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ING’S COLLEGE LONDON IS one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the

oldest in England. It has more than 26,500 students (of whom nearly 10,400 are graduate students) from more than 150 countries worldwide, and some 7,000 staff. King’s has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. It was ranked sixth nationally in the ‘power’ ranking in the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework, and is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings (over £171 million in 2013-14). It has an overall annual income of more than £600 million.

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King’s in brief

KING’S WAS RANKED 16th IN THE WORLD in the 2014 QS World University Rankings, rising by three

places. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) 84 per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*).

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 in 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 is one of the most successful higher education institutions in attracting funding from the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health Research, with five Medical Research Council Centres. It is part of King’s Health Partners, the UK’s largest and recently-reaccredited Academic Health Sciences Centre, in partnership with the leading NHS Foundation Trusts of Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and the South London and Maudsley; see www.kingshealthpartners.org. It is also a founder member of the Francis Crick Institute, an interdisciplinary medical research institute bringing together six of the UK’s most successful scientific and academic organisations to help understand why disease develops and find new ways to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, infections and neurodegenerative diseases.

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King’s history

KING’S COLLEGE LONDON WAS FOUNDED by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829.

When the University of London was established in 1836, King’s became one of its two founding colleges. King’s has grown through many mergers, including those with the King’s 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 Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals in 1998.

These mergers have brought institutions with their own distinguished reputations and traditions into King’s. The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience is closely associated with the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust which includes the famous Bethlem Hospital dating from the 13th century. The original King’s 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 Guy’s since the early 18th century. King’s Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery is directly descended from the world’s first professional school of nursing, founded by Nightingale in 1860.

While remaining part of the University of London, King’s has enjoyed financial and academic autonomy since 1994. Since 2008 it has awarded its own degrees.

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King’s campaign

KING’S PUBLICLY LAUNCHED the World questions KING’S answers campaign in November 2010, with the

goal of raising £500 million by the end of 2015. Thanks to the generosity of alumni, friends and supporters around the world, that goal was reached a year and a half ahead of schedule. King’s now hopes to raise a further £100 million by the end of the campaign, to support research and teaching addressing some of the world’s most challenging problems, particularly in the areas of cancer, child health, neuroscience and mental health, leadership and society, and the emerging world order.

King’s Futures

THE KING’S FUTURES PROGRAMME, launched in September 2014 by the President & Principal to refresh

and transform King’s strategy, seeks to build on the success of the last 10 years in order to help the university adapt to changing circumstances and to ensure that King’s delivers outstanding research and education. A fusion of existing and new strategic initiatives will place King’s unambiguously among the very greatest of the world’s universities.

The range of new academic initiatives under consideration includes developing research and education in business and technology; growing King’s strength in the exact sciences, and offering more programmes using distance learning technologies. King’s Futures will also ensure that the university further advances international relationships and partnerships, and that it offers students and staff a genuinely international experience in the heart of London.

King’s Futures will also build on and complement a range of existing major initiatives at the university, such as developing student accommodation and teaching and social space, in particular at the Strand Campus, and continuing proactively to promote equality and diversity amongst staff and students.

From autumn 2016 King’s will begin to occupy the Aldwych Quarter: four iconic and recently refurbished buildings, formerly known as the Bush House Complex, next to the Strand Campus. The world-class facilities in the former headquarters of the BBC World Service will help to consolidate King’s position as a global university.

Research by King’s, supported by the campaign, has identified the gene for motor neurone disease. Linda’s son was the first child in the UK conceived as a result of preimplantation genetic diagnosis for this disease.

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A tradition of excellence

OVER THE CENTURIES, King’s and its constituent institutions have been associated

with some of the greatest innovators of their time. In the 19th century these included Sir Charles Lyell, founder of modern geology; Sir Charles Wheatstone, pioneer of current electricity and wireless telegraphy; Thomas Hodgkin, Thomas Addison and Richard Bright: distinguished doctors who identified the diseases named after them; physicist James Clerk Maxwell, Einstein’s predecessor in electromagnetism and relativity; Florence Nightingale, founder of the world’s first professional school of nursing, and Lord Lister, who established antiseptic surgery.

