James Clerk Maxwell Building
57 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8WA
Tel 020 7836 5454
ceu@kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk
Open days: September 15 and 16

PERFORMANCE

Sunday Times ranking 13 (17)

Student satisfaction 73.8%
Head teacher ranking 9= (18)
Peer ranking 9 (17=)
Research quality 67.3%
A-level/Higher points 412
Unemployment 5%
Firsts and 2:1s 72.8%
Student/staff ratio 11.4:1
Dropout rate 7% (7.2%)
World ranking 22

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VITAL STATISTICS

Undergraduates 11,635 (2,477)
Postgraduates 4,098 (2,899)
Teaching staff 1,350
Applications/places 30,700/3,792; 8.1:1 (+7.4%)
Clearing entry 2%
Live in 27% £70-£157
Bursaries 30%: £100-£1,350
Scholarships 40: £1,800

SOCIAL MIX

EU/overseas 7.6%/13.3%
Mature 17.9%
State school 72.3%
Lowest social classes 23.6%
Low-participation areas 4.1%

They’re not short on style at King’s College. To mark the first awarding of King’s College degrees last year, it commissioned Dame Vivienne Westwood to design 20 new gowns and hoods for the various schools of study and different levels of degrees. Each incorporates a KCL lion button on the right shoulder, symbolising the college’s degree-awarding powers.

King’s remains within the University of London federation, however, giving its students access to a wide range of accommodation, sports and social facilities. It is at the end of a £550m redevelopment programme, with the Strand campus seeing most of the recent spend, which has included creating a 90-metre hall of fame, packed with images of famous alumni.

Now ranked 22nd in the Times Higher Education’s world university rankings and on the fringes of our elite top 10, King’s has a formidable academic reputation that this year saw more than £82.5m awarded in central research funds to the college off the back of last year’s research assessment exercise (RAE). Just four institutions got more research cash. About 60% of submissions were rated world-leading or internationally excellent.

The King’s myBursary scheme gives £1,350 to any student from a home with a household income below £28,530. There are also up to 40 scholarships.

STUDENT VIEW

Pete Ellender, students’ union officer:

First impressions Lecturers really care and listen.
Worst feature The Strand building layout looks like it was designed on Etch a Sketch.
Facilities Our nightclub Tutu’s attracts the biggest bands.
Deal clincher Despite King’s size there is a great sense of community; our biggest attraction is our people.

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.

Student satisfaction
Other Languages and Area studies 82.6; Other subjects allied to Medicine 81.6; Performing Arts 81.5; History and Archaeology 80.4; European Languages and Area studies 80.2; Politics 79.6; Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies 78.7; Human and Social Geography 78.1; Medical Science and Pharmacy 77.2; Law 76.4; Physical Science 75.6; Electronic and Electrical Engineering 75.3; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 75.1; Biology and related Sciences 74.3; Mechanically-based Engineering 74.2; Mathematical Sciences 73.1; Computer Science 72.5; Media studies 72.1; English-based studies 71.5; Nursing 69.1; Management 68.2; Medicine and Dentistry 64.6

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