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Imperial Global USA will enhance our research partnerships with US academic and industrial partners and support our growing US alumni network and student recruitment opportunities.
The US is one of our most important and longstanding collaborators and we look forward to exploring ambitious projects and making exciting new discoveries together. Professor Hugh Brady President, Imperial College London
Welcome to Imperial
We are Imperial – a world-leading university for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business (STEMB), where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact.
As a global top ten university (2nd in the world – QS World University Rankings 2025), we use science to try to understand more of the universe and improve the lives of more people in it. Imperial and the United States have worked closely for years, with education and research links reaching back more than 70 years.
Imperial Global USA
Imperial’s dedicated US hub will open in October 2024. It will provide:
- Collaboration. We will create new opportunities for Imperial to connect with US research partners, in search of solutions to global challenges.
- Science and technology networks. We will connect our partners and our alumni with emerging tech and discovery science.
- Enterprising ventures. We will support startups to bring innovative technology from the lab to the market.
- Events that bring the best Imperial startups to the US. We will connect our US partners with Imperial’s leading academics and student founders.
- A bridge to the WestTech Corridor. We will help plug investors and partners into London’s most exciting innovation ecosystem.
- Careers and recruitment. We will share opportunities for study at Imperial and connect employers with our US-based alumni.
What others are saying:
"Science and technology is at its best when it is open and international, and it is excellent to see one of the UK’s leading universities taking their brilliant research across the globe, enabling exchanges in talent, ideas and infrastructure."
"This is also a great example of how pairing the UK’s genuinely world-class university research sector with innovators, investors and entrepreneurs abroad will help turn cutting-edge research into innovative new businesses, and drive economic growth for the UK, the US and the world."
UK Government’s Science Minister, Lord Vallance
"By bringing the world leading innovation and research from Imperial closer to the tech and venture ecosystem in San Francisco, they will strengthen ties between academics, founders and funders. "
"Entrepreneur First also opened a permanent presence in San Francisco earlier this year and Imperial will be a welcome addition to the incredible Bay area energy."
Matt Clifford, Co-founder Entrepreneur First and ARIA Chair
"If UK universities are going to help build globally significant spinouts, it will mean understanding what it means to build world leading businesses. That’s why this boots on the ground support matters to help connect Britain’s best innovators with US networks."
Dom Hallas, Executive Director Start up Coalition