University College London
State/government Individual Office
Barbados Sir Elliott Belgrave Governor-General ( 2011- )
Barbados Sir Bernard St. John Prime Minister ( 1985-1986 )
Commonwealth of Nations Baroness Patricia Scotland Secretary General ( 2016- )
Council of Europe Terry Davis Secretary General ( 2004-2009 )
Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades ( Νίκος Αναστασιάδης ) President ( 2013- )
Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk First President ( 1918-1935 )
Ghana Kwame Nkrumah First Prime Minister of the Gold Coast , first Prime Minister , first President ( 1952-1966 )
Israel Chaim Herzog ( חיים הרצוג ) President ( 1983-1993 )
Japan Itō Hirobumi ( 伊藤 博文 ) First Prime Minister ( 1885-1888 , 1892-1896 , 1898 , 1900-1901 )
Japan Junichiro Koizumi ( 小泉純一郎 ) Prime Minister ( 2001-2006 )
Kenya Jomo Kenyatta First Prime Minister , first President ( 1963-1978 )
Mauritius Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Chief Minister of British Mauritius , first Prime Minister ( 1961-1982 ) , Governor-General ( 1983-1985 )
Nigeria Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa First Prime Minister ( 1960-1966 )
Queensland Sir Charles Lilley Premier ( 1868-1870 )
Republic of China Wu Tingfang ( 伍廷芳 ) Premier ( 1917 )
Romania Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu Prime Minister ( 2012 )
Saint Lucia Sir Vincent Floissac Governor-General ( 1987-1988 )
Trinidad and Tobago Sir Ellis Clarke Governor-General , first President ( 1972-1987 )
Turks and Caicos Islands Martin Bourke Governor ( 1993-1996 )
Uganda Benedicto Kiwanuka Chief Minister of the Uganda Protectorate ( 1961-1962 ) , first Prime Minister ( 1962 )
Notable people -- Heads of state , government and international organisations
Itō Hirobumi Jomo Kenyatta Junichiro Koizumi Tomáš G. Masaryk Kwame Nkrumah
University College London, which has operated under the official name of UCL since 2005, is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. It is a member institution of the federal University of London, and is the third largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment, and the largest by postgraduate enrolment. Established in 1826 as London University by founders inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham, UCL was the first university institution to be established in London, and the first in England to be entirely secular and to admit students regardless of their religion. UCL also makes the contested claims of being the third-oldest university in England[note 1] and the first to admit women. [note 2] In 1836 UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London, which was granted a royal charter in the same year. It has grown through mergers, including with the Institute of Neurology (in 1997), the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (in 1998), the Eastman Dental Institute (in 1999), the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (in 1999), the School of Pharmacy (in 2012) and the Institute of Education (in 2014). UCL has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London and satellite campuses in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London and in Doha, Qatar. UCL is organised into 11 constituent faculties, within which there are over 100 departments, institutes and research centres. UCL operates several museums and collections in a wide range of fields, including the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, and administers the annual Orwell Prize in political writing. In 2017/18, UCL had around 41,500 students and 15,100 staff (including around 7,100 academic staff and 840 professors) and had a total group income of £1.45 billion, of which £476.3 million was from research grants and contracts. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework rankings for research power, UCL was the top-rated university in the UK as calculated by Times Higher Education, and second as calculated by The Guardian/Research Fortnight. UCL had the 9th highest average entry tariff in the UK for students starting in 2017.