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Former names | Royal College of Science |
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| Established | 2005 (2005)[1] |
| Dean | Professor Richard Craster[2] |
| Location | , |
| Campus | South Kensington, White City and Silwood Park |
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| Website | www |
TheFaculty of Natural Sciences is one of four faculties ofImperial College London inLondon,England. It was formed in 2001 from the formerRoyal College of Science, a constituent college of Imperial College which dated back to 1848, and the faculty largely consists of the original departments of the college. Undergraduate teaching occurs for all departments at theSouth Kensington campus, with research being split between South Kensington and the new innovation campus atWhite City.[3]
Students who study at the departments of the Faculty are represented by theRoyal College of Science Union, a constituent union of thecollege union which caters specifically to students on natural science courses. Graduates who obtain an undergraduate degree, eitherBSc orMSci, from the faculty are awarded theAssociateship of the Royal College of Science (ARCS) as an additional degree.
The origins of the faculty lie in the Royal College of Chemistry, which, after being founded in 1845, moved to a new site in South Kensington in the early 1870s. Incorporated into the Normal School of Science, the college was later renamed the Royal College of Science in 1890, and in 1907 became a constituent college of the newly formedImperial College of Science and Technology.[4]
In 2001, Imperial was restructured to form four new faculties, including the faculties of Physical Sciences and Life Sciences, which took over the role of the Royal College of Science. These faculties were later re-merged over the course of 2005-2006 to form the Faculty of Natural Sciences, which comprises the same departments as the original Royal College of Science.[5]
The faculty includes five academic departments:
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