Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public university located in London, United Kingdom specializing in business, engineering, medicine and science. Formerly a constituent college of the federal University of London, Imperial became fully independent in 2007, the 100th anniversary of its founding. Imperial’s main campus is located in the South Kensington area of Central London between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster, with its main entrance on Exhibition Road.
With a total of 525,233 square meters of operational property, Imperial College has the largest estate of any higher education institution in the UK
- 14,000 students
- 3,330 academic and research staff
- 130.000 alumni
- 14 Nobel Prize winners
- students from 158 countries
- £694m total 2009/10 income
Imperial Innovations, a listed investment vehicle on AIM with a market cap of £400m that is investing in technology innovation
Imperial College is 7th in the world (and 4th in Europe) in the 2010 QS World University Rankings 9th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) in the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings
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