page_title: Imperial College London
section_title: Rankings
hierarchical_section_title: Imperial College London / Academic profile / Rankings
caption_attribution_description: Imperial Institute Tower c1960
context_page_description: Imperial College London is a public research university in London. Dating back to the Royal College of Chemistry's foundation in 1845, Imperial grew out of Prince Albert's vision of an area for culture, including the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial Institute, numerous museums, and the Royal Colleges that would go on to form the college. In 1907, Imperial College was established by Royal Charter, merging the Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, and City and Guilds College. In 1988, the Imperial College School of Medicine was formed by combining with St Mary's Hospital Medical School. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Imperial College Business School.
  The college focuses exclusively on science, technology, medicine and business. The college's main campus is located in South Kensington, and it has an innovation campus in White City, a research field station at Silwood Park, and teaching hospitals throughout London. The college was a member of the University of London from 1908, becoming independent on its centenary in 2007. Imperial has an international community, with more than 59% of students from outside the UK and 140 countries represented on campus.
context_section_description: World & Europe
  Imperial is ranked 10th globally by the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, as well as 3rd in Europe and in the UK after Oxford and Cambridge in their 2019 European universities ranking. Within the 2019 subject rankings, Imperial is ranked 4th globally in the clinical, pre-clinical and health category, 11th in physical sciences, 11th in computer science, 12th in engineering and technology and 14th in life sciences.
  The college is ranked 8th worldwide by the 2021 QS World University Ranking, as well as 4th in Europe, and 1st in London.
  Imperial is ranked 3rd in Europe, and 1st in London by the 2019 U.S. News & World Report Global Ranking.
  National
  Imperial is ranked 4th in the 2019 Times Higher Education "Table of Tables" which combines the results of the 3 main domestic league tables. In the 2021 Complete University Guide, 13 of the 14 subjects offered by Imperial were ranked in the top 10 nationally.
  Innovation
  In 2018, Reuters - The World's Most Innovative Universities ranked Imperial 1st in innovation in the UK, and 2nd in Europe behind KU Leuven.  In 2019, QS ranked Imperial 1st for MBA's in entrepreneurship in Europe, and 2nd in the world behind Stanford.
  Career prospects
  According to both the 2019 Guardian University Guide and the Complete University Guide, students are ranked 1st for employment prospects among UK universities.
  As of 2018, The Guardian notes that Imperial graduates pick up the highest salaries in the UK in the first year after graduation, earning around a fifth more than students leaving Oxford and Cambridge.
  A 2018 Department for Education report found that Imperial boosted female graduates earnings 31.3% above the average female graduate, and male graduates similarly saw a 25.3% increase in earnings above the average male graduate. The 2019 Department for Education statistics found that 5 years after graduation Imperial mathematics and computing graduates were among the UK's ten highest income degrees.
  The New York Times ranked Imperial College as one of the 10 most-welcomed universities by the global job market in 2012.
caption: Queen's Tower
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