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KINGS COLLEGE LONDON is one of Englands oldest and most prestigious
universities: a multifaculty research-led institution based in the heart of London. Kings is ranked as one of the worlds top XQLYHUVLWLHVDQGLVWKHSunday Times University of the Year ,WKDVQHDUO\VWXGHQWVRIZKRPQHDUO\are graduate students) and DSSUR[LPDWHO\HPSOR\HHV,WRHUVDQLQWHOOHFWXDOO\ULJRURXVenvironment supported by welcoming and caring traditions.
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Kings has:
an overall annual income of over 508 million; 60 per cent of its research deemed by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise to be of world-leading or internationally-excellent standard;
strategic partnerships with leading university institutions worldwide, including Jawaharlal Nehru University; the National University of Singapore; Renmin University of China; the University of California San Francisco; the University of Hong Kong; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of So Paulo.
The Colleges location in the heart of London and its strength in arts and humanities, law and the social sciences make it a major player in forging links between the arts, culture and universities, and in the development of public policy at national level. Kings has a very broad range of subjects which are increasingly LQWHUUHODWHGQRWDEO\LQHOGVVXFKDVKHDOWKSROLF\PHGLFDOhumanities and bioinformatics. The Colleges strength in science, including health-related disciplines, underpins its membership of Kings Health Partners; that alliance brings the College into partnership with the leading NHS foundation trusts of Guys and St Thomas; Kings College Hospital, and the South London and Maudsley, integrating world-leading research, teaching and clinical services to deliver real improvements in healthcare for Londoners and the world.
Kings is:
a member of the Russell Group, a coalition of the UKs top 20 research-based universities;
DFROOHJHRHULQJLWVRZQGHJUHHVRIWKH8QLYHUVLW\RI/RQGRQ part of Kings Health Partners, the UKs largest Academic Health Sciences Centre;
among the top seven UK universities for research earnings (144 million in 2009-10);
the most successful higher education institution in winning grants from the Department of Health;
a leading higher education provider of services to external organisations, with consultancy income of 11 million and professional and executive education income of 12.2 million in 2009-10;
one of the top 10 UK universities for graduate level HPSOR\PHQWZLWKWKHIWKKLJKHVWDYHUDJHJUDGXDWHstarting salary;
among the top three universities in England for PhD completion rates for international students;
rated excellent by the Quality Assurance Agency for students educational experience;
one of only two universities to have six Medical Research &RXQFLOFHQWUHVRYHURQHIWKRIWKH8.WRWDOQXPEHU spearheading a new era of university fundraising with its
World questions|Kings answers campaign, chaired by former Prime Minister Sir John Major, which aims to raise 500 million to address many of the worlds most challenging problems in areas such as Neuroscience & mental health, Leadership & society, and Cancer.
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Florence Nightingale (centre) and her brother-in-law Sir Harry Verney with a group of Nightingalenurses in 1886.
Brief history
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON was founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829. When the University of London was established in 1836, Kings became one of its two founding colleges. The College has grown and developed through many mergers, including those with the Kings College Hospital Medical School in 1983; with Chelsea and Queen Elizabeth Colleges in 1985; with the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997; and with the United Medical & Dental Schools of Guys & St Thomas Hospitals in 1998. These mergers have brought institutions with their own distinguished reputations and traditions into Kings. The Institute of Psychiatry is closely associated with the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust which includes the famous Bethlem Hospital dating from the 13th century. The original Kings College School of Medicine was founded in 1831, while St Thomas Hospital dates from the 12th century, and medicine has been formally taught there since the 16th century and at Guys since the Hospitals foundation in the early 18th century. The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery is directly descended from the worlds UVWSURIHVVLRQDOVFKRRORIQXUVLQJIRXQGHGE\)ORUHQFHNightingale at St Thomas in 1860. Since 1996 academics from Kings Defence Studies Department have provided education and training at the Joint Services Command and 6WD&ROOHJHDW6KULYHQKDP:LOWVKLUH:KLOHUHPDLQLQJSDUWRIWKH8QLYHUVLW\RI/RQGRQ.LQJVKDVHQMR\HGQDQFLDODQGacademic autonomy since 1994. Since 2008 it has awarded its own degrees.
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180 years of excellence
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON and its constituent institutions have been associated with some of the greatest innovators of their time, including Sir Charles Lyell, founder of modern geology; Sir Charles Wheatstone, pioneer of current electricity and wireless telegraphy; John Frederic Daniell, inventor of the constant-cell battery; Thomas Hodgkin, Thomas Addison and Richard Bright: distinguished doctors who LGHQWLHGWKHLPSRUWDQWGLVHDVHVZKLFKDUHnamed after them; FD Maurice, founder of the Working Mens College and campaigner for womens higher education; physicist James Clerk Maxwell, Einsteins predecessor in electromagnetism and relativity; Florence Nightingale, and Lord Lister, who established antiseptic surgery and is known as the father of modern medicine. Among the many writers educated at Kings were Romantic poet John Keats (once a medical student at Guys), novelist Thomas Hardy, WS Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan fame, Virginia Woolf and Arthur C Clarke.
