The Imperial College London
Saturday, 23 June 2012 - 01:35 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien General , London , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Imperial College
London (officially
The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine ) is a public research university, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine. 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 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 one of the largest estates of any higher education institution in the UK. Imperial is organised into four main academic units – Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences , Imperial College Faculty of Medicine , Imperial College Faculty of Engineering and the Imperial College Business School – within which there are over 40 departments, institutes and research centres.University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford it is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world, ranking 24th in the world (and 5th in Europe) in the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities , 6th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) in the 2011 QS World University Rankings , and 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) in the 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings . There are currently 14 Nobel Prize winners and two Fields Medal winners amongst Imperial’s alumni and current and former faculty.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.Imperial College London , Imperial Boat Club , Imperial College Union and Wikipedia Imperial College London . Photo by Wikipedia Commons.VIDEO
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