Imperial College London
About
Imperial College London is a UK university founded in 1907, based in Kensington and Chelsea, with around 17,565 students. The Teaching Excellence Framework awarded Imperial College London a Gold rating.
Academic staff have published 372,380 works cited 39,553,436 times, with an h-index of 1525.
Courses at Imperial College London (244)
Advanced Aeronautical Engineering
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Advanced Chemical Engineering
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Advanced Chemical Engineering with Biotechnology
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Advanced Chemical Engineering with Process Systems Engineering
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Advanced Computational Methods for Aeronautics, Flow Management and Fluid-Structure Interaction
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Advanced Computing
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Who gets into Imperial College London
See full breakdown →Full-time undergraduates admitted in 2023-24, by neighbourhood deprivation. Source: Office for Students.
From the least deprived 20% of UK neighbourhoods
29.3%
From the most deprived 20%
15.9%
The richest-area share is 13.4 percentage points higher than the poorest-area share among 1,620 entrants in 2023-24.
Notable alumni of Imperial College London
See all 244 →244 notable graduates and former students with Wikipedia coverage, ranked by international reach. Source: Wikidata.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
Rajiv Gandhi
Prime Minister of India (1984-1989)
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
Hassan II
King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999
William Crookes
British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)
Derek Barton
English organic chemist (1918–1998)
Geoffrey Wilkinson
British Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Roger Bannister
English physician and athlete (1929–2018)
David Irving
British author and Holocaust denier (born 1938)
Patrick Geddes
British biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
Marc Garneau
Canadian astronaut and politician (1949–2025)
Andreas Mogensen
Danish astronaut
Rankings
- Complete University Guide 2026
- #6
- The Guardian (UK) 2026
- #6
- QS World 2026
- #2
- Times Higher Ed (World) 2026
- #8
- Times & Sunday Times (UK) 2026
- #6
- ARWU (Shanghai) 2025
- #26
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Quick Facts
- Location
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Postcode
- SW7 2AZ
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1907
- Student Count
- 17,565
- TEF Rating
- Gold