UCL is a modern, outward-looking institution, committed to engaging with the major issues of our times. One of the world’s leading multidisciplinary universities, UCL today is a true academic powerhouse.

UCL was ranked fourth in the world in the 2009 Times Higher Education-QS rankings. No fewer than 20 Nobel prizewinners have come from the UCL community.

UCL was founded in 1826 as a radically different university, opening up English higher education for the first time to people of all beliefs and social backgrounds. That radical tradition remains alive today. It’s research strategy is committed to addressing UCL’s ‘Grand Challenges’, by working together right across the university in order to tackle the problems that face us today – in global health, sustainable cities, intercultural understanding, and human wellbeing. UCL believes in undertaking fundamental research and in applying it.

The JZ Young Lecture Theatre is in the Anatomy Building which can be accessed from Gower Street.
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