Editing King's College London (section)

== Academic profile ==
=== Admissions ===
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|+UCAS Admission Statistics
!
!2024
!2023
!2022
!2021
!2020
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| '''Applications'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name="UCASEoC">{{cite web |title=UCAS Undergraduate Sector-Level End of Cycle Data Resources 2024 |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024 |at=Show me... Domicile by Provider |website=ucas.com |date=December 2024 |publisher=UCAS |access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
| 68,510
| 69,300
| 70,090
| 67,390
| 57,470
|-
| '''Accepted'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name="UCASEoC" />
| 7,780
| 6,810
| 7,320
| 8,460
| 7,875
|-
| '''Applications/Accepted Ratio'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}
| 8.8
| 10.2
| 9.6
| 8.0
| 7.3
|-
| '''Offer Rate (%)'''{{efn-lg|name=ukjune}}<ref name="UCAS Offer Rate">{{cite web|title=2024 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group|date=7 February 2025|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2024/2024-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|publisher=[[UCAS]]|access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
| 44.3
| 38.5
| 39.3
| 52.9
| 59.4
|-
| '''[[UCAS Tariff|Average Entry Tariff]]'''<ref name="CUG Entry">{{Cite web | url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards | title=University League Tables entry standards 2024 |work=The Complete University Guide}}</ref>
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| 171
| 165
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|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2023/24)
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!Domicile<ref name="Table 1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1|title=HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> and Ethnicity<ref name="HESA ethnicity">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/whos-in-he/characteristics|title=Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics|date=3 April 2025|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
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|[[White people in the United Kingdom|British White]]{{efn|Not be confused solely with [[White British]]}}
|align=right| {{bartable|28|%|2||background:red}}
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|[[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom#Collective terms for minority ethnic groups|British Ethnic Minorities]]{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as [[British Asian|Asian]], [[Black British people|Black]], [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed Heritage]], [[British Arabs|Arab]] or any other ethnicity except White.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|34|%|2||background:green}}
|-
|[[European Union|International EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2||background:blue}}
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|[[International students in the United Kingdom|International Non-EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|32|%|2||background:gray}}
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! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate [[Widening participation|Widening Participation]] Indicators<ref name="Table 1"/><ref name="Times25">{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
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|[[Feminism in the United Kingdom#Education|Female]]
|align=right| {{bartable|64|%|2||background:purple}}
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|[[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Independent School]]
|align=right| {{bartable|18|%|2||background:orange}}
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|Low Participation Areas{{efn|Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the [[Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation]] (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2||background:black}}
|}
King's had the 13th highest average entry qualification for undergraduates of any UK university in 2018, with new students averaging 171 UCAS points.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards |website=The Complete University Guide |title=University League Table 2021 sorted by entry standards|access-date=9 June 2020}}</ref> In 2022, the university gave offers of admission to 39.3% of its applicants, the 8th lowest across the country.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cambridge to scrap 'unjust' state school targets|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/cambridge-to-scrap-state-school-targets/|publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=11 March 2024|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240331190103/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/cambridge-to-scrap-state-school-targets/|archive-date=31 March 2024}}</ref>

=== Teaching ===
King's academic year runs from the last Monday in September to the first Friday in June.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/semester.html |title=Term dates |access-date=7 October 2010 |publisher=King's College London |archive-date=7 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007142514/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/semester.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Different faculties and departments adopt different academic term structures. For example, the academic year of the Mathematics School and Department of War Studies is divided into three terms (Autumn, Spring and Summer terms);<ref>{{cite web |title=WAR STUDIES Term dates |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/study/wsonline/dates.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=31 December 2015 |archive-date=20 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220151952/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/study/wsonline/dates.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=King's College London Maths School – Our Term Dates |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/mathsschool/about/term-dates.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=31 December 2015}}</ref> while the Faculty of Arts & Humanities academic year runs in two semesters.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty of Arts & Humanities – Term dates |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/study/handbook/academic-year/termdates.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=31 December 2015 |archive-date=4 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104212216/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/study/handbook/academic-year/termdates.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Graduation ===
{{See also|Academic dress of King's College London}}
[[File:King's College, London; the interior of the theatre on prize Wellcome L0007544.jpg|thumb|Prize-giving day in 1841]]
[[File:King's College London graduands.JPG|thumb|King's graduands with [[Academic dress of King's College London|academic dress]] designed by [[Vivienne Westwood]]]]

