UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

The University of London (informally referred to as London University) is a bookish appraisal university amidst in London, England, consisting of 18 basal colleges, 10 appraisal institutes and a bulk of axial bodies.
London is the added bigger university by bulk of full-time accepting in the United Kingdom, with about 135,000 campus-based accepting and over 50,000 abuttals acquirements accepting in the University of London International Programmes. The university was acclimatized by Royal Charter in 1836, which brought calm in accord London University (now University College London) and King's College (now King's College London).
For a lot of activated purposes, alignment from admissions to funding, the basal colleges achieve on a semi-independent basis, with some again accepting the adeptness to approval their own degrees whilst absolute in the federal university. The ten bigger colleges of the university are King's College London; University College London; Birkbeck; Goldsmiths; the London Business School; Queen Mary; Royal Holloway; SOAS; and the London School of Economics and Political Science. The specialist colleges of the university awning Heythrop College, specialising in aesthetics and theology, and St George's, specialising in medicine. Imperial College London was afore a associate afore it larboard the University of London in 2007.
Many notable individuals acquire anesthetized through the University of London, either as agents or students, including at diminutive 4 monarchs, 52 presidents or prime ministers, 74 Nobel laureates, 6 Grammy winners, 2 Oscar winners and 3 Olympic gold medalists.
In post-nominals, the University of London is frequently abbreviated as Lond. or, added rarely, Londin., from the Latin Universitas Londiniensis afterwards their bulk abbreviations.
Founded in 1836, the university at ancient comprised just two colleges: University College, which advanced had no official accountant cachet and did not administrate religious tests to its students, and King's College, which had been accountant aback 1829 and which accustomed abandoned assembly of the Church of England. Both King's (founded 1829) and University College London (founded 1826) pre-date the University of London, which initially served abandoned as an analytic anatomy for the basal colleges.
In 1858, the university advertisement its role by alms the University of London International Programmes to candidates alfresco of the colleges, the ancient of its affectionate in the country. A new abode at 6 Burlington Gardens, accouterment the university with appraisal halls and offices, was complete to lath the new role. In 1878, the University set accession ancient if it became the ancient university in the UK to acquire women on according acceding with men. Four capricious accepting acquired Bachelor of Arts degrees in 1880 and two acquired Bachelor of Science degrees in 1881, again the ancient in the country.
In 1898, in allocation as a acceptance to criticisms of universities which abandoned served as centres for the administering of tests, and calls for appraisal and apprenticeship to be added axial functions of universities, the ancient University of London Act was passed, reforming the university and giving it accountability for anatomy beforehand acceptable and bookish standards aural its institutions. The anatomy was conducted through again formed centralised commonsense and Boards of Studies, and King's and UCL now became basal locations of the University of London. A emblematic aspect to the new centralisation of the university was the achievement that UCL acreage became acreage of the University of London. This cogent addition of role meant the University again bald added space, and so 6 Burlington Gardens was abandoned in 1899.