Profile 2014
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ING’S COLLEGE LONDON
is one of the world’s top 20 universities and one of the oldest in England: a multi-faculty research-led university institution based in the heart of London. King’s has nearly 26,000 students (of whom more than 10,600 are postgraduates) from some 140 countries worldwide, and more than 7,000 staff. It has an annual overall income of nearly £590 million. It offers an intellectually rigorous environment supported by welcoming and caring traditions, and is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, learning and understanding in the service of society, both in the UK and internationally. 1
The Guy’s Campus. 2
King’s is: awarding its own degrees, of the University • aofCollege, London 19th equal in the world in the QS World University • ranked Rankings of the top 800 global higher education institutions, and sixth in the UK the Sunday Times best UK University for Graduate Employment, 2013 a member of the Russell Group, a coalition of the UK’s top 24 leading research-based universities part of King’s Health Partners, the UK’s largest Academic Health Sciences Centre, in partnership with the leading NHS Foundation Trusts of Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and the South London and Maudsley among the top seven UK universities for research earnings (over £164 million in 2012-13) equal first among English universities for PhD completion rates one of the most successful higher education institutions in attracting funding from the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health Research, with five Medical Research Council centres part of the Francis Crick Institute, a new multi-disciplinary research institute, which combines the specialist knowledge, expertise and resources of six of the UK’s most successful scientific and academic organisations to encourage groundbreaking research and ensure that laboratory discoveries are turned into treatments as quickly as possible
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new academic and student opportunities through • pioneering cultural partnerships. The Cultural Institute, a flagship initiative for Culture at King’s, connects the College with artists and cultural organisations, creating space where conventions are challenged and original perspectives emerge committed to improving access to university for students from groups under-represented in higher education, through innovative and ambitious widening participation programmes, which provide encouragement and support to those with the ability to succeed at King’s.
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King’s campaign King’s fundraising campaign, World questions|King’s answers, is one of the three largest campaigns ever launched by UK universities. With the support of alumni, friends, trusts, foundations and other supporters around the world, it is nearing its target of raising £500 million to support research and teaching addressing some of the world’s most challenging problems, particularly in the areas of cancer, child health, neuroscience and mental health, leadership and society, and the emerging world order.
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Brief history
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ING’S COLLEGE LONDON was founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829. When the University of London was established in 1836, King’s became one of its two founding colleges. The College has grown through many mergers, including those with the King’s College Hospital Medical School in 1983; with Chelsea and Queen Elizabeth Colleges in 1985; with the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997; and with the United Medical & Dental Schools of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals in 1998. These mergers have brought institutions with their own distinguished reputations and traditions into King’s. The Institute of Psychiatry is closely associated with the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust which includes the famous Bethlem Hospital dating from the 13th century. The original King’s College School of Medicine was founded in 1831, while St Thomas’ Hospital dates from the 12th century, and medicine has been formally taught there since the 16th century and at Guy’s since the early 18th century. The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery is directly descended from the world’s first professional school of nursing, founded by Nightingale in 1860. Since the mid-1990s King’s academics have been involved in the education of the UK Armed Services, including through the Defence Studies Department at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham. While remaining part of the University of London, King’s has enjoyed financial and academic autonomy since 1994. Since 2008 it has awarded its own degrees. 5
A tradition of excellence
O Professor Sir Charles Lyell
Professor Thomas Hodgkin
Florence Nightingale
VER THE CENTURIES, King’s College London and its constituent institutions have been associated with some of the greatest innovators of their time. In the 19th century these included Sir Charles Lyell, founder of modern geology; Sir Charles Wheatstone, pioneer of current electricity and wireless telegraphy; Thomas Hodgkin, Thomas Addison and Richard Bright: distinguished doctors who identified the diseases that are named after them; physicist James Clerk Maxwell, Einstein’s predecessor in electromagnetism and relativity; Florence Nightingale, founder of the world’s first professional school of nursing, and Lord Lister, who established antiseptic surgery. Among the many writers educated at King’s are Romantic poet John Keats (once a medical student at Guy’s), novelist Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Arthur C Clarke.
