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The University of London was established by Royal Charter on 28 November 1836 and is the third most seasoned college in England. 
The two establishing Colleges of the University, UCL (established 1826) and King's College London (established 1829), both originate before the University, as do numerous other of the University's constituent foundations. For instance, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School (now some portion of Queen Mary) and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School (now some portion of King's College London) both have twelfth-century sources. 
The University of London was at first settled to go about as a looking at the body for its Colleges and other 'endorsed foundations'. It acted exclusively in this limit until 1858. 
The University granted its first degrees in 1839 to 29 understudies. Today more than 170,000 understudies learning at its 18 prestigious Colleges and through its separation learning program in 180 nations get University of London degrees every year.

                               Campuses

A portion of the college's universities has their primary structures in the home. The Bloomsbury Campus likewise contains eight Halls of Residence and Senate House, which houses Senate House Library, the chancellor's legitimate living arrangement and already housed the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, now some portion of University College London (UCL) and housed in its own new building. All of the School of Advanced Study is housed in Senate House and neighboring Stewart House. 
The college likewise possesses a considerable lot of the squares that framed some portion of the Bedford Estate, including Gordon Square, Tavistock Square, Torrington Square and Woburn Square, and additionally a few properties outside Bloomsbury, with a large portion of the college's schools and establishments involving their own particular homes crosswise over London:
  • Clare Market,
  • Part of Aldwych, where the London School of Economics and Political Science is based
  • The West and East Wings of Somerset House, the location for the Courtauld Institute of Art and King's College London, respectively
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital,
  • the University of London Boat Club in Chiswick, and
  • the Egham campus of Royal Holloway with its historic Founder's Building.
The university also has several properties outside London, including a number of residential and catering units further afield and the premises of the University of London Institute in Paris, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in French and historical studies.

                           Academic  Quality

The University of London, its Central Academic Bodies and its constituent Colleges appreciate a phenomenal notoriety for the high caliber of their educating and research. The Strategic Plan 2009-2014 spots at the heart of its vision affirmation of the University's brilliance in scholarly accomplishment. Its first point is "to keep up and upgrade the scholastic fabulousness of the government University." 
Inside the administration structure of the University, the Collegiate Council has the obligation, in the interest of the Board of Trustees, for the assurance of scholastic procedure and arrangement and for the release of scholarly issues. The Collegiate Council is led by the Vice Chancellor and comprises of the eighteen Heads of College and the Dean of the School of Advanced Study. University Council is bolstered in this by the Academic Quality Advisory Committee (AQAC), which embraces and submits to the Council the yearly University Quality Overview Report. The Committee additionally advances quality improvement and shares great scholastic practice over the University.
                               Chancellors
The Chancellors of the University of London since its founding are as follows:
  • William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Burlington, 1836–1856
  • Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, 1856–1891
  • Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, 1891–1893
  • Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, 1893–1899
  • John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, 1899–1902
  • Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1902–1929
  • William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, 1929–1931
  • Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, 1932–1955
  • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 1955–1981
  • The Princess Anne (The Princess Royal from 1987), 1981–present

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