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Imperial College London
Motto Scientia imperii decus et tutamen
Knowledge is the adornment and protection of the Empire
Established 8 July 1907[1]
Type Public
Endowment £58.8 million (2009/10)[2]
Rector Sir Keith O'Nions[3]
Visitor The Lord President of the Council ex officio
Admin. staff approx. 8,000 (2007/08)
Students 13,410[4]
Undergraduates 8,350[4]
Postgraduates 5,060[4]
Location London, United Kingdom
Campus Urban
Colours
                                           
Affiliations Association of Commonwealth Universities
Association of MBAs
European Quality Improvement System
'G5'
IDEA League
League of European Research Universities
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Russell Group
Website www.imperial.ac.uk
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Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)[1] is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom specialised in business, engineering, medicine and science.[5] Formerly a constituent college of the federal University of London, Imperial became fully independent in 2007, the 100th anniversary of its founding.[6]

Imperial's main campus is located in the South Kensington area of Central London on the boundary between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster, with its main entrance on Exhibition Road. It has a number of other campuses in Central London, including in Chelsea, Hammersmith and Paddington. With a total of 525,233 square metres of operational property, it has the largest estate of any higher education institution in the UK.[7] Imperial has around 13,500 full-time students and 3,330 academic and research staff[8] and had a total income of £694 million in 2009/10, of which £297 million was from research grants and contracts.[2] Imperial is a major centre for biomedical research and is a founding member of the Imperial College Healthcare academic health science centre.[9]

Imperial is ranked 26th in the world (and 5th in Europe) in the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities,[10] 7th in the world (and 4th in Europe) in the 2010 QS World University Rankings,[11] and 9th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) in the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[12] There are currently 14 Nobel Prize winners and two Fields Medal winners amongst Imperial's alumni and current and former faculty.[13][14]

Imperial is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, the European University Association, the G5, the IDEA League, the League of European Research Universities, Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Russell Group. It forms part of the 'Golden Triangle' of British universities.[15]

Contents

[edit] History

Royal School of Mines entrance.

[edit] Origins

The origins of the constituent elements of Imperial can be traced back as far as the fifteenth century. The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye was originally founded in 1447 as a seminary, with an agricultural college being established at Wye in the 1890s after the removal of the theological college. The medical schools of Charing Cross Hospital, Westminster Hospital and St Mary's Hospital were opened in 1823, 1834 and 1854 respectively.[16][17][18] The Royal School of Mines was founded by Sir Henry de la Beche in 1851, laying one of the foundation stones for scientific teaching in Britain. The Royal College of Science was established in 1881 and the City and Guilds College in 1884.[16]

[edit] 20th century

The Queen's Tower near dusk

In 1907, the newly established Board of Education found that greater capacity for higher technical education was needed and a proposal to merge the City and Guilds College, the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Science was approved and passed, creating The Imperial College of Science and Technology as a constituent college of the University of London. Imperial's Royal Charter, granted by Edward VII, was officially signed on 8 July 1907. The main campus of Imperial College was constructed beside the buildings of the Imperial Institute in South Kensington.

The Imperial College Boat Club was founded on 12 December 1919. Imperial acquired Silwood Park in 1947, to provide a site for research and teaching in those aspects of biology not well suited for the main London campus. Felix, Imperial's student newspaper, was launched on 9 December 1949. On 29 January 1950, the government announced that it was intended that Imperial should expand to meet the scientific and technological challenges of the 20th century and a major exapnsion of the College followed over the next decade. In 1959 the Wolfson Foundation donated £350,000 for the establishment of a new Biochemistry Department. A special relationship between Imperial and the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) was established in 1963. The Department of Management Science was created in 1971 and the Associated Studies Department was established in 1972. The Humanities Department was opened in 1980, formed from the Associated Studies and History of Science departments.

