University
College London (UCL)
University College London (UCL) is a public research
university in London, England and a constituent college of the federal
University of London. Established in 1826 as London University by founders
inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham, UCL was the first university
institution established in London and the earliest in England to be entirely
secular, to admit students regardless of their religion and to admit women on
equal terms with men. UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University
of London in 1836 and has grown through mergers, including with the Institute
of Neurology (in 1997), the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (in 1998), the
Eastman Dental Institute (in 1999), the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies (in 1999), the School of Pharmacy (in 2012) and the Institute of
Education (in 2014). UCL is the largest higher education institution in London
and the largest postgraduate institution in the UK by enrolment and is regarded
as one of the leading multidisciplinary research universities in the world.
UCL's main campus is located in the Bloomsbury area of
central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in
central London and satellite campuses in Adelaide, Australia and Doha, Qatar.
UCL is organised into 11 constituent faculties, within which there are over 100
departments, institutes and research centres. UCL is responsible for several
museums and collections in a wide range of fields, including the Petrie Museum
of Egyptian Archaeology and the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative
Anatomy. UCL has around 36,000 students and 11,000 staff (including around
6,000 academic staff and 980 professors) and had a total income of £1.02
billion in 2013/14, of which £374.5 million was from research grants and
contracts. UCL is a member of numerous academic organisations and is part of
UCL Partners, the world's largest academic health science centre, and the
'golden triangle' of elite English universities.
UCL is one of the most selective British universities and
ranks highly in national and international league tables. UCL's graduates are
ranked among the most employable by international employers and its alumni
include the "Father of the Nation" of each of India, Kenya and
Mauritius, founders of Ghana, modern Japan and Nigeria, the inventor of the
telephone, and one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. UCL academics
have contributed to major advances in several disciplines; all five of the
naturally-occurring noble gases were discovered at UCL by William Ramsay, the
vacuum tube was invented by UCL graduate John Ambrose Fleming while a faculty
of UCL and several foundational advances in modern statistics were made at
UCL's statistical science department founded by Karl Pearson. There are 33 Nobel
Prize winners and three Fields Medalists amongst UCL's alumni and current and
former staff.
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