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Imperial independence

Published on
July 13, 2007
Last updated
May 22, 2015

The Queen has declared Imperial College an independent university in its own right during a visit to mark the centenary of its foundation this month. During the visit, the Queen also opened a new Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

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