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{{Short description|Public university in London, England}}
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 | name                   = King's College London
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 | caption                = Coat of arms
 | latin_name             = Collegium Regale Londiniense<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/3066617 |title=The memorial inscription to Joseph Anstice |first=Michael |last=Trapp |via=www.academia.edu}}</ref>
 | motto                  = {{Lang-la|Sancte et Sapienter}}
 | mottoeng               = With Holiness and Wisdom
 | established            = 1829 (earliest recorded teaching in medical school 1561)<ref name="kings medical">{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/history/index.aspx |title=Our history |publisher=King's College London Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine |access-date=13 February 2016 |archive-date=18 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122315/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/history/index.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 | type                   = Public research university
 | endowment              = [[Finance:Pound sterling|£]]301.0&nbsp;million (2023)<ref name="KCL 2022/23">{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/assets/pdf/statements/financialstatements2023.pdf |title=Financial Statements for the year to 31 July 2023|access-date=13 December 2023 |publisher=King's College London}}</ref>
 | budget                 = £1.230 billion (2022/23)<ref name="KCL 2022/23"/>
 | head_label             = Vice-Chancellor and President
 | head                   = [[Biography:Shitij Kapur|Shitij Kapur]]
 | chair                  = Lord Geidt
 | chancellor             = The Princess Royal<br />{{small|(as Chancellor of the University of London)}}
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 | visitor                = Justin Welby<br />{{small|(as [[Religion:Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop of Canterbury]] ''ex officio'')}}
 | academic_staff         = 5,715 (2021/22)<ref name="HESAStaff">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff/working-in-he|title=Who's working in HE? |website=hesa.ac.uk}}</ref>
 | administrative_staff   = 4,240 (2021/22)<ref name="HESAStaff"/>
 | students               = 41,490 (2021/22)<ref name="HESAStudents">{{cite web |title=Where do HE students study? {{!}} HESA |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider |website=hesa.ac.uk}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 23,225 (2021/22)<ref name="HESAStudents"/>
 | postgrad               = 18,270 (2021/22)<ref name="HESAStudents"/>
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 | city                   = London
 | country                = England
 | campus                 = Urban
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 | mascot                 = Reggie the Lion
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'''King's College London''' (informally '''King's''' or '''KCL''') is a public research university located in [[Place:London|London]], England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/foundation.aspx |title=Foundation of the College |publisher=King's College London|access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="charter2009">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/assets/files/governance_and_legal/Charter_and_Statutes.pdf |title=Royal Charter of King's College London |publisher=King's College London |year=2009|access-date=12 September 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801082023/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/assets/files/governance_and_legal/Charter_and_Statutes.pdf|archive-date=1 August 2014 }}</ref> In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.london.ac.uk/history.html#c31 |title=A brief history |publisher=University of London |access-date=19 January 2013 |archive-date=9 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209004448/http://www.london.ac.uk/history.html#c31 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is one of the oldest university-level institutions in England.<ref>{{cite web |title=King's College London |date=27 January 2024 |url=https://russellgroup.ac.uk/about/our-universities/kings-college-london/ |publisher=Russell Group}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=King's College London |url=https://london.ac.uk/ways-study/study-campus-london/member-institutions/kings-college-london |newspaper=University of London}}</ref> In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998).

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King's has five campuses: its historic Strand Campus in central London, three other Thames-side campuses (Guy's, St Thomas' and Waterloo) nearby and one in Denmark Hill in south London. It also has a presence in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, for its professional military education, and another in Newquay, [[History:Cornwall|Cornwall]], where its information service centre is based. Its academic activities are organised into nine faculties, which are subdivided into numerous departments, centres, and research divisions. In 2022/23, King's had a total income of £1.230&nbsp;billion, of which £236.3&nbsp;million was from research grants and contracts.<ref name="KCL 2022/23" /> It has the [[Finance:List of UK universities by endowment|fourth largest endowment]] of any university in the United Kingdom, and the largest of any in London. King's is the fifth-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment<ref name="HESAStudents"/> and receives over 70,000 undergraduate applications per year, making it the fourth-most popular university in the UK by volume of applications.<ref name=UCASEoC22/>

King's is a member of academic organisations including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, and the Russell Group. King's is home to six Medical Research Council centres and is a founding member of the King's Health Partners academic health sciences centre, Francis Crick Institute and MedCity. It is the largest European centre for graduate and post-graduate medical teaching and biomedical research, by number of students,<ref name="kingspartnersfacts" /> and includes the world's first nursing school, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Petroni |first1=A |year=1969 |title=[The first nursing school in the world—St. Thomas Hospital School in London] |journal=Munca Sanit |volume=17 |issue=8 |pages=449–54 |pmid=5195090}}</ref> King's is generally regarded as part of the "golden triangle" of universities located in the cities of Oxford, Cambridge and London.<ref>{{cite book |title=Social Class in the 21st Century |author=Mike Savage |date=5 November 2015 |publisher=Penguin |quote="Higher education researchers often talk about a 'Golden Triangle' of universities. The 'triangle' describes an imaginary three-sided shape with corners in Oxford, Cambridge and London. The exact composition of the London 'corner' can vary, but typically it includes the London School of Economics, King's College London, University College London and Imperial College London." |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TE3ZCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT167 |page=167 |isbn=9780141978925}}</ref> King's has often had royal patronage by virtue of its foundation, with the late Queen Elizabeth II having been patron.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/remembering-her-majesty-the-queen|date= 8 September 2022|title=Remembering Her Majesty The Queen|publisher=King's College London|access-date=8 September 2022}}</ref>

King's alumni and staff include 14 Nobel laureates; contributors to the discovery of [[Biology:DNA|DNA]] structure, [[Medicine:Hepatitis C|Hepatitis C]], the [[Medicine:Hepatitis D|Hepatitis D]] [[Biology:Genome|genome]], and the [[Physics:Higgs boson|Higgs boson]]; pioneers of [[Biology:In vitro fertilisation|in-vitro fertilisation]], [[Biology:Somatic cell nuclear transfer|stem cell]]/mammal cloning and the modern hospice movement; and key researchers advancing radar, radio, television and mobile phones. Alumni also include heads of states, governments and intergovernmental organisations; nineteen members of the current House of Commons, 2 Speakers of the House of Commons and seventeen members of the current House of Lords; and the recipients of three Oscars, three Grammys, one Emmy, one Golden Globe, and one Booker Prize.


== History ==

=== Foundation ===
[[File:Sir Thomas Lawrence - King George IV as Prince Regent in Garter Robes - MV.40448 - Pinacoteca Vaticana.jpg|thumb|The patron of King's College London, King George IV, shown in a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence]]

King's College, so named to indicate the patronage of King George IV, was founded in 1829 (though the roots of King's medical school, St. Thomas, date back to the 16th century with recorded first teaching in 1561)<ref name="kings medical"/> in response to the theological controversy surrounding the founding of "London University" (which later became [[Organization:University College London|University College, London]]) in 1826.<ref name="HIST">Cockburn, King, McDonnell (1969), pp. 345–359</ref><ref name="Foundation">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/foundation.aspx |title=Foundation |publisher=King's College London|access-date=9 February 2013}}</ref> London University was founded, with the backing of Utilitarians, [[Religion:Jews|Jews]] and [[Religion:Nonconformist (Protestantism)|Nonconformists]], as a secular institution, intended to educate "the youth of our middling rich people between the ages of 15 or 16 and 20 or later"<ref>Hearnshaw (1929), p. 38</ref> giving its nickname, "the godless college in Gower Street".<ref>Hibbert, Weinreb, Keay, Keay (2008), p. 958</ref> The need for such an institution was a result of the religious and social nature of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which then educated solely the sons of wealthy Anglicans.<ref name="victorianweb.org">{{cite web |last=Banerjee |first=Jacqueline |title=The University of London: The Founding Colleges |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/education/ulondon/2.html|access-date=26 May 2007}}</ref> The secular nature of London University gained disapproval, indeed, "the storms of opposition which raged around it threatened to crush every spark of vital energy which remained".<ref>MacIlwraith (1884), p. 32</ref>

The creation of King's College as a rival institution represented a Tory response to reassert the educational values of the established order.<ref name="Thompson5">Thompson (1990), p. 5</ref> More widely, King's was one of the first of a [[Organization:List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)#19th century|series of institutions]] which came about in the early nineteenth century as a result of the [[History:Industrial Revolution|Industrial Revolution]] and great social changes in {{wipe|England}} following the Napoleonic Wars.<ref name="somersethousebooklet">{{citation |title=King's College London and Somerset House |url=http://issuu.com/kingscollegelondon/docs/booklet_produced_by_the_college_to_promote_the_ide/1 |page=2 |publisher=King's College London |date=c. 1963|access-date=12 February 2013}}</ref> By virtue of its foundation King's has enjoyed the patronage of the monarch, the [[Religion:Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop of Canterbury]] as its [[Religion:Visitor|visitor]] and during the nineteenth century counted among its official governors the Lord Chancellor, Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Mayor of London.<ref name="somersethousebooklet" />

[[File:London Somerset House 01.jpg|thumb|Somerset House – showing the East Wing, which is a part of the Strand Campus of King's College London.]]
[[File:King's College, Strand, London. Engraving by J. C. Carter. Wellcome V0013842.jpg|thumb|King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter]]

==== Duel in Battersea Fields, 21 March 1829 ====
[[File:Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.png|Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and then prime minister, fought a duel against the Earl of Winchilsea in 1829 over the Duke's support for the rights of Irish Catholics and the independence of the newly established King's College London|thumb|upright|left]]

The simultaneous support of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (who was also Prime Minister of the United Kingdom then), for an Anglican King's College London and the Roman Catholic Relief Act, which was to lead to the granting of almost full civil rights to Catholics, was challenged by George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, in early 1829. Winchilsea and his supporters wished for King's to be subject to the Test Acts, like the universities of [[Organization:University of Oxford|Oxford]], where only members of the Church of England could [[Social:Matriculation#United Kingdom|matriculate]], and [[Organization:University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], where non-Anglicans could matriculate but not graduate,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://beginnings.ioe.ac.uk/begskings.html |title=Beginnings: The History of Higher Education in Bloomsbury and Westminster – King's College London |publisher=Institute of Education |access-date=13 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007235307/http://beginnings.ioe.ac.uk/begskings.html |archive-date=7 October 2013 |url-status=dead }} "Londoners who did study, for example in Oxford or Cambridge, had to be quite rich and also members of the Anglican Church."</ref> but this was not Wellington's intent.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=2723 |title=The famous Duel |publisher=King's College London|access-date=13 February 2013}}</ref>

