University College London

Motto: "Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward"

Summary:
UCL is a world-class university; with academic strength in breadth and depth. UCL offers an enormous range of taught programmes at  undergraduate and postgraduate level, alongside exceptional postgraduate research opportunities. UCL’s eminence is recognised through its top five world ranking (QS World University Rankings 2013). It was also placed in the top three UK universities for the volume of its research assessed as 4* (world leading) in the most recent (2008) Research Assessment Exercise.

University College London (UCL) is blessed with an elite staff. Their ranks include 53 members of the Royal Society, 51 of the British Academy, 15 of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and 117 of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Moreover, the school’s past and present students and faculty members have earned 29 Nobel Prizes (40, if you include research fellows and honorary graduates). Two alumni and one current faculty member have earned the coveted Fields Medal in mathematics.

UCL ranks third among U.K. schools for national funding. It has also recently linked efforts with Yale to form a transatlantic research initiative called the Yale UCL collaborative.

Why study with us?
UCL’s renowned pioneering approach can be seen today in its application of interdisciplinary research to resolve the challenges facing the modern world, through focusing its research endeavour on the Grand Challenges of Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction, and Human Wellbeing. UCL also takes the lead in providing understanding of global citizenship concepts to all students, preparing them to respond to the intellectual, social and personal challenges that they will encounter throughout their lives and careers. Such examples of innovation and willingness to question traditional practice date back to its foundation in 1826, when UCL was established as a radical alternative to the social and religious restrictions of the only two other universities in England at that time.
The expertise of UCL’s world-leading academics is applied in the ongoing development of degree programmes which are broadly grouped in the Faculties of Arts and Humanities, Brain Sciences, Built Environment, Engineering Sciences, Laws, Life Sciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences, and Social and Historical Sciences. Study at all levels at UCL offers rigorous academic investigation and discovery, and has embedded within it personal and professional development opportunities that will enhance students’ career prospects.
UCL is located in central London, and has a cosmopolitan, dynamic and friendly atmosphere. Students benefit from UCL’s own resources, including libraries, accommodation, careers, welfare and social facilities. They also have easy access to London’s array of specialist libraries, museums, galleries, and cultural and performing arts venues, as well as to the many London-based professional institutions, societies and international businesses.

The school also runs multiple interdisciplinary research programs, such as the UCL Energy Institute, the UCL Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry, and the UCL Cancer Institute.

As its name implies, University College London benefits from its location within the British capital and world-class city that is London.