University College London is a public research university in London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of London, and is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment. UCL was the first university institution to be established in London, and the first in England to be entirely secular and to admit students regardless of their religion.
It was also among the first university colleges to admit women alongside men in 1878, two years after University College, Bristol
UCL has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London and has a second campus, UCL East, at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London. UCL is organised into 11 constituent faculties, within which there are over 100 departments, institutes and research centres
Things you should know
It is considered part of the “golden triangle” of research-intensive universities in southeast England
As of 2024, 32 Nobel Prize winners and three Fields medallists have been affiliated with UCL as alumni or academic staff.
In the 2023 Complete University Guide subject tables, UCL was ranked in the top ten in 34 subjects out of 42 offered (81%)
UCL has been consistently ranked in the top 25 of the three major global rankings published over 2013 to 2022, including being in the top ten of the QS World University Rankings over the whole of that period
-In the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities, UCL was ranked 16th in the world,[248] having been placed between 15th and 21st in the rankings from 2013 to 2024
Of University College London
Mahatma Gandhi- Indian Lawyer, Independent activist, Father of Indian Nation
Francis Crick- co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Charles K. Kao- “Godfather of broadband”
Peter Higgs- proposer of the Higgs mechanism, which predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, and Nobel laureate
Sir William Ramsay- discoverer of all of the naturally occurring noble gases
Colin Chapman- Formula One designer and founder of Lotus Cars
Patrick Head- co-founder of the Williams Formula One team
Edwin Waterhouse, founding partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jomo Kenyatta- considered the “Founding Father” of Kenya
Of University College London
95 FF3, App Street Avenue
NSW 96209, Canada
Mon – Fri: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
The latest Egovt news, articles, and resources, sent straight to your inbox every month.