King's College London
King's College London - London, UK
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Overview
King’s College London is England’s third oldest universities having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829. In 1836 King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. It is ranked 27th in the world (7th in Europe) and has 10 Noble Prize laureates among its alumni and current and former faculty.
King’s has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA, and it is now the largest centre for the education of doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals in Europe and home to six Medical Research Council centres – the most of any British university.
King's is the largest centre for healthcare education in Europe. King's College London School of Medicine has over 2,000 undergraduate students, over 1,400 teachers, four main teaching hospitals – Guy's Hospital, King's College Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital and University Hospital Lewisham – and 17 associated district general hospitals. King’s College London Dental Institute is the largest dental school in Europe. The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery is the oldest professional school of nursing in the world.
King’s College London’s nine Schools of Study are Biomedical Sciences; the Dental Institute; Arts & Humanities; Law; Medicine; the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery; Natural & Mathematical Sciences; the Institute of Psychiatry, and Social Science & Public Policy.
Ranking
Internationally, King's is consistently ranked among the top 100 universities in the world by all major global university rankings compilers, having been placed between 27th by the 2011 QS World University Rankings and 56th worldwide by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. According to the 2009 Times Good University Guide, several subjects taught at King’s, including Law, History, European Studies and War Studies (both ranked under Politics), Classics, Spanish, Portuguese, Music, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Food Science are among the top five in the country. In September 2010, the Sunday Times selected King's as the "University of the Year 2010/11".
Accommodation
As a King’s College London student you will have access to the halls of residences owned by King’s as well as those by the University of London. There is also a wide range of private accommodation available and the King’s College Student Support Officer is able to provide advice and guidance on both short and long term accommodation. King’s College London provides approximately 1,338 places in traditional halls of residence, 1,321 in self-catering apartments and 595 in the University Intercollegiate halls.
Campus
King’s College London is the most central university in London, with four of its five campuses within a single square mile beside the Thames between Westminster and London Bridge. The five are: The Strand Campus; Guy’s Campus; Waterloo Campus; St Thomas’ Campus; Denmark Hill Campus. The Strand is King's founding campus, built on land granted to the College next to Somerset House. As for Guy’s Campus, medicine has been taught on or close to this historic site near London Bridge for many centuries. As for St. Thomas’s Campus, the roots of St Thomas' Hospital lie in an infirmary established by the Augustinian priory of St Mary Overie just south of London Bridge in 1106.
Health centre
King’s College London has a full range of on-campus health facilities with doctors, nurses and dentists. All students have full access to the health centre and all health care fees are fully covered by the National Health Service for full time students.
Students’ Union
King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU) provides over 50 sports clubs (including the Boat Club which rows on the River Thames and the Rifle Club which uses the College's shooting range located at the disused Aldwych tube station beneath the Strand Campus), 60 societies, a wide range of volunteering opportunities, two bars, two nightclubs, shops, eating places and a gym. A former President of KCLSU, Sir Ivison Macadam, went on to be elected as the first President of the National Union of Students and KCLSU has played an active role there and in the University of London Union ever since.