About King's College London
Our relationship with King's
We are legally separate from King's College London. We are a separately registered charity and company limited by guarantee with our own trustee board. We employ our own staff, set our own strategy and are responsible for our own operations.
However we share much with College:
- They are our primary funder (£3.04m for 2011/12)
- They are our landlord for our facilities (3758m2 across three sites)
- We exist for the same people: our members are their 23,000 registered students
- We work together on a number of joint initiatives and programmes
We act as partner service provider, user representative and critical friend to ensure that together every student has a great experience at King's
King's College London
King's College London is one of the top 25 universities in the world (2010 QS international world rankings), the Sunday Times 'University of the Year 2010/11' and the fourth oldest in England. A research-led university based in the heart of London, it has nearly 23,500 students (of whom nearly 9,000 are graduate students) from 150 countries and approximately 6,000 employees.
King's has an outstanding reputation for providing world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for British universities, 23 departments were ranked in the top quartile of British universities; over half of our academic staff work in departments that are in the top 10 per cent in the UK in their field and can thus be classed as world leading. The College is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of nearly £450 million.
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 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. It is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe; no university has more Medical Research Council Centres.
King's has four Thames-side campuses within a single square mile in the heart of London, together with the Institute of Psychiatry and some of the rest of the College's biomedical research and teaching at the Denmark Hill Campus in south London.
Further information including the strategic plan for 2006 -2016 can be found at www.kcl.ac.uk/