Key facts and figures
- UCL is ranked fourth in the world's top ten universities by the QS World University Rankings (2012).
- More than 4,000 academic and research staff at UCL are dedicated to
research and teaching of the highest standards.
- In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), UCL was rated the
best research university in London, and third in the UK overall, for the
number of its submissions which were considered of ‘world-leading
quality’.
- UCL has the highest number of professors of any university in the UK, with 824 established and personal chairs, as well as the joint highest number of female professors with 185.
- UCL is associated with several major teaching hospitals – such as the Great
Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the Royal Free Hospital and
Moorfields Eye Hospital – which provide Londoners with first-rate healthcare and contribute to major advances in medical research.
- Our academic community includes 53 Fellows of the Royal Society, 51 Fellows of the British Academy, 15 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and 117 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
- Nobel prizes have been awarded to 21 former academics and
graduates. The most recent addition in October 2009 was Professor
Charles Kao who was awarded a Nobel prize for Physics. Professor Kao
undertook his PhD at UCL under the supervision of Professor Harold
Barlow.
- More than 40% of the almost 27,000-strong student community is engaged in graduate studies, with more than a third of these graduate students pursuing research degrees.
- Students from 150 countries study at UCL, making up more than one-third of the student body. See more student statistics.
- An ever-expanding worldwide network of more than 140,000 UCL alumni,
helps to maintain the university’s international reputation for access,
innovation and excellence.
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