Imperial College London
| Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | |
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| motto | Scientia imperii decus et tutamen |
| founding | July 8, 1907 |
| Sponsorship | state |
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London , UK
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| president | Alice guest |
| Students | 14,735 |
| Employee | 8,000 |
| Annual budget | 1.3 billion US $ (2015/2016) |
| Networks | LERU , Russell Group |
| Website | www.imperial.ac.uk |
The Imperial College London (full name: The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine ) is a corporation founded in 1907 Institute of Technology and University in London . It is one of the most research-intensive and renowned universities in the world. Graduates and faculty include 15 Nobel Prize winners , 3 Fields Medalists , 74 Fellows from the Royal Society and 84 Fellows from the Royal Academy of Engineering .
The university regularly achieves top positions in various ratings for academic institutions; in the QS World University Ranking 2014/15 it was ranked 1st in the United Kingdom and 2nd in a global comparison, both on a par with the University of Cambridge . There are three faculties : engineering, science and medicine, complemented by a business school , the Imperial College Business School. It is also one of the six Golden Triangle universities . Alice Gast is the president.
history
It was founded in 1907 through a merger of the City and Guilds College , the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Science .
At the end of the last century, the medical faculties of St Mary's Hospital (1988), the National Heart and Lung Institute (1995) and the medical faculties of Charing Cross and Westminster (1997) merged to form the Imperial College School of Medicine . On August 1, 2000, Wye College and the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology merged with the college. The Kennedy Institute became a section of the medical school and Wye College is now known as the Imperial College Wye Campus.
The traditional graduation ceremony of all Imperial students of a year takes place in the Royal Albert Hall .
Imperial College is one of the supporting organizations of the Francis Crick Institute .
Ranking and reputation
In the Times Higher Education World University Ranking , the University is ranked 10 worldwide in 2020. In the subcategory Medicine , the University is the world's number four in the computer science at No. 7, in the engineering sciences in 11th place in the natural sciences in 11th place , 16th in the life sciences and 23rd in the 2020 reputation ranking.
In the Financial Times Rankings, the Faculty of Economics (Imperial College Business School) ranks 18th in the European Business Schools category. The MSc in Management Program achieved 1st place in Great Britain in the 2011 Financial Times Management Ranking and is ranked 13th worldwide. In the FT MBA Ranking, ICBS is ranked 37th and 4th in the Entrepreneurship specialization. The MSc in Finance Program ranks 8th in the 2011 FT Rankings worldwide . ICBS came 14th in the Bloomberg Businessweek Rankings for European Business Schools.
In the QS World University Rankings (2010), Imperial College London is ranked 7th worldwide. In the subcategory medicine and life sciences , the university is ranked 11th, in engineering and IT it is ranked 6th and in the natural sciences it is ranked 11th worldwide. According to the Shanghai Ranking (2010) of the Chinese Jiaotong University in Shanghai, the university ranks fourth in Europe.
According to the British Research Assessment Excercise (2008), which is carried out every 5 years and decides on the allocation of financial contributions from public institutions to universities, 73% of the publications at Imperial College London were rated as `` world leaders '' (4 *) or `` excellent '' internationally '(3 *) classified. This is the highest proportion of multi-faculty universities in any of the UK.
According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency and the Sunday Times , Graduates from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London in 2008 received, on average, the highest starting salaries of any IT graduate and the second highest starting salaries of any graduate in any institution and discipline in the UK.
campus
Imperial's main campus is located in the posh London borough of South Kensington, in an area known as the Albertopolis because of its high density of cultural and academic institutions . The Natural History Museum , Science Museum , Victoria and Albert Museum , Royal College of Music , Royal College of Art and the world-famous Royal Albert Hall are all in the vicinity . The South Kensington campus is just 100 meters from Hyde Park . Practically every building can be reached via the Main Walkway, the central path through the densely populated campus. The junior or senior common room (comparable to a cafeteria for undergraduates or postgraduates and employees) and various shops are also located here.
Other university campuses are in Silwood Park (near Ascot ) and in Wye (near Ashford in Kent ).
New buildings
A donation of around 40 million euros by alumnus Gary Tanaka in 2000 enabled the construction of a new building for the Management School, now known as the Imperial College Business School . Like the new building for life sciences and the central administration building, it was designed by the architect Norman Foster . The business school is now regarded as the imposing main entrance to the South Kensington campus; it was opened in 2004 by Queen Elizabeth II .
West Imperial
In 2014, the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson , approved the expansion of Imperial College to include White City. Funds worth over a billion euros were spent on the construction of the West Imperial, which has already been partially opened. Another donation of around 45 million euros from alumnus Michael Uren enables the establishment of a bio center on the new campus.
organization
Faculties
The Imperial is divided into three faculties and five departments.
- Faculty of Engineering
- Aeronautics, bioengineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, geosciences and geoengineering, electrical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering
- Imperial College Business School
- divided into the research and teaching areas: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Organization and Management, Finance, Healthcare Management
- Faculty of Science
- divided into: Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Life Sciences (biology, cell and molecular biology , molecular life sciences), Center for Environmental Policy
- Faculty of Medicine
- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial Cancer Research UK Center, Department of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, School of Public Health, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Singapore medical schoolm, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, various teaching hospitals in and around London, for Example the Epsom Hospital
- Humanities
- Graduate School of Engineering and Physical Sciences
- Graduate School of Life Sciences and Medicine
- Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- School of Professional Development
Others
In 2006 the World Memory Championship took place at Imperial College .
In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Imperial College to sign bilateral agreements with Tsinghua University .
Imperial College London operates the DreamLab volunteer computer app .
See also
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Official website of the Business School (English)
- ICU Imperial College Union
Individual evidence
- ^ Charitable status. imperial.ac.uk, accessed on May 18, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Latin science is the protection and adornment of the empire (meaning the British Empire)
- ^ About the President. Professor Alice Gast. In: www.imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London, accessed July 22, 2019 .
- ↑ [1] , accessed on May 26, 2017
- ↑ [2] , accessed on May 24, 2017
- ↑ topuniversities.com
- ↑ [3]
- ^ World University Rankings. August 20, 2019, accessed March 2, 2020 .
- ^ Imperial College London. September 9, 2019, accessed March 2, 2020 .
- ^ Financial Times Rankings. Retrieved May 21, 2011 .
- ^ FT Global Masters in management ranking 2011. The Financial Times , accessed October 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Global MBA Rankings 2011. Accessed October 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Global Masters in Finance Ranking 2011. Accessed October 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Europe's Top B-Schools 2011. Bloomberg Businessweek , archived from the original on October 25, 2011 ; Retrieved October 6, 2011 .
- ↑ QS World University Ranking. Retrieved May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Shanghai Ranking. Retrieved May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Research Assessment Excercise. Retrieved May 21, 2011 .
- ^ DoC Students Earn Top UK Salaries. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011 ; Retrieved May 21, 2011 .
- ↑ [4] , accessed on May 24, 2017
- ↑ [5] , accessed on May 24, 2017
- ↑ [6] , accessed on May 24, 2017