[62] The position has been held by Alice Gast, since September 2014.[63] It was announced that Hugh Brady would take up the next Presidency in August 2022. The current Provost is Ian Walmsley, and the current Chair is Sir Philip Dilley.[64]

Finances and endowment

 
Graduation ceremonies take place in the Royal Albert Hall

In 2017/18, Imperial had a consolidated income of £1,033.0 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.[65]

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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the first formal large-scale collaboration agreement dating back to 1944 as part of the World War II scientific effort.[66] The two institutions still share a strong bond with exchange programs for their students and academic staff.[67][68]

In the field of Mathematics, Imperial College London has a joint venture with King's College London and 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.[69]

Academic profile

Rankings

Rankings
National rankings
Complete (2023)[70]5
Guardian (2023)[71]7
Times / Sunday Times (2022)[72]4
Global rankings
THE (2023)[73]10
QS (2023)[74]6
ARWU (2022)[75]23

Global

In the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Ranking, Imperial is ranked 10th in the world, as well as 3rd in Europe, behind Cambridge and Oxford.[76][77]

In the 2023 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking, Imperial is ranked 6th in the world, as well as 3rd in Europe.[78]

In the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Imperial is ranked 23rd in the world, as well as 6th in Europe.[79]

Innovation

 
Innovation Hub

In the 2023 QS MBA Rankings for the MBA specialization of entrepreneurship, Imperial is ranked 3rd in the world, as well as 1st in Europe behind Stanford and Harvard.[80]

In the 2019 Reuters World's Most Innovative Universities, Imperial is ranked 1st in innovation in the UK, and 2nd in Europe, after KU Leuven.[81]

Career prospects

According to the 2019 Guardian University Guide and the 2019 Complete University Guide, Imperial students are ranked 1st in employment prospects among UK universities.[82][83]

As of 2018, The Guardian notes that Imperial graduates pick up the highest salaries in the UK in the first year after graduation, earning around a fifth more than students leaving Oxford and Cambridge.[84]

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.[85]

In 2018, the Sunday Times Good University Guide found that Computer Science at Imperial was the highest paying degree in the UK.[86]

Research

Imperial was ranked 1st overall in rankings produced by Times Higher Education based upon the Research Excellence Framework results 2021.[87][88] Imperial submitted a total of 1,257 staff across 11 units of assessment to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment.[89] This found that 96.6% of Imperial's research is “world-leading” (66.3% achieved the highest possible 4* score) or “internationally excellent” (30.3% achieved 3*), giving an overall GPA of 3.63 – the highest in the UK.[87][88] 93% of Imperial's computer science research was found to be world-leading, achieving the highest possible 4* score.[90] Imperial is also widely known to have been a critical contributor of the discovery of penicillin,[91] and the invention of fiber optics.[92] The college promotes research commercialisation, partly through its dedicated technology transfer company, Imperial Innovations, which has given rise to a large number of spin-out companies based on academic research.[93][94] Imperial College has a long-term partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that dates back from World War II.[66][67][68] The 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 10 years.[95]

In January 2018, the mathematics department of Imperial and the French National Center for Scientific Research launched UMI Abraham de Moivre at Imperial, a joint research laboratory of mathematics focused on unsolved problems and bridging British and French scientific communities.[96] The Fields medallists Cédric Villani and Martin Hairer hosted the launch presentation.[97] 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 former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden as part of his Biden Cancer Initiative.[98][99]

Imperial was one of the ten leading contributors to the NASA InSight Mars lander which landed on planet Mars in November 2018, with the college logo appearing on the craft.[100][101] InSight's Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, developed at Imperial, measured the first likely marsquake reading in April 2019.[102][103][104] In 2019, it was revealed that the Blackett Laboratory would be constructing an instrument for the European Space Agency Solar Orbiter in a mission to study the Sun, which launched in February 2020.[105][106] The laboratory is also designing part of the US Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.[107]

