University College London
About the School
University College London (UCL) was founded on February 11, 1826 as London University, and Jeremy Bentham is recognized as the "spiritual father" of UCL [196]. In 1831, the Whig-led British government succeeded in obtaining a royal charter for the University College, which gave it the power to award degrees independently. London, and has since been at the heart of the University of London system as its flagship university.
University College London not only has the world's leading medical schools, schools of economics, architecture and engineering sciences, but also its outstanding achievements in theoretical physics and mathematics, space science, statistics, life science, computational neuroscience, computer science, machine learning and artificial intelligence, electrical and electronic engineering, chemical and chemical engineering, civil engineering, law, geography, education, social and human sciences, etc. The School is world-renowned. The School began with the School of Medicine, the School of Mathematics and Physics, the School of Engineering Sciences and the School of Social Sciences, and has since expanded to 11 major schools.
It is home to leading research institutions such as the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), the Space Exploration Laboratory (MSSL), the Gatsby Centre for Computational Neuroscience (GCNU) [205] and the UK National Centre for Computational Finance [206], and has produced 33 Nobel Prize winners, three Fields Prize winners, and many other luminaries in science, politics and culture, including Kun Kao, the father of fiber optics, Alexander Bell, the father of the telephone, and the father of the humanities. Alexander Bell, the father of the telephone, Francis Crick, the father of molecular biology who discovered DNA, Peter Cook, the core of the architectural and telecommunications school, Bragg, the founder of modern solid state physics, Demis Hassabis and David Silva, the creators of the AlphaGo algorithm of artificial intelligence, Roger Penrose, the founder of the Penrose ladder paradox, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation, Japan The famous Japanese statesman Hirobumi Ito, Christopher Nolan, etc. University College London, together with Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College and London Politics and Economics, is known as the "G5 Super Elite Universities", representing the top research strength, quality of faculty and students, and economic strength of the UK.
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As a product of the European Enlightenment, University College London was the first modern university in England and the first to accept female students on an equal footing [53]. Its goal was to "encourage research and the advancement of independent scholars so that they may, through their mastery of learning, contribute to the advancement of the science they pursue and the society in which they live.
History
In the beginning
Bianchin
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University College London was founded on February 11, 1826, originally as the University of London. Given that the only two universities in England at the time, Oxford and Cambridge, were strictly ecclesiastical, University College London was intended to be a secular alternative to universities of a religious nature. From its inception, University College London was founded and developed as a comprehensive university, rather than a mere college or research institution.
The philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) occupies an important place in the history of the founding of University College London and is recognized as the spiritual father of UCL. Although he is recorded in the history of the school's founding works, he was not actually directly involved in the building of University College London. He was a strong advocate of the theory that higher education should be widely accessible, and his ideas echoed the early aims of the College, which were to educate all people equally and to promote the disregard of differences in gender, religious beliefs and political opinions. The term "international" was coined by Benjamin himself. His body is displayed as a permanent memorial in the north gallery of the main building of University College London (to be transferred to the Student Center after 2020), fully open to the public.
The other two actual founders were Thomas Campbell, a poet, and Henry Peter Brougham, a lawyer, who visited the University of Bonn in Germany in 1825, where, unlike his contemporaries at Oxford and Cambridge, Campbell's philosophy of religious freedom gained his admiration. After his return, he wrote to Brougham, who was deeply influenced by Bianchin, expressing his interest in founding an institution of higher learning in London of the same type as the University of Bonn. This letter was published in The Times in February of the same year, and became the first public draft of a proposal to establish a university college in London. Later, with the help of Isaac Lyons, the leader of the Jewish community in London, the two men began to plan the building of the college.
1826-36
In 1826, the school was finally founded as London University, and became the only secular college in the region to admit students regardless of gender or religious background, with none of the members of its Board of Governors being religious leaders, leading educator Thomas Arnold to call it "It was the only secular college in the area with a gender- and religion-neutral board of trustees that included no religious leaders. Its system of creating pluralistic disciplines, reorganizing the lecture hall mechanism, abolishing religious tests, and democratizing governance was deliberately modeled on that of the University of Edinburgh and other Scottish colleges, and was quite unique among the English institutions of the time.