Winchilsea and about 150 other contributors withdrew their support of King's College London in response to Wellington's support of [[Religion:Catholic emancipation|Catholic emancipation]]. In a letter to Wellington, he accused the Duke to have in mind "insidious designs for the infringement of our liberty and the introduction of Popery into every department of the State".<ref name="Holmes275">Holmes (2002), p. 275</ref> The letter provoked a furious exchange of correspondence and Wellington accused Winchilsea of imputing him with "disgraceful and criminal motives" in setting up King's College London. When Winchilsea refused to retract the remarks, Wellington – by his own admission, "no advocate of duelling" and a virgin duellist – demanded satisfaction in a contest of arms: "I now call upon your lordship to give me that satisfaction for your conduct which a gentleman has a right to require, and which a gentleman never refuses to give."<ref name="duelexhibtion">{{cite web |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/wellington/duel/insult |title=Winchilsea insults Wellington |publisher=King's College London College Archives|access-date=13 February 2013}}</ref>

The result was a duel in Battersea Fields on 21 March 1829.<ref name="Foundation" /><ref name="dueldayqa">{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/document.doc?id=41 |title=Duel Day – Questions and Answers |publisher=King's College London|access-date=9 February 2013}}</ref> Winchilsea did not fire, a plan he and his second almost certainly decided upon before the duel; Wellington took aim and fired wide to the right. Accounts differ as to whether Wellington missed on purpose. Wellington, noted for his poor aim, claimed he did, other reports more sympathetic to Winchilsea claimed he had aimed to kill.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/wellington/duel/fire |title=Open Fire! |publisher=King's College London College Archives |access-date=13 February 2013}}</ref> Honour was saved and Winchilsea wrote Wellington an apology.<ref name="Holmes275" /> "Duel Day" is still celebrated on the first Thursday after 21 March every year, marked by various events throughout King's, including reenactments.<ref name="dueldayqa" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?news_id=539&year=2007 |title=Alumni celebrate Duel Day |publisher=King's College London |year=2007|access-date=23 January 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001180633/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?news_id=539&year=2007|archive-date=1 October 2012 }}</ref>

=== 19th century ===
[[File:Williamotter.jpg|thumb|William Otter (1831–36), the first Principal of King's College London]]
King's opened in October 1831 with the cleric William Otter appointed as first principal and lecturer in divinity.<ref name="HIST" /> The [[Religion:Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop of Canterbury]] presided over the opening ceremony, in which a sermon was given in the chapel by Charles James Blomfield, the Bishop of London, on the subject of combining religious instruction with intellectual culture. Despite the attempts to make King's Anglican-only, the initial prospectus permitted, "nonconformists of all sorts to enter the college freely".<ref name="Hearnshaw">Hearnshaw (1929), p. 80</ref> William Howley: the governors and the professors, except the linguists, had to be members of the Church of England but the students did not,<ref name="Hibbert">Hibbert, Weinreb, Keay, Keay (2008), p. 462</ref> though attendance at chapel was compulsory.<ref>''Prospectus of King's College, London: academical year 1854-5'', p. 7</ref>

King's was divided into a senior department and a junior department, also known as King's College School, which was originally situated in the basement of the Strand Campus.<ref name="HIST" /> The Junior department started with 85 pupils and only three teachers, but quickly grew to 500 by 1841, outgrowing its facilities and leading it to relocate to Wimbledon in 1897 where it remains today, though it is no longer associated with King's College London.<ref name="Hibbert" /> Within the Senior department teaching was divided into three courses: a general course comprised divinity, classical languages, mathematics, English literature and history; a medical course; and miscellaneous subjects, such as law, political economy and modern languages, which were not related to any systematic course of study at the time and depended for their continuance on the supply of occasional students.<ref name="HIST" /> In 1833 the general course was reorganised leading to the award of the Associate of King's College (AKC), the first qualification issued by King's.<ref name="HIST" /> The course, which concerns questions of ethics and theology, is still awarded today to students and staff who take an optional three-year course alongside their studies.

[[File:Strand102.jpg|The Embankment terrace entrance to the Strand Campus overlooking the River Thames, originally designed by Sir William Chambers, was completed by Sir Robert Smirke in 1835|thumb|right]]

The river frontage was completed in April 1835 at a cost of £7,100,<ref>Thompson (1986), p. 6</ref> its completion a condition of King's College London securing the site from the Crown.<ref name="HIST" /> Unlike those in the school, student numbers in the Senior department remained almost stationary during King's first five years of existence. During this time the medical school was blighted by inefficiency and the divided loyalties of the staff leading to a steady decline in attendance. One of the most important appointments was that of [[Biography:Charles Wheatstone|Charles Wheatstone]] as professor of Experimental Philosophy.<ref name="HIST" />

At this time neither King's, "London University", nor the medical schools at the London hospitals could confer degrees. In 1835 the government announced that it would establish an examining board to grant degrees, with "London University" and King's both becoming affiliated colleges. This became the University of London in 1836, the former "London University" becoming ''University College, London'' (UCL).<ref name="victorianweb.org" /> The first University of London degrees were awarded to King's College London students in 1839.<ref name=historyandtoday>{{cite web |title=History & today |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/dates.aspx |website=About King's |publisher=King's College London|access-date=31 January 2016}}</ref>

In 1840, King's opened its own hospital on Portugal Street near Lincoln's Inn Fields, an area composed of overcrowded rookeries characterised by poverty and disease. The governance of King's College Hospital was later transferred to the corporation of the hospital established by the King's College Hospital Act 1851. The hospital moved to new premises in Denmark Hill, Camberwell in 1913. The appointment in 1877 of Joseph Lister as professor of clinical surgery greatly benefited the medical school, and the introduction of Lister's [[Chemistry:Antiseptic|antiseptic]] surgical methods gained the hospital an international reputation.<ref name="HIST" />

In 1845 King's established a Military Department to train officers for the Army and the British East India Company, and in 1846 a Theological Department to train Anglican priests. In 1855, King's pioneered evening classes in London;<ref name="Hibbert" /> that King's granted students at the evening classes certificates of college attendance to enable them to sit University of London degree exams was cited as an example of the worthlessness of these certificates in the decision by the University of London to end the affiliated colleges system in 1858 and open their examinations to everyone.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vcI2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1005 |work=The Athenaeum |title=Opening of the University of London |pages=1005–1007 |date=8 August 1857 |volume=1554}}</ref>

In 1882 the King's College London Act amended the constitution. The act removed the proprietorial nature of King's, changing the name of the corporation from "The Governors and Proprietors of King's College, London" to "King's College London" and annulling the 1829 charter (although King's remained incorporated under that charter). The act also changed King's College London from a (technically) for-profit corporation to a non-profit one (no dividends had ever been paid in over 50 years of operation) and extended the objects of King's to include the education of women.<ref name="HIST" /><ref>{{cite book |title=The Calendar of King's College, London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-osAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5 |date=1896 |pages=v–xvii}}</ref> The Ladies' Department of King's College London was opened in Kensington Square in 1885, which later in 1902 became King's College Women's Department<!--Not to be styled as KCL Women's Department – King's College Women's Department is the formal name.-->.<ref name=historyandtoday />

=== 20th century ===
{{See also|Rosalind Franklin#King's College London{{!}}Contribution of King's College London to the discovery of the structure of DNA|Photo 51}}
[[File:King's College London Students Evacuated To Bristol, England, 1940 D432.jpg|thumb|Evacuated King's College London students at the [[Organization:University of Bristol|University of Bristol]] during the Second World War]]

The King's College London Act 1903, abolished all remaining religious tests for staff, except within the Theological department. In 1910, King's was (with the exception of the Theological department) merged into the University of London under the King's College London (Transfer) Act 1908, losing its legal independence.<ref name="UoL Hist Rec">{{cite book |title=University of London, the Historical Record: (1836–1912) |publisher=University of London |date=1912 |pages=7–24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vyPiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7}}</ref>

During the First World War, the medical school was opened to women for the first time.<ref name="HIST" /> From 1916 to 1921, the college's Department of Italian was headed by a woman, Linetta de Castelvecchio.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McNair |first1=Philip |title=Linetta de Castelvecchio Richardson |journal=Italian Studies |date=January 1977 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=1–3 |doi=10.1179/its.1977.32.1.1 |publisher=The Society for Italian Studies}}</ref> The end of the war saw an influx of students, which strained existing facilities to the point where some classes were held in the Principal's house.<ref name="HIST" />

In World War II, the buildings of King's College London were used by the Auxiliary Fire Service with a number of King's staff, mainly those then known as college servants, serving as firewatchers. Parts of the Strand building, the [[Engineering:Quadrangle (architecture)|quadrangle]], and the roof of apse and stained glass windows of the chapel suffered bomb damage in the Blitz.<ref>Heulin (1979), p. 2</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/QuadbriefCA07nocompdetails.pdf |title=The Strand Quadrangle Architectural Competition Preliminary briefing paper |publisher=King's College London |access-date=4 March 2013 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035906/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/QuadbriefCA07nocompdetails.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> During the post-war reconstruction, the vaults beneath the quadrangle were replaced by a two-storey laboratory, which opened in 1952, for the departments of Physics and Civil and Electrical Engineering.<ref name="HIST" />

One of the most famous pieces of scientific research performed at King's were the crucial contributions to the discovery of the double helix structure of [[Biology:DNA|DNA]] in 1953 by [[Biography:Maurice Wilkins|Maurice Wilkins]] and Rosalind Franklin, together with Raymond Gosling, Alex Stokes, Herbert Wilson, and other colleagues at the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics at King's.<ref>Maddox (2002), p. 124</ref><ref name="Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/famouspeople/wilkinsfranklin.aspx |title=Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin |publisher=King's College London |access-date=21 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="King's, DNA & the continuing story">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/biohealth/research/divisions/randall/about/history/dna.aspx |title=King's, DNA & the continuing story |publisher=King's College London |access-date=21 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709055223/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/biohealth/research/divisions/randall/about/history/dna.aspx |archive-date=9 July 2012 }}</ref>