In 1988 Imperial merged with St Mary's Hospital Medical School, becoming The Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine. In 1995 Imperial launched its own academic publishing house, Imperial College Press, in partnership with World Scientific.[19] Imperial merged with the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1995 and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS) and the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1997. In that year the Imperial College School of Medicine was formally established. In 1998 the Sir Alexander Fleming Building was opened in order to provide purpose-built headquarters for the College's medical and biomedical research.

In 2000 Imperial merged with both the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and Wye College, the University of London's agricultural college in Wye, Kent. In December 2005, Imperial announced a science park programme at the Wye campus;[20] however, this was abandoned in September 2006 following local environmental complaints. Wye College will now be run by the University of Kent from September 2007 in association with Imperial College London and Wye College, graduates will receive a degree from the University of Kent and an Imperial Associateship of Wye College.[21]

[edit] 21st century

In May 2001 a new faculty structure was established, with all departments being assigned to the Faculties of Engineering, Medicine, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences. A merger with University College London was proposed in October of that year, but was abandoned a month later following protests from staff over potential redundancies.[22] In 2003 Imperial was granted degree-awarding powers in its own right by the Privy Council. In 2004 the Tanaka Business School (now named the Imperial College Business School) and a new Main Entrance on Exhibition Road were opened by Her Majesty The Queen. In November 2005 the faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences merged to become the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

On 9 December 2005, Imperial College announced that it would commence negotiations to secede from the University of London.[23] Imperial became fully independent from the University of London in July 2007[24][25] and the first students to register for an Imperial College degree were postgraduates beginning their course in October 2007, with the first undergraduates enrolling for an Imperial degree in October 2008.

[edit] Campus

The Natural History Museum on Exhibition Road

Imperial's main campus is in South Kensington, situated in an area with a high concentration of cultural and academic institutions known as Albertopolis, which also includes the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Music, the Royal College of Art, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Albert Hall. The expansion of the South Kensington campus in the 1960s absorbed the site of the former Imperial Institute, designed by Thomas Collcutt, of which only the 287 foot (87 m) high Queen's Tower remains among the more modern buildings.[26][27]

Imperial has two other major campuses — at Silwood Park (near Ascot in Berkshire) and at Wye (near Ashford in Kent). The Imperial College NHS Trust has multiple hospitals throughout Greater London and various medic lectures are conducted within these hospitals, including St. Mary's Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital & St. Mark's Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital. In 1997, the parliamentary Imperial College Act 1997 officially transferred all the obligations, powers and property of Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School to Imperial.

Extensive renovation continues throughout the College estate. Recent major projects include the Imperial College Business School, the Ethos sports centre, the Southside hall of residence and the Eastside hall of residence. Current major projects include the reconstruction of the south-eastern quadrant of the South Kensington campus.

[edit] Organisation and administration

Imperial College Business School entrance on Exhibition Road

[edit] Faculties and departments

Imperial’s research and teaching is organised within a network of faculties and academic departments. Imperial currently has the following three constituent faculties:

The Imperial College Business School, Graduate Schools, Department of Humanities and Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine exist as academic units outside of the faculty structure.

The humanities department's main purpose is to provide elective subjects and language courses outside the field of science for students in the other faculties and departments. Students are encouraged to take these classes either for credit or in their own time, and in some departments this is mandatory.[28] Courses exist in a wide range of topics including philosophy, ethics in science and technology, history, modern literature and drama, art in the twentieth century, film studies.[29] Language courses are available in French, German, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese.[30] The humanities department also runs a full-time course in scientific translation,[31] and is home to the Science Communication Group[32] which offers Masters degrees in Science Communication and Science Media Production for science graduates.

