Imperial College London

Imperial College London, formally the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, is a public research university in London, England. It was formed in 1907 through a merger of two colleges, the Royal College of Science and the Royal School of Mines, with City and Guilds College joining in 1910. Once a constituent college of the University of London, it became an independent university in 2007 and is organised into four faculties: engineering, medicine, natural sciences and business.

QS ranks Imperial No. 2 in its World University Rankings 2026, with an overall score of 99.4. Times Higher Education places it No. 8 in its World University Rankings 2026.

Its story starts with Prince Albert's plan for South Kensington as a district of museums, colleges and the Royal Albert Hall, and its main campus is still there, with another in White City. From 1988 St Mary's Hospital Medical School and then Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School became part of Imperial, together forming the Imperial College School of Medicine, and the Imperial Business School followed in 2003. Its graduates and academics include 14 Nobel Prize winners and three Fields Medal winners.