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King's College London is one of the top
25 universities in the world (2016/17 QS World University Rankings) and among
the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly
10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800
staff.
King's
has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge
research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th
nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality
and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times
Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was
deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The
university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an
overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's
has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the
sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine,
nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It
has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life,
such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the
development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's
and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners
Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration
between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of
London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching
hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information,
visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign,
World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where
King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research
to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the
King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law;
built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration
between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s,
Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new
Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders
Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative
care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis.
Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and
bursaries each year.More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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