Profile 2014

Profile2014

KING’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.

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The Guy’s Campus.

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King’s is:

• a College, awarding its own degrees, of the University of London

• ranked 19th equal in the world in the QS World University 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)

•equalfirstamongEnglishuniversitiesforPhDcompletionrates• one of the most successful higher education institutions in attractingfundingfromtheDepartmentofHealthandtheNationalInstituteforHealthResearch,withfiveMedicalResearch 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 scientificandacademicorganisationstoencourageground-breaking research and ensure that laboratory discoveries are turned into treatments as quickly as possible

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• pioneering new academic and student opportunities through culturalpartnerships.TheCulturalInstitute,aflagshipinitiative 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.

King’s campaignKing’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

KING’S COLLEGE LONDON was founded by King GeorgeIVandtheDukeofWellingtonin1829.Whenthe

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;andwiththeUnitedMedical&DentalSchoolsofGuy’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 & Midwiferyisdirectlydescendedfromtheworld’sfirstprofessional 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 theDefenceStudiesDepartmentattheJointServicesCommandandStaffCollege,Shrivenham.WhileremainingpartoftheUniversityofLondon,King’shasenjoyedfinancialand academic autonomy since 1994. Since 2008 it has awarded its own degrees.

A tradition of excellence

OVER 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: distinguisheddoctorswhoidentifiedthediseases that are named after them; physicist JamesClerkMaxwell,Einstein’spredecessorin electromagnetism and relativity; Florence Nightingale,founderoftheworld’sfirstprofessional school of nursing, and Lord Lister, who established antiseptic surgery. Among the many writers educated at King’s areRomanticpoetJohnKeats(onceamedical student at Guy’s), novelist Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Arthur C Clarke.

Nobel laureatesTwelve 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

Professor Sir Charles Lyell

Professor James Clerk Maxwell

Professor Thomas Hodgkin

Florence Nightingale

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development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. Other King’s NobellaureatesincludeProfessorSirJamesBlack, inventor of beta blockers and anti-ulcer drugs, and Professor Maurice Wilkins who, withDrRosalindFranklinandotherKing’scolleagues, played a major part in the discoveryofthestructureofDNA.

Current alumniThe College’s current alumni include Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Emeritus DesmondTutu;NobelLiteraturelaureateMarioVargasLlosa;DameNancyRothwell,President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester; writers Susan Hill, Alain de Botton, Hanif Kureishi and Michael Morpurgo;leadingbusinessfiguresincludingSirDeryckMaughanandRoryTapner;composer Michael Nyman, conductor Sir JohnEliotGardinerandmusiciansJohnDeaconofQueenandKeleOkereke;NaveenSelvadurai, founder of the mobile social networking venture Foursquare; members of the House of Commons, House of Lords and oftheJudiciary;impressionistandpoliticalsatirist Rory Bremner, and Olympic Gold medal-winnerDrKatherineGraingerCBE.

Most Reverend Desmond Tutu

Dr Rosalind Franklin

Virginia Woolf

Professor Peter Higgs

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King’s Worldwide

KING’S IS A WORLD-LEADING INSTITUTION with a truly global perspective. The College has:

• a network of Global Institutes to promote understanding of fast-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, andKing’sInternationalDevelopmentInstitute

• strategic partnerships with leading universities worldwide, including the University of California, San Francisco; the UniversityofHongKong;JawaharlalNehruUniversity;theNational University of Singapore; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Renmin University of China and the University of São Paulo

•jointPhDprogrammes,involvingmorethan20academicdepartments across the College, with the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, Humboldt University, the University of Stuttgart and Université Paris-Sorbonne

•outreachofficesinIndia,theUSAandChina:partofaglobalnetwork that will develop deeper relationships with local research, student and alumni communities in key countries

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• received more than £46 million in international research grants in 2013: an increase of over 10 per cent on 2012

•offered749ofitsstudentstheopportunitytogoabroadforpart of their study in 2013

• more than 8,650 international students from some 140 countries, making up over 33 per cent of the total student body

•1,313academicandresearchstafffromoutsidetheUK, from79differentcountries,representingnearly40percent oftheacademicstaff

•trainingprogrammesforstudentsandstaffin25foreignlanguages

• 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

ACROSS-CAMPUS INVESTMENT of £18 million has 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 TheDicksonPoonSchoolofLawandafocalpointformanyofthe cultural aspects of the College. The Virginia Woolf Building on Kingsway opened in 2013, providing accommodation for manyacademicstaffandpostgraduateresearchstudentsoftheSchool of Arts & Humanities, and the Quadrangle building and the former Law School building at the Strand are in course of redevelopment.

