• Kings is a founding college and member institution of the federal University of London.
• King’s was established in 1829 by King George IV and Arthur Wellesley.
• King’s has five campuses.
• It is the largest European centre for graduate and post-graduate medical teaching and biomedical research, by number of students, It is a member of academic organisations including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, European University Association, and the Russell Group.
• The world’s first nursing school, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery is here.
Things you should know
It has the fourth largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom and the largest of any in London.
• It is the 12th largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment.
• King’s alumni and staff include 12 Nobel laureates; contributors to the discovery of DNA structure, Hepatitis C and the Higgs boson; pioneers of in-vitro fertilisation, stem cell/mammal cloning and the modern hospice movement.
• King’s enjoys royal patronage by virtue of its foundation.
• The current patron is Queen Elizabeth II.
• King’s was ranked as the 5th best university in the UK for the quality of graduates according to recruiters from the UK’s major companies.
• In a survey by The New York Times assessing the most valued graduates by business leaders, King’s College London graduates ranked 22nd in the world and 5th in the UK.
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Nobel laureates -Peter Higgs (Physics); Sir Michael Houghton (Medicine); Michael Levitt (Chemistry); Max Theiler (Medicine) and Sir Frederick Hopkins (Medicine)
• Sir Andrew Pollard-Chief Investigator on the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
• Raymond Gosling-who took Photograph 51 which was critical evidence in identifying the structure of DNA
• Patrick Steptoe- pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF)
• Qui-Lim Choo-Co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome
• Notable King’s alumni in poetry and literature include the poet John Keats; the dramatist Sir W. S. Gilbert, and the writers Thomas Hardy, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Virginia Woolf, W. Somerset Maugham, Khushwant Singh
• Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu
• King’s is also the alma mater of the founder of Bentley Motors, Walter Bentley
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