City, University of London, is a
public
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research university
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in
London
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, United Kingdom, and a
member institution of the federal
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City University was created by
royal charter
A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, but s ...
in 1966. The
Inns of Court School of Law
The City Law School is one of the five schools of City, University of London. In 2001, the Inns of Court School of Law became part of City, and is now known as the City Law School. Until 1997, the ICSL had a monopoly on the provision of the Bar ...
, which merged with City in 2001, was established in 1852, making it the university's oldest constituent part. City joined the federal University of London on 1 September 2016, becoming part of the eighteen colleges and ten research institutes that then made up that university.
City has strong links with the
City of London
The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London f ...
, and the
Lord Mayor of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional pow ...
serves as the university's rector. The university has its main campus in
Central London in the
London Borough of Islington
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, with additional campuses in Islington, the city, the
West End and
East End. The annual income of the institution for 2019–20 was £245.0 million, of which £11.1 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £218.4 million.
It is organised into six schools, within which there are around forty academic departments and centres, including the
Department of Journalism, the
Business School, and
City Law School
The City Law School is one of the five schools of City, University of London. In 2001, the Inns of Court School of Law became part of City, and is now known as the City Law School. Until 1997, the ICSL had a monopoly on the provision of the Bar ...
which incorporates the Inns of Court School of Law.
City is a founding member of the WC2 University Network which developed for collaboration between leading universities of the heart of major world cities particularly to address cultural, environmental and political issues of common interest to world cities and their universities.
The university is a member of the
Association of MBAs,
EQUIS
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and
Universities UK
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. Alumni of City include a
Founding Father
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, members of
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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,
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
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,
governor
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s, politicians and CEOs.
History
Origins
![Northampton squ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Northampton_squ.jpg)
City traces its origin to the Northampton Institute and
the City Law School (established in 1852). The first was named after the
Marquess of Northampton
A marquess (; french: marquis ), es, marqués, pt, marquês. is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman w ...
who donated the land on which the institute was built, between
Northampton Square
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and St John Street in
Islington. The institute was established to provide for the education and welfare of the local population. It was constituted under the City of London Parochial Charities Act (1883), with the objective of "the promotion of the industrial skill, general knowledge, health and well-being of young men and women belonging to the poorer classes".
Northampton Polytechnic Institute was an
institute of technology
An institute of technology (also referred to as: technological university, technical university, university of technology, technological educational institute, technical college, polytechnic university or just polytechnic) is an institution of te ...
in
Clerkenwell, London, founded in 1894. Its first Principal was
Robert Mullineux Walmsley.
Alumni include
Colin Cherry
Edward Colin Cherry (23 June 1914 – 23 November 1979) was a British cognitive scientist whose main contributions were in focused auditory attention, specifically the cocktail party problem regarding the capacity to follow one conversatio ...
,
Stuart Davies and
Anthony Hunt
Anthony James Hunt (22 June 1932 – 16 August 2022), familiarly known as Tony Hunt, was a British structural engineer of numerous world-renowned buildings, with a career spanning from the 1950s until his retirement in 2002. As a leading propo ...
.
Arthur George Cocksedge, a British
gymnast
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who competed in the
1920 Summer Olympics, was a member of the Northampton Polytechnic Institute's Gymnastics Club and was Champion of the United Kingdom in 1920. In 1937
Maurice Dennis
Maurice Dennis (1913–1962) was an amateur and professional boxer from Camden Town, England. He boxed between 1938 and 1940 an had 14 professional contests.
Biography
Dennis won the 1937 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title, ...
of the (Northampton Polytechnic ABC) was the 1937
ABA Middleweight Champion.
Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page, CBE, FRAeS (15 November 1885 – 21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.
His company Handley Page Limited was ...
was a lecturer in
aeronautics at the institute. The
Handley Page Type A, the first powered aircraft designed and built by him, ended up as an instructional airframe at the school. The novelist
Eric Ambler
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for book ...
studied engineering at the institute.