Graduation ceremonies are held in January (winter) and June or July (summer), with ceremonies for non-medical students held at the [[Royal Festival Hall]] in the [[Southbank Centre]], near the Waterloo Campus. Ceremonies were held at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] until 1992 and then at the [[Barbican Centre]] until 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kclsu.org/change/campaigns/past/graduation/|title=Bring back the Royal Albert Hall as Grads Venue|publisher=King's College London Students' Union|access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref>

Owing to St Thomas's Medical School roots that could be traced to [[St Mary Overie]] Priory, students from the GKT School of Medical Education and Faculty of Dental, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences graduate from [[Southwark Cathedral]] adjacent to Guy's Campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://self-service.kcl.ac.uk/article/KA-01081/en-us|title= Southwark Cathedral as a graduation ceremony venue|publisher=King's College London|access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref>

After being granted the power to award its own degrees separately from the [[University of London]] in 2006,<ref name="Kings Governance" /> graduates began wearing King's College London academic dress in 2008. King's graduates have since worn gowns designed by [[Vivienne Westwood]].<ref name="Westwood">{{cite news |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/publications/comment-archive/pdfs/2008/comment-183.pdf |title=Westwood unveils gowns|access-date=24 June 2015 |location=London |first=Marion |last=Hume |date=September 2008}}</ref>

=== Research ===
In 2023/24 King's had a total research income of £256.9 million, of which £69.5 million came from research councils; £57.2 million from the UK central government; £14.6 million from UK industry; £58.1 million from UK charitable bodies; £25.3 million from EU sources; £32.2 million from other sources.<ref name="KCL 2023/24" />

Following the 2021 [[Research Excellence Framework]] (REF), which assessed the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, King's was ranked 9th by GPA and 6th for research power by ''[[Times Higher Education]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=REF 2021: Quality ratings hit new high in expanded assessment |date=12 May 2022 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2021-research-excellence-framework-results-announced |publisher=Times Higher Education |access-date=18 February 2023}}</ref>

=== Medicine ===
{{Main|GKT School of Medical Education}}

Medical research at King's College London is spread across multiple faculties, particularly the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, and the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/faculties-departments|title=Faculties and departments|publisher=King's College London|access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref>

King's claims to be the largest centre for healthcare education in Europe.<ref name="kingspartnersfacts">{{cite web |url=http://www.kingshealthpartners.org/about-us/our-partnership |title=Key Facts|access-date=17 October 2015 |publisher=King's Health Partners}}</ref> The Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine has three main teaching hospitals – [[Guy's Hospital]], [[King's College Hospital]] and [[St Thomas' Hospital]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/medicine-mbbs|title= Medicine MBBS|publisher=King's College London|date= 7 August 2020|access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> – and a branch campus in Portsmouth run in collaboration with the [[University of Portsmouth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/graduate-entry-medicine-programme-university-of-portsmouth-campus|title=Graduate Entry Medicine Programme (University of Portsmouth branch campus) MBBS|publisher=King's College London|date=13 December 2023 |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> King's College London Dental Institute was the largest dental school in Europe {{as of|2010|lc=y}}.<ref>{{Cite news |work=The Independent |location=London |title=Put a smile back on your face|first=Roger |last=Dobson| access-date =7 September 2010 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/put-a-smile-back-on-your-face-554765.html| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100514065529/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/put-a-smile-back-on-your-face-554765.html| url-status =dead| archive-date =14 May 2010 |date=29 July 2004}}</ref> The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, which became part of King's in 1993, is the oldest professional school of nursing in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/about/ |title=Nursing & Midwifery – About us|access-date=7 October 2010 |publisher=King's College London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022183356/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/about/|archive-date=22 October 2010 }}</ref>

King's is a major centre for biomedical research. It is a founding member of [[King's Health Partners]], one of the largest [[academic health sciences centre]]s in Europe with a turnover of over £2&nbsp;billion and approximately 25,000 employees.<ref name="kingspartnersfacts" /> It also is home to the [[Medical Research Council (UK)#Institutes, centres and units|Medical Research Council]]'s MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders,<ref name="unitscentres">{{cite web |url= https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/mrc/institutes-units-and-centres/list/ |title= MRC list of institutes, units and centres |access-date= 21 June 2024 |publisher= Medical Research Council }}</ref> and is part of two of the twelve biomedical research centres established by the [[National Institute for Health and Care Research]] (NIHR) in England – the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biomedical Research Centres |url=http://www.nihr.ac.uk/about/biomedical-research-centres.htm |publisher=National Institute for Health Research|access-date=23 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423184838/http://www.nihr.ac.uk/about/biomedical-research-centres.htm|archive-date=23 April 2015 }}</ref>