The main building of the University of London
The main building of the University of London
The Council of Schools, which had been established before 1826, proposed in the National Assembly that a constitution be enacted to establish the University of London as an independent institution of higher learning. But this provoked much opposition: in addition to the Church of England, Oxford and Cambridge, and the medical profession at home, the Austrian Chancellor, Clemens Metternich, asked his ambassador to England to convey his view that the plan "might be detrimental to the development of England".
In 1827, Leonard Horner (founder of the University of Herre-Watt) was appointed president of the university, but left four years later due to opposition from the university administration.
It was not until 1831 that the British government, led by the Whig party, succeeded in securing a Royal Charter for the university, giving it the power to award degrees.
1836~1907
UCL Student Centre
UCL Student Centre
In 1836, UCL (then known as the University of London) merged with the subsequent King's College London to form the new University of London system, which was renamed "University College London". University College London" (UCL).
In 1871, the Slade School of Fine Arts at University College London was established at UCL with a gift from the British art collector Felix Slade.
In 1878, UCL was granted a Royal Supplementary Charter and became the first university in the UK to be allowed to award degrees to women. In the same year, UCL admitted female students to its Faculty of Arts and Law and its Faculty of Natural Sciences.
UCL was the first university in England to offer education in economics, geography, architecture, chemistry, English, German, Italian and civil engineering in the 19th century, and in 1893 the first University Students' Union in England was founded at University College London.
1907-76
Roof of the Wilkins Building
Roof of the Wilkins Building
In 1907, under the new Royal Charter, UCL lost its legal status as an independent university and was renamed University College, London, and graduates were only allowed to be awarded degrees from the University of London. "Graduates were only allowed to be awarded degrees from the University of London, but informally, the university still used the name "University Collge London" or its abbreviation "UCL".
During the Second World War, UCL suffered considerable damage, but most of its faculties had moved out of London by 1939.
The Institute of Jewish Studies moved to UCL in 1959 and the Malad Space Science Laboratory was established at UCL in 1967.
In 1973, UCL became the world's first global link to ARPANET (the progenitor of the modern Internet) and in the same year sent the world's first e-mail.
1976 to present
UCL Logo
The UCL logo
In 1976, a new charter returned statutory independence to member colleges (except for the power to award degrees independently) and UCL officially reverted to its name of University College London, dropping the comma after the word "College" that had previously been part of its name. The comma after the word "College" in its name was dropped.
University College London Hospital (UCLH) (2 photos)
In 1986, UCL integrated the University of London Institute of Archaeology, and in 1988, UCL completed the integration of the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, the Institute of Orthopaedics, the Institute of Urology and Nephrology, and the Middlesex Medical School.
In 1993, the University of London was restructured, which meant that UCL and the other member colleges could receive direct government funding and were entitled to award their own degrees bearing the University of London seal. uCL has since been considered a de facto independent university.
In 1994, UCL National Health Service Trust was established and was subsequently merged with the Institute of Ophthalmology in 1995, with the Institute of Child Health and the College of Podiatry in 1996 and with the Institute of Neurology in 1997, making it a major biomedical research base in the UK.
In 1998, UCL successfully merged with the Royal Free Hospital Medical School to create the Royal Free and University College Medical School, which was renamed UCL Medical School in October 2008.
In 1999, the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies (ISES), an independent research institute of the University of London, merged with University College London to form a large department of UCL, named the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies (ISES) of University College London, dedicated to the study of geopolitical and economic regional cooperation worldwide.
In 2002, a draft plan for the integration of Imperial College at UCL came to light, which attracted widespread criticism due to insufficient consultation and discussion, and was forced to be scrapped by Derek Roberts, the President of University College London [54].
London Centre for Nanotechnology Research (LCN)
In 2003, UCL established the London Centre for Nanotechnology Research (LCN) in collaboration with Imperial College to conduct cutting-edge research in the field of nanotechnology. On August 1st of the same year, Professor Malcolm Grant succeeded Sir Derek as the new Vice-Chancellor and began to strengthen UCL's international collaboration, and during his tenure, the university strengthened its links with many of the world's leading universities such as Yale University and MIT.
