Royal Holloway

Royal Holloway, University of London

Motto	Esse quam videri
Motto in English	To be, rather than to seem (to be)
Type	Public research university
Established	1849: Bedford College 1879: Royal Holloway College 1900: became a constituent college of the University of London 1985: merger of Bedford College and Royal Holloway College
Endowment	£75.3 million (as of 31 July 2016)
Chancellor	The Princess Royal (University of London)
Principal	Paul Layzell
Administrative staff	2,300
Students	9,985 (2015/16)
Undergraduates	7,475 (2015/16)
Postgraduates	2,510 (2015/16)
Location	Egham, Surrey, England
Campus	Suburban
Colours
Affiliations	University of London, ACU, AMBA
Website	www.royalholloway.ac.uk

Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It has three faculties, 20 academic departments and c. 9,265 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 100 countries. The campus is just west of Egham, Surrey, within the Greater London Urban Area, although outside the M25 motorway and c. 19 miles (31 km) from the geographic centre of 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, and in 1965, around 100 of the first male undergraduates. In 1985, Royal Holloway merged with Bedford College (another former all-women's college in London, which was founded in 1849 and, like Royal Holloway, joined the University of London in 1900 and became fully co-educational in 1965). The merged college was named Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (RHBNC), this remaining the official registered name of the college by Act of Parliament. The campus is dominated by the Founder's Building, a Grade I listed red-brick building modelled on the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley, France.

Royal Holloway is ranked 27th in the UK and 173rd in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2016–17. The guide has described Royal Holloway as "truly world class". Royal Holloway was ranked in 30th place in the world (9th in the UK) for 2016 in the category of "International Outlook", recognising its broader outlook as a global university. The rankings use three separate indicators to judge "international outlook"—proportion of international staff and students, and research in terms of papers that are co-authored with at least one international partner. However, the university failed to place in the top 150 in the world for the 2017 version.