[edit] Finances

In the financial year ended 31 July 2010, Imperial had total income (including share of joint ventures) of £694.0 million (2008/09 - £672.1 million) and total expenditure of £651.2 million (2008/09 - £657.4 million).[2] Key sources of income included £296.8 million from research grants and contracts (2008/09 - £286.8 million), £172.2 million from Funding Council grants (2008/09 - £178.4 million), £120.9 million from academic fees and support grants (2008/09 - £108.8 million) and £15.0 million from endowment and investment income (2008/09 - £13.3 million).[2] During the 2009/10 financial year Imperial had a capital expenditure of £115 million (2008/09 - £115 million).[2]

At year end Imperial had endowments of £58.8 million (2008/09 - £56.0 million) and total net assets of £744.6 million (2008/09 - £647.4 million).[2]

[edit] Academics

Imperial has over 6,000 academic staff, including 2 Fields Medallists, 66 Fellows of the Royal Society, 71 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and 62 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

[edit] Student body

The Bessemer building

For the 2007-08 academic year, Imperial College had a total full-time student body of 12,319: 8741 undergraduate students and 3578 postgraduates. In addition there were 1036 part-time students, all postgraduates. 29% of all full-time students come from outside the European Union.[33]

Imperial's male:female ratio for undergraduate students is uneven at approximately 64:36 overall[33] and 5:1 in some engineering courses. However, medicine has an approximate 1:1 ratio with biology degrees tending to be higher.[34]

[edit] Research

Imperial received £286.8 million from research grants and contracts in 2008/09, the second highest amount of any British university (after the University of Oxford).[35]

In the December 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), 75% of staff achieved a 5* rating, the highest proportion in any UK university.[36] The College was second in the country with an overall score of 6.68 out of 7.[37] The most recent RAE returned 26% of the 1225 staff submitted as being world-leading (4*) and a further 47% as being internationally excellent (3*).[37][38]

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise five subjects - Pure Mathematics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering - were assessed to be the best in terms of the proportion of internationally recognised research quality.[39]

Imperial has a dedicated technology transfer company known as Imperial Innovations. Imperial actively encourages its staff to commercialise its research and as a result has given rise to a proportionally large number of spin-out companies based on academic research.

Imperial College, in conducting research on Parkinson's disease and Multiple Sclerosis, hosts a brain bank consisting of brains donated by individuals affected with either of these diseases.[40] This brain bank is the largest in the world, consisting of 296 samples.[41]

[edit] Rankings

In the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Imperial is ranked 26th overall in the world (and 5th in Europe).[10] In the subject tables it is ranked 23rd in the world (and 5th in Europe) for clinical medicine and pharmacy,[42] 30th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for engineering/technology and computer sciences,[43] 24th in the world (and 5th in Europe) for natural sciences and mathematics[44] and 14th in the world (and 2nd in Europe) for physics.[45] In the 2010 QS World University Rankings, Imperial is ranked 7th overall in the world (and 4th in Europe).[11] In the subject tables it is ranked 6th in the world (and 2nd in Europe) for engineering and technology,[46] 11th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for life sciences and medicine[47] and 11th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for natural sciences.[48] In the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Imperial is ranked 9th overall in the world (and 3rd in Europe).[12] In the subject tables it is ranked 5th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for clinical, pre-clinical and health,[49] 9th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for engineering and technology,[50] 9th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for life sciences[51] and 13th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for physical sciences.[52]

Imperial is consistently one of the highest ranked universities in UK university rankings and is 3rd overall in the 2011 Complete University Guide, Sunday Times University Guide and Times Good University Guide and 7th in the 2011 Guardian University Guide. In the Complete University Guide subject tables Imperial is currently ranked 3rd for biological sciences, 2nd for chemical engineering, 1st for civil engineering, 3rd for computer science and 3rd for medicine.[53] In the Guardian University Guide subject tables it is currently ranked 2nd for chemical engineering, 1st for civil engineering, 3rd for materials and mineral engineering and 3rd for mechanical engineering.[54] The college has been the only institution to have displaced Oxford from the top two spots in a major university league tablehttp://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2000041402

World rankings
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Academic Ranking of World Universities 26th[10] 26th[55] 27th[56] 23rd[57] 23rd[58] 23rd[59]
HEEACT – Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities 21th[60] 22th[61] 27nd[62] 28st[63]
QS World University Rankings 7th[11] 5th[64] 6th[65] 5th[66] 9th[66][67] 13th[68]
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 9th[12]
UK rankings[69][70][71][72]
2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Times Good University Guide 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd
Sunday Times University Guide 3rd 3rd 3rd 4th 4th 4th 3rd
Complete University Guide 3rd 3rd 3rd= 3rd
Guardian University Guide 7th 8th 6th 3rd 3rd 5th 3rd
The Daily Telegraph 3rd 3rd