In 2005, UCL was granted the right to award its own independent degrees, and since then official documents, including diplomas, have borne the University College London (UCL) logo and no longer use the name of the University of London.
In 2009, UCL and Yale University (together with Yale-New Haven Hospital) signed the largest project collaboration in the history of the two universities, establishing the University College London - Yale Joint Research Division, and subsequently, their partnership has gradually expanded from the medical field to the humanities and social sciences (research collaboration and joint doctoral training programs in various disciplines such as economics, law, and philosophy) [56]. programs) [56].
Francis Crick Institute
Francis Crick Institute
In 2010, Nobel laureate cell biologist and biochemist Paul Naas proposed the creation of a giant laboratory, which he named the Francis Crick Institute. Led by the UK Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust, the laboratory was completed in November 2015 as a tripartite collaboration between University College London, Imperial College and Cancer Research UK [57]. The £650 million (~6.3 billion), 93,000 m2 research center operates at full power and is home to over 1,600 scientists and associated researchers, making it the largest single biomedical laboratory in Europe.
In 2012, the School of Pharmacy at the University of London was integrated by UCL under the UCL School of Life Sciences, and in 2013, the Department of Translation at Imperial College announced its official transfer to the School of European Languages, Societies and Cultures under UCL as of October [58]. In December of the same year, Elsevier Publishing opened the Big Data Research Centre in collaboration with UCL.
In 2014, the School of Education at the University of London was integrated by UCL, becoming the eleventh faculty under its umbrella [59].
The British Library: home of the Turing Institute
The British Library: home of the Turing Institute (2 photos)
In 2015, the UK government announced University College London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Warwick as the five founding institutions of the Alan Turing Institute [60]. The Institute aims to promote the application of advanced mathematics, computer science, and big data processing techniques [61].
UCL Confucius Institute
UCL Confucius Institute (2 photos)
In 2017, UCL and Peking University signed a strategic cooperation agreement, announcing their joint efforts to "revolutionize Chinese language teaching in UK universities," "develop a new blueprint for sustainable urban development," and "reduce world In the same year, UCL also joined the research team of the University of the Netherlands. In the same year, UCL also joined the Sino-British University Consortium for Engineering Education and Research, the first university consortium featuring engineering education and research between the UK and China, which includes nine 985 universities with a strong engineering focus [44].
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University College London
University College London
University College London has the world's leading medical schools, schools of architecture, law, engineering sciences, humanities and arts, and history and social sciences, and has achieved remarkable success in the fields of economics, computer science, computational neuroscience, machine learning, artificial intelligence, law, theoretical physics, mathematics, space science, statistics, life sciences, electrical and electronic engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, geography, education, and UCL began with a School of Medicine, a School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, a School of Engineering Sciences, and a School of History and Social Sciences, but as the School has grown, it has expanded to 11 faculties as of 2014 (with the addition of the University of London Institute of Education).
Medical Schools
UCL Medical School
UCL Medical School
UCL Medical School was the first university college in the UK to offer a systematic approach to medicine, with world-class teaching environments and facilities and leading research and teaching in related fields. In addition, it is one of the world's leading centers for biomedical research, and its strong biomedical credentials were reinforced by the transfer of the National Institute for Medical Research from Mill Hill to UCL. in 2008, University College London became the largest medical research institution in Europe with four outstanding hospitals. The Institute is one of the world's leading medical research centers, with six Nobel Prizes awarded to its researchers, currently employs over 700 outstanding researchers and receives a budget of over £30 million per year. The Royal Free Hospital, a teaching hospital, has been ranked the best hospital in the UK for many years [21]. According to the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities [23], UCL is the second strongest research institution in the world in basic medicine, after Harvard University, and the eighth strongest in clinical medicine according to the 2020 QS World University Rankings [63].
School of Life Sciences
The UCL School of Life Sciences combines the strengths of University College London's resources in the disciplines of biology and clinical medicine, and continues to break new ground in its research and teaching activities on related topics. The School is also one of the largest and most prestigious research centres in its field, with a global reputation for cutting-edge teaching and research. The School's affiliated departments and institutes include the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department of Molecular Cell Biology and its laboratories, and the University of London School of Pharmacy.