AttheDenmarkHillCampusthe£30millionJamesBlackCentre 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 atBritanniaHousewereacquiredin2013fortheDepartmentof Chemistry. At the former Mulberry Business Park at Canada Water, work begins in 2014 to provide nearly 800 new student rooms,officespace,affordablehousing,retailunits,ahealthcare centre and landscaped public space.

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Strand Campus

The Maughan Library

Guy’s Campus

Waterloo Campus

St Thomas’ Campus

Denmark Hill Campus

Denmark Hill Campus lies 2.3 miles due south of the Guy’s Campus

Strand Campus

The Maughan Library

Guy’s Campus

Waterloo Campus

St Thomas’ Campus

Denmark Hill Campus

Denmark Hill Campus lies 2.3 miles due south of the Guy’s Campus

At the heart of London

K 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.

Visitors to King’sKing’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.

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

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King’s has four Thames-side campuses in the heart of London.

The Strand Campus and Somerset House from the South Bank.

Senior College officers at February 2014

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 PsychiatryProfessor Shitij Kapur MBBS PhD FMedSci

Assistant Principal (Estates)Professor Colin Bushnell BSc PhD FKC

Head of Administration & College SecretaryMr Ian Creagh BA DipEd MA FKC

Dean of the CollegeThe 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.

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School Campus UNDER-GRADUATE

POSTGRADUATE TOTAL % of totalTaught Research

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%

Global Centres & Institutes

0 177 84 261 1%

Institute of Psychiatry

Denmark Hill 67 723 346 1,136 4%

King’s Learning Institute

3 502 12 517 2%

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%

Incoming Study Abroad students*

454 58 7 519 2%

GRAND TOTAL 15,178 7,786 2,833 25,797 100%

Facts & figures

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Student numbers by School and level of study Headcount on 1 December 2013

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* The full-year enrolment for Incoming Study Abroad Students in 2013-4 is 809.

Number of students Total % of total

Gender UNDERGRADUATE POSTGRADUATE

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%

Student numbers by age at start of programme 2013-14

Number of students Total % of total

Age UNDERGRADUATE POSTGRADUATE

Taught 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%

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Student numbers by gender 2013-14

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The Shard, seen from the Guy’s Campus.

Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus.

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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 5,150 20%

TOTAL 25,797 100%

Members of staff on 1 January 2014 excluding senior students, honorary and occasional staff.

School Academic and research staff

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

Medicine 1,041 365 1,406

Natural & Mathematical Sciences 182 89 271

Nursing & Midwifery 125 71 196

Social Science & Public Policy 363 250 613

Professional Services 46 1,580 1,626

GRAND TOTAL 3,632 3,419 7,051

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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 577,383

Surplus on ordinary activities 9,565

Taxation –

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 9,565

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FinancesConsolidated income & expenditure accountFor the year ended 31 July 2013. King’s credit rating was confirmed by Standard & Poor’s as ‘AA/stable’ for 2013.

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James Clerk Maxwell Building, Waterloo Campus.

How to contact King’sMain telephone switchboard +44 (0)20 7836 5454www.kcl.ac.uk

Main College address & Strand CampusSchools of Arts & Humanities, Natural & Mathematical Sciences, Social Science & Public Policy and The Dickson Poon School of LawStrand, London WC2R 2LSThe Maughan LibraryChancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR

Waterloo CampusPrincipal’s Office, Professional Services, and Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & MidwiferyJames Clerk Maxwell Building,57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WASchool of Biomedical Sciences, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery and Departments of Management and of Education & Professional StudiesFranklin-Wilkins Building,Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH

Denmark Hill CampusDental InstituteKing’s College London, Caldecot Road,London SE5 9RWInstitute of PsychiatryDe Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill,London SE5 8AFSchool of MedicineWeston Education Centre,10 Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ

Guy’s CampusSchool of MedicineFirst floor, Hodgkin BuildingGuy’s Campus, London SE1 1ULSchool of Biomedical SciencesHenriette Raphael Building,Guy’s Campus, London SE1 1ULDental InstituteCentral Office, Floor 18, Tower Wing,Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RTKing’s Health PartnersGround Floor, Counting House,Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RTTel: +44 (0)20 7188 8794

St Thomas’ CampusDental Institute and School of MedicineKing’s College London,St Thomas’ Campus, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH

Defence Studies DepartmentKing’s College London, Joint Services Command and Staff CollegeFaringdon Road, ShrivenhamSwindon, Wilts SN6 8TSTel: +44 (0)1793 788746

King’s College London Students’ UnionMacadam Building, Surrey Street,London WC2R 2NSTel +44 (0)20 7848 1588

For other King’s addressesincluding halls of residence, seewww.kcl.ac.uk

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