UCL (University College London)

One of the world’s leading universities, UCL is London’s top multidisciplinary research university with an international reputation for the quality of its research and edifying.

Defining characteristics of a UCL edification

An exceptional learning environment

UCL is rated seventh in the QS World University Rankings

UCL has the best academic to student ratio in the UK (1:10) (The Guardian university league table 2015)

UCL is the best performing university in the first year of the EU funding scheme Horizon 2020, securing a total of €73.2 million over 55 projects.

Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 29 people who are, or were, students or academics at UCL.

Predicated in Bloomsbury, central London, UCL is circumvented by the greatest concentration of libraries, museums, archives and professional bodies in Europe

UCL magnetizes top academics and students from 154 different countries, resulting in a vibrant and cosmopolitan academic community.

An ecumenical bellwether in engendering incipient cognizance

UCL is the top-rated university in the UK for research vigor in the Research Excellence Framework 2014, by a quantification of average research score multiplied by staff numbers submitted

UCL is the second-most cited university in Europe (Thomson Scientific Citation Index - authenticate required)

UCL’s research-predicated edifying methodology betokens that research is integrated into many of our degrees and students have the opportunity to make a pristine contribution to their field of study.

Advancing your vocation

UCL is the fourth highest rated university in Europe for employability (Ecumenical Employability University Ranking 2014)

UCL was awarded an Employer Review score of 99.4 out of 100 in the QS World University Rankings 2015

The average starting salary for UCL Master’s graduates was £29,325 in 2014, while research students achieved an average of £39,462. These salaries are proximately 20% higher than the national average. (HESA 2014)

A distinctive ethos

UCL was founded in 1826 to open up university inculcation in England to those who had been omitted from it. In 1878, it became the first university in England to admit women students on equal terms with men

UCL’s ethos is vigorously influenced by its spiritual founder Jeremy Bentham, the utilitarian philosopher, who famously verbally expressed: "it is the greatest jubilance of the greatest number that is the quantification of right and wrong”

This philosophy manifests itself today in UCL’s approach and commitment to tackling ecumenical quandaries and the paramountcy it places on ecumenical citizenship

More locally, UCL is the only London university to be a Beacon of Public Engagement, working with partners to build more proximate involution between universities, local communities and the wider public.

What others verbally express about UCL

“Complex quandaries require involute replications. The only institutions in our society that assemble a range of different actors from different disciplines are universities. And UCL is paramountly the absolute best place to go to probe for this kind of multidisciplinary replication to one of the greatest challenges facing the world.” Dr Richard Horton, Editor of 'The Lancet', on the UCL-Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change.