About Imperial
Welcome to Imperial. We are a world-leading university for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business (STEMB). Across our London campuses, and throughout our international network, we use science to tackle global challenges.
Welcome to Imperial
Welcome to Imperial, a world-leading university for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business (STEMB). Ranked 1st in the UK and Europe and 2nd in the world (QS World University Rankings 2025)
Multidisciplinary networks, centres and institutes
Our Global Challenge Institutes were created to address some of the most important issues facing the world today. These issues are too big to be tackled by individual academics or teams, so the Institutes serve to harness and drive multi-disciplinary approaches, bringing together experts with a wide range of specialisms. The Institutes enable and support cross-faculty collaboration across College, while engaging externally with policymakers, businesses, end-users, and international partners to bring rapid, innovative progress to these critical issues. The impacts of the Global Challenge Institutes can be seen through their outputs, including their education and training programmes, in-depth policy papers and reports, seminars, workshops, and research grants. Together, these enhance and promote Imperial’s world-leading research strengths in these areas.
The Imperial Centres of Excellence aim to galvanise a critical mass of researchers, transcending Faculty boundaries to support a multidisciplinary theme. The Imperial Networks of Excellence aim to establish and grow connections around an important multidisciplinary area that is being explored at an earlier stage than the centres. Find out more about how the College recognises multi-faculty networks and centres.
Campuses and maps
Imperial has several campuses in London and the South East. All have excellent travel links and are easily accessible through the use of public transport. These pages provide maps, travel directions and campus details including retail facilities for each campus, and are designed to make travelling to and from Imperial as simple as possible.
Charing Cross
Chelsea and Westminster
Hammersmith
North West London Hospitals
Royal Brompton
Silwood Park
South Kensington
St Mary’s
White City
History
Discover some of the definitive moments, scientific advances and great individuals from Imperial’s history.
Imperial through the years
A timeline of College developments
Explore the key moments from Imperial’s history, as the College expanded to become one of the world’s top university institutions.
People from our past
Meet some of the great individuals behind some of Imperial’s achievements and contributions
Reflecting on our history
Imperial has commissioned a group to examine the history of the College and to report on the present understanding and reception of the College’s legacy in the context of its present-day mission.