The Drug Control Centre at King's was established in 1978 and is the only [[World Anti-Doping Agency|WADA]] accredited anti-doping laboratory in the UK and holds the official UK contract for running [[doping (sport)|doping]] tests on UK athletes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/forensics/accredited-services/drug-control-centre |title=Drug Control Centre|access-date=30 December 2024|publisher=King's College London}}</ref> In 1997, it became the first [[International Olympic Committee]] accredited laboratory to meet the [[ISO/IEC 17025]] quality standard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/sport/fairness/control |title=The Drug Control Centre at King's College |publisher=King's College London|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> The centre was the anti-doping facility for the [[2012 Summer Olympics|London 2012 Olympic]] and [[2012 Summer Paralympics|Paralympic Games]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/biohealth/research/divisions/aes/research/drugcontrol/olympics2012.aspx |title=London Olympics 2012|access-date=20 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121208091952/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/biohealth/research/divisions/aes/research/drugcontrol/olympics2012.aspx|archive-date=8 December 2012 }}</ref>

=== Libraries ===
==== Maughan Library ====
[[File:The Maughan Library, King's College, London.jpg|thumb|The [[Maughan Library]] courtyard]]
[[File:The Maughan Library - 2017-09-16-3.jpg|thumb|The Round Reading Room at the [[Maughan Library]]]]
{{Main|Maughan Library}}
The Maughan Library is King's largest library and is housed in the [[Listed building|Grade II* listed]] 19th century [[Gothic Revival architecture|gothic revival]] former [[Public Record Office]] building designed by [[James Pennethorne|Sir James Pennethorne]], situated on [[Chancery Lane]] near the Strand Campus.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num= 1359155 |desc= Former Public Record Office |grade=II*|access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref> The building is home to collections supporting humanities, law and science.<ref name=Maughan>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/maughan-library|title=Maughan Library|publisher=King's College London|access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref> It also houses the special collections and rare books within the Foyle Library (see below).<ref name="specialcollections" /> Inside the library is the dodecagonal Round Reading Room, inspired by the reading room of the [[British Museum]] (now home to the humanities reference collection),<ref name=Maughan/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/assets/tours/maughan-tour.pdf|title=Getting started Self-Guided Tour: The Maughan Library|publisher=King's College London|access-date=3 January 2025|page=10}}</ref> and the former Chapel of the Masters of the Rolls (renamed the Weston Room following a donation from the [[Garfield Weston Foundation]]) with its [[stained glass window]]s, [[mosaic]] floor and monuments, including a [[Renaissance]] terracotta figure by [[Pietro Torrigiano]] of [[John Yonge]], Master of the Rolls, who died in 1516.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/exhibitions|title=Exhibitions|publisher=King's College London|access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/nov/14/highereducation.museums|title=Queen welcomed by King's|date=14 November 2002|author=Donald MacLeod|work=The Guardian}}</ref>

