What kind of school is UCL?

University College London (UCL) was founded in 1826 London, England. It is a world-famous top institution of higher learning, the founding institution of the London University Alliance, and a famous school in the British Golden Triangle. It is also called G5 Super Elite University with Cambridge University, Oxford University, Imperial College London and London School of Economics. The university is the first university in London, one of the most difficult universities in Britain, ranking among the top ten universities in the world and the top four universities in Britain. The school owns leading scientific research institutions such as National Medical Research Center, Space Exploration Laboratory and Gatsby Center for Computational Neuroscience, and has trained 33 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Fields Prize winners and many celebrities in the fields of science, politics and culture, such as Gao Kun, the father of optical fiber, and Alexander, the father of telephone. Belotto, the father of nuclear chemistry? Hahn, the father of molecular biology of DNA discoverer Francis? Crick, wait.

University College London has not only the world's leading schools of medicine, economics, architecture and engineering science, but also made 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, chemistry and chemical engineering, civil engineering, law, geography, education, social and humanities. At the beginning of the college, there were medical college, mathematical science college, engineering science college and social science college, and then it gradually expanded to 1 1 college.

University College London is the largest comprehensive research university in Britain with the widest range of disciplines. The application conditions of its dominant disciplines are very strict, the proportion of first-class degrees awarded is very small, and the annual elimination rate is very eye-catching. It is one of the universities with the highest admission standards in the UK.

University College London established Britain's first economics department, which is recognized as a world leader in related fields. According to the British official academic ranking REF 2065 438+04, the comprehensive research strength of economics and econometrics of University College London ranks first in Britain, and 79% of its research is rated as? World leader? , higher than the London School of Economics (69%), Oxford University (56%) and Cambridge University (47%). University College London and London School of Economics and Political Science represent the highest level of economic research in Britain today.