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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College

Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway coat of arms.png
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
Logo of Royal Holloway, University of London
Rankings
QS
(2016/17, national)
31
QS
(2016/17, world)
235
THE
(2016/17, national)
27
THE
(2016/17, world)
173
Complete
(2018, national)
34
The Guardian
(2018, national)
40=
Times/Sunday Times
(2017, national)
34

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 located west of Egham, Surrey, within the Greater London Urban Area and 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). 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. 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. However, the university failed to place in the top 150 in the world for the 2017 version.


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