UCL maintains 4th place in QS World University Rankings

UCL has maintained fourth place - its highest ever position - in the annual QS World University Rankings, published today. The university is second among UK universities, placing it second behind the University of Cambridge, and ahead of the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. Welcoming the news, Professor Malcolm Grant, UCL President and Provost, said: 'We do not, of course, claim that the methodology is rigorous, but this result nonetheless captures very accurately the enormous strength of this great institution.'  - UCL context. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) UCL was rated the best research university in London, and third in the UK overall, for the number of its submissions which were considered of 'world-leading quality'. UCL's 11 associated teaching hospitals ' which include the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the Royal Free Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital - provide Londoners with first-rate healthcare as well as contribute to major advances in medical research. Our academic community includes 36 fellows of the Royal Society, 26 Fellows of the British Academy, 10 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and 78 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 21 former academics and graduates.