Imperial College London was established by Royal Charter in 1907 in South Kensington. A Supplemental Charter and Statutes came into force on 8 July 2007, the date of its centenary, and the Charter and Statutes are its primary governing instruments. It describes its focus as science, technology, engineering, medicine and business.
Imperial has four faculties: Engineering, Medicine, Natural Sciences and Imperial Business School. It says it has nine campuses across London and the South East. Its Imperial Global network has hubs in Ghana, India, Singapore and the USA; the Singapore hub opened in 2024 at Singapore’s CREATE campus and the San Francisco hub launched in 2024. The pages read do not give a total student number. Professor Hugh Brady has been President since August 2022.