University of London

   

Senate House, home to the university's central administration offices and its library
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Senate House, home to the university's central administration offices and its library

The University of London, founded in 1836, is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the world's largest universities. Somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of all UK students attend one of its colleges, which include some of the most prestigious places of study in the world. Many universities in Britain and abroad began life as associate colleges of the university, offering its degrees under licence. In recent years this aspect of the university's work has revived, because of globalisation, and an increasing number of overseas academic institutes offer University of London diplomas and degrees.

The university at first comprised just two colleges, University College London (UCL) and King's College London (KCL), but now has over 15, many of which are major institutions in their own right. Besides UCL and King's, the most famous are the London School of Economics (LSE), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Imperial College, and Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL).

The university is a federal body made up of a number of highly autonomous colleges and institutes, widely scattered across greater London. For most practical purposes, its constituent colleges are usually treated as individual universities. Under English law, some of these are Recognised Bodies with the authority to grant their own degrees (which means that they enjoy the same status as other institutions with their own degree-awarding power), while others are Listed Bodies that offer courses leading to degrees from the University of London (which means that they have the same status as the constitutent institutions of the University of Wales and the colleges of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham).

Colleges and Institutions

The colleges and institutes of the University are, as of October 2003:

Recognised Bodies

Listed Bodies

  • British Institute in Paris
  • Courtauld Institute of Art
  • School of Advanced Study comprising the following institutes:
    • Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
    • Institute of Classical Studies
    • Institute of Commonwealth Studies
    • Institute of English Studies (including the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies),
    • Institute of Germanic Studies
    • Institute of Historical Research
    • Institute of Latin American Studies
    • Institute of Romance Studies
    • Institute of United States Studies
    • The Warburg Institute
  • University Marine Biological Station, Millport

Notable alumni and attendees

Notable persons who graduated from or otherwise attended the University include:

Heads of State/Heads of Government

  • Harmodio Arias (1886-1962) - President of Panama,1932-1936
  • Oscar Arias (b. 1941) - President of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize Winner
  • Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto (1897-1979) - Prime Minister of Peru, 1959-1961
  • Errol Walton Barrow (1920-1987) - Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962-1966, 1966-1976, 1986-1987
  • Marek Belka (b. 1952) - Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-present
  • Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) - Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932
  • Kim Campbell (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Canada, June-November 1993
  • Eugenia Charles (b. 1919) - Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995
  • John Compton (b. 1926) - Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964-1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February-July 1979 & 1982-1996
  • Sher Bahadur Deuba (b. 1943) - Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995-1997, 2001-2002, 2004-present
  • Tuanku Jaafar (b. 1922) - Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia, 1994-1999
  • John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) - President of the U.S.A. 1961-1963
  • Jomo Kenyatta (1891-1978) - First President of Kenya, 1964-1978
  • Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931) - President of Kenya, 2002-present
  • Thanin Kraivichien (b. 1927) - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977
  • Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914-2000) - Premier of Taiwan, 1984-1989
  • Hilla Limann (1934-1998) - President of Ghana, 1979-1981
  • Pumarejo Alfonso Lopez - President of Colombia, 1934-1938, 1942-1945
  • Michael Manley (1924-1997) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980, 1989-1992
  • Kamisese Mara (1920-2004) - Prime Minister of Fiji 1970-1992, President of Fiji 1994-2000
  • Queen Margrethe II (b. 1940) - Queen of Denmark, 1972-present
  • Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) - First President of Ghana, 1960-1966
  • Percival Patterson (b. 1935) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-present
  • Romano Prodi (b. 1939) - Prime Minister of Italy, 1996-1998 and President of the European Commission, 1999-present
  • Navinchandra Ramgoolam (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995-2000
  • Veerasainy Ringadoo (1920-2000) - First President of Mauritius, March-June 1992
  • Moshe Sharett (1894-1965) - Prime Minister of Israel, 1953-1955
  • Constantine Simitis (b. 1936) - Prime Minister of Greece, 1996-2004
  • Anote Tong (b. 1952) - President of Kiribati, 2003-present
  • Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) - Prime Minister of Canada, 1968-1979, 1980-1984

Other prominent alumni

Some statistics

  • Student population: 115,000
  • External Programme: 32,000 additional

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Recognized bodies of the University of London

Birkbeck | Goldsmiths | Heythrop | Imperial | Institute of Cancer Research | Institute of Education | King's | London Business School | LSE | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Queen Mary | Royal Academy of Music | Royal Holloway | Royal Veterinary College | St George's | SOAS | School of Pharmacy | UCL

Listed bodies

British Institute in Paris | Courtauld Institute of Art | School of Advanced Study | University Marine Biological Station, Millport



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