In early 2020, immunology research at the Faculty of Medicine focused on SARS-CoV-2 under the leadership of Robin Shattock as part of the college's COVID-19 Response Team, including the search of a cheap vaccine which started human trials on 15 June 2020.[108][109][110][111] Neil Ferguson's 16 March report entitled "Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID- 19 mortality and healthcare demand"[112] was described in a 17 March The New York Times article, as the coronavirus "report that jarred the U.S. and the U.K. to action".[113] Since 18 May 2020, Imperial College's Dr. Samir Bhatt has been advising the state of New York for its reopening plan.[114] 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."[114] The hospitals from the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which have been caring for COVID-19 infected patients, partnered with Microsoft to use their HoloLens when treating those patients, reducing the amount of time spent by staff in high-risk areas by up to 83%, as well as saving up to 700 items of PPE per ward, per week.[115]

Admissions

UCAS Admission Statistics
2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Applications[α][116] 25,650 23,380 21,310 20,395 19,200
Accepted applicants[α][116] 3,045 2,845 2,795 2,705 2,515
Applications/accepted ratio[α] 8.42 8.22 7.62 7.54 7.63
Offer rate (%)[β][117] 42.9 43.0 41.8 39.4 41.5
Average Entry Tariff[118] n/a n/a 190 205 219
  1. ^ a b c Main scheme applications
  2. ^ UK domiciled applicants, June deadline
 
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.[119]

The undergraduate courses with the highest ratios of applicants to admissions were computing (15.8:1), mathematics (12.1:1) and mechanical engineering (8.9:1). For postgraduate, they were earth science and engineering (18.8:1), computing (15.8:1) and mechanical engineering (15.1:1).[119]

Imperial is among the most diverse international universities in the United Kingdom,[120][121] with 50% of students from the UK, 16% of students from the EU, and 34% of students from outside the UK or EU.[120][122][123] The student body is 39% female and 61% male.[123] 36.5% of Imperial's undergraduates are privately educated, the fourth highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities.[121]

Libraries

The college's Central 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.[124] 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.[125]

Medicine

Main articles: Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and Imperial College Healthcare

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

 
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.[126] 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.[127]

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.[128]

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".[129] 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.[130][131] In 2014, Stefan Grimm, of the Department of Medicine, was found dead after being threatened with dismissal for failure to raise enough grant money.[132] 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.[133][134] 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.[135]

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".[136] 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".[137]

On 14 February 2021, it was announced that the OfS would formally investigate allegations of bullying.[138]

Student life

Student body

For the 2019/20 academic year, Imperial had a total full-time student body of 19,400, consisting of 10,475 undergraduate students and 8,925 postgraduates.[139] 50.7% of the student body is from outside of the UK.[140] 32% of all full-time students came from outside the European Union in 2013–14,[141] and around 13% of the International students had Chinese nationality in 2007–08.[142]

Imperial's male to female ratio for undergraduate students is uneven at approximately 64:36 overall[142] and 5:1 or higher in some engineering courses. However, medicine has an approximate 1:1 ratio with biology degrees tending to be higher.[143]

 
Queen's Lawn at South Kensington Campus

Imperial College Union

Imperial College Union is the students' union and is run by five full-time sabbatical officers elected from the student body for a tenure of one year, and a number of permanent members of staff. It is split into constituent unions aligned with the faculties of the college, carrying on the association with the original constituent colleges of Imperial, the Royal College of Science Union, City and Guilds College Union, Royal School of Mines Students' Union and Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union. The Union is given a large subvention by the university, much of which is spent on maintaining over 300 clubs, projects and societies.[144] Examples of notable student groups and projects are Project Nepal which sends Imperial College students to work on educational development programmes in rural Nepal[145] and the El Salvador Project, a construction based project in Central America.[146] 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

 
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.[147] 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.[148]

There are two student bars on the South Kensington campus, one at the Imperial College Union and one at Eastside.[149] There are a number of pubs and bars on campus and also surrounding the campus, which become a popular social activity for Imperial's students. The Pewter tankard collection at Imperial College Union is the largest in Europe, with the majority of clubs and societies having tankards associated with their clubs.[150]

 
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.[151]

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.[152] In addition to news, Felix also carries comic strips, features, opinions, puzzles and reviews, plus reports of trips and Imperial College sporting events.