Nobel laureates
Professor James Clerk Maxwell 6
Twelve Nobel Prizes are associated with King’s and its constituent institutions, including two Nobels awarded in 2013 to King’s alumni Professor Peter Higgs, for the discovery of the mechanism of the Higgs boson, and Professor Michael Levitt, for the
Most Reverend Desmond Tutu
development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. Other King’s Nobel laureates include Professor Sir James Black, inventor of beta blockers and anti-ulcer drugs, and Professor Maurice Wilkins who, with Dr Rosalind Franklin and other King’s colleagues, played a major part in the discovery of the structure of DNA. Current alumni
Virginia Woolf
Professor Peter Higgs
Dr Rosalind Franklin
The College’s current alumni include Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu; Nobel Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa; Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester; writers Susan Hill, Alain de Botton, Hanif Kureishi and Michael Morpurgo; leading business figures including Sir Deryck Maughan and Rory Tapner; composer Michael Nyman, conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and musicians John Deacon of Queen and Kele Okereke; Naveen Selvadurai, founder of the mobile social networking venture Foursquare; members of the House of Commons, House of Lords and of the Judiciary; impressionist and political satirist Rory Bremner, and Olympic Gold medal-winner Dr Katherine Grainger CBE. 7
King’s Worldwide
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ING’S IS A WORLD -LEADING INSTITUTION
with a truly global perspective. The College has:
network of Global Institutes to promote understanding of • afast-changing parts of the world and encourage engagement with 21st-century powers. These include King’s Brazil Institute; the Lau China Institute; King’s India Institute; the Institute of North American Studies; King’s Russia Institute, and King’s International Development Institute strategic partnerships with leading universities worldwide, including the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Hong Kong; Jawaharlal Nehru University; the National University of Singapore; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Renmin University of China and the University of São Paulo joint PhD programmes, involving more than 20 academic departments across the College, with the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, Humboldt University, the University of Stuttgart and Université Paris-Sorbonne outreach offices in India, the USA and China: part of a global network that will develop deeper relationships with local research, student and alumni communities in key countries
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more than £46 million in international research • received grants in 2013: an increase of over 10 per cent on 2012 749 of its students the opportunity to go abroad for • offered part of their study in 2013 than 8,650 international students from some • more 140 countries, making up over 33 per cent of the total student body 1,313 academic and research staff from outside the UK, from 79 different countries, representing nearly 40 per cent of the academic staff training programmes for students and staff in 25 foreign languages more than 40,000 international alumni in 172 countries. worldwide, with the largest groups in the USA, Greece, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, China, Australia and Malaysia.
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Virginia Woolf Building, Strand Campus.
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College estate
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CROSS- CAMPUS INVESTMENT of £18 million has
Photograph: Paul Grundy
recently modernised the College’s learning and teaching environments, including new technologies. At the Strand Campus, the Somerset House East Wing was opened by HM The Queen in 2012 as a prestigious home for The Dickson Poon School of Law and a focal point for many of the cultural aspects of the College. The Virginia Woolf Building on Kingsway opened in 2013, providing accommodation for many academic staff and postgraduate research students of the School of Arts & Humanities, and the Quadrangle building and the former Law School building at the Strand are in course of redevelopment. At the Denmark Hill Campus the £30 million James Black Centre was completed in 2007; the £10 million Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care opened in 2010, and work is nearing completion on the £45 million Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute. Redeveloped student residences at Champion Hill re-open in 2014, housing more than 700 students. Close to the Guy’s Campus, excellent laboratory facilities at Britannia House were acquired in 2013 for the Department of Chemistry. At the former Mulberry Business Park at Canada Water, work begins in 2014 to provide nearly 800 new student rooms, office space, affordable housing, retail units, a health care centre and landscaped public space.