==== Other libraries ====
* '''Foyle Special Collections Library:''' Situated inside the Maughan Library, the special collections library houses a collection of 200,000 printed works as well as maps, slides, sound recordings and manuscript material, including 17 [[incunabula]].<ref name="specialcollections">{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/special-collections|title=Special Collections|access-date=30 December 2024|publisher=King's College London}}</ref> The Foyle Special Collections Library also houses a number of special collections, range in date from the 15th century to present, and in subject from human anatomy to Modern Greek poetry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/special-collections/Individualcollections/overview.aspx|title=Overview of Special Collections|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=12 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212130419/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/special-collections/Individualcollections/overview.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Historical Collection is the largest collection contains material from the former FCO Library. The collection was a working tool used by the British government to inform and influence foreign and colonial policy.<ref name="fco">{{cite web |title=Explore 500 years of world history |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/documents/fco-leaflet-2014.pdf |publisher=Library Services|access-date=16 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116174558/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/documents/fco-leaflet-2014.pdf|archive-date=16 January 2017 }}</ref> Transferred to King's in 2007, the FCO Historical Collection contains over 80,000 items including books, [[pamphlets]], manuscript, and photographic material.<ref name="fco" /> The Medical Collection include the historical library collections of the constituent medical schools and institutes of King's. The Rare Books Collection holds 12,000 printed books, including a 1483 Venice printing of [[Silius Italicus]]'s ''[[Punica (poem)|Punica]]'', first editions of [[Charles Dickens]]' novels, and the 1937 (first) edition of [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[The Road to Wigan Pier]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/special-collections/Individualcollections/rarebooks.aspx|title=Rare Books Collection|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=12 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212131929/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/special-collections/Individualcollections/rarebooks.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* '''Archives Reading Room:''' Situated in the King's Building on the Strand campus,<ref>{{cite web |title=Archives Reading Room |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/kings-college-london-archives|publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> this includes the college archives and the [[Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]].<ref name="arr">{{cite web |title=Archives |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archives#using|publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> The college archives include institutional archives of King's since 1828, archives of institutions and schools that were created by or have merged with King's, and records relating to the history of medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/archives/collections.aspx#college|title=College Archives|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=5 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151205083920/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/archives/collections.aspx#college|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, established in 1964, holds the private papers of over 800 senior British defence personnel who held office since 1900.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/archives/collections.aspx#lhcma|title=Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=5 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151205083920/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/archives/collections.aspx#lhcma|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* '''Franklin-Wilkins Library:''' Situated on the Waterloo Campus, the library supports nursing and midwifery students and law students, with holdings on management, bioscience and education.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/franklin-wilkins-library |title=Franklin Wilkins Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>
* '''Wills Library:''' Situated in the Hodgkin Building at Guy's Campus, it was originally the main library for the Guy's Hospital Medical School.<ref name="wills">{{cite web |title=Wills Library |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/wills-library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024 }}</ref> The Wills Library was a gift in 1903 by the former governor of Guy's Hospital, the [[Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet|late Sir Frederick Wills]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association London, JUL |journal=Br Med J |date=4 December 1909 |volume=2 |issue=2553 |doi=10.1136/bmj.2.2553.1622 |pages=1622–1624 |s2cid=220177133}}</ref> and it was opened as the Medical School Library.<ref name=Gunga>{{cite book |last1=Gunga |first1=Hanns-Christian |title=Nathan Zuntz: His Life and Work in the Fields of High Altitude Physiology and Aviation Medicine |date=27 February 2009 |publisher=Academic Press |page=204 |isbn=9780080885247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33dJDNhpj0EC|access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref> Many books, archives and documents that were kept in the Wills Library, such as Guy's committee minute books, have been moved to the King's College London Archives in 2004,<ref name=Gunga /> although the library still contains a collection of books in locked cabinets that can be retrieved by request.<ref name="wills" />
* '''New Hunt's House Library:''' Situated on the Guy's Campus, the library covers all aspects of biomedical science.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/new-hunts-house-library |title=New Hunt's House Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024 }}</ref>
* '''St Thomas' House Library:''' Situated at St Thomas' Campus, the library has resources on complimentary clinical healthcare and a variety of study spaces.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/st-thomas-house-library |title=St Thomas' House Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024 }}</ref>
* '''Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Library:''' Situated on the Denmark Hill Campus, the IoPPN library is one of the largest psychiatric libraries in Western Europe.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/institute-of-psychiatry-psychology-neuroscience-library |title=Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>
* '''Weston Education Centre Library:''' Situated on the Denmark Hill Campus, the library supports teaching and research in the faculties of medicine and dentistry. It also supports clinical work and research in the [[King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust]] and the [[South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust]].<ref name="weclibrary">{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/weston-education-centre-library |title=Weston Education Centre Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>

Additionally, King's students and staff have full access to [[Senate House (University of London)#Senate House Library|Senate House Library]], the central library for the University of London and the [[School of Advanced Study]].<ref>{{cite web |title=University of London |url=http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/membership/university-of-london/ |website=Membership |publisher=Senate House Library|access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref> Undergraduate and postgraduate students also have reference access to libraries of other University of London institutions under the University of London Libraries Access Agreement.<ref>{{cite web |title=University of London Libraries Access Agreement |url=http://www.london.ac.uk/libraries_agreement.html |publisher=The University of London|access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref>

=== Museums, galleries and collections ===
[[File:Opening George III museum.jpg|thumb|Opening of the King George III Museum by [[Albert, Prince Consort]] on 1 July 1843]]

