IIT Bombay and Imperial College London Launch Strategic Partnership in Research, Innovation and Education

1 Oct 2026

IIT Bombay and the UK’s Imperial College London have launched a strategic partnership across research, innovation and education. Imperial is ranked second in the world and first in the UK and Europe in the QS World University Rankings 2027. The partnership will enable several key initiatives between the universities, including joint research and innovation programmes, academic workshops and student entrepreneurship programmes. There will also be opportunities for students and researchers to work closely together and undertake placements and exchanges in London and Mumbai, working on joint projects and sharing knowledge and data.

Research teams from IIT Bombay and Imperial are already collaborating on dozens of research projects including water management, energy security, disease modelling and climate science. This year, 170 students from IIT Bombay also signed up to Imperial Enterprise Lab’s Global Challenge Lab – a platform to build a startup idea from scratch, mentored by global industry experts.

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