Twentieth-century achievers include Chaudry Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, one of the founders of Pakistan and its first minister of foreign affairs; Oscar-winning actress and film-star Greer Garson; Sir Ivison Macadam, founder of the National Union of Students, and Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement.

Among the many writers educated at King’s are Romantic poet John Keats (once a medical student at Guy’s), WS Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Derek Jarman and Dannie Abse.

Nobel laureatesTwelve Nobel Prizes are associated with King’s and its constituent institutions, including two Nobels

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awarded in 2013 to King’s alumni Professor Peter Higgs, for the discovery of the mechanism of the Higgs boson, and Professor Michael Levitt, for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. Other King’s Nobel laureates include Professor Sir James Black, inventor of beta blockers and anti-ulcer drugs, and Professor Maurice Wilkins who, with Dr Rosalind Franklin and other King’s colleagues, played a major part in the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Current alumniKing’s current alumni include Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu; Nobel Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa; Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester; writers Susan Hill, Alain de Botton, Hanif Kureishi and Michael Morpurgo; leading business figures including Sir Deryck Maughan and Rory Tapner; composer Michael Nyman, conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and musicians John Deacon of Queen and Kele Okereke of Bloc Party; Naveen Selvadurai, founder of the mobile social networking venture Foursquare; members of the House of Commons, House of Lords and of the Judiciary; impressionist and political satirist Rory Bremner, and Olympic Gold medal-winner Dr Katherine Grainger CBE.

Professor Sir Charles Lyell

Most Reverend Desmond Tutu

Professor James Clerk Maxwell

Dr Rosalind Franklin

Professor Richard Bright

Virginia Woolf

Florence Nightingale

Professor Peter Higgs

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King’s Worldwide

KING’S IS A WORLD-LEADING INSTITUTION with a truly global perspective. It has:

• a School of Global Affairs comprising a network of Global Institutes to promote understanding of fast-changing parts of the world and encourage engagement with 21st-century powers. These include King’s Brazil Institute; the Lau China Institute; King’s India Institute; the Institute of North American Studies; King’s Russia Institute; King’s African Leadership Centre, King’s International Development Institute

• the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Centre for Mexican Studies at King’s

• over 200 partnerships and innovative collaborations with leading universities and institutions across the globe, including key relationships with the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Hong Kong; Jawaharlal Nehru University; the National University of Singapore; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Renmin University of China; the University of São Paulo; Peking University Health Sciences Center and Georgetown University

• joint PhD programmes, involving more than 20 academic departments across King’s, with the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, Humboldt University, the University of Stuttgart, the University of Göttingen, the University of São Paulo and Université Paris-Sorbonne

• offices in Brazil, China, India, and the USA: part of a global network that will develop deeper relationships with local

research, commercial, student and alumni communities in these key countries and regions

• training programmes for students and staff in 29 foreign languages

• more than 9,300 international students from some 150 countries (including the EU), making up over 35 per cent of the total student body

• 1,479 academic and research staff from outside the UK, from 84 different countries, representing more than 40 per cent of the academic staff

• more than 48,000 international alumni in 174 countries worldwide, with the largest groups in the USA, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, France, Canada, Malaysia, Australia and the Republic of Ireland

• delivered overseas undergraduate summer schools in Delhi, Mumbai and Jakarta in 2014 alongside the flagship summer schools in London

• delivered professional development for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s prestigious Chevening Gurukul and Parliamentarians programmes

• been instrumental in promoting academic excellence and co-operation between European universities as the UK member of the Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA)

• received more than £57 million in international research grants in 2014: an increase of over 24 per cent on 2013

• offered 1,272 of its students the opportunity to go abroad for part of their study in 2014.

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At the heart of London

K ING’S HAS FOUR THAMES-SIDE CAMPUSES within a single square mile in the heart of London,

together with a major presence at Denmark Hill in South London in the form of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, and of biomedical research and teaching at King’s College Hospital.

King’s uses its location to build and consolidate partnerships with many key cultural, political, professional and business entities and communities in the capital. The Cultural Institute at King’s connects the university with practitioners, producers, policy makers and participants across arts and culture, in London and beyond, creating space where conventions are challenged and original perspectives emerge.

