University of London
\nThe
University of London, founded on
February 28,
1836, is one of the world's largest and most prestigious universities, with between 10 and 20 percent of all UK students attending its colleges. Many universities in Britain and abroad began life as associate colleges of the University, offering its degrees under licence. In recent years this aspect of the university's work has revived, because of globalisation, and an increasing number of overseas academic institutes offer London University diplomas and degrees.
The university at first comprised just two colleges,
University College London (UCL) and
King's College, but now has over 15, many of which are major institutions in their own right. Besides UCL and King's, the most famous are the
London School of Economics (LSE),
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
Imperial College, and
Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL).
The University is a federal body made up of a number of highly autonomous colleges and institutes, widely scattered across the greater London area. For most practical purposes, its constituent colleges are usually treated as individual universities. Under English law, some of these are
Recognised Bodies with the authority to grant University of London degrees (which means that they enjoy the same status as institutions with their own degree-awarding power), while others are
Listed Bodies that offer courses leading to degrees from the University of London (which means that they have the same status as the constitutent institutions of the
University of Wales and the
colleges of
Oxford,
Cambridge, and
Durham).
Colleges and Institutions
\nThe colleges and institutes of the University are, as of October 2003:
Recognised Bodies
\n*Birkbeck, University of London\n*Goldsmiths College\n*Heythrop College\n*Imperial College, London, incorporating Imperial College at Wye\n*Institute of Cancer Research\n*Institute of Education\n*King's College, London (KCL), incorporating the Institute of Psychiatry and The Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine \n*London Business School\n*London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)\n*London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\n*Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) incorporating the medical schools of St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital \n*Royal Academy of Music\n*Royal Holloway\n*Royal Veterinary College\n*School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), incorporating the London School of Jewish Studies \n*School of Pharmacy\n*University College London (UCL), incorporating the Eastman Dental Institute, the Institute of Child Health, the Institute of Neurology, the Institute of Ophthalmology, the Royal Free and University College Medical School, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), and the Slade School of Fine Art\n*St George's Hospital Medical School
Listed Bodies
\n*British Institute in Paris\n*Courtauld Institute of Art\n*School of Advanced Study comprising the following institutes:\n**Institute of Advanced Legal Studies\n**Institute of Classical Studies\n**Institute of Commonwealth Studies\n**Institute of English Studies (including the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies), \n**Institute of Germanic Studies\n**Institute of Historical Research\n**Institute of Latin American Studies\n**Institute of Romance Studies\n**Institute of United States Studies\n**The Warburg Institute\n*University Marine Biological Station, Millport
Notable Alumni
\nNotable persons who attended the University include:\n*Christopher Addison\n*Akbar S. Ahmed\n*Richard Aldington\n*Mulk Raj Anand\n*David Attenborough\n*Alfred Austin\n*Dr. Thomas Barnardo\n*Alexander Graham Bell\n*Arnold Bennett\n*William Henry Bragg\n*Raymond Briggs\n*Robert Browning\n*John Cale\n*Alan Campbell\n*William Benjamin Carpenter\n*Graham Chapman\n*G.K. Chesterton\n*Arthur C. Clarke\n*Coldplay members Chris Martin, William Champion, and Johnny Buckland\n*Alex Comfort\n*Bernard Cornwell\n*Francis Crick\n*Robert William Dale\n*Hugh Dalton\n*Valerie Davey\n*Louis Essen\n*Ambrose Fleming\n*Denis Follows\n*Michael Foster\n*Patrick Frye\n*Mohandas Gandhi\n*Greer Garson\n*Ann Granger\n*Peter Griffiths\n*Peter Hain\n*Michael Halliday\n*Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell\n*Chaim Herzog\n*Damien Hirst\n*Thomas Hodgkin\n*Thomas Henry Huxley\n*Charles Ingram\n*Hirobumi Ito\n*Mick Jagger\n*George Jessel\n*William Stanley Jevons\n*Nancy Johnson\n*Tessa Jowell\n*William Joyce\n*Charles K. Kao\n*Boris Karloff\n*John F. Kennedy\n*Jomo Kenyatta\n*Junichiro Koizumi\n*David Lammy\n*Emily Lau\n*Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen\n*Bernard Lewis\n*Joseph Lister\n*Bronislaw Malinowski\n*Nelson Mandela\n*Karl Mannheim\n*Brian May\n*Desmond Morton\n*Charles F. Newcombe\n*Bill O'Reilly\n*Humphry Osmond\n*Talcott Parsons\n*Lynden Pindling\n*Enoch Powell\n*Romano Prodi\n*B. Carroll Reece\n*Paul Robeson\n*David Rohl\n*Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal\n*Ernest Satow\n*John Ralston Saul\n*Elizabeth Smart\n*Stephen Smith\n*Robert Sobukwe\n*George Soros\n*Marie Stopes\n*Aung San Suu Kyi\n*Goh Keng Swee\n*Robert Swinhoe\n*Larry Trask\n*Suzanne Tremblay\n*Pierre Trudeau\n*Desmond Tutu\n*Henry Wace\n*Sidney Webb\n*David Wilson\n*Robert Winston\n*Fei Xiaotong
External link
\n*University of London website
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