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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) . [ 23 ] 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. [ 24 ]
University College London (branded as UCL [7] [8] [9]) is a public research university in London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of London, and is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment [10] and the largest by postgraduate enrolment.
a Member institution of the University of London from October 2024. b Formed by merger of City, University of London and St George's, University of London in 2024; historical rankings given for City. c College of the University of London until 2007.
University College London (UCL) was founded under the name "London University" (but without recognition by the state) in 1826 as a secular alternative to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which limited their degrees to members of the established Church of England. [22]
The UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL). [2] The Faculty, the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the UCL Faculty of the Built Envirornment (The Bartlett) together form the UCL School of the Built Environment, Engineering and Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
The UCL Department of Economics is one of nine Departments and Institutes within the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London. It is the oldest department of economics in England and is research-intensive, currently headed by Professor Fabien Postel-Vinay. [3]
Engineering at UCL traces its beginnings to when John Millington was announced as the professor of engineering. However, he resigned prior to the college's opening in 1828 and never lectured, thus it was not until 1841 – after the opening of engineering courses at Durham University and King's College London – that UCL appointed its first engineering professor.
The Department of Philosophy is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London. Affiliated centres