King's operates two museums: the [[Gordon Museum of Pathology]] and the [[Museum of Life Sciences]], neither of which are open to the public. The Gordon Museum collection dates back to the opening of the medical school at Guy's Hospital in 1826; the current museum was opened by the hospital in 1905.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/centre-for-education/museums/gordon-museum/origins-of-the-gordon-museum|title= Origins of the Gordon Museum|author= William G. J. Edwards|publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> The Gordon Museum says it is the largest medical museum in the United Kingdom, with a collection of approximately 8,000 pathological specimens, artefacts, models and paintings, including [[Astley Cooper]]'s specimens and [[Sir Joseph Lister]]'s antiseptic spray.<ref name="Gordon Museum" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/centre-for-education/museums/gordon-museum/the-collection |title=The Collection |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> The Museum of Life Sciences was founded in 2009 adjacent to the Gordon Museum, and holds historic biological and pharmaceutical collections from the colleges that are now part of King's College London.<ref name="Life Sciences Museum" />

Between 1843 and 1927, the [[King George III Museum]] was a museum within King's College London which housed the collections of scientific instruments of [[George III]] and eminent nineteenth-century scientists (including [[Sir Charles Wheatstone]] and [[Charles Babbage]]). Due to space constraints, much of the museum's collections were transferred on loan to the [[Science Museum, London|Science Museum]] in London or kept in King's College London Archives.<ref>{{cite web |title=The King George III Museum Collection, [1768–1970] |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/g/10ge50-1/ |website=College Archives |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref>

The Anatomy Museum was a museum situated on the 6th floor of the [[King's Building, London|King's Building]] at the Strand Campus. The Anatomy Theatre was built next door to the museum in 1927,<ref name="Anatomy-Museum">{{cite web |title=Anatomy Museum |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/archive-nov-2013/Spaces/Anatomy-Museum.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=9 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110130/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/archive-nov-2013/Spaces/Anatomy-Museum.aspx|archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref> where anatomical dissections and demonstrations took place. The Anatomy Museum's collection includes casts of injuries, leather models, skins of animals from Western Australia donated to the museum in 1846,<ref>{{cite web |title=KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: Secretary's in-correspondence |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k/gb100-kclca-ka-ic/ka-ic-k1-67 |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> and casts of heads of John Bishop and Thomas Williams, the murderers in the [[London Burkers#"Italian Boy" Murder|Italian Boy's murder]] in 1831.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Italian Boy's murder discovered, 1831 |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections/charles-dickens-2/italian-boy/murder-discovered |website=Dickens, Scrooge and the Victorian poor |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> The last dissection in the Anatomy Theatre was performed in 1997.<ref name="Anatomy-Museum" /> The Anatomy Theatre and Museum was renovated and refurbished in 2009, and is now a facility for teaching, research and performance at King's.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anatomy Theatre & Museum |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/projects/completed/atm.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=9 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215205600/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/projects/completed/atm.aspx|archive-date=15 February 2016 }}</ref>

Science Gallery London is a public [[science centre]] on the Guy's Campus. Admission to exhibitions and events at the centre is free.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://london.sciencegallery.com/about|title=What we do|website=Science Gallery London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>

=== Reputation and ranking ===
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[[File:King's 10 Years.png|thumb|upright=1.2|King's College London's [[Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom|national league table]] performance over the past ten years]]

King's was [[Sunday Times University of the Year|''Sunday Times'' University of the Year]] for 2010 to 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=King's wins 'University of the Year' |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2010/sept/KingswinsUniversityoftheYear.aspx |publisher=King's College London |date=12 September 2010 |access-date=15 November 2012}}</ref>

According to the 2025 ''[[Complete University Guide]]'', 16 subjects offered by King's rank within the top 10 nationally, including Health Studies (1st), Social Policy (2nd), Business & Management Studies (3rd), Anthropology (4th), Law (5th), Music (6th), Classics (6th), Economics (8th), Politics (8th), Communication & Media Studies (8th), Food Science (9th), Philosophy (9th), Dentistry (9th), Biological Sciences (10th), History (10th), and Computer Science (10th).<ref>{{Cite web |title=King's College London, University of London Ranking UK 2024 / 2025 - Complete University Guide |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/universities/kings-college-london-university-of-london#h0 |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=The Complete University Guide}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'' University Guide 2021 ranks King's in the top ten in 6 subjects, including Psychology (2nd), Politics (5th), Law (6th), Anatomy & physiology (8th), Media & film studies (9th), and Philosophy (9th). The ''Times Higher Education'' ranks King's College London the top 20 universities in the world for Psychology (11th), and Clinical, pre-clinical & health (16th) in the 2021 World University Rankings by subject.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/kings-college-london |title=King's College London: World University Rankings |publisher=Times Higher Education|access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>