School of Brain Sciences
UCL School of Brain Sciences
UCL School of Brain Sciences (2 photos)
Established in 2011 as part of the restructuring of the former UCL School of Life Sciences, the UCL School of Brain Sciences is the world's leading brain science school. It is recognized as a global leader in research and teaching in the areas of neural pathways that control bodily functions (hearing and vision, etc.), cognitive science, and psychology. Its Queen Square Centre for Neuroscience, which is part of the School of Neuroscience, is renowned in the field of neuroscience research, and its Gatsby Centre for Computational Neuroscience, established in collaboration with the UCL School of Engineering Sciences, is the world's leading research institute for computational neuroscience. According to the 2017 QS World University Rankings [64], UCL's neuroscience program is ranked second in the world, behind Harvard University.
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
The UCL School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences has produced three Fields Prize winners (Klaus-Friedrich Roth and Nis Alain Beck both studied and worked at UCL, while William Timothy Gowers won the 1998 Fields Prize while a lecturer at the School), and its affiliated departments and research institutes include: the Departments of Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Science and Technology Studies, Statistical Sciences, and the Malad Space Science Laboratory, among others. It is one of the world's leading institutions in basic and applied mathematics, and its research programme in fluid dynamics is rated as 'world-leading' by the REF report [66].
The UCL Department of Mathematics is one of the first academic units of the university, dating back to the early days of teaching and research activities, and has produced three Fields Medal winners, and the UCL Department of Mathematics offers the most demanding undergraduate program of any discipline: applicants need at least A*A*A (three subjects) at A-level. According to the REF assessment [66], the department has the fifth highest Research Power in the UK, after Imperial.
Malad Space Science Laboratory
Malad Space Science Laboratory
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL was formerly led by Sir Harry Massey, who led a joint UK government and UCL space exploration team that successfully launched the UK's first scientific rocket. Professor Harry Massey, an Australian-born mathematician whose research interests included particle physics and upper atmosphere physics, graduated from Cambridge University and received his PhD from Cavendish Laboratory before being appointed to chair the Space Research Board and the European Space Science Committee and helping to establish the European Space Research Organization, the forerunner of the European Space Agency. In 1966, he led the establishment of the Mallard Space Science Laboratory at University College London, making UCL one of the first universities in the world to conduct research in space physics and to establish long-term and stable collaborations with institutions such as NASA and the European Space Agency. According to the REF assessment [66], the department's physics discipline is the fourth strongest in the UK. Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose graduated from UCL as an undergraduate and was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the formation of black holes as a strong prediction of general relativity.
The Department of Geosciences at UCL, which has a history of teaching geology dating back to the 1820s, integrated the Department of Geology at Queen Mary University of London in 1983. The department now has the only facility in the UK that stores NASA planetary images (and also includes an earth science database).
UK Centre for Catalysis
UK Centre for Catalysis
The Department of Chemistry at UCL was one of the first departments to be established at the University, and was the first chemistry department to be opened at a regional university in England, with a long and distinguished history that has produced several Nobel Prize winners in chemistry. The Department of Chemistry at UCL currently has nearly 600 students and over 50 academic staff working in a wide range of areas, from inorganic chemistry to drug development. The Department is involved in research projects such as the UK Catalysis Centre, the Clean Energy Development Project and the Battery Storage Technology Development Project. According to the REF assessment [66], the UCL Department of Chemistry is the third strongest research department in the UK, behind Cambridge University.
The Department of Statistical Sciences at UCL, founded in 1911, is one of the first university departments of statistics in the world and one of the founding departments of UCL, founded by British mathematician and pioneer of mathematical statistics Carl Pearson. According to the 2020 QS World University Rankings for Statistics and Operations Research [86], the department is ranked 23rd in the world.
