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UCL received £500,000 to establish a forensic evidence interpretation laboratory. [110] [111] [112] Following the passing of the University of London Act 2018, which allowed member institutions to become universities in their own right while remaining part of the University of London, UCL applied for university status in 2019. [113]
The status of college of advanced technology (CAT) was created in the 1950s, although many of the institutes so designated dated back much further. The CATs were distinct from university colleges (although like them they prepared students for London degrees) and, along with their Scottish counterparts, were recommended to be converted into ...
This had the effect of allowing institutions to change their status from colleges to universities in their own right while still remaining part of the University of London. [5] These institutions, including the London School of Economics [ 6 ] and University College London , [ 7 ] achieved university status in their own right within the ...
UCL and King's College, whose campaign for a teaching university in London had resulted in the university's reconstitution as a federal institution, went even further than becoming schools of the university and were actually merged into it. UCL's merger, under the University College London (Transfer) Act 1905 (5 Edw. 7. c. xci), happened in 1907.
UCL received degree awarding powers on 27 September 2005, [29] and the first UCL degrees were awarded in summer 2008. [30] In 2019 UCL, along with King's and 10 other colleges of the University of London, applied for university status following the passing of the University of London Act 2018. [31]
To apply to university, students must submit a single application via UCAS's online Apply service. The application itself requires the student to register to the service, giving a "buzzword" if applying through a centre, fill in personal details, write a personal statement and choose up to five courses to apply to, in no order of preference.
UCL's foundation date of 1826 makes it the third oldest university institution in England, and it was certainly founded with the intention of it being England's third university, but whether or not UCL is actually the third oldest university in England is questionable: UCL makes this claim on its website, [5] but so do the Universities of London (1836) [6] and Durham (1832). [7]
The main portico of University College London. The faculty was placed first in the UK for the quality of its research in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). [22] The faculty's Judicial Institute, launched in 2010, was the first specialist academic centre for research and teaching about the judiciary to be established in the UK. [23]