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University College London

University College London
University College London logo.svg
UCL logo since 2005
Latin: Collegium Universitatis Londinensis
Former names
London University (1826–1836)
University College, London (1836–1907)
University of London, University College (1907–1976)
Motto Cuncti adsint meritaeque expectent praemia palmae (Latin)
Motto in English
"Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward"
Type Public research university
Established 1826
Endowment £101.0 million (at 31 July 2016)
Chancellor The Princess Royal (as Chancellor of the University of London)
Provost Michael Arthur
Chair of the Council Dame DeAnne Julius
Academic staff
7,070 (2014/15)
Administrative staff
4,910 (2014/15)
Students 38,313 (2015/16)
Undergraduates 17,846 (2015/16)
Postgraduates 20,467 (2015/16)
Location London, United Kingdom
Visitor John Dyson, Lord Dyson
(as Master of the Rolls ex officio)
Colours
Affiliations
Website ucl.ac.uk
Rankings
ARWU
(2016, national)
3
ARWU
(2016, world)
17
QS
(2016/17, national)
3
QS
(2016/17, world)
7
THE
(2016/17, national)
4
THE
(2016/17, world)
15
Complete
(2017, national)
10
The Guardian
(2017, national)
14
Times/Sunday Times
(2017, national)
6

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It is the largest postgraduate institution in the UK by enrollment and is regarded as one of the world's leading multidisciplinary research universities.

Established in 1826 as London University by founders inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham, 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. UCL also makes the contested claims of being the third-oldest university in England and the first to admit women. In 1836 UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London, which was granted a royal charter in the same year. It 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 has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London and a satellite campus in Doha, Qatar. UCL is organised into 11 constituent faculties, within which there are over 100 departments, institutes and research centres. UCL operates several culturally significant museums and manages collections in a wide range of fields, including the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, and administers the annual Orwell Prize in political writing. In 2015/16, UCL had around 38,300 students and 12,000 staff (including around 7,100 academic staff and 840 professors) and had a total income of £1.36 billion, of which £530 million was from research grants and contracts.


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