College of Humanities and Arts
Slade School of Fine Arts
Slade School of Fine Arts
The School of Humanities and Arts at UCL aims to "enable students to develop their individual intellects according to their academic interests", and its affiliated academic departments include: Philosophy, Traditional Arts and Humanities in English, Greek and Latin, and the School of European Languages, Cultures and Societies, in addition to the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London. UCL is ranked fourth in the world in the 2021 U.S. News Humanities and Arts rankings [98]; and according to UCL was the first university in the UK to offer a degree in English Literature.
UCL Philosophy
UCL Department of Philosophy
At the suggestion of James Muller and others, the School Council created the UCL Department of Philosophy in 1830 under the Faculty of Humanities and Arts [106]. Although the department was only a quarter of the size of Oxford, it still had a profound impact on British and world thought for nearly a century. Political philosophers John Stuart Muller and Cohen; logician Alfred Ayer; legal philosophers John Austin and Ronald Dworkin; moral philosopher Bernard Williams and aesthete Richard Wollheim are among the dozens of prominent thinkers who have graduated or taught there. The founder of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, is also the spiritual father of University College London, whose body is exhibited in the Student Centre according to his will to this day, practicing the spirit of utilitarianism. The George Grote Chair in Philosophy of Mind and Logic, the highest honor of the UCL Philosophy Department, is currently held by Professor John Hayman, who taught at Oxford University for thirty years. 2020-2021, the UCL Philosophy Department is ranked 22nd in the world by QS [96] and 5th in the UK by the Guardian locally [97]. In the SCImago journal rankings, the MIND journal, founded in 1876 by the department Prof. George C. Robertson and edited by UCL to date, is ranked fourth in the world in the field of philosophy [105].
School of History and Social Sciences
The UCL School of Social and Historical Sciences, founded in 1827, is one of the world's most recognized centers of excellence in teaching and research in its relevant fields. Its affiliated departments and institutes include: the Departments of Economics, Politics, Geography, Society and Anthropology, History, Archaeology, Art History and Theory, and the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies, which conducts research in a wide range of projects around the disciplines of economics, political science, philosophy, anthropology, geography, and sociology. According to the 2020 Times THE World University Rankings, UCL is ranked eleventh in the world in the social sciences [65] and the REF 2014 Academic Assessment Report shows [66] that the UCL Department of Politics ranks in the top five in the UK for academic strength.
UCL Department of Economics
UCL Department of Economics
In 2000, Professor James Heckman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his outstanding contributions to the fields of econometrics and microeconomics. According to the REF 2014 official ranking of UK universities [66], UCL has the highest overall research strength in economics and econometrics in the UK, with 79% of its research rated as 'world-leading', up from 69% at LSE, 56% at Oxford and 47% at Cambridge. Together with LSE, UCL represents the highest level of modern economics research in the UK [28].
UCL Department of Archaeology
UCL Department of Archaeology
Founded by the renowned archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler and located between the British Museum and the British Library, the Department of Archaeology at UCL is one of the world's leading archaeology departments, with early researchers including Gordon Child, Max Mallowen, and Catherine Kenyon, among many other prominent scholars in the field of archaeology. The Department of Archaeology at UCL is ranked first in the world in the 2017 CWUR World University Rankings for Archaeology [25] and third in the world in the 2020 QS World University Rankings, where Xia Nai, the founder of modern Chinese archaeology, also studied.
The Department of Social and Anthropological Sciences at UCL is one of the world's leading centers of anthropological research, comprising biological anthropology, social anthropology, material culture and medical anthropology, and is ranked fourth in the world in the 2020 QS World University Rankings, having produced such renowned anthropologists as Mary Leakey, Margaret Murray and Wu Dingliang, the founder of Chinese anthropology.
UCL Institute of Slavonic and East European Studies (9 photos)
The Institute of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London, the world's leading regional research institute for Central and Eastern Europe, was founded in 1915 by the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomasz Masaryk, and formally incorporated into UCL in 1999. 2004 saw the expansion of the Institute in its original location, with the then President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, attending the groundbreaking ceremony [87]. The renovation of the institution was completed in 2005 and was inaugurated by Princess Anne and the then Czech President Vaclav Klaus [88]. In the REF 2014 academic assessment report in the field of regional studies, the Faculty received the highest rating of 4* for 17 research publications [66] (LSE received 4* ratings for only 11 publications in the same field). The School's economics courses focus on the dynamics of global emerging markets and geopolitical trade and investment policies, complementing the traditional economics of the UCL Economics Department. The School offers a variety of exchange programmes with leading universities in Central and Eastern Europe. It also has one of the strongest language learning centers in the UK, offering courses in 18 languages, including Russian, Czech and Polish [89]. The School's library, with over 357,000 books and a wide range of visual materials, is a unique academic resource in the field of regional studies.
