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    United Kingdom
    Country in Europe
  2. The U.K., made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is an island nation in northwestern Europe. England – birthplace of Shakespeare and The Beatles – is home to the capital, London, a globally influential centre of finance and culture. England is also site of neolithic Stonehenge, Bath’s Roman spa and centuries-old universities at Oxford and Cambridge.
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  2. Capital: London
  3. Dialing code: +44
  4. Population: 64.1 million (2013) World Bank
  5. Minimum wage: 1,378.87 EUR per month (Jan 2015) Eurostat
  6. Queen: Elizabeth II
  7. Gross domestic product: 2.678 trillion USD (2013) World Bank

  8. Major universities[edit]

    King's College London, established by Royal Charter having been founded by King George IV and Duke of Wellington in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London.
    Entrance to Imperial College London

    Key (lower numbers are better):

    Note: Birkbeck, University of London is excluded from most university rankings because the tables are based on full-time undergraduates, and Birkbeck has only part-time undergraduate students.

    University GUG TUG CUG UoL AMBA EQUIS QS THE IUG RG
    University of the Arts London 31 77 66       N/A      
    Birkbeck, University of London N/A N/A N/A Yes     374 149    
    Brunel University 52 46 47   Yes   360 301 to 350    
    City University, London 35 43 40   Yes Yes 347 -    
    University of East London 109 120 122       701+      
    Goldsmiths, University of London 48 48 50 Yes     461 to 470 -    
    University of Greenwich 87 101 99       701+      
    Imperial College London 5 5 6 a Yes Yes 5 8   Yes
    King's College London 40 27 28 Yes     19 38   Yes
    Kingston University 98 111 107   Yes   471 to 480      
    London Metropolitan University 116 121 123       651 to 700      
    London School of Economics 7 3 3 Yes     68 39   Yes
    London South Bank University 112 118 120       N/A -    
    Middlesex University 86 94 94   Yes Yes 651 to 700      
    Queen Mary, University of London 32 37 36 Yes     115 127   Yes
    Regent's University London                 Yes  
    Royal Holloway, University of London 36 28 33 Yes Yes   265 102    
    School of Oriental and African Studies 24 24 35 Yes     337 -    
    St Mary's University, Twickenham 96 N/A N/A         -    
    University of Westminster 95 106 96   Yes   N/A      
    UCL 11 9 9 Yes     4 17   Yes
    University of West London 97 112 110       N/A      

    Notes:
    a Imperial College London, was a college of the University of London but left in 2007.

    Specialised and private universities and higher education colleges[edit]

    The following institutions offer British undergraduate and postgraduate courses, but are usually specialised in one or two academic fields.

    Colleges which form the federal University of London are in italics

    Universities alphabetically[edit]

    See also: List of UK universities by date of foundation, and List of UK universities by size
    Helmore Building at Anglia Ruskin University's Cambridge campus
    University of Bath library
    Aston Webb Hall at Birmingham University
    The iconic King's College Chapel of the University of Cambridge (centre), built between 1441 and 1515
    Durham Castle, a building of Durham University
    Earlham Hall at the University of East Anglia
    The Old College of the University of Edinburgh
    Imperial College London
    The Parkinson Building at the University of Leeds
    Senate House, University of London
    The Maughan Library atKing's College London
    Foxhill House, home of the School of Law, at the University of Reading

    Foreign Universities with campuses in the United Kingdom[edit]

    The following universities also offer semesters of study at their own faculty buildings in the UK:

    • Boston University
    • Booth School of Business|University of Chicago Booth School of Business
    • University of Delaware
    • University of Notre Dame
    • University of Crown at Port Din.
    • Pepperdine University
    • Syracuse University
    • New York University
    • Queen's University

    University colleges[edit]

    This is a list of university colleges in the UK. Note that there are also some other institutions with "university college" in their title which are not legally university colleges

    Colleges of Higher Education[edit]

    These should not be confused with colleges of further education, which offer a different level of qualifications.
    For lists of further education colleges in the UK (which may however also offer higher education qualifications) see: List of further education colleges in England, List of further education colleges in Northern Ireland, List of further education colleges in Scotland, List of further education colleges in Wales

    Further Education colleges offering degree courses[edit]

    Universities in British Overseas Territories[edit]

    Anguilla[edit]

    Bermuda[edit]

    British Virgin Islands[edit]

    Cayman Islands[edit]

    Main article: List of universities in the Cayman Islands

    Gibraltar[edit]

    Montserrat[edit]

    Turks and Caicos Islands[edit]

    Defunct institutions[edit]

    This section is for universities or other higher education institutions that no longer exist due to either closure, mergers, de-mergers etc.; it does not include institutions that have merely changed their name.

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