UCL is consistently ranked among the top 10 universities in the world. In 2024 it was also named The Times and Sunday Times University of the Year. Since 1826, it has championed independent thought and broken boundaries to make a positive impact in London and across the globe. It was the first university to welcome students of all faiths and the first in England to welcome women to university education.
UCL’s new campus at East Bank on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is the biggest development in the university's nearly 200-year history, giving it the scale and space it needs to find solutions to the biggest problems facing the planet. Students and staff collaborate with local communities and businesses in cutting edge new centres specialising in ecology, robotics, engineering, urbanism, culture, disability, heritage, technology and health.
UCL East’s One Pool Street base is full of multidisciplinary research labs and studios with a lecture theatre doubling as a cinema, a café and homes for more than 500 students. Marshgate includes eight floors of hi- tech research labs, workshops, collaboration spaces, a riverside café and a library. The campus is sustainable, accessible and open to the public with exhibition spaces and specially commissioned art by local artists.
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