Faculty of Law
UCL Law School
Founded in 1828, UCL Law School is one of the world's leading law schools, dedicated to the study of and innovation in law, particularly the operation of law in the context of globalization. Its first Dean was John Austin, a protégé of the University's father, John Bianchin, and it has produced the first Chinese barrister in England, Ng Ting Fong, the first woman to receive a law degree in England, Eliza Orme, and Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation, and the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Baroness Hee Yee Ho, is an Honorary Professor of Law. The Times reported in 2005 that "Industry agrees that UCL Law School is the best in the UK". According to the RAE 2008 Academic Assessment Report, UCL Law School is ranked first in the UK for research and second in the UK after Cambridge University in the Times UK University Rankings 2020 and the Complete University Guide 2020.
School of Architecture
UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
UCL Bartlett School of Architecture (2 photos)
The UCL Bartlett School of Architecture (The Bartlett) is recognized as one of the world's leading and most influential schools of architecture. In the early 1990s, under the leadership of Professors Peter Cook and Peter Hall, the Bartlett's research in architecture and urban planning began to gradually build a worldwide reputation. The Bartholomew School is known worldwide for its formulation of the Space Syntax Theory (SST). In the REF 2014 official ranking of UK universities, UCL is ranked first in the UK for architecture. According to the 2017 QS World University Rankings for Architecture [64], UCL is ranked first in Europe and second in the world, after the Department of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The latest results of the 2020 QS World University Rankings by Discipline show that, despite a slight drop in the world ranking, the Barth still ranks third in the world, behind the MIT Department of Architecture and the Delft University of Technology Department of Architecture [67]. Currently, the departments and academic institutions affiliated with the Bartlett School of Architecture include: the Department of Architecture, the Department of Construction and Project Management, the Department of Development Planning, the Department of Urban Planning, the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, and related research institutes.
School of Engineering Sciences
UCL School of Engineering Sciences
UCL School of Engineering Sciences (2 photos)
With over 4,000 students and 700 full-time faculty members, the UCL School of Engineering Sciences is one of the largest schools in the university. The School's mission is to "provide research and training in all aspects of modern engineering education and will continue to provide innovative ways of transforming the world". The School was the first in the world to offer a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), established by John Ambrose Fleming, the inventor of the vacuum tube. 2009 saw the establishment of the Centre for Integrated Optoelectronic Systems, a collaboration between UCL and the University of Cambridge, to train PhDs in electrical engineering and world-class electronic research talent, which also receives funding from the UK Engineering and Natural Sciences Research Council The Centre is also supported by funding from the UK Engineering and Natural Sciences Research Council.
UCL Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The UCL Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering was founded in 1904 by John Ambrose Fleming, the inventor of the vacuum tube.
Charles Kao
Charles Kao
Former President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a distinguished Chinese scientist, Charles Kao studied in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UCL, where he received his BSc and PhD in 1957 and 1965 respectively. In 1966, Kao published his paper "Dielectric Fiber Surface Waveguides at Optical Frequencies", which pioneered the basic principles of optical fibers for communication applications. in 1996, Kao was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and later received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.
In 2016, researchers from the UCL Optical Networks Research Group broke the world record for the fastest digital signal transmission speed at the time. The group's project, entitled "Capacity Limits for Optical Transmission Systems", aims to address the growing need for high-speed data transmission speed and stability in modern society, and has so far achieved 1.125TB/s of transmission data.