The six original departments at the institute were Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering; Artistic Crafts; Domestic Economy and Women's Trades; Electro-Chemistry;
Horology
Horology (; related to Latin '; ; , interfix ''-o-'', and suffix ''-logy''), . is the study of the measurement of time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, hourglasses, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers, and atomic clo ...
(the science of time and art of clock-making); and Mechanical Engineering and Metal Trades.
20th century
A separate technical
optics
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department was established in 1903–04. In 1909, the first students qualified for
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
BSc degrees in engineering as internal students.
The Institute had been involved in
aeronautics education since that year, and the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences celebrated the centenary of aeronautics at City in 2009. The institute was used for the
1908 Olympic Games;
boxing
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took place there.
In 1957, the institute was designated a "
College of Advanced Technology".
The institute's involvement in
information science
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began in 1961, with the introduction of a course on "Collecting and Communicating Scientific Knowledge". City received its
royal charter
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in 1966, becoming "The City University" to reflect the institution's close links with the City of London. The
Apollo 15 astronauts visited City in 1971, and presented the Vice-Chancellor, Tait, with a piece of
heat shield from the Apollo 15
rocket
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.
In October 1995, it was announced that City University would merge with both the
St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery and the Charterhouse College of Radiography, doubling the number of students in City's Institute of Health Sciences to around 2,500.
21st century
The university formed a strategic alliance with
Queen Mary, University of London
, mottoeng = With united powers
, established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College
, type = Public researc ...
, in April 2001. In May 2001, a fire in the college building gutted the fourth-floor offices and roof. In August 2001 City and the
Inns of Court School of Law
The City Law School is one of the five schools of City, University of London. In 2001, the Inns of Court School of Law became part of City, and is now known as the City Law School. Until 1997, the ICSL had a monopoly on the provision of the Bar ...
agreed to merge. Following a donation from
Sir John Cass's Foundation, a multimillion-pound building was built at 106 Bunhill Row for the Business School.
![CollegeBuilding](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/CollegeBuilding.jpg)
A new £23 million building to house the School of Social Sciences and the Department of Language and Communication Science was opened in 2004. The reconstruction and redevelopment of the university's
Grade II listed college building (following the fire in 2001) was completed in July 2006.
In 2007 the School of Arts received a £10m building refurbishment. A new students' union venue opened in October 2008 called "TEN squared", which provides a hub for students to socialise in during the day and hosts a wide range of evening entertainment including club nights, society events and quiz nights.
In January 2010, premises were shared with the
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...
(UEA) London, following City's partnership with
INTO University Partnerships
INTO University Partnerships is a British for-profit pathway education provider focused on the provision of foundation courses for international students.
History and Ownership
INTO University Partnerships was founded in 2005 by Andrew Colin, ...
. Since then City has resumed its own International Foundation Programme to prepare students for their pre-university year. City was ranked among the top 30 higher education institutions in the UK by the ''Times Higher Education Table of Tables''.
In April 2011, it was announced that the current halls of residence and Saddler's Sports Centre will be closed and demolished for rebuilding in June 2011. The new student halls and sports facility, now known as CitySport, opened in 2015.
In September 2016 The City University became a member institution of the federal
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
and changed its name to City, University of London.
Campus
City has sites throughout London, with the main campus located at
Northampton Square
Northampton Square, a green town square, is in a corner of Clerkenwell projecting into Finsbury, in Central London. It is between Goswell Road and St John Street (and Spencer and Percival Streets), has a very broad pedestrian walkway on the no ...
in the
Finsbury area of
Islington. The Rhind Building which houses the School of Arts and Social Sciences is directly west of Northampton Square. A few buildings of the main campus are located in nearby
Goswell Road
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in
Clerkenwell.
Other academic sites are:
*
The City Law School (incorporating the former ''Inns of Court School of Law'') in
Holborn
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The area has its root ...