The Financial Times placed Imperial's Business School within the top 20 in Europe.[73] The Business School is also consistently ranked in the top 10 worldwide for entrepreneurship[citation needed]. The business school also offers a full time MBA that is ranked 17th in Europe by the Financial Times[citation needed] and a part time Executive MBA programme that is ranked 4th in Europe.[citation needed]

Human Resources & Labor Review, a human competitiveness index & analysis published in Chasecareer Network, ranked Imperial 26th internationally in 2010 as one of the 300 Best World Universities.[74]

Furthermore, in terms of job prospects, Imperial is one of the best in the UK. The average starting salary of an Imperial graduate is £25,780 which is the highest of any UK university.[7] In 2009, the Sunday Times ranked Computing graduates from Imperial as earning the second highest average starting salary, £34,960,[75] after graduation, over all universities and courses.[76]

[edit] Medicine

Main articles: Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
St. Mary's Hospital

The Imperial Faculty of Medicine is one of the largest faculties of medicine in the UK. It 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 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.[77] 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 the largest in the UK and has an annual turnover of £800 million, treating more than a million patients a year.[citation needed] The Trust's chief executive, Professor Stephen Smith, was formerly the principal of the Faculty of Medicine of Imperial College London. The chair of the Trust is Lord Tugendhat.

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 (UK).[78]

[edit] Admissions

Imperial is among the most selective universities in the UK.[79] From 1999 to 2009 (dates of all the online available records), the overall acceptance rate of Imperial College programmes has been consistently below 20%[80] and, in 2009, the acceptance rate of the college for undergraduates was 15.3%.[33] The acceptance rate for postgraduate courses was 19.5%.[33]

Imperial, along with University College London[81] and the University of Cambridge[82] was one of the first universities in the UK to make use of the A* grade at A Level for admissions, with engineering and physics courses requiring an A* in Mathematics. Mathematics and Computer Science courses themselves require A* grades in Mathematics and Further Mathematics, along with another A grade at A Level, making them the only courses in the UK to routinely ask for 2 A*s at A-Level.

Imperial announced in summer 2008 that it was exploring the possibility of entrance exams to help it select the most suitable students.[83] Since then, the College has been reviewing and piloting a range of assessment approaches, such as subject-specific tests, skills tests and motivation-based tests as part of enhanced interviews and will continue to do so during the 2009-10 academic year. The Cambridge Thinking Skills assessment (TSA) was one test trialled on existing Imperial College students. No date is set for the implementation of any entrance exam for applicants. Medicine at Imperial already uses the BMAT as part of the selection process.

[edit] Student life

Royal School of Mines entrance and the Goldsmiths' wing, Prince Consort Road, London

[edit] Imperial College Union

Main article: Imperial College Union

Imperial College Union, the Imperial students' union, 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. The Union is given a large subvention by the university, much of which is spent on maintaining around 300 clubs and societies,[84] the largest number of any students' union in the United Kingdom.[citation needed] The Union operates two different sites; Beit Quad, South Kensington and Reynold's, Hammersmith. On top of this the college also runs an additional site, the Holland Club, on the South Kensington campus.

The Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union looks after the social, academic and welfare needs of the 2,200 students within the faculty.

[edit] Student Media

[edit] Imperial College Radio

Imperial College Radio (or 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 www.icradio.com[85] and, since 2004, on 1134 AM in Wye. The radio station has a library of over 51,000 tracks, which are searchable on their website.

In 2006 IC Radio received two nominations in the Student Radio Awards: Best Entertainment Show for Liquid Lunch[86] and Best Male Presenter for Martin Archer.[87]

Popular shows on IC Radio in recent years (2006/2007) include: Rocktopia, School Daze' (pop), 'Instru(Mental)' (dance), 'VPT'[88] (Entertainment/Shambles), 'Peter and James' [89]'Moon Unit'[90] and 'The Cornerstone'[91] (both of which play rock and alternative) and 'Album - A Discourse in Musical History'[92] (devoted to seminal albums).