UCL Department of Civil Engineering
University College London is one of the first universities in Europe to offer civil engineering courses. Currently, the Department of Civil Engineering at UCL offers the following related courses
1. Civil Engineering
2. Civil Engineering (and Environmental Systems)
3. Civil Engineering (and Geographic Information Science)
4. Civil Engineering (and Integrated Design)
5. Civil Engineering (and Seismic Design)
6. Civil Engineering (and Mapping)
7. Environmental Systems Engineering
8.GIS (Geographic Information Science)
9. Geoinformatics - Building Information Modeling
10. Spatio-temporal Analysis and Big Data Mining
UCL Department of Computing
The Department of Computing at UCL has a long-standing reputation and is ranked first in the UK for Computer Science in the official REF 2014 UK University Rankings. Demis Hassabis studied for his PhD in computational neuroscience at UCL's School of Engineering Science, and later founded the artificial intelligence company DeepMind with David Silva, the developer of AlphaGo. After becoming a lecturer in the Department of Computing at UCL, David Silva chose to continue his research by joining the Gatsby Centre for Computational Neuroscience.
Gatsby Center for Computational Neuroscience
Gatsby Centre for Computational Neuroscience
The UCL Department of Computer Science is ranked second in Europe and first in the UK overall (according to the 2016 U.S. News Global University Rankings for Computer Science). UCL also has world-leading research strengths in many cutting-edge disciplines: its Computer Science Department, Statistics Science Department, Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and Gatsby Centre for Computational Neuroscience are working closely together, enabling the university to maintain world leadership in areas such as neural network research, digital signal processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, computer graphics and human-computer interaction, and medical image information processing. UCL is a world leader in neural network research, digital signal processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, computer graphics and human-computer interaction, and medical image information processing. UCL is the first global link to the Apa network (the predecessor of the Internet) and has a strong partnership with technology giants such as Google, IBM and Microsoft.
Gatsby Center for Computational Neuroscience
Geoffrey Hinton
Jeffrey Hinton
Jeffrey Hinton is known as the "Godfather of Artificial Intelligence" and spent three years at UCL from 1998 to 2001 leading the Gatsby Center for Computational Neuroscience. He received his B.A. in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge University in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1978, and spent five years in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University after a postdoctoral research program at the University of California, San Diego. Senior Research Fellow.
National Computational Finance Centre, UK
In 2007, the Department of Computing at UCL, in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the London Business School (LBS) and 20 leading financial institutions, established the UK National Centre for Computational Finance on the campus of UCL, which received a £7 million (€8 million) investment from the UK government in its inaugural year and is the only PhD training center in computational finance in the UK. D. training center in computational finance [112] [115].
The UK National Centre for Computational Finance offers students a Masters in Computational Finance and a PhD in Financial Computing and Data Science at UCL. Industrial partners include Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Banco Santander (Banco Nacional de España), Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Bank of England, and Morgan Stanley [113-114].
School of Management
UCL School of Management
UCL School of Management
The UCL School of Management (SoM) was established on August 1, 2015, from the Department of Management Innovation under the Faculty of Engineering, also known as UCL Business School, located in Canary Wharf, London's emerging CBD. In 2016, Peking University and University College London signed a joint statement of cooperation to offer an MBA program jointly run by the National School of Development (NSD) of Peking University and the UCL School of Management [62]. NSD of Peking University is a leading economics and public policy think tank, while UCL School of Management is a leading business school focused on technology, innovation, logical analysis and entrepreneurship. As such, the program is an excellent example of how Peking University and UCL can combine their expertise to create a unique curriculum that will play an important role in nurturing the next generation of leaders and advancing China's development and transition to a knowledge-based economy [68]. Students learn to analyze, judge and interpret hard data on real-world problems, enhance their communication and leadership skills, and use mathematical modeling to predict market behavior.
The UCL faculties also offer cutting-edge courses at the intersection of finance and mathematics, computer big data and other professional fields, which are managed and administered by the course providers, including the departments of Economics, Computer Science and Mathematics, with specific specializations in Finance, Financial Risk Management, Financial Systems Engineering, Computational Finance and Financial Mathematics. The core courses include: financial mathematics, financial econometrics, advanced derivatives modeling and portfolio theory, advanced financial econometrics, big data analysis, and fixed income modeling.