,
Camden
*
Bayes Business School
Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School, is the business school of City, University of London, located in St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966, and it is consistently ranked as on ...
in
St Luke's, Islington, and at
200 Aldersgate
200 Aldersgate is a 434,005 sq ft office building in the City of London.
Proposed in 1983, designed by the architects Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, and built in 1991–92, the building was the headquarters of legal firm Clifford Chance before it ...
in
Smithfield, City of London
* INTO City in
Spitalfields,
Tower Hamlets
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Organisation and administration
![City University of London Northampton Square Clerkenwell London EC1V 0HB](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/City_University_of_London_Northampton_Square_Clerkenwell_London_EC1V_0HB.jpg)
The
rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of City, University of London, is ''
ex officio'' the
Lord Mayor of the City of London
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. The day-to-day running of the university is the responsibility of the
president
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
. The current president is Sir
Anthony Finkelstein
Sir Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein (born 28 July 1959 ) is a British engineer and computer scientist. He is the President of City, University of London. He was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government until 2021.
E ...
.
Schools
City, University of London, is organised into six schools:
*
The City Law School, incorporating ''The Centre for Legal Studies'' and the
Inns of Court School of Law
The City Law School is one of the five schools of City, University of London. In 2001, the Inns of Court School of Law became part of City, and is now known as the City Law School. Until 1997, the ICSL had a monopoly on the provision of the Bar ...
*
School of Health & Psychological Sciences, incorporating
St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery
* School of Communication & Creativity, including the
Department of Journalism
* School of Policy and Global Affairs
* School of Science & Technology
*
Bayes Business School
Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School, is the business school of City, University of London, located in St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966, and it is consistently ranked as on ...
(formerly Cass Business School)
Finances
In the financial year ended 31 July 2011, City had a total income (including share of joint ventures) of £178.6 million (2008/09 – £174.4 million) and total expenditure of £183.62 million (2008/09 – £178.82 million).
Key sources of income included £39.58 million from Funding Council grants (2008/09 – £39.52 million), £116.91 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2008/09 – £104.39 million), £7.86 million from research grants and contracts (2008/09 – £9.29 million), £1.04 from endowment and investment income (2008/09 – £1.83 million) and £15.05 million from other income (2008/09 – £19.37 million).
[
During the 2010/11 financial year, City had a capital expenditure of £9.77 million (2008/09 – £16.13 million).][
At year end, City had reserves and endowments of £112.89 million (2009/10 – £110.05 million) and total net assets of £147.64 million (2008/09 – £147.27 million).][
]
Academic profile
Courses and rankings
City, University of London, offers Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees as well as certificates and diplomas at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. More than two-thirds of City's programmes are recognised by the appropriate professional bodies
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such as the BCS, BPS, CILIP
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, ICE
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, RICS
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, HPC etc. in recognition of the high standards of relevance to the professions. The university also has an online careers network where over 2,000 former students offer practical help to current students.
The City Law School
The City Law School is one of the five schools of City, University of London. In 2001, the Inns of Court School of Law became part of City, and is now known as the City Law School. Until 1997, the ICSL had a monopoly on the provision of the Bar ...
offers courses for undergraduates, postgraduates, master graduates and professional courses leading to qualification as a solicitor or barrister, as well as continuing professional development. Its Legal Practice Course has the highest quality rating from the Solicitors Regulation Authority
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is the regulatory body for solicitors in England and Wales.
It is responsible for regulating the professional conduct of more than 125,000 solicitors and other authorised individuals at more than 11,000 ...
.
The Department of Radiography (part of the School of Community and Health Sciences
The School of Health Sciences at City, University of London, is composed of the former St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery and School of Allied Health Science.
The School offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees as well a ...
) offers two radiography degrees, the BSc (Hons) Radiography (Diagnostic Imaging) and BSc (Hons) Radiography (Radiotherapy and Oncology), both of which are recognised by the Health Professions Council
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, formerly the Health Professions Council, HPC) is a statutory regulator of over 280,000 professionals from 15 health and care professions in the United Kingdom. The Council reports its main purpose i ...
(HPC).