King’s central London location and its wide network of connections attract many eminent visitors and speakers. Visitors in 2013-14 included the Secretary of State for Education, Nicky Morgan MP; US Ambassador to the UK, Matthew Barzun; former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan; Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies; comedian Jo Brand FKC; Monty Python stars Terry Jones and John Cleese; leading international architect Lord (Richard) Rogers; editor, author and historian Sir Max Hastings, and business leaders including Cath Kidston MBE, Roger Saul (founder of Mulberry), Dr Ulrich Bez (CEO of Aston Martin) and Richard Reed (founder of Innocent Smoothies).

Strand Campus

The Maughan Library

Guy’s Campus

Waterloo Campus

St Thomas’ Campus

Denmark Hill Campus

Denmark Hill Campus lies 2.3 miles due south of the Guy’s Campus

Strand Campus

The Maughan Library

Guy’s Campus

Waterloo Campus

St Thomas’ Campus

Denmark Hill Campus

Denmark Hill Campus lies 2.3 miles due south of the Guy’s Campus

King’s Defence Studies Department provides academic support to the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) in Shrivenham, Wiltshire and to the London-based Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS). See www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/departments/dsd

Senior officers of King’s at January 2015

Chairman of CouncilThe Duke of Wellington MA OBE DL

President & PrincipalProfessor Edward Byrne AC

Vice-PrincipalsProfessor Sir Robert Lechler KBE PhD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FKC(and Executive Director of King’s Health Partners)

Mr Chris Mottershead BSc MSc

Dr Joanna Newman MBE BA MA PhD FRSA Professor Karen O’Brien MA DPhil FRSA

Professor Evelyn Welch MBE BA PhD FRHS FRSA

Deputy Vice-Principal (Health) and Dean and Head of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & NeuroscienceProfessor Shitij Kapur MBBS PhD FMedSci

Head of Administration & College SecretaryMr Ian Creagh BA Dip Ed MA FKC

Dean of the CollegeThe Revd Canon Professor Richard Burridge MA PhD FKC

Looking east from Waterloo Bridge.

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Facts & figures

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Student numbers by faculty and level of study Headcount on 1 December 2014

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Nobel Prizewinner and King’s alumnus Professor Michael Levitt (right) with President & Principal Professor Edward Byrne AC in November 2014, when Professor Levitt received an honorary doctorate of King’s.

Faculty Campus UNDER-GRADUATE

POSTGRADUATE TOTAL % of totalTaught Research

Arts & Humanities Strand 3,317 1,047 582 4,946 19%

Dental Institute Guy’s, Strand, Denmark Hill, Waterloo, St Thomas’

729 393 112 1,234 5%

English Language Centre

Strand 234 0 0 234 1%

Global Centres & Institutes

45 178 95 318 1%

King's Learning Institute

0 253 10 263 1%

The Dickson Poon School of Law

Strand 884 861 54 1,799 7%

Life Sciences & Medicine

Guy’s, St Thomas’, Denmark Hill, Waterloo

4,439 1,031 629 6,099 23%

Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Strand 1,537 341 218 2,096 8%

Nursing & Midwifery

Waterloo 2,124 693 38 2,855 11%

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Denmark Hill 33 697 437 1,167 4%

Social Science & Public Policy

Waterloo, Strand 2,297 2,089 565 4,951 19%

Incoming Study Abroad Students*

Strand, Waterloo 485 57 5 547 2%

Total postgraduates 10,385

GRAND TOTAL 16,124 7,640 2,745 26,509 100%

* The full-year enrolment for Incoming Study Abroad Students in 2014-15 is 888.

Number of students Total % of total

Gender UNDERGRADUATE POSTGRADUATE

Taught Research

Female 10,160 4,753 1,455 16,368 62%

Male 5,962 2,879 1,287 10,128 38%

Undisclosed 2 8 3 13 0%

GRAND TOTAL 16,124 7,640 2,745 26,509 100%

Student numbers by age at start of programme 2014-15

Number of students Total % of total

Age UNDERGRADUATE POSTGRADUATE

Taught Research

20 and under 12,168 58 – 12,226 46%

21 to 29 2,959 5,147 1,654 9,760 37%

30 to 39 611 1,579 764 2,954 11%

40 to 49 295 620 216 1,131 4%

50 and over 90 234 111 435 2%

Undisclosed 1 2 0 3 0%

GRAND TOTAL 16,124 7,640 2,745 26,509 100%

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Student numbers by gender 2014-15

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Members of staff on 1 January 2015 excluding senior students, dormant, honorary and occasional staff.

