Overview Imperial retains its place at the head of our university ranking for a second ... Imperial now performs more strongly than most of its London rivals in the annual survey, particularly ...

"Anyone who chooses a university on the basis of a league table would be mad," says Prof Malcolm Grant, Provost of University College London. "The tables are interesting, but no more than that.

Rodney Eastwood, Imperial’s director of strategy and planning, spearheaded the college’s push for independence. He compared the University of London federation to the University of California ...