Major reconstruction of King's began in 1966 following the publication of the Robbins Report on Higher Education. A new block facing the Strand designed by E. D. Jefferiss Mathews was opened in 1972.<ref name="Hibbert" /> In 1980 King's regained its legal independence under a new Royal Charter. In 1993 King's, along with other large University of London colleges, gained direct access to government funding (which had previously been through the university) and the right to confer University of London degrees itself. This contributed to King's and the other large colleges being regarded as ''de facto'' universities in their own right.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Guardian |title=College vote brings break-up of university a step nearer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/10/highereducation.administration |quote="Over the past 10 years the university has become an increasingly loose federation of independent institutions that are universities in their own right and receive their grants directly from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, although they still hand out degrees on behalf of the central university." |date=10 December 2005 |first1=Rebecca|last1= Smithers |first2=Donald |last2=MacLeod}}</ref>

King's College London underwent several mergers with other institutions in the late 20th century. These including the reincorporation in 1983 of the King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, which had become independent of King's College Hospital at the foundation of the National Health Service in 1948, mergers with
Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College in 1985, and the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997. In 1998 the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals merged with King's to form the GKT School of Medical Education.<ref name="Hibbert" /><ref name=historyandtoday /><ref name="Dates">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/dates.aspx |title=Dates: 1900–1949 |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London}}</ref><ref name=kingsdental /> Also in 1998 Florence Nightingale's original training school for nurses merged with the King's Department of Nursing Studies as the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery. The same year King's acquired the former Public Record Office building on Chancery Lane and converted it at a cost of £35&nbsp;million into the Maughan Library, which opened in 2002.<ref name="Hibbert" />

=== 21st century ===
[[File:Maughan Chancery Lane.jpg|thumb|right|The Maughan Library. Following a £35m renovation, it is the largest new university library in the {{wipe|United Kingdom}} since World War II<ref>O'Leary (2010), p. 404</ref>]]
In July 2006, King's College London was granted degree-awarding powers in its own right, as opposed to through the University of London, by the Privy Council.<ref name="Kings Governance">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |title=King's Governance |publisher=King's College London | access-date=29 December 2014}}</ref> This power remained unexercised until 2007, when King's announced that all students starting courses from September 2007 onwards would be awarded degrees conferred by King's itself, rather than by the University of London. The new certificates however still make reference to the fact that King's is a constituent college of the University of London.<ref name="edguar">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/examinations/certificates/CERTFAQ.pdf |title=Certificate FAQs|access-date=12 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130903170252/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/examinations/certificates/CERTFAQ.pdf|archive-date=3 September 2013 }}</ref> All current students with at least one year of study remaining were in August 2007 offered the option of choosing to be awarded a University of London degree or a King's degree. The first King's degrees were awarded in summer 2008.<ref name="THE KCL degrees">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/kings-college-london-lions-on-the-catwalk/402656.article |title=King's College London – Lions on the catwalk |magazine=Times Higher Education | access-date=29 December 2014}}</ref>

In April 2011 King's became a founding partner in the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation, subsequently renamed the Francis Crick Institute, committing £40 million to the project.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/415855.article |title=Three's company: Imperial, King's join UCL in £700m medical project |magazine=Times Higher Education |date=14 April 2011|access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref> The Chemistry department was reopened in 2011 following its closure in 2003.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/417326.article |title=King's chemistry department rises again |author=Jump, Paul |magazine=Times Higher Education |date=2 September 2011|access-date=12 March 2013}}</ref> In February 2012, Her Majesty The Queen officially opened Somerset House East Wing.
[[File:King's College London Bush House Building 3.jpg|thumb|Bush House, Strand Campus]]
In September 2014 King's College London opened King's College London Mathematics School, a free school sixth form located in Lambeth that specialises in mathematics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/mathsschool/home.aspx |title=King's College London - King's College London Mathematics School |website=www.kcl.ac.uk}}</ref> In October 2014, Ed Byrne replaced Rick Trainor as Principal of King's College London, the latter having served for 10 years. In December 2014, King's announced its plans to rebrand its name to 'King's London'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kclsu.org/blogs/blog/Student%20Officers%20Blog/2014/12/16/Officer-Statement-on-the-Kings-Rebrand/ |title=Officer Statement on the King's Rebrand |publisher=KCLSU Student Officers Blog|access-date=26 December 2015}}</ref> It was emphasised that there were no plans to change the legal name of King's, and that the name 'King's London' was designed to promote King's and to highlight the fact that King's is a university in its own right.<ref>{{cite web |title=King's rebrand – update |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2014/December/Kings-rebrand.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=26 December 2015}}</ref> King's announced that the rebranding plans had been dropped in January 2015.<ref>{{cite news |title=King's College London ditches 'pretentious' rebrand after student anger |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/king-s-college-london-ditches-pretentious-rebrand-after-student-anger-9989019.html |newspaper=Independent|access-date=26 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=King's College London drops rebrand plan |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/kings-college-london-drops-rebrand-plan/2018031.article |magazine=Times Higher Education|access-date=26 December 2015}}</ref>

In 2015, King's acquired a 50-year lease for the Aldwych Quarter site incorporating the historic  Bush House. It began occupation of Bush House and Strand House on a phased basis, starting with the north west wing of Bush House in September 2016,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://europe-re.com/king-s-college-london-adds-the-north-west-wing-to-its-strand-campus-gb/62735|title=King's College London adds the north-west wing to its Strand Campus (GB)|date=8 September 2016|access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref> with King House and Melbourne House to be added from 2025.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/kings-college-london-to-use-former-bbc-world-service-hq/2019036.article|title=King's College London to use former BBC World Service HQ|date=10 March 2015|work=Times Higher Education|author=Jack Grove}}</ref>

== Campus ==
=== Strand Campus ===
[[File:KCL King's Building 3 Final.jpg|The King's Building in the Strand Quadrangle|thumb]]
[[File:King's College London Chapel 2, London - Diliff.jpg|thumb|right|The Grade I listed King's College London Chapel on the Strand Campus seen today was redesigned in 1864 by Sir George Gilbert Scott]]

The Strand Campus is the founding campus of King's and is located on the Strand in the City of Westminster, sharing its frontage along the River Thames.  The original campus comprises the Grade I listed King's Building of 1831 designed by Sir Robert Smirke, and the King's College London Chapel redesigned in 1864 by Sir Gilbert Scott, with the subsequent purchase of much of adjacent Surrey Street (including the Norfolk and Chesham Buildings) since the Second World War and the 1972 Strand Building. The Macadam Building of 1975 houses the Strand Campus Students' Union and is named after King's alumnus Sir Ivison Macadam, first President of the National Union of Students.

The Strand Campus houses the arts and science faculties of King's, including the faculties of Arts & Humanities, Law, Business, Social Science & Public Policy and Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (formerly Physical Sciences & Engineering). It also houses the Office of the President and Principal.

Since 2010, the campus has expanded rapidly to incorporate the East Wing of Somerset House and the Virginia Woolf Building next to [[Organization:London School of Economics|LSE]] on Kingsway. On 10 March 2015, King's acquired a 50-year lease for the Aldwych Quarter site incorporating the historic grand Bush House building. It began occupation of the Bush House Building in September 2016, occupying the adjacent King House and Strand House from 2017 and will occupy Melbourne House from 2025.  In October 2016, King's announced it had also taken a separate 50-year lease on the North-West Block from 2018.<ref name="lease" />

The nearest Underground stations are Temple, Charing Cross and Covent Garden.

=== Guy's Campus ===
[[File:KCL Guys Campus1.jpg|Henriette Raphael House, Guy's Campus|thumb|right]]

Guy's Campus is situated close to London Bridge and the Shard on the South Bank of the Thames and is home to the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and the Dental Institute.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/campus/guys.aspx |title=Guy's Campus |publisher=King's College London |access-date=21 January 2013 |archive-date=23 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123211245/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/campus/guys.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The campus is named for Thomas Guy, the founder and benefactor of Guy's Hospital established in 1726 in the London Borough of Southwark. Buildings include: the Henriette Raphael building, constructed in 1902, the Gordon Museum of Pathology, the Hodgkin building, Shepherd's House and Guy's Chapel. The Students' Union has extensive facilities on the Guy's Campus including activity rooms, meeting rooms alongside a student cafe; The Shed and student bar; Guy's Bar. Guy's Campus is located opposite the Old Operating Theatre Museum, which was part of old St Thomas Hospital in Southwark.

The nearest Underground stations are London Bridge and Borough.

=== Waterloo Campus ===
[[File:Franklin-wilkins.jpg|thumb|The Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus]]

The Waterloo Campus is located across Waterloo Bridge from the Strand Campus, near the Southbank Centre in the London Borough of Lambeth and consists of the [[Biography:James Clerk Maxwell|James Clerk Maxwell]] Building, the Franklin–[[Biography:Maurice Wilkins|Wilkins]] Building and the Waterloo Bridge Wing Building.

