Student review [#3612]
at University College London - UCL
London, The United Kingdom
UCL is consistently ranked in the top 10 super-elite global universities in the QS world university rankings (7th in the world and 3rd in the UK in 2017-18) With over 39,000 students, it is the largest of the top 10 global super-elite global universities and yet it prides itself in small classes with a 1:10.5 staff /student ratio.
QS ranks UCL’s Institute of Education 1st in the World and UCL’s Bartlett School of Built Environment 2nd in the World, Archeology (3rd) Anatomy & Physiology (4th) in the top 5 globally, and Dentistry (6th) , Medicine (9th) , Pharmacy & Pharmacology (8th), Psychology (8th), Geography (8th ) and Anthropology (10th) in the world’s top 10.
Times Higher Education World University rankings for faculties ranks UCL’s Medical Faculty 5th in the World, Arts and Humanities 6th in the World and Laws 8th in the World.
National Taiwan University ranks UCL’s Scientific research 10th in the world (2nd in the UK).
UCL has 29 Nobel Prize winners among its alumni & staff include Sir Charles Kao (Physics 2009), Peter Higgs (Physics 2013) and John O’Keefe (Medicine 2014).
It is a great multi-disciplinary university covering arts and humanities, sciences and engineering, with a huge range of degrees ranging from art, astrophysics, biomedical science, engineering, history, law, nanotechnology, management and PPE . Its latest degrees include a Bachelors of Arts and Sciences, a double (LLB) law degree with University of Hong Kong and a double MBA with Peking University. It prides itself in being a balanced university with about 52:48 postgraduate/undergraduate student population; 57:43 UK/International student population and a roughly 49:51 male/female student population. UCL is a truly international university being the 1st University in England to accept international students regardless of race and background including Wu Ting Fang (one of the 1st Prime Ministers and acting Presidents of China), Gandhi (Father of India), Kenyatta (Father Kenya) and Nkrumah (Father of Ghana) and Ito Hirobumi (1st Prime Minister of Japan).