57 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8WA

Tel 020 7836 5454

ceu@kcl.ac.uk

www.kcl.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 12 (13)

Teaching excellence 72.7%

Student satisfaction 74.6%

Head teacher ranking 13 (11)

Peer ranking 21 (19=)

Research quality 66.9%

A/AS-level points 408

A-levels for entry 81%

Unemployment 3.4%

Firsts and 2:1s 70.7%

Student/staff ratio 12:1

Dropout rate 6% (8%)

World ranking 46=

Undergraduates 11,814 (2,937)

Postgraduates 3,582 (3,421)

Teaching staff 1,290

Applications/places 31,304/3,249; 9.6:1 (+3.8%)

Clearing entry 6%

Bursaries 25%: £25-£1,382

Scholarships 40: £1,800

EU/overseas 6.8%/13%

Mature 16.3%

State school 70%

Lowest social classes 21%

Low-participation areas 8%

Live in 27% (100%) £63-£135

King’s aims to be among the top half dozen universities in the UK and in the world top 25 by 2016. Its continued progress up our league table and its shortlisting for our University of the Year title last year suggests its 10-year strategic plan is very much on track. It is already a university of the highest quality, largely situated on the banks of the Thames in the heart of the capital.

A research-led institution with a history dating back to 1829, King’s is internationally eminent in the medical sciences. Last year it won three Department of Health research centres of excellence (more than any other university), together with £14m for seven projects as part of the National Institute for Health Research. It also has five Medical Research Council centres, the most recent for transplantation, again more than any other university. In Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’s hospitals it has three of the finest teaching hospitals in Britain – and it attempts to open up a medical career to those from nontraditional backgrounds through a six-year degree programme. The first graduates of this programme qualified as doctors last June.

The college’s research record in medicine and biomedical sciences is just the tip of the iceberg; in all, 24 subject areas in the college have gained 5 or 5* ratings.

About one in five students are recruited from overseas; 130 countries are represented on campus. They are a happy bunch, too, with King’s enjoying some of the best ratings in the national student (satisfaction) survey of any inner-city multifaculty university. Indeed, its law students were the happiest students in the UK, according to our analysis of last year’s student survey.

Although long on tradition, King’s has some of the most modern facilities, thanks to a £500m investment programme. The £30m James Black Centre for stem cell research opened last January and the Strand campus is set to deliver new science and language labs and student work areas.

Open days Contact the college.

Student view Adam Farley, students’ union president:

USP Everyone is welcoming.

Worst feature The university bubble is hard to pop.

Location In cultural London.

Social scene Great when you get involved.

Rated excellent (20) Allied health professions (nutrition and dietetics, health visiting, physiotherapy); anatomy and physiology (biomedical sciences); classics and ancient history; dentistry; education; environmental studies; geography; history; Iberian languages and studies; law; medicine; music; nursing and midwifery; organismal biosciences; pharmacology and pharmacy; philosophy; physics and astronomy; politics (war/defence studies); Portuguese; teacher training.

Degree of student satisfaction 74.6%

Law 85.7; History and Archeology 84.9; Politics 79.3; European Languages and Area studies 77.6; Computer Science 77.0; Performing Arts 76.8; English-based studies 75.9; Biology and related Sciences 75.6; Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies 72.6; Medical Science and Pharmacy 72.0; Medicine and Dentistry 70.5; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 70.0; Human and Social Geography 69.9; Other Languages and Area studies 69.8

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