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University
College
London,
officially
known
as UCL since
2005,[7][8][9] is
a
major public research
university located
in London, England.
It
is
a member
institution of
the federal University
of
London,
and
is
the
largest university
in
the
United
Kingdom
by
total
enrolment apart
from
the Open
University,[5] and
the
largest
by
postgraduate
enrolment.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.[10][11] UCL
also
makes
contested
claims
to
being
the third-oldest
university
in
England[note
1] and
the
first
to
admit
women.[note
2] 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
Ophthalmology (in
1995),
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
satellite
campuses
in Queen
Elizabeth
Olympic
Park in Stratford,
east
London
and
in Doha,
Qatar.
UCL
is
organised
into 11
constituent
faculties,
within
which
there
are
over
100
departments,
institutes
and
research
centres.
UCL
operates
several
museums
and
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
2017/18,
UCL
had
around
41,500
students
and
15,100
staff
(including
around
7,100
academic
staff
and
840
professors)
and
had
a
total
group
income
of
£1.45
billion,
of
which
£476.3
million
was
from
research
grants
and
contracts.[2]
UCL
is
a
member
of
numerous
academic
organisations,
including
the Russell
Group and
the League
of
European
Research
Universities,
and
is
part
of UCL
Partners,
the
world's
largest academic
health
science
centre,[12] and
the
"golden
triangle"
of
elite,
research-intensive
English
universities.[13]
UCL
alumni
include
the
respective
"Fathers
of
the
Nation"
of
India,
Kenya
and
Mauritius,
the
founders
of
Ghana,
modern
Japan
and
Nigeria,
the
inventor
of
the
telephone,
and
one
of
the
co-discoverers
of
the
structure
of DNA.
UCL
academics
discovered
five
of
the
naturally
occurring noble
gases,
discovered hormones,
invented
the vacuum
tube,
and
made
several foundational
advances in
modern
statistics.
As
of
2020, 34
Nobel
Prize
winners and 3
Fields
medalists have
been
affiliated
with
UCL
as
alumni,
faculty
or
researchers.
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