 
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.[153] 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]

Sports

Imperial College has over 60 sports clubs,[154] 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.[154]

Exploration Club

 
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.[155]

Dramatic Society

The Imperial College Dramatic Society (DramSoc[156]) is one of two major theatrical arts societies, with the other being the Musical Theatre Society, and it was founded in 1912.[157] 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,[158] 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.[159] 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.[160]

Student housing

Main article: Imperial College Halls of Residence

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.[161] 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.[162] Some students also live in International Students House, London.

Notable alumni, faculty and staff

Main articles: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Imperial College London, List of Imperial College London people, and President of Imperial College London

Nobel laureates: (medicine) Sir Alexander Fleming, Sir Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, Rodney Robert Porter, (physics) Abdus Salam, Sir George Paget Thomson, Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, Dennis Gabor, Peter Higgs, (chemistry) Sir Norman Haworth, Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Sir Derek Barton, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, Sir George Porter.[163]

Fields medalists: Klaus Friedrich Roth, Sir Simon Donaldson, Martin Hairer.[164]

Academic affiliations include: Sir Tom Kibble, co-discoverer of Higgs Boson;[165] Sir Tejinder Virdee, experimental particle physicist;[166] Sir John Pendry, theoretical solid state physicist;[167] Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold, physical organic chemistry pioneer;[168] Sir William Henry Perkin, discoverer of the first synthetic organic chemical dye mauveine;[169] Sir Edward Frankland, originator of the theory of chemical valency;[170] Sir William Crookes, discoverer of thallium;[171] Sir Alan Fersht, chemist;[172] David Phillips, chemist;[173] Harold Hopkins, contributed to the theory and design of optical instruments;[174] Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher;[175] Sir Steven Cowley, physicist and president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford;[176] and Sir John Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the vacuum tube.[177] In biology and medicine; 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;[178] David Livingstone, medical missionary and Clare Lloyd, biologist. In engineering; Chi Onwurah, politician;[179] Dame Julia Higgins, polymer scientist;[180] Dame Judith Hackitt, former Chair of the Health and Safety Executive;[181] Dudley Maurice Newitt, scientific director of the Special Operations Executive;[182] and Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, engineer and Member of the House of Lords.[183] Narinder Singh Kapany, inventor of fibre optics.[184][185][186][187]

Non-academic affiliations include: H. G. Wells, author;[188] Nikolas Tombazis, chief car designer at McLaren and Ferrari; Ralph Robins, CEO of Rolls-Royce;[189] Brian May, guitarist of rock band Queen;[190] Chew Choon Seng, CEO of Singapore Airlines; Sir Julius Vogel, former Prime Minister of New Zealand;[191] Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India;[192] 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;[193] Sir Roger Bannister, ran the first four-minute mile;[194] David Warren, inventor of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder;[195] Andreas Mogensen, first Danish astronaut; Winston Wong, entrepreneur; Alan Howard, hedge fund manager and philanthropist; Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, former chairman of the Tata Group;[196] Michael Birch, entrepreneur; Henry Charles Stephens, politician; Sir Michael Uren, businessman and philanthropist; Ian Read, CEO of Pfizer, Pallab Ghosh, BBC correspondent, Hannah Devlin, science journalist; Dyah Roro Esti Widya Putri, member of House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Attended; did not graduate.

