UCL (University College London) is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with 8,000 staff and 22,000 students. Over 140 nationalities are represented among UCL students with overseas students making up nearly a third of the student body.

Based in the heart of London, UCL was the first university in England to welcome students of any class, race or religion, and the first to welcome women on equal terms with men. This same radical spirit thrives today.

UCL is currently ranked seventh in the world by the Times Higher – QS World University Rankings, and our publications in clinical medicine attract more citations from fellow researchers than any other university outside North America. Our excellence extends across all academic disciplines; from one of Europe’s largest and most productive centres for biomedical science interacting with eleven leading London hospitals, to world-renowned centres for architecture (UCL Bartlett) and fine art (UCL Slade School).

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) UCL was rated the best research university in London, and third in the UK overall, for the number of its submissions which were considered of ‘world-leading quality’. The RAE confirmed UCL’s multidisciplinary research strength with outstanding results achieved across the subjects, ranging from Biomedicine, Science and Engineering, and the Built Environment to Laws, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. UCL put forward over 1,800 submissions in 49 of the 67 Units of Assessment. Details of which can be found here. In the vast majority of UCL’s submissions, at least 50% were ranked at either the highest grade of 4* (‘of world-leading quality’), or 3* (‘internationally excellent’).

UCL is London’s global university - a research and teaching powerhouse in the heart of one of the most dynamic cities in the world.