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1 Historical interest:

Several of the oldest College buildings, such as the Latin School or the Parlour, date from the fifteenth century and the main college buildings are set amidst quadrangles and gardens. The medieval features of the College are defenitly worth a visit.

2 Academic and learning center:

The Wye campus occupies a 3 km² estate, which includes a farm, managed woodland and ancient grassland that provide outstanding research resources for agroecological research. These resources are augmented by extensive glasshouses, climate-controlled growth rooms for plants and insects, and a new containment facility for transgenic plants, that support the laboratory-based research. There are dedicated laboratories for plant molecular biology, genomics and gene sequencing, electron microscopy, use of radiochemicals, microbiology, soil analysis, and plant/animal cell culture. Students from all over the world follow there undergraduates or postgraduates courses in field related with agriculture, biology and food marketing. Numerous conferences and Seminars are also runned for professionnals, or short-term students.

Since 2000, Wye College is part of Imperial College London and has been renamed as Imperial College at Wye.

Link to the Wye College WebSite http://www.wye.ic.ac.uk/