Partnerships and collaborations
CETL
Queen Mary, University of London
, mottoeng = With united powers
, established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College
, type = Public researc ...
, and City, University of London, were jointly awarded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) status by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in recognition of their work in skills training for 3,000 students across six healthcare professions.
City of London
City, University of London, has links with businesses in the City of London
The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London f ...
. City has also joined forces with other universities such as Queen Mary and the Institute of Education
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) is the education school of University College London (UCL). It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to ...
(both part of the University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
) with which it jointly delivers several leading degree programmes.
LCACE
London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange is a consortium of nine universities. It was established in 2004 to foster collaboration and to promote and support the exchange of knowledge between the consortium's partners and London's arts and cultural sectors. The nine institutions involved are: University of the Arts London; Birkbeck, University of London; City, University of London; The Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist coll ...
; Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wo ...
; Guildhall School of Music & Drama
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...
; King's College London; Queen Mary, University of London
, mottoeng = With united powers
, established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College
, type = Public researc ...
, and Royal Holloway, University of London.
WC2 University Network
City is a founding member of the WC2 University Network, a network of universities developed with the goal of bringing together leading universities located in the heart of major world cities in order to address cultural, environmental and political issues of common interest to world cities and their universities. In addition to City, University of London, the founding members of WC2 members are: City University of New York, Technische Universität Berlin
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, Universidade de São Paulo
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The Universiade is referred t ...
, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
Universidad (Spanish for "university") may refer to:
Places
* Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico
* Universidad (Madrid)
Football clubs
* Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
...
, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
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, Politecnico di Milano
The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students.
The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design.
Founded in 18 ...
, University of Delhi
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
, Northeastern University Boston and Tongji University
Tongji University () is a comprehensive public research university located in Shanghai. Established in 1907 by the German government together with German physicians in Shanghai, Tongji is one of the longest-standing, most selective, and most pr ...
.
Erasmus Mundus MULTI
City was selected as the sole British university to take part in the selective Erasmus Mundus MULTI programme, funded by the European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body ...
to promote scientific exchange between Europe and the industrialised countries of South-East Asia. It is the first Erasmus program to involve universities outside of Europe. In addition to City, the partner universities are: Aix-Marseille University
Aix-Marseille University (AMU; french: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as ''Université d'Aix-Marseille'') is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II o ...
(France), Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic), Freie Universität Berlin
The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
(Germany), Universität des Saarlandes
Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in s ...
(Germany), Università di Pisa
The University of Pisa ( it, Università di Pisa, UniPi), officially founded in 1343, is one of the oldest universities in Europe.
History
The Origins
The University of Pisa was officially founded in 1343, although various scholars place ...
(Italy), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong near Hung Hom station. The University is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded ...
(Hong Kong, SAR China), Universiti Brunei Darussalam
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(Brunei), University of Macau
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(Macau, SAR China), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan.
The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...
(Taiwan).
UCL Partners
City has joined the executive group of UCL Partners, one of five accredited academic health science groups in the UK. City was invited to join the partnership in recognition of its expertise in nursing, allied health, health services research and evaluation and health management.
Student life
Students' Union
The City Students' Union is run primarily by students through three elected sabbatical officers, an executive committee and a union council, with oversight by a trustee board. The Students' Union provides support, representation, facilities, services, entertainment and activities for its members. It is run for students, by students.
Student media
City currently has two student-run media outlets, including Carrot Radio, which was co-founded by journalism postgraduates Jordan Gass-Pooré and Winston Lo in the autumn of 2018. Carrot Radio currently records weekday podcasts. The second is the student-led online magazine, Carrot Magazine. They recently released their first print magazine in December 2017.
Other
For a number of years, City students have taken part in the annual Lord Mayor's Show
The Lord Mayor's Show is one of the best-known annual events in London as well as one of the longest-established, dating back to the 13th century. A new lord mayor is appointed every year, and the public parade that takes place as his or her in ...
, representing the university in one of the country's largest and liveliest parades.