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Imperial College London legally Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine is a public research university in London United Kingdom Its history began with Prince Albert consort of Queen Victoria who developed his vision for a cultural area that included the Royal Albert Hall Victoria amp Albert Museum Natural History Museum and royal colleges 7 8 In 1907 Imperial College was established by a royal charter which unified the Royal College of Science Royal School of Mines and City and Guilds of London Institute 9 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 Imperial College LondonCoat of armsTypePublic research universityEstablished1907 by royal charter 1 Endowment 202 1 million 2020 2 Budget 1 072 billion 2020 21 2 PresidentHugh BradyProvostIan WalmsleyAcademic staff4 435 2020 3 Administrative staff4 075 2016 17 4 Students22 791 2021 22 5 Undergraduates11 722 2021 22 5 Postgraduates11 069 2021 22 5 Doctoral students4 686 2021 22 5 LocationLondon United KingdomScarf Colours Imperial blue 6 AffiliationsACU EUA Global Alliance of Technological Universities LERU Russell Group SESMascotLionWebsiteimperial wbr ac wbr ukImperial focuses exclusively on science technology medicine and business The main campus is located in South Kensington and there is an innovation campus in White City Facilities also include teaching hospitals throughout London and with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust together form an academic health science centre Imperial joined the University of London in 1908 becoming an independent university in 2007 10 Imperial has a highly international community with 59 of students from outside the UK and 140 countries represented on campus 11 12 Contents 1 History 1 1 19th century 1 2 20th century 1 3 21st century 2 Campuses 2 1 South Kensington 2 2 White City 2 3 Silwood Park 2 4 Hospitals 3 Organisation and administration 3 1 Faculties and departments 3 2 Global institutes 3 3 Academic centres 3 4 Governance 3 5 Finances and endowment 3 6 Affiliations and partnerships 4 Academic profile 4 1 Rankings 4 1 1 Global 4 1 2 Innovation 4 1 3 Career prospects 4 2 Research 4 3 Admissions 4 4 Libraries 4 5 Medicine 5 Controversies 5 1 Accusations of bullying 6 Student life 6 1 Student body 6 2 Imperial College Union 6 3 Facilities 6 4 Student media 6 4 1 Imperial College Radio 6 4 2 Imperial College TV 6 4 3 Felix Newspaper 6 5 Student societies 6 5 1 Imperial College Boat Club 6 5 2 Sports 6 5 3 Exploration Club 6 5 4 Dramatic Society 6 5 5 The Techtonics 6 6 Student housing 7 Notable alumni faculty and staff 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 External linksHistory Edit Prince Albert was the main patron of the early Royal Colleges and the development of an area of culture in South Kensington Main article History of Imperial College London 19th century Edit The earliest college that led to the formation of Imperial was the Royal College of Chemistry founded in 1845 with the support of Prince Albert and parliament 13 This was merged in 1853 into what became known as the Royal School of Mines 14 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 15 16 17 In 1851 the Great Exhibition was organised as an exhibition of culture and industry by Henry Cole and by Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria An enormously popular and financial success proceeds from the Great Exhibition were designated to develop an area for cultural and scientific advancement in South Kensington 18 Within the next six years the Victoria and Albert Museum and Science Museum had opened joined by new facilities in 1871 for the Royal College of Chemistry and in 1881 the opening of the Royal School of Mines and Natural History Museum 19 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 Thomas Huxley taking over responsibility for the teaching of the natural sciences and agriculture from the Royal School of Mines 20 The school was renamed the Royal College of Science by royal consent in 1890 21 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 early 1885 9 Royal College of Science 20th century Edit At the start of the 20th century there was a concern that Britain was falling behind Germany in scientific and technical education A departmental committee was set up at the Board of Education in 1904 to look into the future of the Royal College of Science A report released in 1906 called for the establishment of an institution unifying the Royal College of Science and the Royal School of Mines as well as if an agreement could be reached with the City and Guilds of London Institute their Central Technical College 22 23 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 24 The college joined the University of London on 22 July 1908 with the City and Guilds College joining in 1910 9 25 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 22 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 26 27 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 28 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 29 30 The college also acquired a biology field station at Silwood Park near Ascot Berkshire in 1947 31 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 MIT equivalent backed by influential scientists as politicians of the time including Lord Cherwell Sir Lawrence Bragg and Sir Edward Appleton 32 33 The University Grants