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At the heart of London
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Strand Campus The Maughan Library Guy’s Campus Waterloo Campus St Thomas’ Campus Denmark Hill Campus
ING’S HAS FOUR THAMES- SIDE CAMPUSES
within a single square mile in the heart of London, together with a major presence at Denmark Hill in South London in the form of the Institute of Psychiatry and of biomedical research and teaching at King’s College Hospital. The College uses its location to build and consolidate partnerships with many key cultural, political, professional and business entities and communities in the capital.
Strand Campus The Maughan Library Guy’s Campus Waterloo Campus St Thomas’ Campus Denmark Hill Campus
Visitors to King’s
King’s central London location and its wide network of connections attract many eminent visitors and speakers. Among those who visited in 2012-13 were Nobel Prize winners Professor Sir Paul Nurse and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu; former Prime Minister Sir John Major; Government ministers Michael Gove, David Willetts, David Laws and Lord Taylor; Director General of the Confederation of British Industry, John Cridland; Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Dame Sally Davies; US Secretary of State for Defense, Leon Panetta, and Vice-President of the European Commission, Joaquin Almunia.
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Denmark 2.3 miles Guy’s Cam
Denmark Hill Campus lies 2.3 miles due south of the Guy’s Campus
The College’s Defence Studies Department provides academic support to the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) in Shrivenham, Wiltshire and to the London-based Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS). See www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/departments/dsd 12
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Senior College officers
King’s has four Thames-side campuses in the heart of London.
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Chairman of Council
The Marquess of Douro MA OBE DL Principal
Professor Sir Richard Trainor KBE BA MA DPhil FRHistS AcSS FKC Vice-Principals
Professor Sir Robert Lechler PhD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FKC (also Executive Director of King’s Health Partners)
Mr Chris Mottershead BSc MSc Dr Joanna Newman MBE BA MA PhD FRSA Professor Karen O’Brien MA DPhil FRSA Professor Evelyn Welch MBE BA PhD FRHS FRSA Deputy Vice-Principal (Health) and Dean and Head of the Institute of Psychiatry
Professor Shitij Kapur MBBS PhD FMedSci Assistant Principal (Estates)
Professor Colin Bushnell BSc PhD FKC Head of Administration & College Secretary
Mr Ian Creagh BA DipEd MA FKC Dean of the College
The Strand Campus and Somerset House from the South Bank.
Photograph: Alfredo Falvo
The Revd Canon Professor Richard Burridge MA PhD FKC
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Sir John Major with the Principal in November 2013, when Sir John received an honorary doctorate of King’s.
Facts & figures Student numbers by School and level of study Headcount on 1 December 2013 School
Campus
Arts & Humanities
Strand
3,136
912
619
4,667
18%
Biomedical Sciences
Guy’s, Waterloo
1,943
308
216
2,467
10%
Dental Institute
Guy’s, Strand, Denmark Hill, Waterloo, St Thomas’
757
400
119
1,276
5%
English Language Centre
Strand
190
0
0
190
1%
0
177
84
261
1%
67
723
346
1,136
4%
3
502
12
517
2%
Global Centres & Institutes Institute of Psychiatry
Denmark Hill
Photograph: Tempest Photography
King’s Learning Institute
UNDERGRADUATE
POSTGRADUATE TOTAL Taught Research
% of total
Law
Strand
809
849
64
1,722
7%
Medicine
Guy’s, St Thomas’, Denmark Hill
2,505
670
456
3,631
14%
Natural & Mathematical Sciences
Strand
1,298
221
247
1,766
7%
Nursing & Midwifery
Waterloo
2,049
802
53
2,904
11%
Social Science & Public Policy
Strand, Waterloo
1,967
2,164
610
4,741
18%
454
58
7
519
2%
15,178
7,786
2,833
25,797
100%
Incoming Study Abroad students* GRAND TOTAL
* The full-year enrolment for Incoming Study Abroad Students in 2013-4 is 809.
