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UCL maintains 4th place in QS World University Rankings

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UCL has maintained fourth place - its highest ever position - in the annual QS World University Rankings, published today.

The university is second among UK universities, placing it second behind the University of Cambridge, and ahead of the University of Oxford and Imperial College London.

Welcoming the news, Professor Malcolm Grant, UCL President and Provost, said: "We do not, of course, claim that the methodology is rigorous, but this result nonetheless captures very accurately the enormous strength of this great institution." 

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Professor Ivan Parkin - Dean, UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
"I fully support the aims of the Friends of Out@UCL campaign. I have personal experience of the need for such a campaign and the difficulties that the LGBTQ+ community face." Read more...

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