Sustainability ranking
City ranked joint 5th out of the 168 universities surveyed in the 2019 People & Planet
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league table of the most sustainable UK universities having climbed from 7th place in the 2016 league. In both the 2016 and 2019 rankings, it was the highest ranking University of London institution, and one of only four London institutions in the top twenty.
The league table's ''Fossil Free Scorecard'' report, drawn from Freedom of Information
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requests, found that £800,000 (6.4%) of City's £12.5m endowment was invested in fossil fuels, and that the institution had not made a public commitment to fossil fuel divestment. It also noted nearly £1m of research funding into renewables
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since 2001 with just £64k of total funding from fossil fuel companies; and no honorary degree
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s or board positions held by fossil fuel executives.
Notable people
Notable alumni
Government, politics and society
* Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
– Leader of the Indian Independence Movement
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The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged ...
, graduated in 1891 from the Inns of Court School of Law (now part of The City Law School)
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* Muhammad Ali Jinnah – founder of Pakistan, first Governor-General of Pakistan graduated from the Inns of Court school of Law (now part of The City Law School)
* Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...
– Conservative Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, graduated from the Inns of Court School of Law (now part of The City Law School)
* Clement Attlee – Labour
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** Manual labour, physical work
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** Organized labour and the labour ...
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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from 1945 to 1951
* H. H. Asquith
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom f ...
– Liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916
* Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
– Labour Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, graduated from the Inns of Court School of Law (now part of The City Law School)
* Christos Staikouras – Finance Minister of Greece from 2019 to present
* Roderic Bowen
Evan Roderic Bowen KC (6 August 1913 – 19 July 2001) was a Welsh Liberal Party politician.
Bowen was educated at Cardigan County School, University College, Aberystwyth, St John's College, Cambridge, Brussels and the Inns of Court. He ...
– Welsh Liberal Party politician
* Robert Chote – chief of the Office for Budget Responsibility
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; former director of Institute for Fiscal Studies
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The institute's aim is to "ad ...
* Ali Dizaei
Jamshid Ali Dizaei ( fa, جمشید علی دیزایی, transliteration: ''Jamshīd ʿAlī Dizaī''; ) (born 1962) is a former Commander in London's Metropolitan Police Service, Iranian-born with dual nationality, and formerly one of Britain's ...
– former police commander
* Jody Dunn – Liberal Democrat
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politician, and a barrister specialising in family law
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Overview
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* Marriage ...
* Sir James Dutton – Royal Marine general and former deputy commander of the International Security Assistance Force
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* Chloë Fox
Chloë Catienne Fox (born 22 February 1971) is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bright from 2006 to 2014 for the Labor Party.
Personal life
Fox is the daughter of Australian children's auth ...
– Australian politician, former Labor
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the la ...
MP for the South Australian electoral district of Bright
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* Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada
Sharifuddin Pirzada () NI (12 June 1923 – 2 June 2017) was a noted Pakistani Barrister who served as a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Personal life
Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada was born in the city of Burhanpur, in what is to ...
– Noted Pakistani lawyer & Politician. Also served as 5th secretary general of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
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.
* James Hart – Commissioner of the City of London Police
* David Heath – Politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Somerton and Frome
* Syed Kamall
Syed Salah Kamall, Baron Kamall (born 15 February 1967) is a British politician and academic, who from September to October 2022 served in HM Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and ...
– Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
politician and Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
for the London European Parliament constituency
* David Lammy – Labour MP for Tottenham
* Barbara Mensah, judge
* Liu Mingkang
Liu Mingkang () (born August 28, 1946 in Fuzhou, Fujian) is a former Chinese politician, public servant and economist from China. He graduated from the University of London in 1987. In 1988 he received an MBA from the Cass Business School. He se ...
– Chinese Politician and Businessman, current Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission
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, former Vice-Governor of the China Development Bank
* Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat—
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* and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20t ...