Faculty Academic and research staff

Other staff

Number of employees

Arts & Humanities 366 322 688

Dental Institute 279 106 385

The Dickson Poon School of Law 75 82 157

Life Sciences & Medicine 1,298 506 1,804

Natural & Mathematical Sciences 202 88 290

Nursing & Midwifery 119 68 187

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

865 284 1,149

Social Science & Public Policy 401 202 603

Professional Services 44 1,588 1,632

GRAND TOTAL 3,649 3,246 6,895

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The Maughan Library, Chancery Lane, Strand Campus.

Number of students Total % of total

Domicile UNDER-GRADUATE

POSTGRADUATE

Taught Research

United Kingdom 11,377 4,300 1,516 17,193 65%

European Union 1,951 1,126 482 3,559 13%

Other International 2,786 2,208 747 5,741 22%

Undisclosed 10 6 0 16 0%

TOTAL 16,124 7,640 2,745 26,509 100%

Students’ country of domicile 2014-15 King’s has a strong international community including students from some 150 countries worldwide.

INCOME £000

Funding body grants 122,426

Tuition fees and education contracts 201,076

Research grants and contracts 171,547

Other operating income 102,845

Endowment and investment income 5,774

TOTAL INCOME 603,668

EXPENDITURE

Staff costs 376,770

Other operating expenses 189,880

Depreciation 26,946

Interest payable 12,213

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 605,809

(Deficit)/surplus on ordinary activities (2,141)

Taxation –

(Deficit)/surplus on ordinary activities after taxation (2,141)

Receipts from property transactions 5,963

Profit on sale of shares –

Surplus after depreciation of assets at cost and tax 3,822

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FinancesConsolidated income & expenditure accountfor the year ended 31 July 2014. King’s credit rating was confirmed by Standard & Poor’s as ‘AA/stable’ for 2014.

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Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus.

How to contact King’s

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Main telephone switchboard+44 (0)20 7836 5454www.kcl.ac.uk

Main address & Strand CampusFaculties of Arts & Humanities, Natural & Mathematical Sciences, Social Science & Public Policy and The Dickson Poon School of LawStrand, London WC2R 2LSThe Maughan LibraryChancery Lane, London WC2A 1LRFaculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Science & Public PolicyVirginia Woolf Building,22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE

Waterloo CampusPrincipal’s Office, Professional Services, and Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & MidwiferyJames Clerk Maxwell Building,57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WAFaculties of Life Sciences & Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery and Social Science & Public Policy (Departments of Management and of Education & Professional Studies)Franklin-Wilkins Building,Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH

Denmark Hill CampusDental InstituteKing’s College London, Bessemer Road,London SE5 9RWInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience16 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill,London SE5 8AF

Faculty of Life Sciences & MedicineWeston Education Centre,10 Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ

Guy’s CampusFaculty of Life Sciences & MedicineKing’s College LondonFirst floor, Hodgkin BuildingGuy’s Campus, London SE1 1ULDental InstituteCentral Office, Floor 18, Tower Wing,Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RTKing’s Health PartnersGround Floor, Counting House,Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RTTel: +44 (0)20 7188 8794

St Thomas’ CampusDental Institute and Faculty of Life Sciences & MedicineKing’s College London,St Thomas’ Campus,Westminster Bridge Road,London SE1 7EHDefence Studies DepartmentKing’s College London, Joint ServicesCommand and Staff CollegeFaringdon Road, ShrivenhamSwindon, Wilts SN6 8TSTel: +44 (0)1793 788746King’s College London Students’ UnionMacadam Building, Surrey Street,London WC2R 2NSTel +44 (0)20 7848 1588

For other King’s addressesincluding halls of residence, seewww.kcl.ac.uk

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