Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom
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Science, Social & Cultural Studies and Engineering, Computing & Mathematics units only.
City Population: 7,172,091 University Location: Bloomsbury, London Enrollment: 19,000 Standard Course Load: 4.0 course unit value (CU) per year
ABOUT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON . Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Just 175 years ago, the benefits of a university education . Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in England were restricted to men who were members of . Division of Biosciences, the Church of England; UCL was founded to challenge . Department of Geography, that discrimination. UCL was the first university to be . Institute of Archaeology, established in England after Oxford and Cambridge, . Division of Psychology & Language Studies. providing a progressive alternative to those institutions’ social exclusivity, religious restrictions and academic Please note that students must stay for a full year if they constraints. The university's main building was designed are from: by William Wilkins who went on to build the National . Civil & Environmental Engineering Gallery. . Electronic & Electrical Engineering . Genetics UCL is the largest of over 50 colleges and institutes which . Pharmacology make up the federal University of London. These . Physiology institutions range in size from small specialised institutes to large multi-faculty colleges, such as UCL, King's Students from the following disciplines can apply for a full College, and Queen Mary and Westfield College, each of year or Spring & Summer Term only (no Autumn starts): which can be compared with many universities in the rest . Anatomy & Developmental Biology of the UK. . Biochemistry & Molecular Biology . Immunology & Molecular Pathology UCL is consistently ranked in the top 25 universities in the . Statistical Science world, and in the top three multi-faculty universities in the . Mechanical, Biochemical & Chemical Engineering UK. may consider students for less than 1 year.
COURSES AVAILABLE For a full list of available courses please go to: Students will be expected to follow a programme of www.ucl.ac.uk/sag courses taught within Note, courses that fall within the Bartlett School of The area contains some of London's finest parks and Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and buildings, including the large and orderly garden at Planning is not open to exchange students. Russell Square, the smaller one at Bedford Square (built between 1775-1783), the main buildings of the University UCL has a policy of keeping Wednesday afternoons free of London and one of its colleges, University College of teaching, so every student has an opportunity to London, and the British Museum. The British Library is engage in some sporting, cultural or voluntary activity. located on the edge of Bloomsbury, on the north side of Euston Road. SEMESTER DATES Autumn Term – September to December Nearby areas include Camden Town and King's Cross to Spring Term – January to March the north, Fitzrovia to the west, Clerkenwell to the east Summer Term – April to June and Holborn and Soho to the south. NB Students are NOT admitted for the Spring Term only or the Bloomsbury is served by numerous tube stations: Euston, Summer Term only Euston Square, Goodge Street, Warren Street, Tottenham Court Road, Russell Square and King's Cross Exchange students are expected to commence their St. Pancras. The mainline rail stations Euston, King's studies at the beginning of the academic year in Cross and St. Pancras are all located on the northern September (for either the Autumn term only or full edge of Bloomsbury. It is also home to the disused British academic year) or in January for the Spring and Summer Museum tube station. Terms. If you want to study in the reverse academic year i.e. begin in Spring and finish at the end of Autumn you ABOUT LONDON will need to submit two application forms. The capital is the home to the top theatres and cinemas, music venues of every description, national museums HEALTH INSURANCE and art galleries; there is every possible kind of pub, bar, UWA has insurance to cover its outgoing exchange restaurant, shop and club together with a wealth of leisure students: UWA Corporate Personal and Travel Policy. It and sporting opportunities. There are five symphony is usually accepted by the host universities as primary orchestras, two opera houses and, during the year, insurance. However, the UCL will advise you if you need performances by a wide range of contemporary and world to take out additional insurance music artists.
HOUSING London’s facilities for study and leisure cannot be UCL owns a number of student Houses and Halls of matched by any other city in Britain. The British Library Residence which together with Intercollegiate Halls and the British Museum are close to UCL. The great (owned by the University of London) provide places for museums and art galleries (the Science Museum, the 4,000 students. The majority of this accommodation Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the takes the form of single or shared study-bedrooms. new and spectacular Tate Modern) are within 20 minutes College Halls differ from College Houses in that some by Underground. Many museums are also free! meals are provided in the former but not the latter. All College halls and Houses cater for both men and women. London is also a world centre for commerce and industry; Of the Intercollegiate Halls, one is specifically for women creating valuable student opportunities for future students only. employment. Much of London is free to the visitor, and all of it is within easy reach on foot or by public transport. UCL guarantees housing to all full year study-abroad Londoners relish their role as citizens of one of the most students who, prior to 31 May in any year, apply for important and historic cities in the world, yet its centre is accommodation and who have firmly accepted their offer only 96.5 kms from the South Coast and just as close to of admission to the College by that date. Students who some of the most beautiful countryside in England. come for less than a full year will be considered for housing, but this cannot be guaranteed. UCL students have the best of both worlds; all the fun and fulfilment of a bustling, busy city existence, with the The University of London Housing Services maintains a availability of pastoral peace and tranquillity of the parks register of lodgings, furnished rooms and apartments close at hand. Despite the size of its student body, UCL suitable for student accommodation. It also provides an occupies a relatively compact area within the university advice service and assistance to students who are quarter of London in a peaceful setting of academic and seeking private accommodation. professional institutions.
Overseas student should note that College-owned and OTHER INFORMATION University-owned accommodation is generally Read the UCL section in the blue files in the Study considerably cheaper than private accommodation. Abroad Office. You will find some very useful information from returned UWA students. ABOUT BLOOMSBURY Bloomsbury is an area of central London, in the Borough CONTACTS of Camden, named after early landowner William de http://www.international.uwa.edu.au/se/welcome Blemund who acquired the land in 1201. Tel: 6488 8199 [email protected] 2