Tuesday, February 15, 2011

IMPERIAL COLLEGE

Maria E and Cristina GA

Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom specialised in medicine and science.
Imperial's main campus is located in the South Kensington area of Central London on the boundary between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster, with its main entrance on Exhibition Road.

It has a number of other campuses in Central London, including in Chelsea, Hammersmith and Paddington.

The origins of the constituent elements of Imperial can be traced back as far as the fifteenth century. The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye was originally founded in 1447 as a seminary, with an agricultural college being established at Wye in the 1890s after the removal of the theological college. The medical schools of Charing Cross Hospital, Westminster Hospital and St Mary's Hospital were opened in 1823, 1834 and 1854 respectively. The Royal School of Mines was founded by Sir Henry de la Beche in 1851, laying one of the foundation stones for scientific teaching in Britain. The Royal College of Science was established in 1881 and the City and Guilds College in 1884.

Imperial has two other major campuses.
Imperial's main campus is in South Kensington, situated in an area with a high concentration of cultural and academic institutions known as Albertopolis, which also includes the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Music, the Royal College of Art, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Albert Hall.