Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
Tel 020 7679 3000
study@ucl.ac.uk
www.ucl.ac.uk
Open days: September 15 and 16; June 30, 2010

PERFORMANCE

Sunday Times ranking 4 (6)
Student satisfaction 76.5%
Head teacher ranking 9= (10=)
Peer ranking 4 (4)
Research quality 71.1%
A-level/Higher points 450
Unemployment 5.4%
Firsts and 2:1s 80.8%
Student/staff ratio 8.9:1
Dropout rate 7.6% (7.4%)
World ranking 7

VITAL STATISTICS

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• The Times University Guide table

1878: Jubilee of University College, London

The University of London, after much consideration, and by majorities both in the Senate and in hte Convocation, have decided to throw open their degrees without restriction to all female students

1878: Jubilee of University College, London

The University of London, after much consideration, and by majorities both in the Senate and in hte Convocation, have decided to throw open their degrees without restriction to all female students

Undergraduates 11,277 (645)
Postgraduates 5,977 (3,092)
Teaching staff 1,762
Applications/places 30,075/3,780; 8:1 (+11.7%)
Clearing entry 0%
Live in 35% (100%) £89-£153
Bursaries 45%: £25-£2,775
Scholarships 30: £500-£5,000

SOCIAL MIX

EU/overseas 10.4%/22.7%
Mature 8.7%
State school 64.6%
Lowest social classes 17.7%
Low-participation areas 4%

Our University of the Year in 2004, UCL has continued to prosper in our and other university league tables. It currently lies seventh in the Times Higher Education world rankings and rises to its highest ever position in our table this year following its performance in the latest national research assessment exercise (RAE). Just Oxbridge and Manchester made more subject and staff submissions than UCL’s 49 and 1,793 respectively. Overall, UCL ranked fifth in the UK in our analysis of the 2008 RAE results, earning £104.5m in central research funding. Only Oxbridge gained more.

UCL has spent £3.8m on helping small businesses access its expertise and on developing the entrepreneurial abilities and skills in this summer’s graduates, all of which contributes to keeping its graduate unemployment rate close to the 5.4% achieved this year. The 85.6% who landed graduate-level jobs ranks UCL marginally above Oxford and Cambridge, with only Imperial College, LSE, Bath and the Robert Gordon performing better.

UCL bucks the general trend among inner-city institutions to produce above-average results in the student satisfaction survey. Academics across Britain rate it even higher, placing the university fourth across a range of 30 subjects in our exclusive survey.

About 45% of UK entrants benefit from bursaries. Thirty scholarships for those with outstanding school leaving grades are worth up to £5,000 a year.

STUDENT VIEW

Charlie Clinton, students’ union officer:

First impressions: Arriving in London can be daunting, but life in halls can really help you to settle in.
Worst feature: Finding your way around the London transport system.
Facilities: The Quad is a great green space and is packed in the summer.
Deal clincher: We have club nights in leading London venues.

Rated excellent (31)
Allied health professions (audiology, speech sciences); anatomy and physiology; anthropology; archeology; architecture; art and design; classics and ancient history; dentistry; Dutch; economics; economics (School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies — SSEES); electrical and electronic engineering; English; geography; geology; German and related languages; history; history of art, architecture and design; law; librarianship and information management; linguistics; maths, statistics and operational research; medicine (Institute of Child Health/Institute of Ophthalmology); molecular biosciences; organismal biosciences; philosophy; physics and astronomy; politics; politics (SSEES); psychology; Scandinavian studies.

Student satisfaction
Psychology 84.4; English-based studies 82; History and Archaeology 80.3; Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies 79.9; European Languages and Area studies 79.1; Physical Science 78.6; Civil, Chemical and other Engineering 78; Communications and Information studies 78; Computer Science 77.7; Other Languages and Area studies 77; Law 76.5; Biology and related Sciences 75.5; Electronic and Electrical Engineering 75.3; Medical Science and Pharmacy 75.1; Medicine and Dentistry 74.7; Management 74.5; Economics 73.7; Mathematical Sciences 73.5; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 72.5; Other subjects allied to Medicine 72.5; Human and Social Geography 71.5; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 70.4; Architecture, Building and Planning 70.3; Business 68.2

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