– First Prime Minister
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of the Republic of India
* Houda Nonoo – Bahraini Ambassador to the United States
* Patrick O'Flynn
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– UK Independence Party
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MEP
* Stav Shaffir – Youngest member of the Israeli Knesset
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, leader of the social justice
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movement
* Aris Spiliotopoulos
Aris Spiliotopoulos ( el, Άρης Σπηλιωτόπουλος; born 28 October 1966[Ivy Williams – First woman to be called to the ]English bar
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* Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Araneta Marcos III - Member of the Philippine House of Representatives, eldest son of President Bongbong Marcos and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, grandson of former President Ferdinand Marcos and former First Lady Imelda Marcos
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.
Arts, science and academia
* L. Bruce Archer
Leonard Bruce Archer CBE (22 November 1922 – 16 May 2005) was a British chartered mechanical engineer and Professor of Design Research at the Royal College of Art (RCA) who championed research in design, and helped to establish design as an a ...
– British mechanical engineer and Professor of Design Research at the Royal College of Art
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* Susan Bickley – Mezzo-soprano in opera and classical music
* George Daniels – Horologist, regarded as the greatest watchmaker of modern times and inventor of the coaxial escapement
* Jerry Fishenden
Dr Jerry Fishenden has been referred to as "one of the UK’s leading authorities in the world of technology", and appears regularly in a variety of mainstream media. He is also a frequent guest and keynote speaker on the conference circuit, draw ...
– Technologist, former Microsoft National Technology Officer for the UK
* Julia Gomelskaya – Ukrainian contemporary music composer, professor of Odessa State Music Academy in Ukraine
* Norman Gowar
Professor Norman William Gowar (born 7 December 1940) is an academic from the United Kingdom who served as the Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, from 1990 to 2000. Prior to that he had served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Open ...
– Professor of Mathematics at the Open University
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and Principal of Royal Holloway College
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, University of London
* Michel Guillon - British optometrist and researcher
* Clare Hammond – Concert pianist
* Ehsan Razavizadeh – Founding Director of Dubai Campus and London Space Innovation Centre
* David Hirsh
David Hirsh (born 29 September 1967) is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-founder of Engage, a campaign against the academic boycott of Israel.
Early life and education
Hirsh was raised in a Jewish fami ...
– Academic and sociologist
* Muhammad Iqbal
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– Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, born in present-day Pakistan, graduated from the Inns of Court School of Law and University of Cambridge
* John Loder – Sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios
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, as well as a former member of EXIT
Exit(s) may refer to:
Architecture and engineering
* Door
* Portal (architecture), an opening in the walls of a structure
* Emergency exit
* Overwing exit, a type of emergency exit on an airplane
* Exit ramp, a feature of a road interchange
...
* Sharon Maguire
Sharon Maguire (born 17 August 1963) is a film director best known for directing '' Bridget Jones's Diary''. The film was based on the book by her close friend Helen Fielding, and one of the main characters – "Shazza" – is allegedly based o ...
– Director of ''Bridget Jones's Diary
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* Rhodri Marsden
Rhodri Marsden (born 1 October 1971) is a London-based writer and musician.
Journalism
Prior to the demise of the print edition of ''The Independent'', Marsden wrote a technology column for nearly ten years, along with other columns on a range o ...
– Journalist, musician and blogger; columnist for ''The Independent
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* Robin Milner
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner (13 January 1934 – 20 March 2010), known as Robin Milner or A. J. R. G. Milner, was a British computer scientist, and a Turing Award winner. – Computer scientist and recipient of the 1991 ACM Turing Award
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* Bernard Miles
Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 190714 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1959, the first new theatre that opened in the City of London since the 17th ce ...
- Actor and founder of the Mermaid Theatre
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.
* John Palmer John Palmer may refer to:
People
Politicians
* John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician
* Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician
* John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York
* John Palmer (1842–19 ...
– Instrumental and electroacoustic music composer
* Sebastian Payne – Journalist
* Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar ( ur, ضیاء الدین سردار; born 31 October 1951) is a British-Pakistani scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futurology and s ...
