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King's College London
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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
located in
London
,
United Kingdom
, 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 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.
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