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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
 

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • Located in the heart of London

  • The UCL's motto is Cuncti adsint meritaeque expectent praemia palmae which translates to English as "Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward"

  • There are currently enrolling approximately 43 800 students

  • The student-faculty ratio is 1:10 making it the best in the UK

  • Established in 1826 with poet Thomas Campbell being one of The Four Founders

  • One of the first universities which accepted women on equal terms with men in 1876

  • It clamis the fisrt professorships in, amongst other subjects, English (1828, Rev. Thomas Dale) and electrical engineering (1885, Sir Ambrose Fleming)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:

  • You can choose from more than 400 including top-ranked subjects like Education, Architecture and Built Environment, Archaeology, Anatomy and Physiology, Life Sciences and Medicines, etc.

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ALUMNI:

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

UCL Academy playground

  • 30 Nobel Prize laureates

  • 3 Field Medal Winners

  • Maxwell Medals, Balzan Prizes, Chapman medals and many more

CAMPUS INFO:

  • Alexander Graham Bell (telephone invetion)

  • Justine Frischman (musician)

  • Carol Thatcher (journalist)

  • Roger Penrose (mathematician, Nobel laureate)

  • Francis Crick (played crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA)

  • Two main campuses - hostorical UCL Bloomsbury one in central London and new UCL East at Stratford, opened in 2022

  • You can find 16 specialist libraries and 7 museums and collections onsite

  • UCL offers over 300 different clubs and societies such as: 180 Degrees Consulting Society, Alternative Proteins Society, Green Economy Society, ...

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REQUIREMENTS:

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