Nobel laureatesTen people who taught or studied at Kings and its associated institutions have been
awarded the Nobel Prize, including Professor Sir James Black OM, inventor of beta blockers and anti-ulcer drugs; Professor Maurice Wilkins who, with Rosalind Franklin and other Kings colleagues, played a major part in the discovery of the structure of DNA, and Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa.
Current alumniThe Colleges current alumni include: Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu; triple Olympic medallist Katherine Grainger; Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester; writers Hanif Kureishi, Michael Morpurgo DQG6XVDQ+LOOOHDGLQJEXVLQHVVJXUHVincluding Sir Deryck Maughan and Rory Tapner; journalists and broadcasters such as Martin Bashir; composer Michael Nyman, conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and musicians John Deacon of Queen and Kele Okereke; Naveen Selvadurai, founder of the mobile social networking venture Foursquare; members of the House of Commons, House of Lords and of the Judiciary, and impressionist and political satirist Rory Bremner.
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The South Range of the main building at the Strand Campus.
Redevelopment
SINCE 1999 OVER half of the Colleges activities have been relocated in high-quality new and refurbished buildings at the Strand, Waterloo and Guys campuses. In 2002 the Maughan Library in Chancery Lane was opened by HM The Queen, following a major gift from Sir Deryck and Lady Maughan and DQDZDUGZLQQLQJFRQYHUVLRQRIWKHIRUPHU3XEOLF5HFRUG2FHLQWR&ROOHJHOLEUDULHV,QWKHSDVWYH\HDUVWKH&ROOHJHKDVcompleted the 40 million renovation of the South Range of the main building at the Strand Campus restoring its elegant WKFHQWXU\IHDWXUHVDQGSURYLGLQJDUVWFODVVHQYLURQPHQWIRUthe 21st century as well as a 20 million development of the XSSHURRUVRIWZRQHDUE\EXLOGLQJV7KH(DVW:LQJRISomerset House, adjoining the Strand Campus, is being renovated and adapted for occupation in 2011-12. At Kings Denmark Hill Campus the 30 million James Black Centre was completed in 2007; the 9 million Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care opened in 2010, and work is currently underway on the 45 million Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute: Europes leading institute for new approaches to neurological and psychiatric conditions, which is named after its major benefactor. A cross-campus investment of 18 million is modernising the Colleges learning and teaching environments, including new technologies, following a 3 million investment in teaching room refurbishments in 2009. Kings is a leader in HQYLURQPHQWDOVXVWDLQDELOLW\LWZDVRQHRIWKHUVWXQLYHUVLWLHVWRbe recognised as a Carbon Trust standard bearer and signed a new Energy and Carbon Management Policy in 2010.
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Business & innovation
CONNECTING INNOVATORS to the wealth of knowledge and expertise at Kings is supported through the Kings Business team. Partnerships and commercial opportunities with business, industry and the public sector are developed across a wide range of disciplines. The result is real-world application for Kings research and innovation, SURGXFLQJORQJWHUPSXEOLFEHQHWDQGLPSDFW
Ways in which the College works with external partners include collaborative and contract research; consultancy and fee for service projects; licensing of novel intellectual property; WKHFUHDWLRQRIVSLQRXWFRPSDQLHVDQGWZRZD\VWDsecondments. Kings is one of the leading UK universities for research income from business, and the Colleges academics work across many sectors including policy; the cultural and creative industries; pharmaceuticals; biosciences; materials; environmental, and informatics. Developing new ideas to a point at which their potential can be realised is supported through the Futures Fund for innovation, which is available to all disciplines, from health through to the social sciences and humanities.
Holding an active portfolio of new and maturing intellectual SURSHUW\WKHWHDPOHVDURXQGQHZSDWHQWDSSOLFDWLRQVHDFKyear and executes on average 15 new licences annually. In the past 20 years, Kings spin-out companies have made an impact in diverse areas, such as cardiovascular monitoring, cancer vaccines, arthritis treatment and dentistry, many of which have VHFXUHGVXEVHTXHQWIXQGLQJLQFOXGLQJRWDWLRQRQWKHSXEOLFstock markets. See www.kcl.ac.uk/businessinnovation
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At the heart of London
The Colleges Defence Studies Department provides academic ikffehjjej^[KA@e_djI[hl_Y[i9eccWdZWdZIjW9ebb[][(JSCSC) in Shrivenham, Wiltshire; to the London-based Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) and at the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. See www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/defence/index
Strand Campus
Maughan Library & Information Services Centre
Guys Campus
Waterloo Campus
St Thomas Campus
Denmark Hill Campus
Kings acquisition of the East Wing of historic Somerset House in 2009 extends the Colleges Strand Campus into one of Londons most beautiful and important EXLOGLQJVDQGIXOOOVDKRSHQXUVHGE\WKHCollege ever since its foundation in 1829. The renovated building will bridge the worlds of higher education, policy and the arts, and play a key role in Kings continuing development as a world-class university, including a new home for the Colleges prestigious School of Law.
