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KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
BASIC INFORMATION:
BRIEF HISTORY:
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Placed throughout London's central districts
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Sancte et sapienter is KCL's motto and means "With holiness and with wisdom"
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There are more than 29 600 students
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The student-faculty ratio is 13:1
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The school was established in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington
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King's was one of two founding colleges of the University of London but gained financial and academic autonomy in 1994
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Since 2008, it has awarded its degrees
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Institute of Psychiatry, United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care are all part of KCL
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
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King's College consist of 9 faculties and 180 undergraduate courses - a lot to choose from
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Most famous are: Biomedical Engineering, Economics and Management, Psychology, Medicine, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Dentistry
ALUMNI:
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14 Nobel Prize laureates
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19 members of the current House of Commons
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2 Speakers of the House of Commons
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17 members of the current House of Lords
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3 Oscars, 3 Grammys
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1 Emmy, 1 Golden Globe
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1 Booker Prize
SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:
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Dina Asher-Smith (British sprinter and world record holder)
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Dr Rosalind Franklin (biophysicist - X-ray spectroscopy)
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Sir Michael Morpurgo (children’s writer)
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Desmond Tutu (Archbishop)
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Peter Higgs (theoretical physicist)
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Virginia Woolf (writer and feminist icon)
CAMPUS INFO:
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Four of its five campuses are near the River Thames, in Central London (Strand, Guy's, Waterloo, Saint Thomas' + Denmark Hill Campus)
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As a student at King’s, you are automatically a member of King’s College London Students’ Union or KCLSU, which has nearly 300 societies, sports and other student activity groups
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some famous buildings part of KCL include The Bush House, The Franklin-Wilkins Building, The King's College London Chapel, The Gordon Museum of Pathology, The Old Operating Theatre Museum, ...
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