Imperial College of Science and Technology

Imperial College has roots in three nineteenth-century institutions, the Royal College of Chemistry, the Royal School of Mines, and the City and Guilds Central Technical College, which opened respectively in 1845, 1851 and 1885.

In 1904, the Board of Education appointed a departmental committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Haldane, to study possible co-operation between institutions.

The conclusion of the report led to the establishment by Royal Charter of the Imperial College of Science and technology in 1907 and joined the University of London.  The main campus of the college was constructed in 1907 following the newly established Board of Education.

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The college received its mandate in Article II of the Charter namely ‘to give the highest specialized instruction and to provide the fullest equipment for the most advanced training and research in a various branches of science especially in it application to industry’.

In 1988 St Mary’s Hospital Medical School was merged with the college. Imperial became fully independent of the University of London in July 2007

Imperial College is recognized today as being one of the top colleges in the word as a science based institution attracting over 16,000 students of international quality, specializing in science, medicine, engineering, and business studies.
Imperial College of Science and Technology