Cornwall House, now the Franklin-Wilkins Building, constructed between 1912 and 1915 was originally the His Majesty's Stationery Office (responsible for Crown copyright and National Archives), but was requisitioned for use as a military hospital in 1915 during World War I. It became the King George Military Hospital, and accommodated about 1,800 patients on 63 wards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://manchesterhistory.net/architecture/1920/franklinwilkins.html |title=Franklin Wilkins Building, King's College- 150 Stamford Street, London, UK |publisher=Manchesterhistory.net |access-date=20 March 2012}}</ref>

Now the largest university building in London, the building was acquired by King's in the 1980s and underwent extensive refurbishment in 2000.<ref name="waterloo" /><ref name="waterloocampus">{{cite web |title=Waterloo Campus Tour |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/visit/Self-Guided-Tour-Waterloo-web-04-14.pdf |publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2015}}</ref> The building is named after Rosalind Franklin and [[Biography:Maurice Wilkins|Maurice Wilkins]] for their major contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA.<ref name="waterloo">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/waterloo/Waterloo.aspx |title=Waterloo Campus |publisher=King's College London |access-date=21 January 2013 |archive-date=16 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416102318/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/waterloo/Waterloo.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Today it is home to:
* the School of Biomedical Sciences, Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences Division (part of the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine)
* the School of Education, Communication and Society (part of the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy)
* LonDEC – the London Dental Education Centre (part of the Faculty of Dental, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences)
The adjacent James Clerk Maxwell Building houses the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care and many of the central professional services functions of the college. The Building was named after Scottish mathematical physicist [[Biography:James Clerk Maxwell|James Clerk Maxwell]], who was the Professor of Natural Philosophy at King's from 1860 to 1865.<ref>{{cite web |title=James Clerk Maxwell |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/famouspeople/jamesclerkmaxwell.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2015}}</ref>

The nearest Underground station is Waterloo.

=== St Thomas's Campus ===
[[File:St Thomas Hospital from the Thames.jpg|thumb|A view of St Thomas' Hospital at St Thomas' Campus, from the Thames]]

The St Thomas' Campus in the London Borough of Lambeth, facing the Houses of Parliament across the Thames, houses parts of the School of Medicine and the Dental Institute. The Florence Nightingale Museum is also located here.<ref name="St Thomas' Campus">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/stthomas/StThomas.aspx |title=St Thomas' Campus |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London |archive-date=1 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201111141/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/stthomas/StThomas.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The museum is dedicated to Florence Nightingale, the founder of the Nightingale Training School of St Thomas' Hospital (now King's Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care). St Thomas' Hospital became part of King's College London School of Medicine in 1998. The St Thomas' Hospital and Campus were named after St Thomas Becket.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Foundation of St Thomas's |page=1 |url=http://www.thegarret.org.uk/pdfs/exhibitions/stthomashospitalmedieval.pdf|access-date=2 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216151658/http://www.thegarret.org.uk/pdfs/exhibitions/stthomashospitalmedieval.pdf|archive-date=16 December 2011|url-status=dead }}</ref> The Department of Twin Research (TwinsUk), King's College London is located in St. Thomas' Hospital.

The nearest Underground station is Westminster.

=== Denmark Hill Campus ===
[[File:King's College Hospital.jpg|thumb|King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill Campus]]
[[File:Maudsley Hospital Main Building.jpg|thumb|The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at the Denmark Hill Campus enjoys a long history with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust]]

Denmark Hill Campus is situated in south London near the borders of the London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Southwark in Camberwell and is the only campus not situated on the River Thames. The campus consists of King's College Hospital, the Maudsley Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN). In addition to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, parts of the Dental Institute and School of Medicine, and a large hall of residence, King's College Hall, are situated here. Other buildings include the campus library known as the Weston Education Centre (WEC), the James Black Centre, the Rayne Institute (haemato-oncology) and the Cicely Saunders Institute (palliative care).<ref name="Denmark Hill Campus">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/denmarkhill/index.aspx |title=Denmark Hill Campus |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London |archive-date=4 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404190922/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/denmarkhill/index.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute was opened by the Princess Royal in 2015 at the Denmark Hill Campus.<ref name=HRH>{{cite web |title=HRH The Princess Royal opens one of the world's leading neuroscience institutes |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2015/June/HRH-The-Princess-Royal-opens-one-of-the-worlds-leading-neuroscience-institutes.aspx |website=King's College London |access-date=21 November 2015 |archive-date=4 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104021705/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2015/June/HRH-The-Princess-Royal-opens-one-of-the-worlds-leading-neuroscience-institutes.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is named after British philanthropist Maurice Wohl, who had a long association with King's and supported many medical projects.<ref name=sciencebusiness>{{cite web |title=King's awarded £10m for world-leading Hub for Neuropsychiatry Imaging Research and Therapeutics |url=http://www.sciencebusiness.net/news/76965/King's-awarded-%C2%A310m-for-world-leading-Hub-for-Neuropsychiatry-Imaging-Research-and-Therapeutics |website=Science Business|access-date=21 November 2015}}</ref>

The nearest Overground station is Denmark Hill.

=== Shrivenham ===
Whilst not a formal campus, King's retains an academic presence and estate at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. Through its Defence Studies Department, King's has delivered professional military training to much of the UK armed services through the Joint Services Command and Staff College since 2000 under contract to the Ministry of Defence.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/kings/newsrecords/2011/10october/newmodcontract |date=18 October 2011 |title=Defence Studies contract renewal |publisher=King's College London}}</ref>

=== Redevelopment programme ===
As of 2016, King's is undergoing a £1 billion redevelopment programme of its estates.<ref name="redevelopment">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/About-Kings.aspx |title=About King's|access-date=20 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London}}</ref> Since 1999 over half of the activities of King's have been relocated in new and refurbished buildings.<ref name="redevelopment2">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/facts/kingsbynumbers.aspx |title=King's By Numbers |access-date=20 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London |archive-date=4 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204020529/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/facts/kingsbynumbers.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Major completed projects include a £35 million renovation of the Maughan Library in 2002, a £40 million renovation of buildings at the Strand Campus, a £25 million renovation of Somerset House East Wing, a £30 million renovation of the Denmark Hill Campus in 2007, the renovation of the Franklin-Wilkins Library at the Waterloo Campus and the completion of the £9 million Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care in 2010.<ref name="redevelopmentpast">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/estates/projects/completed/index.aspx |title=Projects |access-date=20 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421065150/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/estates/projects/completed/index.aspx |archive-date=21 April 2013 }}</ref> The College Chapel at the Strand was also restored in 2001, and its organ in 2018.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

The Strand Campus redevelopment won the Green Gown Award in 2007 for sustainable construction. The award recognised the "reduced energy and carbon emissions from a [[Engineering:Sustainable refurbishment|sustainable refurbishment]] of the historic South Range of the King's Building".<ref name="King's wins top Green Award">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtID=1779 |title=King's wins top Green Award |work=King's College London |access-date=25 April 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070611232155/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtID=1779  |archive-date = 11 June 2007}}</ref> King's was also the recipient of the 2003 City Heritage Award for the conversion of the Grade II* listed Maughan Library.<ref name="King's library wins prestigious heritage award">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtID=394 |title=King's library wins prestigious heritage award |work=King's College London |access-date=25 April 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070708040352/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtID=394  |archive-date = 8 July 2007}}</ref>

Current projects include a £45 million development for the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, £18 million on modernising King's learning and teaching environments, a sports pavilion at Honor Oak Park.<ref name="Current projects">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/estates/projects/current/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130419152503/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/estates/projects/current/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 April 2013 |title=Current Projects |publisher=King's College London |access-date=20 January 2013}}</ref> In April 2012 a £20 million redevelopment of the Strand Campus [[Engineering:Quadrangle (architecture)|Quad]] was announced and will provide an additional 3,700 square metres of teaching space and student facilities.<ref name="Quad Redevelopment">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/quad.aspx |title=Strand Quad redevelopment |publisher=King's College London |access-date=19 January 2013 |archive-date=17 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117181404/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/quad.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

King's acquired a lease for the Aldwych Quarter with initial term of 50 years.<ref name=lease>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2015/March/Kings-College-London-to-lease-Aldwych-Quarter-opposite-its-Strand-Campus.aspx |title=King's College London to lease Aldwych Quarter opposite its Strand Campus |author=King's College London |publisher=King's College London |date=10 March 2015|access-date=31 March 2015}}</ref><ref name=Aldwych>{{cite web |title=Aldwych Quarter |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/estates/Real-Estate-Development/current/aldwych-quarter/index.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=31 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131133318/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/estates/Real-Estate-Development/current/aldwych-quarter/index.aspx|archive-date=31 January 2016 }}</ref> King's will occupy Bush House and Strand House from September 2016, and King House and Melbourne House from 2025.<ref name=Aldwych /> The then-Chairman of King's College London, Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington said that the King's Strand Campus has had inadequate and cramped teaching space for too long, and the acquisition will transform the original campus of King's which dates back to 1829.<ref name=lease />

== Organisation and administration ==
=== Governance ===
[[File:Henry Wace.jpg|thumb|Principal from 1883 to 1897, Henry Wace]]
The head of King's College London is formally the President and Principal, currently [[Biography:Shitij Kapur|Shitij Kapur]], who began his term in June 2021, following the retirement of Sir Ed Byrne in January 2021.

The office of "Principal and President of the College" is established by King's royal charter as "the chief academic and executive officer of the College"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/policyzone/governancelegal/charter.pdf|title=The Charter|website=King's College London|access-date=18 October 2023|date=13 May 2009}}</ref> and the college statutes require the president and principal to have the general responsibility to the college council for "ensuring that the objects of the University are fulfilled and for maintaining and promoting the efficiency, discipline and good order of the University".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/policyzone/governancelegal/statutes.pdf1 |title=The Statutes |website=King's College London|access-date=18 October 2023|date=18 May 2023}}</ref> The current president and principal, Shitji Kapoor, uses the title "Vice-Chancellor and President".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/shitij-kapur|title=Professor Shitji Kapoor|website=King's College London|access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref> The current senior officers of the college include three senior vice presidents, covering the areas of: academic; health and life science; and operations. There are also five vice presidents covering the areas of: finance (also the college's chief financial officer); education and student success; international, engagement and service; research and innovation; and people and talent.<ref name=SeniorOfficers>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/our-people|title=Our people|access-date=11 March 2023|website=King's College London}}</ref>

