Imperial College London (officially known as The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom that specialise in business, engineering, medicine and science. Formerly a constituent college of the federal University of London, Imperial became fully independent in 2007, the 100th anniversary of its founding.

Imperial is organized into four main academic units — three faculties and the Imperial College Business School — within which there are over 40 departments, institutes and research centres.[1]

Imperial has around 13,500 full-time students and 3,330 academic and research staff and had a total income of £694 million in 2009/10, of which £297 million was from research grants and contracts. Imperial is a major centre for biomedical research and is a founding member of the Imperial College Healthcare academic health science centre. Imperial College London is ranked 7th in the world (and 4th in Europe) in the 2010 QS World University Rankings, and 9th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) in the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It is the only UK university that has broken into the top two UK rankings in one year. There are currently 14 Nobel Prize winners and two Fields Medal winners amongst Imperial's alumni and current and former faculty.