Committee strongly opposed however 32 and so a compromise was reached in 1953 where Imperial would remain within the university but double in size over the next ten years 34 35 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 36 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 37 New laboratories for biochemistry established with the support of a 350 000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation were opened by the Queen in 1965 38 39 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 40 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 41 21st century Edit 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 42 43 The UK Energy Research Centre was also established in 2004 and opened its headquarters at Imperial On 9 December 2005 Imperial announced that it would commence negotiations to secede from the University of London 44 Imperial became fully independent of the University of London in July 2007 10 45 46 In April 2011 Imperial and King s College London joined the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation as partners with a commitment of 40 million each to the project The centre was later renamed the Francis Crick Institute and opened on 9 November 2016 It is the largest single biomedical laboratory in Europe The college began moving into the new White City campus in 2016 with the launching of the Innovation Hub 47 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 48 Campuses Edit Imperial College Business School and College Main Entrance South Kensington Edit Imperial s main campus is based in South Kensington Notable buildings include the Business School opened by Queen Elizabeth II which serves as the college s main entrance the Queen s Tower which sits at the heart of the campus the Royal College of Science and the Royal School of Mines As part of Albertopolis a cultural centre based on the vision of Prince Albert the campus is adjacent many of London s most popular attractions including Kensington Palace and the Royal Albert Hall museums including the Natural History Museum Victoria and Albert Museum and Science Museum and institutions including the Royal College of Art the Royal College of Music and the National Art Library 49 50 Many students take advantage of the ample green spaces that are an easy walking distance to Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park 51 Many students enjoy Kensington Gardens White City Edit Imperial has a new second major campus in White City providing a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship 52 The hub houses research facilities postgraduate accommodation as well as a commercialisation space 53 54 The campus is home to the Scale Space and incubator Invention Rooms a college hackerspace and community outreach centre 55 The White City campus also includes another biomedical centre funded by Sir Michael Uren 56 57 58 Silwood Park Edit 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 Edit 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 59 Organisation and administration EditFaculties and departments Edit Imperial is organised by four faculties the Faculty of Engineering the Faculty of Medicine the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Imperial College Business School 60 Faculty of Engineering Aeronautical Engineering Bioengineering Chemical Engineering Civil amp Environmental Engineering Computing Dyson School of Design Engineering Earth Science amp Engineering Electrical amp Electronic Engineering Materials Mechanical EngineeringFaculty of Medicine Brain Sciences Immunology amp Inflammation Infectious Disease Metabolism Digestion amp Reproduction Surgery and Cancer Institute of Clinical Sciences National Heart and Lung Institute School of Public HealthFaculty of Natural Sciences Chemistry Mathematics Physics Life Sciences Centre for Environmental PolicyImperial College Business School Analytics amp Operations Economics amp Public Policy Finance Management amp Entrepreneurship Marketing Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis Global institutes Edit Imperial hosts global centres to promote inter disciplinary work Energy Futures Laboratory Gandhi Centre for Inclusive Innovation Grantham Institute for Climate Change Institute for Security Science amp Technology Centre for Health Economics amp Policy Innovation Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis amp Technology Global Entrepreneurship amp Development Index Data Science Institute Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering Institute of Global Health Innovation Francis Crick InstituteAcademic centres Edit 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 CommunicationThe 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 61 Governance Edit Faculty Building designed by Norman Foster See also President of Imperial College London and Provost of Imperial College London 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 62 The position has been held by Alice Gast since September 2014 63 It was announced that Hugh Brady would take up the next Presidency in August 2022 The current Provost is Ian Walmsley and the current Chair is Sir Philip Dilley 64 Finances and endowment Edit Graduation ceremonies take place in the Royal Albert Hall In 2017 18 Imperial had a consolidated income of 1 033 0 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 65 Affiliations and partnerships Edit Imperial