Overview
UCL was founded in 1826. It was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine.
UCL is among the world’s top universities, as reflected by performance in a range of international rankings and tables. UCL currently has over 35,000 students from 150 countries and over 11,000 staff. UCL’s annual income is more than £1 billion.
MOOCs
UCL have partnered with FutureLearn to deliver online courses to learners across the globe.
Learn new skills, pursue your interests or advance your career with these short online courses from UCL:
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Learn new skills, pursue your interests or advance your career with these short online courses from UCL:
Click on a course title to go to the course page
- Perioperative Medicine in Action
- The Many Faces of Dementia
- Making Babies in the 21st Century
- Global Prosperity Beyond GDP
- Key Ideas in Mentoring Mathematics Teachers
- Introduction to GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
- Airway Matters
- Community Based Research: Getting Started
- Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives
- Development and Planning in African Cities: Exploring theories, policies and practices from Sierra Leone
- Transforming Education in Challenging Environments
- Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media
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