The college council is the supreme governing body of King's College London established under the charter and statutes, comprising 21 members. Its membership includes the President of King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU) as the student member; the Principal and President; up to seven other staff members; and up to 12 lay members who must not be employees of King's.<ref name="council">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/council/index.aspx |title=College Council |publisher=King's College London |access-date=9 February 2013 |archive-date=20 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420230650/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/council/index.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is supported by a number of standing committees.<ref name="councilstructure">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/committees/CollegeAssessmentBoard/CouncilStructure.pdf |title=The Council and its standing committees |publisher=King's College London |access-date=16 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620135606/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/committees/CollegeAssessmentBoard/CouncilStructure.pdf |archive-date=20 June 2013 }}</ref> Sir Christopher Geidt, formerly Private Secretary to HM Queen Elizabeth II (the patron of King's College London at the time he took up the role of chairman) succeeded Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington as 
Chairman of Council from the beginning of the 2016 academic year;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/council/members/LordDouro.aspx |title=Chairman of the College Council |publisher=King's College London|access-date=22 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412043545/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/council/members/LordDouro.aspx|archive-date=12 April 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Christopher Geidt announced as new King's Chairman |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2015/June/SirChristopherGeidtannouncedasnewKingsChairman.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref> he subsequently became Lord Geidt on 3 November 2017.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=62103 |date=8 November 2017 |page=20550}}</ref>

The current Dean of King's College London is the Reverend Dr Ellen Clark-King.<ref name=SeniorOfficers/> The office of dean is established by the college's ordinances and, under the ordinances passed by the college council in July 2022, has to be an ordained minister of the Church of England<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policyhub/ordinances|title=Ordinances|website=King's College London|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref> That the dean is an ordained person is unusual among British universities, but reflects King's foundation in the tradition of the Church of England in 1829.<ref name="dean">{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/dean/office-of-the-dean/why |title=Why King's has a Dean |author=King's College London|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref> The dean is "responsible for overseeing the spiritual development and welfare of all students and staff". The Office of the Dean co-ordinates the Associateship of King's College programme, the College Chaplaincy and the Choir of King's College London, which includes a number of choral scholarships.<ref name="dean" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/choir/scholarships/choral-scholarships|title=Choral Scholarships|website=King's College London|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref> One of the dean's roles is to encourage and foster vocations to the Church of England priesthood.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/dean/vocations-group |title=Vocations group |website=King's College London|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref>

The [[Religion:Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop of Canterbury]] is King's College London's [[Religion:Visitor|visitor]] by right of office owing to the Anglican foundation of King's.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details_2006.php?news_id=55|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323060416/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details_2006.php?news_id=55|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 March 2009 |title=Archbishop of Canterbury visits King's|access-date=15 August 2007 |publisher=King's College London |date=8 May 2006}}</ref> The current visitor is The Most Reverend Justin Welby.

=== Faculties and departments ===
In the 19th century, King's College London had five departments: Theological, General Literature and Science, Applied Sciences, Medical and Military.<ref>{{cite book |last1=University of London |first1=King's College |title=The Calendar of King's College, London 1850–1851 |date=1850 |publisher=John W Parker |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GgB2HzrRs64C|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref><ref name=Calendar1857>{{cite book |last1=University of London |first1=King's College |title=The Calendar of King's College, London 1857–1858 |date=1857 |publisher=John W Parker |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSVx-eTdWfAC|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> The Theological Department provided studies in ecclesiastical history, [[Religion:Pastoral theology|pastoral theology]] and [[Religion:Exegesis|Exegesis]] of testaments.<ref name=Calendar1857 /> Languages and literature, history, law and jurisprudence, political economy, commerce, fencing, mathematics, zoology and natural history were taught within the Department of General Literature and Science,<ref name=Calendar1857 /> and natural philosophy, geology, mineralogy and arts-related subjects were taught within the Department of Applied Sciences.<ref name=Calendar1857 />

{{As of|2017}}, King's comprises nine academic faculties, which are subdivided into schools (for Social Science & Public Policy, Life Sciences & Medicine), departments, centres and research divisions. The latest addition was King's Business School, hosted in Bush House, which opened in August 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=Asia business leaders in fundraiser celebrations |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2016/05%20May/Asia-business-leaders-in-fundraiser-celebrations.aspx |website=News and Events |publisher=King's College London|access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>

==== Faculty of Arts and Humanities ====
[[File:Auto-icon of Virginia Woolf at King's College London.jpg|Life-size wax sculpture of Virginia Woolf, a writer and alumna of King's|thumb|right]]

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities was formed in 1989 following the amalgamation of the faculties of Arts, Music and Theology.<ref name=art&human>{{cite web |title=Faculty of Arts & Humanities – About the Faculty |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/about/index.aspx |publisher=Faculty of Arts & Humanities|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> The faculty encompasses traditional disciplinary subjects, as well as less-common subjects such as [[Social:Hellenic studies|Hellenic]], Portuguese and Medieval Studies, and emerging disciplines such as Digital Humanities and Queer Studies.<ref name=art&human />

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is administered through King's, and its students graduate alongside members of the departments which form the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. As RADA does not have degree awarding powers, its courses are validated by King's.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rada.org/aboutus/index.aspx?id=78&linkidentifier=id&itemid=78 |title=About RADA|access-date=23 August 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080822104812/http://www.rada.org/aboutus/index.aspx?id=78&linkidentifier=id&itemid=78  |archive-date = 22 August 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=RADA: An Introduction |url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/about/rada-an-introduction |publisher=The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref>

==== Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences ====
The Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences (formerly Dental Institute) is the dental school of King's and focuses on understanding disease, enhancing health and restoring function.<ref name=dental>{{cite web |title=Dental Institute – About the Institute |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/about/welcome-from-the-dean.aspx |publisher=Dental Institute |access-date=21 January 2016 |archive-date=16 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216031410/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/about/welcome-from-the-dean.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The institute is the successor of Guy's Hospital Dental School, King's College Hospital Dental School, Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery, and the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. It was a part of King's School of Medicine and Dentistry until 2005, when the dental school became the Dental Institute and then renamed in 2019.

In 1799 Joseph Fox started to give a series of lectures on dental surgery at Guy's Hospital, and was appointed dental surgeon in the same year.<ref name=guysdental>{{cite web |title=Guy's Hospital |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/dentistry/hospital-histories/guys-hospital |website=The birth of modern dentistry |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=28 January 2016}}</ref> Thomas Bell succeeded Fox as dental surgeon either in 1817 or 1825.<ref name=guysdental /> Frederick Newland-Pedley, who was appointed assistant dental surgeon at Guy's Hospital in 1885, advocated the establishment of a dental school within the hospital, and he flooded the two dental schools in London, the Metropolitan School of Dental Science and the London School of Dental Surgery, with patients to prove that a further hospital was needed.<ref name=guysdental /> In December 1888, Guy's Hospital Dental School was established.<ref name=guysdental /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kabir |first1=Alamgir |title=Feature—Frederick Newland-Pedle |journal=Guy' S Gazette |date=May 1995 |volume=109 |issue=2447 |pages=151–167 |url=http://www.gktgazette.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Volume-109-No-2447-May-1995.pdf|access-date=29 January 2016}}</ref> Guy's Hospital Dental School was recognised as a school of the University of London in 1901. In the 1970s, since there was a decline in the demand for dental services, the Department of Health of the UK suggested that there should be a decrease in the number of dental undergraduate students as well as the duration of all courses.<ref name=guysdental /> In response to the recommendations, Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery amalgamated with the Guy's Hospital Dental School of the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals on 1 August 1983.<ref name=guysdental />

The establishment of King's College Hospital Dental School was proposed by Viscount Hambleden at a Hospital Management Committee meeting on 12 April 1923. The dental school was opened on 12 November 1923 in King's College Hospital.<ref name=kingsdental>{{cite web |title=King's College Hospital |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/dentistry/hospital-histories/kings-college-hospital |website=The birth of modern dentistry |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=29 January 2016}}</ref> Under the 1948 National Health Act, King's Medical and Dental School split from King's and became an independent school, but the school remerged with King's in 1983.<ref name=kingsdental /> The school further merged with the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in 1998.<ref name=kingsdental />

==== Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine ====
[[File:Shepherd's House - geograph.org.uk - 1137898.jpg|thumb|The Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine is located at four campuses including the Guy's Campus]]

The Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine was created as a result of the merger of the School of Medicine with the School of Biomedical Sciences in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine – Our history |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/history/index.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=21 January 2016 |archive-date=18 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018122315/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/history/index.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

There are two schools of education in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine: the GKT School of Medical Education is responsible for the medical education and training of students on the MBBS programme, and the School of Bioscience Education is responsible for the biomedical and health professions education and training.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/Faculty-structure-diagram.pdf |publisher=Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine |access-date=21 January 2016 |archive-date=22 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722130048/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/Faculty-structure-diagram.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The faculty is further divided into 7 schools, including Basic & Medical Biosciences, Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Cancer & Pharmaceutical Science, Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, Immunology & Microbial Sciences, Life Course Sciences and Population Health Sciences.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/New-Faculty-Academic-Configuration.aspx |title=King's College London - New faculty academic configuration |website=www.kcl.ac.uk |access-date=17 September 2017 |archive-date=25 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625081008/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/New-Faculty-Academic-Configuration.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience ====
The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a faculty and a research institution dedicated to discovering what causes mental illness and diseases of the [[Biology:Brain|brain]], and to help identify new treatments of the diseases.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the IoPPN |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/about/dean.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=21 January 2016 |archive-date=4 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104043626/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/about/dean.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The institute is the largest centre for research and postgraduate education in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience in Europe.<ref>{{cite web |title=Research |url=http://www.slam.nhs.uk/research/institute-of-psychiatry,-psychology-and-neuroscience |publisher=South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |access-date=21 January 2016 |archive-date=14 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514080929/https://slam.nhs.uk/research/institute-of-psychiatry,-psychology-and-neuroscience |url-status=dead }}</ref> Originally established in 1924 as the Maudsley Hospital Medical School, the institute changed its name to the Institute of Psychiatry in 1948, merged with King's College London in 1997, and was renamed IoPPN in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=Institute of Psychiatry gets a new name |url=http://www.bps.org.uk/news/institute-psychiatry-renamed |publisher=British Psychological Society|access-date=21 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127085646/http://www.bps.org.uk/news/institute-psychiatry-renamed|archive-date=27 January 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=IoPPN Our history |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/about/Our-history/index.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=21 January 2016 |archive-date=4 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104043516/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/about/Our-history/index.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