is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities European University Association Global Alliance of Technological Universities League of European Research Universities and the Russell Group It is a founding member of the Imperial College academic health sciences centre the Francis Crick Institute and MedCity Imperial is a long term partner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the first formal large scale collaboration agreement dating back to 1944 as part of the World War II scientific effort 66 The two institutions still share a strong bond with exchange programs for their students and academic staff 67 68 In the field of Mathematics Imperial College London has a joint venture with King s College London and 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 69 Academic profile EditRankings Edit RankingsNational rankingsComplete 2023 70 5Guardian 2023 71 7Times Sunday Times 2022 72 4Global rankingsTHE 2023 73 10QS 2023 74 6ARWU 2022 75 23Global In the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Ranking Imperial is ranked 10th in the world as well as 3rd in Europe behind Cambridge and Oxford 76 77 In the 2023 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking Imperial is ranked 6th in the world as well as 3rd in Europe 78 In the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities Imperial is ranked 23rd in the world as well as 6th in Europe 79 Innovation Edit Innovation Hub In the 2023 QS MBA Rankings for the MBA specialization of entrepreneurship Imperial is ranked 3rd in the world as well as 1st in Europe behind Stanford and Harvard 80 In the 2019 Reuters World s Most Innovative Universities Imperial is ranked 1st in innovation in the UK and 2nd in Europe after KU Leuven 81 Career prospects Edit According to the 2019 Guardian University Guide and the 2019 Complete University Guide Imperial students are ranked 1st in employment prospects among UK universities 82 83 As of 2018 The Guardian notes that Imperial graduates pick up the highest salaries in the UK in the first year after graduation earning around a fifth more than students leaving Oxford and Cambridge 84 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 85 In 2018 the Sunday Times Good University Guide found that Computer Science at Imperial was the highest paying degree in the UK 86 Research Edit Queen s TowerImperial was ranked 1st overall in rankings produced by Times Higher Education based upon the Research Excellence Framework results 2021 87 88 Imperial submitted a total of 1 257 staff across 11 units of assessment to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework REF assessment 89 This found that 96 6 of Imperial s research is world leading 66 3 achieved the highest possible 4 score or internationally excellent 30 3 achieved 3 giving an overall GPA of 3 63 the highest in the UK 87 88 93 of Imperial s computer science research was found to be world leading achieving the highest possible 4 score 90 Imperial is also widely known to have been a critical contributor of the discovery of penicillin 91 and the invention of fiber optics 92 The college promotes research commercialisation partly through its dedicated technology transfer company Imperial Innovations which has given rise to a large number of spin out companies based on academic research 93 94 Imperial College has a long term partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that dates back from World War II 66 67 68 The 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 10 years 95 In January 2018 the mathematics department of Imperial and the French National Center for Scientific Research launched UMI Abraham de Moivre at Imperial a joint research laboratory of mathematics focused on unsolved problems and bridging British and French scientific communities 96 The Fields medallists Cedric Villani and Martin Hairer hosted the launch presentation 97 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 former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden as part of his Biden Cancer Initiative 98 99 Imperial was one of the ten leading contributors to the NASA InSight Mars lander which landed on planet Mars in November 2018 with the college logo appearing on the craft 100 101 InSight s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure developed at Imperial measured the first likely marsquake reading in April 2019 102 103 104 In 2019 it was revealed that the Blackett Laboratory would be constructing an instrument for the European Space Agency Solar Orbiter in a mission to study the Sun which launched in February 2020 105 106 The laboratory is also designing part of the US Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment 107 In early 2020 immunology research at the Faculty of Medicine focused on SARS CoV 2 under the leadership of Robin Shattock as part of the college s COVID 19 Response Team including the search of a cheap vaccine which started human trials on 15 June 2020 108 109 110 111 Neil Ferguson s 16 March report entitled Impact of non pharmaceutical interventions NPIs to reduce COVID 19 mortality and healthcare demand 112 was described in a 17 March The New York Times article as the coronavirus report that jarred the U S and the U K to action 113 Since 18 May 2020 Imperial College s Dr Samir Bhatt has been advising the state of New York for its reopening plan 114 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 