University College London

UCL key facts and stats

• Disruptive thinking has been the status quo since 1826.

• 1st in England to welcome students of any religion or social background.

• 1st in England to welcome women to university education.

• 1st in England to teach English, German, Chemistry, Engineering.

• A brave and progressive approach that has continued to this day.

• 1st in England to have a fully open access university press.

We are amongst the best in the world

• 8th in the world (QS World University Rankings 2022)

• 4th in Europe

• 4th in the UK

Academic excellence is where we excel.

• 30 Nobel laureates

• 11 academic faculties

• 43,800 students

• 14,300 employees

• 1st in UK for research strength (REF 2014)

• 440 undergraduate programmes

• 150+ nationalities represented by student body

• 675 postgraduate programmes

We lead the field across a wide range of faculties.

• Arts & Humanities

• Brain Sciences

• Built Environment

• Engineering Sciences

• Institute of Education

• Laws

• Life Sciences

• Mathematical & Physical Sciences

• Medical Sciences

• Population Health Sciences

• Social & Historical Sciences

We work together across disciplines to solve the world's biggest problems.

• An interdisciplinary approach.

• A wide span of subject areas gives fresh perspective.

• Develop sophisticated multi-faceted solutions to the world's most complex challenges - Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Human Wellbeing, Cultural Understanding, Transformational Technology, Justice and Equality.

Our community sits at the heart of one of the world's most dynamic cities.

• In the heart of London’s Bloomsbury district – traditionally a place for rebels and innovators.

• At the heart of the Knowledge Quarter, a consortium of over 90 academic, cultural, research, scientific and media organisations.

• Close to a wealth of academic resources – museums and libraries, academic and professional bodies, theatres, hospitals and medical institutes.

• Close collaboration and partnerships with leading organizations and iconic institutes – such as the British Library, British Museum, RIBA, Zoological Society of London, Institute of Physics, the BBC, the Wellcome Trust, etc.

• Also perfectly placed to foster enterprise and business partnerships (including through UCL Innovation & Enterprise)

A network connected across the globe.

• 300,000 alumni in 190 countries

• 53% international students

• 32% of our students studied abroad in 2018/19

• 37% international staff

• 150+ Erasmus+ partnerships

• Partnerships with institutions worldwide

We are continually making an impact on the world we live in.

Some of our top projects and discoveries include the following:

• Supported by the Duchess of Cambridge, we are working to discover how early life experience shape the human brain.

• UCL students have won the Hult prize with a business idea aiming to alleviate food poverty in Southeast Asia.

• UCL researchers have found first evidence of a supermassive black hole using the Event Horizon telescope.

• UCL spinout company Autolus develops and commercialises T-cell therapies for the treatment of different cancers.

We are creating campuses equipped for the future.

• £1.25 billion invested in transforming UCL facilities.

• Brand new campus UCL East will be home to new degree programmes, research, innovation, and technologies.

• The new Student Centre opened its doors in 2019 – an essential space to think, explore, collaborate, discover and challenge.

• We teach our students how to think, not what to think.

• We are investing £281.6 million into a new purpose-built biomedical facility which will house over 500 scientists from across UCL's neuroscience community.

UCL. Where ambitious innovators, visionary trendsetters and disruptive thinkers call home.