====  Dickson Poon School of Law ====
The Dickson Poon School of Law is the law school of King's. Law has been taught at King's since 1831.<ref name=law>{{cite web |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k-o/10ki4695 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415045358/http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k-o/10ki4695 | url-status=dead | archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=King's College London School of Law Records | access-date=22 January 2013 |date=March 2001 |publisher=King's College London College Archives |location=London}}</ref>  The Faculty of Laws was founded in 1909 and became the School of Law in 1991.<ref name=law />

The school includes various research centres and groups which serve as focal points for research activity, including the Centre of European Law (established in 1974), Centre of Medical Law and Ethics (established in 1978), Centre of British Constitutional Law and History (established in 1988), Centre of Construction Law, Centre for Technology, Ethics and Law in Society, Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law, Transnational Law Institute and Trust Law Committee.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Dickson Poon School of Law – Our centres |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/research/centres/index.aspx |publisher=Dickson Poon School of Law|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref>

==== Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences ====
The Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences was established in 2010, following the reorganisation of the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering. It was renamed in February 2021 to incorporate the return of engineering as a major discipline. The faculty provides education and research in chemistry, informatics, physics, mathematics, engineering and telecommunications. Physics and Mathematics has been studied at the university since 1829 and 1830 respectively, and there are six Nobel laureates who were either students or academic staff of the faculty.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/about/index.aspx |publisher=Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> Most notably, its teaching of experimental Physics is the oldest in England having fostered the professorships of [[Biography:James Clerk Maxwell|James Clerk Maxwell]], Harold A. Wilson, [[Biography:Charles Glover Barkla|Charles Glover Barkla]], [[Biography:Owen Willans Richardson|Sir Owen Richardson]], Sir Edward Appleton and [[Biography:Charles Drummond Ellis|Sir Charles Ellis]], three of whom became Nobel laureates.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Engineering, Biophysics and Physics at King's College, London |issue=4320 |pages=261–263 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/170261a0.pdf |journal=Nature|date=August 1952 |volume=170 |doi=10.1038/170261a0 |access-date=19 January 2020 |last1=Wilkins |first1=M. H. F. }}</ref>

Chemistry has been taught at King's since its foundation in 1829, and [[Physics:Copley Medal|Copley medallist]] [[Biography:John Frederic Daniell|John Frederic Daniell]] was appointed the first professor.<ref name=chem>{{cite web |title=Department of Chemistry – History |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/chemistry/about/history.aspx |publisher=Department of Chemistry|access-date=28 January 2016}}</ref> The Department of Chemistry was forced to close in 2003 due to a decline in student numbers and reduced funding.<ref name=chem /> In 2012, a new Department of Chemistry was established and a new undergraduate degree, Chemistry with Biomedicine, was launched.<ref name=chem /> The new department covers traditional areas of chemistry (organic, inorganic, physical and computational chemistry) and other academic discipline including cell biology and physics.<ref name=chem />

The Department of Engineering was established in 1838, making it arguably the oldest school of engineering in the United Kingdom.<ref name=kclengineering>{{cite web |title=About the Division of Engineering |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/About-Us.aspx |publisher=Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences |access-date=21 January 2016 |archive-date=1 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601054556/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/About-Us.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Equally, the King's College Engineering Society is the oldest society of its kind, having been founded 1847, six days before the [[Organization:Institution of Mechanical Engineers|Institution of Mechanical Engineers]]. The Department of Engineering was the largest engineering school in the UK in 1893.<ref name=kclengineering /><ref>{{cite web |title=King's College London Engineering Student Records |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/283bd784-8eb4-4ac7-bd05-56650102ab80 |publisher=National Archives|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> The Division of Engineering was closed in 2013, and reinstalled in 2019.<ref name=kclengineering /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Department of Engineering {{!}} King's College London|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/engineering|access-date=4 March 2021|website=www.kcl.ac.uk}}</ref>

==== Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery ====
[[File:Florence nightingale at st thomas.jpg|thumb|right|Florence Nightingale and her class of nurses]]

The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery is a school for nurses and midwives. It also carries out nursing research and provides continuing professional development and postgraduate programmes. Formerly known as the Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses, the faculty was established by Florence Nightingale in 1860, and is the first nursing school in the world to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school.<ref>{{cite journal |pmid=5195090 |volume=17 |title=[The first nursing school in the world--St. Thomas Hospital School in London] |year=1969 |journal=Munca Sanit |pages=449–54 |last1=Petroni |first1=A |issue=8}}</ref><ref name=Nightingale>{{cite web |title=Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery – About the Faculty |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/About-the-Faculty/index.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=25 January 2016}}</ref>

The Nightingale Training School was amalgamated in 1996 with the Olive Haydon School of Midwifery and the Thomas Guy and Lewisham School of Nursing, and all staff and students were integrated at King's by 1996.<ref name=Nightingale /><ref>{{cite web |title=Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery – History |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/About-the-Faculty/history.aspx |publisher=Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery|access-date=25 January 2016}}</ref>

==== Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy ====
The Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy was established in 2001, and is one of the largest university centres focusing on policy-oriented research in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy – About |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/about/index.aspx |publisher=Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> Following a restructuring in 2016, it is split into four schools:
* School of Politics & Economics (European & International Studies, Political Economy, Russia Institute)
* School of Education, Communication and Society
* School of Global Affairs (Geography, Global Health & Medicine, International Development, Brazil Institute, India Institute, Lau China Institute)
* School of Security Studies (Department of Defence Studies, Department of War Studies)

The Department of War Studies is unique in the UK and is supported by research facilities such as the King's Centre for Strategic Communications, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and the King's Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kcmhr/ |title=King's Centre for Military Health Research |access-date=9 January 2013}}</ref>

Set up in 2002, the King's Centre for Risk Management (KCRM) holds international research relating to risk management, governance and communication, and supports various projects, conferences and academic fellowships, facilitating in translating risk research into relevant and practical policy solutions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/research/hrg/kcrm/index.aspx |title=King's College London – Welcome to KCRM |publisher=kcl.ac.uk|access-date=21 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150831175903/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/research/hrg/kcrm/index.aspx|archive-date=31 August 2015 }}</ref>

The faculty also houses the African Leadership Centre, Institute for Contemporary British History, and London Asia Pacific Centre for Social Science.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/schools/global-affairs/lapc/index.aspx |title=London Asia Pacific Centre |publisher=King's College London |access-date=2 August 2017 |archive-date=5 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105125546/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/schools/global-affairs/lapc/index.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== King's Business School ====
[[File:Bush House 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG (3).jpg|King's Business School is based in Bush House, Aldwych in Central London|thumb]]

King's Business School was established in August 2017 at Bush House. The School of Management and Business within the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy was reformed to create King's Business School.<ref>{{cite web |title=School of Management & Business |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/management/about/index.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref> The school was ranked second by [[Organization:The Complete University Guide|The Complete University Guide]] in the UK for Business and Management studies in its 2021 league table.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings/business-and-management-studies |title=Business & Management Studies Subject League Table 2022 |website=www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk}}</ref>

Following an expansion of the business school, four research centers were formed as follows:<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/business/research/centres |title=Research centres &#124; King's Business School &#124; King's College London |website=www.kcl.ac.uk |access-date=5 November 2020 |archive-date=4 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204174405/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/business/research/centres |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
* Consumer and Organisational Digital Analytics (CODA)
* Data Analytics for Finance and Macro (DAFM)
* FinWork Futures
* Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance

King's Business School offers both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. It offers programmes in economics, management, finance, entrepreneurship, human resource management and marketing. Undergraduate management courses base their curriculum on "modern business theory and organisational management theory and practice". Other fields that overlap with the core content being taught include finance, accounting, economics, social science, psychology, and law. Undergraduate courses such as Business Management feature a high percentage of international students (81%) and a large female cohort, comprising 58% of the student body.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/kings-college-london/international |title=International Students - King's College London |website=www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk |language=en-gb|access-date=8 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theuniguide.co.uk/kings-college-london-university-of-london-k60/courses/business-management-bsc-hons-2020-65d5cf7ac7ff |title=Study Business Management at King's College London, University of London - The Uni Guide |website=www.theuniguide.co.uk|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref>

=== Finances ===
In the financial year ended 31 July 2019, King's had a total income of £901.96&nbsp;million (2017/18 – £841.03&nbsp;million) and total expenditure of £1089.88&nbsp;million (2017/18 – £842.43&nbsp;million).<ref name="finstat">{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/finance/statements/2018-19-financial-statements.pdf |title=Financial Statements for the year to 31 July 2019 |access-date=14 December 2019 |publisher=King's College London |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924122317/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/finance/statements/2018-19-financial-statements.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Key sources of income included £393.79&nbsp;million from tuition fees and education contracts (2017/18 – £342.25&nbsp;million), £194.68&nbsp;million from research grants and contracts (2017/18 – £194.42&nbsp;million), £128.30&nbsp;million from Funding Council grants (2017/18 – £123.89&nbsp;million) and £5.12&nbsp;million from endowment and investment income (2017/18 – £6.19&nbsp;million).<ref name=finstat /> During the 2018/19 financial year King's had a capital expenditure of £78.9 million (2017/18 – £133.7 million).<ref name=finstat />

At 31 July 2019 King's had total endowments of £258.07&nbsp;million (31 July 2018 – £233.46&nbsp;million) and total net assets of £791.58&nbsp;million (31 July 2018 – £945.86&nbsp;million).<ref name=finstat /> King's has a credit rating of AA from Standard & Poor's.<ref name=finstat /> Its [[Finance:List of UK universities by endowment|total endowment]] is the 4th highest amongst UK universities; behind only [[Organization:University of Oxford|Oxford]], [[Organization:University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] and [[Organization:University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]].

In 2013/14, King's had the seventh-highest total income of any British university.<ref name=thefindat>{{cite news |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/university-financial-health-check-2015/2019896.fullarticle |title=Times Higher Education university financial health check 2015|access-date=3 May 2015 |work=Times Higher Education |date=30 April 2015}}</ref> By 2018/19, it is now sixth after overtaking [[Organization:University of Edinburgh|University of Edinburgh]]'s total income.