114 The hospitals from the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust which have been caring for COVID 19 infected patients partnered with Microsoft to use their HoloLens when treating those patients reducing the amount of time spent by staff in high risk areas by up to 83 as well as saving up to 700 items of PPE per ward per week 115 Admissions Edit UCAS Admission Statistics 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016Applications a 116 25 650 23 380 21 310 20 395 19 200Accepted applicants a 116 3 045 2 845 2 795 2 705 2 515Applications accepted ratio a 8 42 8 22 7 62 7 54 7 63Offer rate b 117 42 9 43 0 41 8 39 4 41 5Average Entry Tariff 118 n a n a 190 205 219 a b c Main scheme applications UK domiciled applicants June deadline Queen Elizabeth II opening the Alexander Fleming Building St Mary s Hospital London 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 119 The undergraduate courses with the highest ratios of applicants to admissions were computing 15 8 1 mathematics 12 1 1 and mechanical engineering 8 9 1 For postgraduate they were earth science and engineering 18 8 1 computing 15 8 1 and mechanical engineering 15 1 1 119 Imperial is among the most diverse international universities in the United Kingdom 120 121 with 50 of students from the UK 16 of students from the EU and 34 of students from outside the UK or EU 120 122 123 The student body is 39 female and 61 male 123 36 5 of Imperial s undergraduates are privately educated the fourth highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities 121 Libraries Edit The college s Central 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 124 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 125 Medicine Edit Main articles Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and Imperial College Healthcare The Imperial Faculty of Medicine was formed through mergers between Imperial and the St Mary s Charing Cross and Westminster and Royal Postgraduate medical schools and has six teaching hospitals It accepts more than 300 undergraduate medical students per year and has around 321 taught and 700 research full time equivalent postgraduate students 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 126 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 127 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 128 Controversies EditAccusations of bullying Edit In 2003 it was reported that one third of female academics believe that discrimination or bullying by managers has held back their careers 129 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 130 131 In 2014 Stefan Grimm of the Department of Medicine was found dead after being threatened with dismissal for failure to raise enough grant money 132 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 133 134 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 135 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 136 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 137 On 14 February 2021 it was announced that the OfS would formally investigate allegations of bullying 138 Student life EditStudent body Edit For the 2019 20 academic year Imperial had a total full time student body of 19 400 consisting of 10 475 undergraduate students and 8 925 postgraduates 139 50 7 of the student body is from outside of the UK 140 32 of all full time students came from outside the European Union in 2013 14 141 and around 13 of the International students had Chinese nationality in 2007 08 142 Imperial s male to female ratio for undergraduate students is uneven at approximately 64 36 overall 142 and 5 1 or higher in some engineering courses However medicine has an approximate 1 1 ratio with biology degrees tending to be higher 143 Queen s Lawn at South Kensington Campus Imperial College Union Edit Imperial College Union is the students union and is run by five full time sabbatical officers elected from the student body for a tenure of one year and a number of permanent members of staff It is split into constituent unions aligned with the faculties of the college carrying on the association with the original constituent colleges of Imperial the Royal College of Science Union City and Guilds College Union Royal School of Mines Students Union and Imperial College School of Medicine Students Union The Union is given a large subvention by the university much of which is spent on maintaining over 300 clubs projects and societies 144 Examples of notable student groups and projects are Project Nepal which sends Imperial College students to work on educational development programmes in rural Nepal 145 and the El Salvador Project a construction based project in Central America 146 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 Edit 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 147 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 148 There are two student bars on the South Kensington campus one at the Imperial College Union and one at Eastside 149 There are a number of pubs and bars on campus and also surrounding the campus which become a popular social activity for Imperial s students The Pewter tankard collection at Imperial College Union is the largest in Europe with the majority of clubs and societies having tankards associated with their clubs 150 The weekly college farmer s market Student media Edit Imperial College Radio Edit 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 