{"id":1050,"date":"2024-06-25T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T07:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2024-06-25T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:33:55","slug":"interesting-facts-about-university-collgege-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/interesting-facts-about-university-collgege-london\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things You Must Know About University College London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">University College London is the largest higher university in London. It is one of the most highly reputed <strong>universities in the world<\/strong> and has produced many famous personalities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">As it\u2019s situated in the UK, a land of many prestigious educational institutions and universities, it\u2019s often overlooked and shadowed by several other famous institutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Some Interesting Facts About <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">University College London<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>One University, Many Campuses<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Founded in 1826, the <strong>University College London<\/strong> was started as a secular educational institution. It saw several mergers with other establishments and today, it has campuses in Adelaide, Australia, and Doha, Qatar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Its main campus is located in the Bloomsbury area of central London.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\" start=\"2\">\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>11 Faculties, 100 Departments<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">University College London is known for offering a huge number of courses for its students. The university has 11 constituent faculties, in which there are more than 100 departments, institutes, and research centres. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">With so many campuses it surely is taking education from London worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\" start=\"3\">\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Not A Museum, Museums!<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">UCL is famous for the special and historical collections, manuscripts, and other rare artefacts it has conserved. It has 9 museums of which the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy are quite famous. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">With such great museums, it definitely is one of the best colleges in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\" start=\"4\">\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Students &amp; Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">UCL is large not only in terms of courses and campuses; it also has a huge number of students and staff. For the academic year 2014-15, 36,000 students enrolled in UCL were taught and guided by a workforce of 11,000 staff. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Which college in London can boast of such high numbers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s the virtual tour of UCL!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tour of UCL | University College London\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eLSEC7SfWmA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\" start=\"5\">\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Famous Alumni<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">University College London<\/span>\u00a0has produced many remarkable personalities who went on to become visionaries of their eras. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">The famous Indian reformer and freedom fighter <strong>Mahatma Gandhi<\/strong>, the inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell, the famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore and even the renowned movie director Christopher Nolan all studied at UCL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>33 alumni of UCL went on to win Nobel Prizes in various fields.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/top-alumni-tips-for-excelling-in-final-exams-proven-strategies-for-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Want to get inspired by Alumni? Read More.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>UCL in movies<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Several movies and television productions have been shot at UCL.\u00a0 Some of them are <em>Doctor in the House <\/em>(1954), <em>Gladiator<\/em> (2000), <em>The Mummy Returns <\/em>(2001), <em>The Dark Knight <\/em>(2008) and <em>Inception<\/em> (2010). In fiction, Lara Croft of <em>Tomb Raider <\/em>has also been described as a graduate of UCL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, now you know all the fun facts about University College London. Start preparing for admission. 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