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| King's College London |
King's College London
(informally King's or KCL; formerly styled King's College, London) is a public
research university situated in London, UK, and a constituent college of the
federal University of London. King's was founded in 1829 by King George IV and
the Duke of Wellington and received its royal charter in the same year, making
it arguably the third-oldest university in England. King's became one of the
two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836[7][8][9] and has
grown through mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea
College of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in
1997), and the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas'
Hospitals and Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998).
King's has become the largest centre for graduate and post-graduate medical
teaching and biomedical research in Europe as per number of students and is
regarded as one of the leading multidisciplinary research universities in the
world.



