University College London (UCL or alternatively University College, London)
is a public research university in London, England and a constituent college of
the federal University of London. Established in 1826 as London University by
founders inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham, UCL was the first
university institution established in London and the earliest in England to be
entirely secular, to admit students regardless of their religion and to admit
women on equal terms with men. UCL became one of the two founding colleges of
the University of London in 1836 and has grown through mergers, including with
the Institute of Neurology (in 1997), the Royal Free Hospital Medical School
(in 1998), the Eastman Dental Institute (in 1999), the School of Slavonic and
East European Studies (in 1999), the School of Pharmacy(in 2012) and the Institute
of Education (in 2014). UCL is the largest higher education institution in
London and the largest postgraduate institution in the UK by enrollment and is
regarded as one of the leading multidisciplinary research universities in the
world.
UCL's main campus is located in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with
a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London and
satellite campuses in Adelaide, Australia and Doha, Qatar. UCL is organized
into 11 constituent faculties, within which there are over 100 departments,
institutes and research centres. UCL is responsible for several museums and
collections in a wide range of fields, including the Petrie Museum of Egyptian
Archaeology and the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy.