Imperial College Radio is now best known for its specialist dance music shows, with the likes of Believe The Hype (Electro/Indie), Peer Pressure (Techno) and On Dancefloors (Electro/House) gaining critical acclaim and notoriety not just in college but throughout London.

[edit] stoic TV

stoic tv (Student Television of Imperial College) is Imperial College Union's TV station, founded in 1969 and operating 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 and interview programmes with DJ Mike Raven, Richard O'Brian and Monty Python producer Ian MacNaughton.

In 2006 it was named Best Broadcaster at NaSTA and also won awards for Best On-Screen Male and Best On-Screen Female. It now broadcasts from studios in the specially built media centre in the Student Union to the Junior Common Room and occasionally DaVinci's Bar. Programmes are also available to watch on their website.[93]

There is also a non-student Imperial College organisation called Media Services, whose main activity is producing videos of College events.

[edit] Felix

Published weekly, Felix is the free student newspaper of Imperial College London. It aims to be independent of both the College itself and also the Student Union. The editor is elected annually from the student body; the editorship is a full-time, sabbatical position. There is also a non-student Imperial College newspaper called Reporter, and London Student distributes on campus.

In 2006 and 2008, Felix won the Guardian Student Media Awards for Student newspaper of the year and Student journalist of the year.

[edit] Live!

Live![94] is an online student news source and forum run by the City and Guilds College Union. Live! also enables readers to view published articles from Livic, the monthly newspaper of CivSoc, the student society in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Content on Live! is text-based news, with one or more photographs per article to illustrate the event. At the start of 2007 the ability to display videos was added, increasing the breadth of its coverage. Co-operation with Imperial's student television station, stoic tv has led to the introduction of politically-focused video content on the site by syndicating weekly news bulletins and the "Ask the President" show. Live! was also named the best student website in the 2007 Guardian Student Media Awards.

[edit] Student housing

Beit Hall (student housing)

Imperial College owns and manages twenty halls of residence in Inner London, Ealing, Ascot and Wye. 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. Study bedrooms are provided with basic furniture and with access to shared kitchens and bathrooms. The majority of rooms come with internet access and access to the Imperial network. Most of them are considered among the newest student halls at London universities.

Most students in college or university accommodation are first-year undergraduates, since they are granted a room once they have selected Imperial College as their firm offer at 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".

Some students are also selected to live in International Students House, London.

[edit] Other

The El Salvador Project is a charitable volunteer project that is constructing earthquake-proof buildings in the poorer areas of El Salvador. About 10 students from the Civil and Environmental Engineering department travel to El Salvador each year to carry out construction work.

Teams from Imperial won University Challenge in 1996 and 2001.[95]

[edit] Notable alumni, faculty and staff

Sir Alexander Fleming, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of penicillin
Main article: List of Imperial College London people
See also: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Imperial College London

Some of Imperial's most well-known alumni include:

[edit] Friends of Imperial College

Friends of Imperial College[96] is an association with strong links into the college. It offers anyone interested in the great advances that are being made in science, medicine and technology the opportunity to learn more from leading figures in their fields. Friends provides opportunities for members and their guests to meet and talk with staff, students, alumni and other like-minded people in a programme of visits, talks and social events.

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  85. ^ Imperial College Radio, London, UK
  86. ^ Liquid Lunch, IC Radio - Student Radio that Flows
  87. ^ Martin Archer: Presenter, Voiceover, DJ who is now a Radio Presenter on the [Kiss Network]
  88. ^ VPT, IC Radio - Professionally Unprofessional
  89. ^ Peter and James
  90. ^ Imperial College Radio, London, UK
  91. ^ Imperial College Radio, London, UK
  92. ^ Imperial College Radio, London, UK
  93. ^ stoic tv
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