Among [[College and university rankings#International rankings from regional organizations|global university rankings]], King's is ranked 40th equal by the 2025 ''[[QS World University Rankings]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=King's College London |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/kings-college-london |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Top Universities |language=en}}</ref> 36th equal by the 2025 world university rankings of the ''[[Times Higher Education]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-26 |title=King's College London |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/kings-college-london |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref> 36th equal by the 2024 ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' Best Global Universities Rankings,<ref>{{Cite web |title=King's College London |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/kings-college-london-500330}}</ref> 53rd by the 2024 ''[[Academic Ranking of World Universities]]'' (ARWU).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Univiersities |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/kings-college-london |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=ShanghaiRanking}}</ref>

King's was ranked 7th in the UK for Graduate Employability in the Times Higher Education's Global Employability University Ranking 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-23 |title=Graduate employability: top universities in the UK ranked by employers 2023-24 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/graduate-employability-top-universities-uk-ranked-employers |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=Times Higher Education |language=en}}</ref> King's was further recognised by the High Fliers' Graduate Market Report 2024 as one of the top universities targeted by leading UK employers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Graduate Market Report 2024 |url=https://online.flippingbook.com/view/747999993/2/?sharedOn= |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=FlippingBook}}</ref> This was reaffirmed by the Teaching Excellence Framework (2023) which gave King's a gold rating for student outcomes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=London |first=King's College |title=Teaching Excellence Framework |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strategy/learning-and-teaching/tef |access-date=2024-07-10 |publisher=King's College London |language=en}}</ref>

=== Associateship of King's College ===
The [[Associateship of King's College]] (AKC) dates to its foundation in 1829 and was first awarded in 1835. It was designed to reflect the twin objectives of King's College's 1829 royal charter to maintain the connection between "sound religion and useful learning" and to teach the "doctrines and duties of Christianity".<ref>{{cite web |title=AKC |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/principal/dean/akc/AKC-Handbook/starting/values.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=10 March 2015}}</ref>

Today, the AKC is a modern tradition that offers an inclusive, research-led programme of lectures that gives students the opportunities to engage with religious, philosophical and ethical issues alongside their main degree course. Graduates of King's College London may be eligible to be elected as 'Associates' of King's College by the authority of King's College London council, delegated to the academic board. After election, they are entitled to use the [[post-nominal letters]] "AKC".<ref>{{cite web |title=How to become an AKC |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/principal/dean/akc/AKC-Handbook/assessment/election.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref>

=== Fellowship of King's College ===
{{See also|:Category:Fellows of King's College London}}

The [[Fellow#Academia|Fellowship]] of King's College (FKC) is the highest award that can be bestowed upon an individual by King's College London. The award of the fellowship is governed by a statute of King's College London and reflects distinguished service to King's by a member of staff, conspicuous service to King's, or the achievement of distinction by those who were at one time closely associated with King's College London.<ref name="Fellowships FKCs">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/assets/files/governance_and_legal/KCL_Ordinances_Nov2011.pdf |work=King's College London Ordinances |title=C3 Honorary Degrees, Fellowships and Honorary Fellowships of King's College London |date=November 2011 |publisher=King's College London |access-date=20 January 2013}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The proposal to establish a fellowship of King's was first considered in 1847.<ref name="fkc">{{cite web |title=Fellows of King's |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/fellows.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=31 January 2016}}</ref> John Allen, a former [[List of Chaplains of King's College London|chaplain of King's]], was the first FKC. Each fellow had to pay two [[guinea (coin)|guineas]] for the fellowship privilege initially, but the fee was ceased from 1850.<ref name="fkc" /> A wide variety of people were elected as fellows of King's, including former principal [[Alfred Barry]], former King's student then professor [[Thorold Rogers]], architect [[William Burges]] and ornithologist [[Robert Swinhoe]].<ref name="fkc" /> The first women fellows were elected in 1904.<ref name="fkc" /> [[Lilian Faithfull]], vice-principal of the King's Ladies' Department from 1894 to 1906, was one of the first women fellows.<ref name="fkc" />