K INGS HAS FOUR Thames-side campuses within a single square mile in the heart of London, together with the Institute of Psychiatry and some biomedical research and teaching at the Denmark Hill Campus in south London. Kings uses its location in central and south London to build and consolidate partnerships with many cultural, professional and political institutions, businesses and local communities.
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Vice-Principals
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The acquisition of the East Wing of Somerset House gives the College access to the Great Court: one of Londons most impressive spaces.
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New doors in the Franklin-Wilkins Building at the Waterloo Campus celebrate Kings contribution to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953.
School Campus Number of students
UNDER-GRADUATE
GRADUATE TOTAL % of total
Taught Research
Arts &Humanities
Strand 2,431 764 486 3,681 15.7%
Biomedical Sciences
Guys, Waterloo 2,217 353 231 2,801 12.0%
Dental Institute Guys, Strand, Denmark Hill, Waterloo, St Thomas
792 267 59 1,118 4.8%
English Language & other centres
Strand 186 16 202 0.8%
Institute of Psychiatry
Denmark Hill 79 554 328 961 4.1%
Kings Learning Institute
158 275 4 437 1.9%
Law Strand 1,152 864 84 2,100 9.0%
Medicine Guys, St Thomas, Denmark Hill
2,252 332 308 2,892 12.4%
Natural & Mathematical Sciences
Strand 1,383 416 160 1,959 8.4%
Nursing & Midwifery
Waterloo 2,332 559 63 2,954 12.6%
Social Science & Public Policy
Strand, Waterloo
1,511 2,257 499 4,267 18.3%
TOTAL GRADUATE STUDENTS 8,879 38%
GRAND TOTAL 14,493 6,657 2,222 23,372 100%
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Student numbers by School and level of study 2010-11.
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Gender Number of students Total % of total
UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE
Taught Research
F 9,177 3,847 1,199 14,223 60.9%
M 5,316 2,810 1,023 9,149 39.1%
GRAND TOTAL 14,493 6,657 2,222 23,372 100%
Student numbers by age at start of programme at the start of 2010-11.
Age Number of students Total % of total
UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE
Taught Research
20 and under 10,350 43 2 10,395 44.5%
21 to 29 2,746 3,945 1,268 7,959 34.1%
30 to 39 848 1,659 617 3,124 13.4%
40 to 49 433 779 217 1,429 6.1%
50 and over 116 231 118 465 2.0%
GRAND TOTAL 14,493 6,657 2,222 23,372 100%
The Wills Library in the Hodgkin Building at the Guys Campus.
Student numbers by gender headcount on 1 December 2010.
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Accommodation Number of students % of total
Kings students in College residences 2,390 80.1%
Kings students in Liberty Living accommodation
45 1.5%
Kings students in University of London intercollegiate residences
548 18.4%
TOTAL 2,983 100%
The Principal with Reverend Jesse Jackson at Kings.
Students country of domicile 2010-11 Kings has a strong international community including students from some 140 countries.
Domicile Number of students % of total
United Kingdom 16,729 71.6%
European Union 2,492 10.7%
Other countries 4,151 17.8%
TOTAL 23,372 100%
Students in halls of residence on 1 December 2010.
C[cX[hie\ijW on 1 January 2011, excluding senior students, ^edehWhoWdZeYYWi_edWbijW$
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7YWZ[c_YWdZh[i[WhY^ijW 3,015 50.7%
Ej^[hijW 2,932 49.3%
TOTAL 5,947 100%
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INCOME 000
Funding Body grants 151,889
Tuition fees and education contracts 118,400
Research grants and contracts 144,053
Other operating income 87,090
Endowment and investment income 6,613
TOTAL INCOME 508,045
EXPENDITURE
IjWYeiji 314,928
Other operating expenses 146,679
Depreciation 23,476
Interest payable 12,499
TOTAL EXPENDITURE 497,582
Surplus on ordinary activities 10,463
Taxation (2)
SURPLUS after depreciation of assets at cost, and tax 10,461
The James Clerk Maxwell Building at Kings Waterloo Campus.
FinancesIncome and expenditure for the year ended 31 July 2010.?d(&'&A_d]iW]W_dh[Y[_l[ZWd77dWdY_WbYh[Z_jhWj_d]\hecIjWdZWhZFeehi$
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How to contact KingsMain telephone switchboard +44(0)20 7836 5454www.kcl.ac.uk
Main College address & Strand CampusSchools of Arts & Humanities, Law, Natural & Mathematical Sciences, and Social Science & Public PolicyStrand, London WC2R 2LSMaughan Library & Information Services CentreChancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR
Waterloo CampusFh_dY_fWbiEY["Fhe\[ii_edWbI[hl_Y[i"and Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & MidwiferyJames Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WASchool of Biomedical Sciences, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery and Departments of Management and of Education & Professional StudiesFranklin-Wilkins Building,Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH
Guys CampusSchool of Medicine