In October 2010 King's launched a major fundraising campaign—"World questions|King's answers"—fronted by former British Prime Minister John Major, with a goal to raise £500 million by 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/major-campaign-aims-to-put-kings-among-the-fundraising-elite/414098.article |title=Major campaign aims to put King's among the fundraising elite|access-date=31 March 2013 |magazine=Times Higher Education |date=28 October 2010}}</ref> This was surpassed even before 2015 and King's subsequently increased the target to £600 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers/news/what-weve-done.aspx |title=King's College London - WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED? |website=www.kcl.ac.uk}}</ref> It again met and beat this new target by raising £610 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/give-back/world-questions-kings-answers/what-have-we-achieved |title=World questions - King's answers - What have we achieved? - King's Alumni Community |website=alumni.kcl.ac.uk}}</ref>

King's has received numerous grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support various research projects in global health and global development.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Committed Grants |url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants?q=King%27s%20College%20London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220615044432/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants?q=King's%20College%20London |archive-date=15 June 2022 |access-date=15 June 2022 |website=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |language=en }}</ref>

=== Coat of arms ===
[[File:Coat of Arms of King’s College London (1829-1985).png|thumb|King's coat of arms used from 1829 to 1985]]
[[File:Kingsbuilding.jpg|Entrance and coat of arms of the 19th century King's Building, Strand Campus|thumb|right]]

The coat of arms displayed on the King's College London charter is that of George IV. The shield depicts the royal coat of arms together with an inescutcheon of the House of Hanover, while the supporters embody King's motto of ''{{lang|la|sancte et sapienter}}''. No correspondence is believed to have survived regarding the choice of this coat of arms, either in King's archives or at the College of Arms, and a variety of unofficial adaptations have been used throughout the history of King's. The current coat of arms was developed following the mergers with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College in 1985 and incorporates aspects of their heraldry.<ref name="Branding Essentials" /> The official coat of arms, in heraldic terminology, is:<ref name="coatofarms">{{citation |title=King's College London Corporate identity guidelines |year=2008 |page=4 |author=King's College London}}</ref>

'''Arms:'''

<blockquote>''Or on a Pale Azure between two Lions rampant respectant Gules an Anchor Gold ensigned by a Royal Crown proper on a Chief Argent an Ancient Lamp proper inflamed Gold between two Blazing Hearths also proper''.</blockquote>

'''The crest and supporters:'''
<blockquote>''On a Helm with a Wreath Or and Azure Upon a Book proper rising from a Coronet Or the rim set with jewels two Azure (one manifest) four Vert (two manifest) and two Gules a demi Lion Gules holding a Rod of Dexter a female figure habited Azure the cloak lined coif and sleeves Argent holding in the exterior hand a Lond Cross botony Gold and sinister a male figure the Long Coat Azure trimmed with Sable proper shirt Argent holding in the interior hand a Book proper''.</blockquote>

==== Coat of arms of the medical schools ====
[[File:Guy%27s hospital crest.jpg|Guy's coat of arms, displayed above the entrance to Guy's Campus|thumb|left]]

Although the St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and Guy's Medical School became legal bodies separate from St Thomas' Hospital and Guy's Hospital in 1948, the tradition of using the hospitals' shields and coat of arms continues today.<ref name=basics>{{cite web |title=The basics |url=https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/erd/depts/brand/day-to-day-essentials/Documents/Corporate-identity-guidelines-updated/brand-guidelines-The-basics.pdf |publisher=King's College London|access-date=20 January 2016}}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1949, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School was granted its own coat of arms. However, the St Thomas' Hospital coat of arms has still been used.<ref name=basics /> Guy's Medical School proposed to apply for its own coat of arms after separating from Guy's Hospital, yet the school decided to continue to use Guy's Hospital's arms in 1954.<ref name=basics /> The two medical schools merged in 1982 and became the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals (UMDS). Simon Argles, secretary of UMDS, said that because of the name of the medical school it was more appropriate to use the hospital's coat of arms.<ref name=basics />

UMDS merged with King's College Hospital to become Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine in 1998. The shields of Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals are used in conjunction with King's shield in the medical schools' publications and graduation materials.<ref name=basics />

=== Affiliations and partnerships ===
King's College London is a member institution and was one of the two founding colleges of the federal University of London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.london.ac.uk/history.html |title=A brief history |access-date=31 December 2015 |publisher=University of London |archive-date=9 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209004448/http://www.london.ac.uk/history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1998, King's joined the Russell Group, an association of 24 public research universities established in 1994.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=409118 |title=Do you want to be in my gang?|access-date=31 December 2015 |work=Times Higher Education |date=19 November 2009}}</ref> King's is also a member of the Institutional Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA), a network of higher education institutions based in European capital cities,<ref>{{cite web |title=Members and Contacts |url=http://www.unica-network.eu/page/members-and-contacts |publisher=UNICA|access-date=31 December 2015}}</ref> and of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the European University Association (EUA) and [[Organization:Universities UK|Universities UK]].

King's is typically regarded as part of the "golden triangle", a grouping of research universities located in the English cities of Cambridge, Oxford and London that generally also includes the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Imperial College London, the London School of Economics, and University College London.{{refn|King's is included in some listing<ref name=Nature05>{{cite news |url=http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2005/050707/full/nj7047-144a.html |title=Golden opportunities |work=Nature |date=6 July 2005 |quote="No longer rivals, Oxford, Cambridge and London are now working towards a common goal – ensuring the 'golden triangle' becomes a global science hub."}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=94844&sectioncode=26 |title=Oxbridge windfall |magazine=Times Higher Education |date=4 August 1995}}: "A large amount of the cash awarded to humanities postgraduates still goes to the "Golden Triangle" of Oxford, Cambridge and London, British Academy figures reveal."</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The future of the University of London: a discussion paper from the Provost of UCL |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/images/Uni-Lon.pdf |publisher=University College London|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=UK confirmed as 'global education superpower' in international university rankings |url=http://www.relocatemagazine.com/news/rmarriage-03-d2-2015-6588-education-uk-confirmed-as-global-education-superpower-in-new-international-university-rankings |publisher=Re:locate|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=London top city in global university rankings |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24367153 |work=BBC News|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Johnson floats £10bn biotech fund for London |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9cae5cd8-1a88-11e5-8201-cbdb03d71480.html#axzz40BMeJ2HQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210221233/https://www.ft.com/content/9cae5cd8-1a88-11e5-8201-cbdb03d71480#axzz40BMeJ2HQ |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Financial Times |date=24 June 2015 |access-date=14 February 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Golden triangle pulls ahead in REF shake-out |url=http://exquisitelife.researchresearch.com/files/rf4470.pdf |publisher=Research Fortnight |access-date=14 February 2016 |archive-date=21 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121214654/http://exquisitelife.researchresearch.com/files/rf4470.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title='First large-scale evidence' that graduates from prestige universities dominate elite |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/first-large-scale-evidence-graduates-prestige-universities-dominate-elite |magazine=Times Higher Education|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Unequal Britain: The growing power of a small elite |url=http://www.bigissue.com/features/5914/unequal-britain-the-growing-power-of-a-small-elite |newspaper=Big Issue |access-date=14 February 2016 |archive-date=21 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121105636/http://www.bigissue.com/features/5914/unequal-britain-the-growing-power-of-a-small-elite |url-status=dead }}</ref> but not in others <ref name=THE10>{{cite news |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=410357 |title='Golden triangle' to win funding riches |newspaper=Times Higher Education |date=11 February 2010 |quote="The other institutions in the Cambridge-Oxford-London 'golden triangle' – University College London, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics – will also receive big cash windfalls, as will the University of Manchester."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18624962.800-englands-golden-triangle/ |work=New Scientist |title=England's golden triangle |date=20 April 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=Times Higher Education |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/the-golden-triangle-holds-the-secret/167534.article?storyCode=167534&sectioncode=26 |title=The golden triangle holds the secret |date=1 March 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/jun/03/highereducation.research |title=Gold rush |author=Alok Jha |date=3 June 2003}}</ref>}}

King's College London is also a part of King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre comprises Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London itself.<ref name=heartop>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8448787.stm |title=Heart operation using MRI is world first|access-date=5 November 2010 |work=BBC News |date=9 January 2010}}</ref><ref name=evnstan>{{cite news |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23476568-top-hospitals-link-up-with-university-to-form-research-centre.do |title=Top hospitals link up with university to form research centre |access-date=5 November 2010 |newspaper=London Evening Standard |date=10 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110419170225/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23476568-top-hospitals-link-up-with-university-to-form-research-centre.do |archive-date=19 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kingshealthpartners.org/khp/the-partners/viewing/5 |title=The partners |access-date=5 November 2010 |publisher=King's Health Partners |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031062635/http://kingshealthpartners.org/khp/the-partners/viewing/5 |archive-date=31 October 2010}}</ref> King's is a participant and one of the founding members of the Francis Crick Institute.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/ |publisher=Francis Crick Institute|access-date=31 December 2015}}</ref> Furthermore, launched in 2014, MedCity is the collaboration between King's and the other two main science universities in London, Imperial College and University College London.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=http://www.medcityhq.com/about-us/ |publisher=MedCity|access-date=31 December 2015}}</ref>

In 2016, King's College London, together with [[Organization:Arizona State University|Arizona State University]] and University of New South Wales, formed the PLuS Alliance, an international university alliance to address global challenges.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Global Reach |url=http://www.plusalliance.org/#founding-partners |publisher=PLuS Alliance|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=King's launch PLuS alliance |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2016/02%20February/Kings-launch-PLuS-alliance-.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref> King's is also the founding partner of FutureLearn, a [[Engineering:Massive open online course|massive open online course]] learning platform founded in December 2012.

