Imperial College, University of London in general

Imperial College London is a university that ranks in top five in UK rankings and in world rankings. It finished fifth and fourth in last two years in top universities in the world. Last year was universities 100 years celebration. 1907 was when three colleges were merged to create one university. Students starting this year will get Imperial College degrees awarded by the university; it gained this status last year after becoming independent. Imperial has campuses in South Kensington, Ascot, and in Kent. It has merged with many of top hospitals in London. In the past it has excelled in medicine and engineering, this ...

I have attended three universities already including Imperial, and currently doing my PhD here. Previously, I studied in Canada at U. of Toronto where I did my BSc and went to Queen Mary in London to do an MSc. There is a big difference between Toronto, Queen Mary and Imperial. Toronto was much more competitive and academically oriented than Queen Mary. But at the same time, it was similar to Toronto in the sense that sometimes you felt like people around you were sort of 'well dressed and groomed' (if you know what I mean) and this put pressure on you to also dress well. But I am not the kind of person, who likes to dress up, so I always felt like a nerd in Toronto and ...

I am about to start my second year at Imperial College studying Chemical Engineering. Imperial is constantly ranked in the top 5 universities in the UK in most ranking guides (The others being Oxford Cambridge LSE and UCL). This means that in the business world it is well perceived and this is no more apparent than by the number of relationships it has with various companies. In a nutshell this means that hopefully I can graduate with a degree that will get me a well paid job for a upwardly mobile company. The college has around 10,000 students and is a constituent element of the federal University of London although it enjoys quite a high level of ...