UCL's finance-related programs require students to have a solid foundation of mathematical and scientific skills to perform a large amount of financial data analysis, and aim to produce outstanding talents who can specialize in products and services (generic or customized) related business in organizations including many types of banks, investment banks, hedge fund companies, asset management companies, insurance companies, credit rating agencies, securities brokers, and various small, medium and large financial companies.
School of Education
UCL School of Education
UCL Institute of Education (2 photos)
The UCL Institute of Education (IOE), formerly known as the University of London Institute of Education, was established in 1902 as a graduate school under the University of London and was formally incorporated into UCL in 2014 and renamed as the University College London Institute of Education. It is the research carrier of teacher education in Europe, with many world-class research scholars in the field of education, and topped the QS World University Rankings in education for 8 consecutive years from 2014 to 2021. Bristol, Leeds, Warwick and York combined".
School of Population Health Sciences
The aim of the UCL School of Population Health Sciences is "to contribute to the advancement of human health through excellence in teaching and research practice". The School currently excels in health science-related research, but only a small number of students are enrolled at undergraduate level.
Strengths
Academic Collaborations
University College London, together with the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College and the University of Southampton, has formed the South of Science and Engineering Consortium (SES-5), an academic research consortium that is "a consortium of ideas and research resources "It is the strongest scientific alliance in the UK and one of the leading scientific and engineering research groups in the world [81].
The Institute of Slavic and East European Studies at University College London works closely with world-leading universities such as the Russian State Higher University of Economics, the University of Prague, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Tartu, aiming to delve into the regional influence of geopolitical, economic, cultural, linguistic, and historical elements.
Thomas Young Center for Materials Science
Thomas Young Center for Materials Science
The Thomas Young Centre for Materials Science, established at University College London in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory, Imperial College and King's College London, currently has over 100 research teams working in the fields of physics, materials science, chemistry, earth sciences, biology and engineering [82].
The School of Management at University College London (UCL) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Peking University to offer a joint program (the Peking University International MBA, a joint program between Peking University's National School of Development (NSD) and the UCL School of Management (SoM)) [83]. In addition, UCL has extensive teaching and research collaborations with Peking University in a variety of disciplines, including medicine, computer science, urban planning, and language education.
In addition to the above, UCL has also established academic exchanges with many world-class institutions of higher learning, including Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial College, University of Tokyo, National Taiwan University, University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University, where students can participate in exchange programs to obtain joint degrees [84].
Faculty
Petro Boselli
Petro Boselli
As of 2018, UCL has over 7,000 teaching and research staff, and its professoriate includes 51 Fellows of the Royal Society, 15 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 121 Fellows of the British Academy of Medical Sciences, and 56 Fellows of the British Academy of Social Sciences.
UCL's teaching and research staff and alumni have produced 35 Nobel Prize winners [30] (19 of whom were Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine) and three Fields Medal winners [31], with the most recent major winners being Professor John O'Keefe (Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 2014) and Roger Penrose (Nobel Prize in physics 2020).
In addition, Petro Boselli, who has been described as "the most handsome and sexy mathematics teacher in the world", was also a lecturer in mathematics at the UCL School of Engineering Sciences [85].
Budget
Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, IC, LSE, and KCL are known as the "Golden Triangle" [10], meaning they receive the most government funding each year. According to the 2019-2020 education funding list published by the UK government, UCL receives the highest research funding in the UK at £306 million, while the other five schools receive £305 million for research at Oxford, £265 million at Imperial College, £232 million at Cambridge, £194 million at King's College London, and £1 million at London School of Economics and Political Science due to its smaller and specific type of research funding of £26.6 million [19] .
In 2014-15, UCL's net income exceeded £1.2 billion, and its main source of income was from research (£370 million, the second highest in the UK). in 2016, the Higher Education Funding Council for England allocated £170 million to support UCL's teaching and research activities, the highest amount for any HEI in England [18].
The University College London Partnership, led by UCL, is one of the first worldwide and largest healthcare science centers in the UK, with an annual turnover of £2 billion [20]. In addition, UCL is one of the 11 biomedical research sites established by the NHS in the UK.
Faculties and departments