Imperial College London
Public university in England
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| 2025 | QS World University Rankings placed Imperial College London 2nd in the world, behind MIT. |
| 2025 | QS MBA Rankings ranked Imperial College Business School's MBA programme 7th in Europe. |
| 2025 | QS Business Master's Rankings ranked the school's Master's in Marketing 6th in the world, Master's in Business Analytics 8th in the world, Master's in Finance 14th in the world, and Master's in Management 15th in the world. |
| 2024 | Ranked 11th globally in the QS World University subject rankings, 4th in Europe, and 3rd in the UK for Chemistry. |
| 2024 | Ranked 4th in the UK by the Times Good University Guide and 5th by the Complete University Guide. |
| 2024 | Ranked 1st in the UK for highly-skilled employment or further studies by the Complete University Guide, the Guardian University Guide, and the Times Good University Guide. |
| 2024 | Financial Times ranked the school's Master's in Finance programme 15th in the world. |
| 2024 | Peter Todd becomes the current director of the business school. |
| 2024 | Financial Times MBA Rankings placed Imperial College Business School's MBA programme 10th in Europe. |
| 2024 | Received 32,990 applications, with 3,255 students accepted, representing a 10.1 applications/accepted ratio and a 32.8% offer rate. |
| July 31 2024 | Imperial College London completed its financial year with a total income of £1.309 billion, representing an increase from the previous year's £1.256 million. Key income sources included £507.5 million from tuition fees, £165.4 million from funding body grants, and £396.2 million from research grants and contracts. |
| 2023 | Franklin Allen becomes director of the business school, serving from 2023 to 2024. |
| 2023 | QS MBA Rankings by Career Specialisation rated the school's MBA programme 3rd in the world for entrepreneurship and 1st in Europe. |
| 2023 | Patrick Bolton becomes Professor of Finance and Research Director of the Centre for Climate Finance & Investment. |
| 2023 | Received 30,725 applications, with 3,135 students accepted, representing a 9.8 applications/accepted ratio and a 33.1% offer rate. |
| July 31 2023 | Imperial College London closed its financial year with a total income of £1.256 million and total expenditure of £1.235 billion. The college reported endowments of £220.1 million and total net assets of £1.792 billion. |
| January 2023 | Wiebke Arlt takes up the leadership position as the new director of the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences. |
| 2022 | Imperial College Faculty of Medicine ranked 3rd in the world for Clinical and Health in the Times Higher Education rankings. |
| 2022 | Reduced outstanding maintenance bill to £736 million, though still the largest in the English NHS. |
| 2022 | Received 28,620 applications, with 3,090 students accepted, representing a 9.3 applications/accepted ratio and a 30.1% offer rate. |
| April 1 2022 | Matthew Swindells became the new chair of the Trust, notably becoming the first joint chair for four acute trusts in north west London. |
| 2021 | Imperial College London was ranked first in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience. |
| 2021 | Predicted to achieve a full-year surplus by 2021/22. |
| 2021 | Achieved outstanding results in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), ranking 3rd overall in the UK and scoring 100% 4* in research environment, placing joint 1st. |
| 2021 | Imperial's White City Campus opened, focusing on innovation, entrepreneurship, and multidisciplinary research. |
| 2021 | Higher Education Statistics Agency analysis found Imperial graduates have the highest median salaries across all subjects in the UK. |
| 2021 | Amanda Fisher concludes her tenure as director of the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences. |
| 2021 | Received 28,700 applications, with 3,305 students accepted, representing an 8.7 applications/accepted ratio and a 32.5% offer rate. |
| 2020 | The trust board decided to keep previously Sodexo-run services in-house and committed to spending an extra £4 million annually to bring hotel services staff up to the London living wage of £10.55 per hour. |
| 2020 | Received 25,650 applications, with 3,450 students accepted, representing a 7.4 applications/accepted ratio and a 42.9% offer rate. |
| May 18 2020 | Dr. Samir Bhatt from Imperial College began advising the state of New York on its COVID-19 reopening plan, with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo citing the Imperial College model as the most accurate. |
| April 2020 | Over 1,000 Sodexo cleaners, caterers, and porters were converted to NHS employees after months of campaigning by the UVW union, resolving disputes about pay, sick pay, annual leave, and pensions. |
| April 2020 | Imperial College Healthcare became the first NHS Trust to start using the Concentric digital informed consent application to support patients undergoing surgical treatment. |
| March 17 2020 | The New York Times highlights the faculty's coronavirus report as a pivotal document that prompted action in the U.S. and U.K. |
| March 16 2020 | Neil Ferguson published a critical COVID-19 report entitled 'Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand', which significantly influenced pandemic response in the US and UK. |
| February 2020 | COVID-19 vaccine research led by Professor Robin Shattock reaches the animal testing stage, significantly reducing vaccine development time from years to just 14 days. |
| 2019 | Department of Brain Sciences was established following a Faculty of Medicine reorganisation. |
| 2019 | Centre for Psychedelic Research was established as the world's first official centre for psychedelic research, led by Professor David Nutt. |
| 2019 | The medical school launched a new curriculum, integrating team-based learning, social science, and early clinical experience to broaden the fields of medical education. |
| 2019 | A patient achieved a sustained remission from HIV-1 after ceasing antiretroviral treatment at Hammersmith Hospital, becoming only the second such case in the world, through a stem cell transplant collaboration with Imperial College London and University College London HIV scientists. |
| 2019 | The Trust performed 38,000 operations and saw 305,000 emergency attendees during the 2019/20 period. |
| 2019 | The trust reported a turnover of £1.3 billion and employed approximately 13,000 people, treating about 1.3 million patients during the 2019/20 financial year. |
| 2019 | Renewed Athena SWAN Gold award, becoming one of only two Chemistry departments in the UK to achieve this recognition for equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). |
| 2019 | The Molecular Sciences Research Hub (MSRH) was awarded a global laboratory design S-Lab prize, recognizing its high energy-efficient standards and BREEAM Excellent certification. |
| 2019 | The Molecular Sciences Research Hub for the Department of Chemistry was officially opened by London Mayor Sadiq Khan. |
| November 2019 | Strike action and protests at St. Mary's Hospital continued, challenging Sodexo's employment practices for support staff. |
| October 2019 | UVW union began strike action and protests at St. Mary's Hospital against Sodexo's employment practices for cleaners, caterers, and porters. |
| July 2019 | Department's academic expenditure was £20.8 million, with a research income of £17.7 million. |
| June 1 2019 | The Trust initiated a new five-year contract with Falck UK Ambulance Service to provide non-emergency patient transport services, replacing DHL. Falck was expected to complete 330,000 patient journeys in their first year. |
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