• Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London.
• Royal Holloway’s campus is set in 135 acres (55 ha) of woodland, between Windsor and Heathrow. It has six schools, 21 academic departments and approximately 10,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 100 countries.
• The campus is located west of Egham, Surrey, 19 miles (31 km) from central London.
• The Egham campus was founded in 1879 by the Victorian entrepreneur and philanthropist Thomas Holloway.
• Royal Holloway College was officially opened in 1886 by Queen Victoria as an all-women college.
• It became a member of the University of London in 1900. In 1945, the college admitted male postgraduate students. The other university in the region is University of Surrey.
Things you should know
• Royal Holloway is ranked 19th (out of 134) in the UK according to The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020, who also shortlisted the institution for University of the Year 2020.
• There are strong links and exchange programmes with institutions in the United States, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong, notably Yale University, the University of Toronto, the University of Melbourne and the University of Hong Kong.
• Royal Holloway was a member of the 1994 Group until 2013, when the group dissolved.
• Royal Holloway is in the top 25% of universities in the UK for overall satisfaction (89%) according to the National Student Survey 2014.
• Royal Holloway was ranked 20th overall in Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2020 ranking of British universities based on consistent league table performance.
• Royal Holloway’s Department of Physics is a founding member of SEPnet, the south-east Physics Network, which supports collaboration between seven universities in south-east England on physics research, outreach and postgraduate teaching.
• The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Research (JAI) is a major collaboration in the field of particle physics between Royal Holloway and the University of Oxford.
• The university has been granted the title of Welsh University of the Year 2019.
• Swansea is ranked 5th in the UK for overall student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2018) and 10th in the country for graduate prospects.
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• Sharifa Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (born 1929), former Queen of Jordan.
• Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (born 1945), former Chief Executive of Universities UK.
• Dame Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland GCMG (born 1956), former High Representative of EU for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy.
• Sir Andrew Parmley (born 1956), former Lord Mayor of London.
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