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Student numbers by gender 2013-14 Number of students
Total
% of total
Gender
UNDERGRADUATE
Taught
Research
Female
9,548
4,693
1,448
15,689
61%
Male
5,630
3,093
1,385
10,108
39%
GRAND TOTAL
15,178
7,786
2,833
25,797
100%
POSTGRADUATE
Student numbers by age at start of programme 2013-14 Number of students UNDERGRADUATE
Total
Taught
20
% of total
POSTGRADUATE Research
20 and under
11,227
50
0
11,277
44%
21 to 29
2,858
4,780
1,684
9,322
36%
30 to 39
650
1,915
792
3,357
13%
40 to 49
353
778
244
1,375
5%
50 and over
90
263
113
466
2%
GRAND TOTAL
15,178
7,786
2,833
25,797
100%
Photograph: Ingrid Rasmussen
Age
The Shard, seen from the Guy’s Campus.
Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus.
Students’ country of domicile 2013-14 King’s has a strong international community including students from some 140 countries worldwide. Domicile
Number of students
% of total
United Kingdom
17,143
66%
European Union
3,504
14%
Other international TOTAL
5,150
20%
25,797
100%
Members of staff on 1 January 2014 excluding senior students, honorary and occasional staff. School
Other staff
Number of employees
Arts & Humanities
388
415
803
Biomedical Sciences
376
182
558
Dental Institute
283
95
378
Institute of Psychiatry
715
260
975
Global Centres & Institutes
39
13
52
Law
74
99
173 1,406
Medicine
1,041
365
Natural & Mathematical Sciences
182
89
271
Nursing & Midwifery
125
71
196
Social Science & Public Policy
363
250
613
46
1,580
1,626
3,632
3,419
7,051
Professional Services GRAND TOTAL Photograph: Paul Grundy
Academic and research staff
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Finances Consolidated income & expenditure account For the year ended 31 July 2013. King’s credit rating was confirmed by Standard & Poor’s as ‘AA/stable’ for 2013. INCOME
£000
Funding body grants
130,671
Tuition fees and education contracts
174,581
Research grants and contracts
164,025
Other operating income
111,276
Endowment and investment income
6,395 TOTAL INCOME
586,948
EXPENDITURE Staff costs
349,889
Other operating expenses
190,659
Depreciation
24,602
Interest payable
12,233 TOTAL EXPENDITURE
Surplus on ordinary activities
– Surplus on ordinary activities after taxation
9,565
Receipts from property transactions
–
Profit on sale of shares
–
Surplus after depreciation of assets at cost and tax
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9,565
9,565
Photograph: Paul Grundy
Taxation
577,383
James Clerk Maxwell Building, Waterloo Campus.
How to contact King’s Main telephone switchboard
Guy’s Campus
+44 (0)20 7836 5454 www.kcl.ac.uk
School of Medicine First floor, Hodgkin Building Guy’s Campus, London SE1 1UL School of Biomedical Sciences Henriette Raphael Building, Guy’s Campus, London SE1 1UL Dental Institute Central Office, Floor 18, Tower Wing, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RT King’s Health Partners Ground Floor, Counting House, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RT Tel: +44 (0)20 7188 8794
Main College address & Strand Campus Schools of Arts & Humanities, Natural & Mathematical Sciences, Social Science & Public Policy and The Dickson Poon School of Law Strand, London WC2R 2LS The Maughan Library Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR
Waterloo Campus Principal’s Office, Professional Services, and Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA School of Biomedical Sciences, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery and Departments of Management and of Education & Professional Studies Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH
Denmark Hill Campus Dental Institute King’s College London, Caldecot Road, London SE5 9RW Institute of Psychiatry De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF School of Medicine Weston Education Centre, 10 Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ 26
St Thomas’ Campus Dental Institute and School of Medicine King’s College London, St Thomas’ Campus, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH Defence Studies Department King’s College London, Joint Services Command and Staff College Faringdon Road, Shrivenham Swindon, Wilts SN6 8TS Tel: +44 (0)1793 788746 King’s College London Students’ Union Macadam Building, Surrey Street, London WC2R 2NS Tel +44 (0)20 7848 1588
For other King’s addresses including halls of residence, see www.kcl.ac.uk