Times Higher
UCL has been awarded University of the Year 2024 by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide with Life Sciences ranking 20th in the World.
QS World Rankings 2026
Ranked 3rd in the world for pharmacy and pharmacology, 6th in the world for life sciences, and 9th in the world for biological sciences (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026).
Shanghai Rankings of academic subjects 2025
The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects rank Biological Sciences twelfth in the world, Human and Biological Sciences third in the world and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences eleventh in the world.
Guardian
UCL is ranked in ninth in the Guardian League Tables 2024. Anatomy and physiology, Biology and Biomedical Science rank 9th and Pharmacy and Pharmacology 12th.
People and Planet
UCL is rated as 15th in the list of 1st Class universities for environmental and ethical performance.
Edurank
UCL ranks 3rd in the UK and Europe, 15th in the global rating. UCL Biology rank 1st in the UK and Europe and 6th in the global rating.
US News
UCL is ranked 7th (Best Global University), 3rd (Best Global University in Europe) and 3rd (Best Global University in UK) in 2024. Many subjects are ranked within the top twenty in the world, includin
REF 2021
We’re proud to have maintained our position as top in the UK for research power in ‘medicine, health and life sciences’, demonstrating the impact our research has worldwide. UCL has £2.27bn research g
UCL is a global research powerhouse, second in the UK for research power in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 and 93% of our research classed as ‘world leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’.
We are at the forefront of driving UK innovation
- National leader in knowledge exchange
- £2.9bn external investment in spinouts *HEBCI 2014-2022
- Five UCL spinouts listed on the Nasdaq, collectively raising around $796m
- In 2023 AI firm Synthesia, co-founded by a UCL scientist, became a $1bn unicorn
- Over 400 new graduate businesses and 60 spinouts started at UCL, raising more than £3.2bn in investment *HEBCI 2014-2022
Our graduates achieve remarkable things
- Ranked among the top 20 universities worldwide for graduate employability *2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings
- 90 UCL alumni have been named in Forbes 30 Under 30
- UCL undergraduates attract a starting salary that is 20.7% higher (£32k) than the UK average *Graduate Outcomes 2020-21
- 400,000 alumni in 190 countries