151 Imperial College TV Edit 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 Edit Felix is weekly student newspaper first released on 9 December 1949 152 In addition to news Felix also carries comic strips features opinions puzzles and reviews plus reports of trips and Imperial College sporting events Racing Green Endurance is a student led project to demonstrate the potential of zero emission cars Student societies Edit Imperial College Boat Club Edit 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 153 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 Sports Edit Imperial College has over 60 sports clubs 154 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 154 Exploration Club Edit Beit Hall Prince s Gardens in the snow surrounded by college halls of residenceImperial 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 155 Dramatic Society Edit The Imperial College Dramatic Society DramSoc 156 is one of two major theatrical arts societies with the other being the Musical Theatre Society and it was founded in 1912 157 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 158 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 Edit The Techtonics are an all male a cappella group from Imperial College London and are a part of the Imperial College A Cappella Society 159 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 160 Student housing Edit Main article Imperial College Halls of Residence 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 161 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 162 Some students also live in International Students House London Notable alumni faculty and staff EditMain articles List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Imperial College London List of Imperial College London people and President of Imperial College London Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Rajiv Gandhi 6th Prime Minister of India a Abdus Salam Sir Alexander Fleming Patrick Blackett Baron Blackett Sir William Crookes Thomas Huxley Sir John Pendry H G Wells Geoffrey Wilkinson Dame Sally Davies Sir Brian May CBE Peter Higgs Robert Winston Baron Winston Sir Martin HairerNobel laureates medicine Sir Alexander Fleming Sir Ernst Boris Chain Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley Rodney Robert Porter physics Abdus Salam Sir George Paget Thomson Patrick Blackett Baron Blackett Dennis Gabor Peter Higgs chemistry Sir Norman Haworth Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Sir Derek Barton Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Sir George Porter 163 Fields medalists Klaus Friedrich Roth Sir Simon Donaldson Martin Hairer 164 Academic affiliations include Sir Tom Kibble co discoverer of Higgs Boson 165 Sir Tejinder Virdee experimental particle physicist 166 Sir John Pendry theoretical solid state physicist 167 Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold physical organic chemistry pioneer 168 Sir William Henry Perkin discoverer of the first synthetic organic chemical dye mauveine 169 Sir Edward Frankland originator of the theory of chemical valency 170 Sir William Crookes discoverer of thallium 171 Sir Alan Fersht chemist 172 David Phillips chemist 173 Harold Hopkins contributed to the theory and design of optical instruments 174 Alfred North Whitehead mathematician and philosopher 175 Sir Steven Cowley physicist and president of Corpus Christi College Oxford 176 and Sir John Ambrose Fleming inventor of the vacuum tube 177 In biology and medicine 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 178 David Livingstone medical missionary and Clare Lloyd biologist In engineering Chi Onwurah politician 179 Dame Julia Higgins polymer scientist 180 Dame Judith Hackitt former Chair of the Health and Safety Executive 181 Dudley Maurice Newitt scientific director of the Special Operations Executive 182 and Julia King Baroness Brown of Cambridge engineer and Member of the House of Lords 183 Narinder Singh Kapany inventor of fibre optics 184 185 186 187 Non academic affiliations include H G Wells author 188 Nikolas Tombazis chief car designer at McLaren and Ferrari Ralph Robins CEO of Rolls Royce 189 Brian May guitarist of rock band Queen 190 Chew Choon Seng CEO of Singapore Airlines Sir Julius Vogel former Prime Minister of New Zealand 191 Rajiv Gandhi former Prime Minister of India 192 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 193 Sir Roger Bannister ran the first four minute mile 194 David Warren inventor of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder 195 Andreas Mogensen first Danish astronaut Winston Wong entrepreneur Alan Howard hedge fund manager and philanthropist Cyrus Pallonji Mistry former chairman of the Tata Group 196 Michael Birch entrepreneur Henry Charles Stephens politician Sir Michael Uren businessman and philanthropist Ian Read CEO of Pfizer Pallab Ghosh BBC correspondent Hannah Devlin science journalist Dyah Roro Esti Widya Putri member of House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia See also Edit London portalAlbertopolis Armorial of UK universities Education in London List of universities in the UKNotes Edit Attended did not graduate References Edit Charitable status Imperial College London Retrieved 4 June 2020 a b Annual Report and Accounts 2020 21 PDF Imperial College London Retrieved 2 February 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