China

Imperial is the UK’s number one university collaborator with the People’s Republic of China including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). There currently are currently over 2600 Chinese students at the College, over 200 Chinese staff and 7,000 alumni either from China, or currently residing in China. Chinese is the largest single nationality represented at Imperial (other than UK students). There are also more than 600 research papers published with Chinese institutions every year.

There is significant new research being done with China in science, engineering, medicine and business including nanotechnology, bioengineering, computing, data science, advanced materials, offshore energy, environmental engineering and entrepreneurship.

Imperial also works with scientific institutions such as Zhejiang University; Tsinghua University; the University of Hong Kong; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; and several branches of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Information for Chinese students can be found here.

South Korea

Imperial College London has a series of exciting and growing connections with leading institutions in the Republic of Korea. Imperial was honoured to welcome the South Korean President to Imperial in November 2013 and then in May 2014 Imperial’s Provost James Stirling led a senior academic delegation to South Korea. There is also an active student body from Korea, and a growing alumni presence as well.

Key partners include KAIST, Seoul National University and POSTECH, with whom we are working in many areas of complementary strengths, such as plastic electronics, quantum technology, environmental science, theoretical physics, hydrogen fuel cells, mechanical engineering, brain sciences and more.

Japan

Imperial is in the process of building closer relationships with several of the top institutions in Japan, and already has Memorandums of Understanding and exchange programmes in place with the University of Tokyo and Tokyo Institute of Technology.