– Academic and scholar of Islamic issues, Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
* Theresa Wallach – Pioneer female engineer, motorcycle adventurer, author, educator and entrepreneur, holder of Brooklands
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Gold Star.
* John Hodge – Aeronautical Engineer who played a key role in NASA
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and America's space race.
Business and finance
* Winston Set Aung
Dr. Set Aung ( my, ဆက်အောင်) who is also known as Dr. Winston Set Aung is former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry. He also had multiple roles as Chairperson of Thilawa Special Economic Zone's Mana ...
– Politician, Economist and Management Consultant, incumbent Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar
The Central Bank of Myanmar
(; ; abbreviated CBM) is the central bank of Myanmar (formerly Burma).
Organisation
Its headquarter located in Naypyidaw, and it has branches in Yangon and Mandalay. The Governor is Kyaw Kyaw Maung and three V ...
* Brendan Barber – General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
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*Jonathan Breeze – Founder and CEO of Jet Republic, private jet airline company in Europe
*Michael Boulos
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Early life an ...
– associate director of Callian Capital Group, and partner of Tiffany Trump
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Early life an ...
* William Castell – former Chairman of the Wellcome Trust
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and a Director of General Electric
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and BP, former CEO of Amersham plc
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* Peter Cullum – British entrepreneur
* ]James J. Greco
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– former CEO and President of Sbarro
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* Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou – Founder of easyGroup
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Overview
The group is registered in the Cayman Islands, but operates from its offi ...
*Tom Ilube
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CBE, British entrepreneur and Chair of the RFU
* Bob Kelly – former CEO of Bank of New York Mellon
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and CFO of Mellon Financial Corporation
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and Wachovia Corporation
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* Muhtar Kent
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In December 2016, Coca-Cola announced ...
– former CEO and Chairman of The Coca-Cola Company
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* William Lewis – former CEO Dow Jones Publisher, ''The Wall Street Journal''
* Ian Livingstone
Sir Ian Livingstone (born 29 December 1949) is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of a series of role-playing gamebooks, ''Fighting Fantasy'', and the author of many books within that s ...
– chairman and co-owner, London & Regional Properties
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* Liu Mingkang
Liu Mingkang () (born August 28, 1946 in Fuzhou, Fujian) is a former Chinese politician, public servant and economist from China. He graduated from the University of London in 1987. In 1988 he received an MBA from the Cass Business School. He se ...
– former Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission
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* Dick Olver
Sir Richard Lake Olver FREng (born 2 January 1947) was the chairman of BAE Systems, one of the world's largest defence contractors.
Biography
Early life
Richard Olver was born on 2 January 1947. He studied at City University London, where he ga ...
– former Chairman of BAE Systems, member of the board of directors at Reuters
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The agency was esta ...
* Syed Ali Raza – former president and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan
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* Martin Wheatley
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In London
Wheatley worked for t ...
– former CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority
* Brian Wynter – Governor of the Bank of Jamaica[
* ]Durmuş Yılmaz
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– Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey
Media and entertainment
* Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed (born 15 June 1968) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, where she has presented Radio 3's ''Night Waves'' and Radio 4's '' PM'', ''The World Tonight'', '' Sunday'' and '' Front Row'' and has presented the ...
– Channel 4 News
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Current productions
''Channel 4 News''
''Channel 4 News'' ...
presenter, BBC News
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presenter, writer and journalist
* Decca Aitkenhead – journalist
* Joanna Blythman – Non-fiction writer, Britain's leading investigative food journalist[
* Emily Buchanan – BBC World Affairs correspondent
* Sally Bundock – BBC Presenter
* ]Ellie Crisell
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* Imogen Edwards-Jones – Novelist
* ]Gamal Fahnbulleh
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Early life
Gamal Fahnbull ...
– Sky News Presenter and journalist
*Mimi Fawaz
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, BBC presenter and journalist
* Michael Fish
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Career
Educated at Eastbourne College and City University London, Fish was the lon ...
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