King's offers joint degrees with many universities and other institutions, including [[Organization:Columbia University|Columbia University]],<ref name="Joint Degrees">{{cite web |title=International Dual Degrees |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/worldwide/opportunities/International-Dual-Degrees/Undergraduate.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref> University of Paris I,<ref name="Joint Degrees" /> University of Hong Kong,<ref name="Joint Degrees" /> National University of Singapore,<ref>{{cite web |title=Contemporary India Research MPhil / PhD, option of joint PhD with NUS |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-courses/contemporary-india-research-mphil-phd.aspx |publisher=King;s College London |access-date=14 January 2016 |archive-date=29 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229201742/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-courses/contemporary-india-research-mphil-phd.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Royal Academy of Music,<ref name="cultural partners">{{cite web |title=Collaborations & partnerships |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/about/partners/index.aspx |publisher=King's College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities|access-date=14 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201193516/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/about/partners/index.aspx|archive-date=1 February 2016 }}</ref> British Library,<ref name="cultural partners" /> Tate Modern,<ref name="cultural partners" /> Shakespeare's Globe,<ref name="cultural partners" /> National Gallery,<ref name="cultural partners" /> National Portrait Gallery<ref name="cultural partners" /> and British Museum.<ref>{{cite web |title=MA in 18th-Century Studies |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/learning/adults_and_students/courses/ma_18th_century_studies.aspx |publisher=British Museum|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Eighteenth-Century Studies MA |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught-courses/eighteenth-century-studies-ma.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref>

In the field of [[Mathematics]], King's College London has a joint venture with [[Organization:Imperial College London|Imperial College London]] and [[Organization:University College London|University College London]] running the London School of Geometry and Number Theory (LSGNT), which is an EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT). The LSGNT offers a wide range of 4-year PhD research projects in different aspects of number theory, geometry and topology.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lsgnt-cdt.ac.uk/ |title=Home - LSGNT |website=www.lsgnt-cdt.ac.uk}}</ref>

Another partnership King's College London has with both [[Organization:Imperial College London|Imperial College London]] and [[Organization:University College London|University College London]] is the field of Nanotechnology, where all 3 universities jointly run the [[Organization:London Centre for Nanotechnology|London Centre for Nanotechnology]] (LCN). LCN is a multidisciplinary research centre in physical and biomedical nanotechnology focused on exploitation and commercialisation of research generated in the relevant fields.

King's College London joined the SES engineering and physical sciences research alliance in 2016, which includes the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Southampton, Imperial College London, Queen Mary University of London, and University College London as members.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/research-heavyweights-deny-ganging-up/2003702.article |title=Research heavyweights deny 'ganging up' |work=Times Higher Education |date=9 May 2013|access-date=7 August 2014}}</ref> King's College London is also a member of the [[Organization:Thomas Young Centre|Thomas Young Centre]], an alliance of London research groups working on the theory and simulation of materials, along with Imperial College London, University College London and Queen Mary University of London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thomasyoungcentre.org/about-tyc/ |title=About the Thomas Young Centre |publisher=Thomas Young Centre|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref>

The university is also a member of the University of London Screen Studies Group with other institutions from the University of London.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/research/screen-studies-group/ |title=University of London Screen Studies Group |access-date=30 August 2021 |publisher=[[Organization:Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths, University of London]]}}</ref>

== Academic profile ==
=== Admissions ===
{| class="floatright"
| 
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align:center; margin-bottom: 5px"
|+UCAS Admission Statistics
!
!2022
!2021
!2020
!2019
!2018
|-
| '''Applications'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC22>{{cite web |title=UCAS Undergraduate Sector-Level End of Cycle Data Resources 2022|url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-sector-level-end-cycle-data-resources-2022 |at=Show me... Domicile by Provider|website=ucas.com |date=December 2022 |publisher=UCAS |access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>
| 70,090
| 67,390
| 57,470
| 52,110
| 46,535
|-
| '''Accepted'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}<ref name=UCASEoC22/>
| 7,320
| 8,460
| 7,875
| 6,750
| 5,860
|-
| '''Applications/Accepted Ratio'''{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme}}
| 9.6
| 8.0
| 7.3
| 7.7
| 7.9
|-
| '''Offer Rate (%)'''{{efn-lg|name=ukjune}}<ref name="offer rate22">{{cite web|title=2022 entry UCAS Undergraduate reports by sex, area background, and ethnic group|date=2 February 2023 |url=https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-sector-level-end-cycle-data-resources-2022/2022-entry-ucas-undergraduate-reports-sex-area-background-and-ethnic-group|publisher=UCAS|access-date=2 February 2023}}</ref>
| 39.3
| 52.9
| 59.4
| 56.1
| 57.7
|-
| '''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>
| {{n/a}}
| 171
| 165
| 166
| 171
|}
{| style="font-size:80%;float:left"
|{{notelist-lg|refs=
{{efn-lg|name=mainscheme|Main scheme applications, International and UK}}
{{efn-lg|name=ukjune|UK domiciled applicants}}
}}
|}
|}
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"; style="font-size:85%; text-align:right;"
|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2021/22)
|-
!Domicile<ref name="HESADom">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider|title=Where do HE students study?: Students by HE provider|work=HESA|at=HE student enrolments by HE provider|access-date=8 February 2023}}</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=31 January 2023|publisher=HESA|access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
|British White
|align=right| {{bartable|28|%|2||background:red}}
|-
|British Ethnic Minorities{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as Asian, Black, Mixed Heritage, Arab or any other ethnicity except White.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|31|%|2||background:green}}
|-
|[[Social:European Union|International EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|9|%|2||background:blue}}
|-
|International Non-EU
|align=right| {{bartable|32|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate [[Social:Widening participation|Widening Participation]] Indicators<ref>{{cite web |title=Widening participation: UK Performance Indicators: Table T2a - Participation of under-represented groups in higher education |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/performance-indicators/widening-participation |website=Higher Education Statistics Authority |publisher=hesa.ac.uk |access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="Times23">{{cite web |date=16 September 2022 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/good-university-guide-in-full-tp6dzs7wn |work=The Times}}</ref>
|-
|Female
|align=right| {{bartable|64|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
|Private School
|align=right| {{bartable|17|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
|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|5|%|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=Complete University Guide |title=University League Table 2021 sorted by entry standards|access-date=9 June 2020}}</ref> In 2015, the university gave offers of admission to 66.7% of its applicants, the 7th lowest amongst the Russell Group.<ref>{{cite news |title=Which elite universities have the highest offer rates |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/10/19/which-elite-universities-have-the-highest-offer-rates/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/10/19/which-elite-universities-have-the-highest-offer-rates/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=21 October 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

24.4% of King's undergraduates are privately educated, the fourteenth highest proportion amongst mainstream British universities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Widening participation: UK Performance Indicators 2016/17 |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/01-02-2018/widening-participation-tables |website=hesa.ac.uk |publisher=Higher Education Statistics Authority|access-date=1 February 2018}}</ref> In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 67:12:20 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 62:37.<ref>{{cite web |title=Where do HE students study? |url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-study#provider |website=hesa.ac.uk |publisher=Higher Education Statistics Authority|access-date=9 February 2018}}</ref>

A freedom-of-information request in 2015 revealed that the university received 31,857 undergraduate applications and made 13,302 offers in 2014–15. This resulted in an offer rate of 41.8%, a yield rate on offers of 45.3% and an overall acceptance rate of 18.9%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theuniversitybuzz.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/following-foi-request-made-by-mr-k.html |title=KCL Undergraduate Admissions Statistics |website=theuniversitybuzz.blogspot.co.uk |access-date=10 August 2015 |archive-date=2 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002091814/http://theuniversitybuzz.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/following-foi-request-made-by-mr-k.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2018, King's College London received 39,102 undergraduate applications, with only 4,728 places accepted it means an overall acceptance rate of 12.1%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.charterhouse.org.uk/uploaded/MainFolder/News/HE_and_Careers_News/London_University_Admission_Statistics.pdf |title=KCL Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2018 |website=charterhouse.org.uk}}</ref> The School of Medicine received 1,764 applications, only 39 offers were made resulting in an offer rate of just 2.2%. Nursery & Midwifery, Physiotherapy and Clinical Dentistry had the lowest offer rates of 14%, 16% and 17% respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/279726/response/690029/attach/4/FOI+16715+Response.pdf |title=Breakdown of undergraduate admissions statistics - a Freedom of Information request to King's College London |date=11 July 2015}}</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 ===

[[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 designed by Vivienne Westwood]]

Graduation ceremonies are held in January (winter) and June or July (summer), with ceremonies for students from most faculties held in next door to the Waterloo Campus at the Southbank Centre on the banks of the Thames. Ceremonies were held at Europe's largest arts complex, the Barbican Centre, until 2018.

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 |title=Venue Information |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad/ceremonies/when/Venue-Information/Venue-Information.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917071844/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad/ceremonies/when/Venue-Information/Venue-Information.aspx |archive-date=17 September 2015}}</ref>

After being vested 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 2013/14 King's had a total research income of £171.55 million, of which £47.64 million was from UK charitable bodies; £38.26 million from Research Councils; £32.97 million from UK central government, local authorities, health and hospital authorities; £21.38 million from EU government and other bodies; £17.09 million from overseas (excluding EU); £13.11 million from UK industry, commerce and public corporations; and £1.11 million from other sources.<ref name=finstat />

In the 2021 [[Social:Research Excellence Framework|Research Excellence Framework]] (REF), which assesses the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, King's is ranked 9th by GPA and 6th for research power (the grade point average score of a university, multiplied by the full-time equivalent number of researchers submitted).<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> King's submitted a total of 1,369 staff across 27 units of assessment to the 2014 [[Social:Research Excellence Framework|Research Excellence Framework]] (REF) assessment (compared with 1,172 submitted to the 2008 [[Social:Research Assessment Exercise|Research Assessment Exercise]] (RAE 2008)).<ref name=the-ref2014>{{cite news |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/ref-2014-winners-who-performed-best/2017591.article |title=REF 2014 winners: who performed best?|access-date=30 December 2014 |work=Times Higher Education |date=18 December 2014}}</ref> In the REF results 40% of King's submitted research was classified as 4*, 45% as 3*, 13% as 2* and 2% as 1*, giving an overall GPA of 3.23.<ref name="REFranking">{{cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sites/default/files/Attachments/2014/12/17/u/q/x/over-14-02.pdf |title=Overall ranking of institutions including power market share |date=16 February 2016 |work=Times Higher Education |publisher=Based upon the results of the 2014 [[Social:Research Excellence Framework|Research Excellence Framework]]|access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> In rankings produced by ''Times Higher Education'' based upon the REF results King's was ranked 6th overall for research power and 7th for GPA (compared to 11th and joint 22nd respectively in the equivalent rankings for the RAE 2008).<ref name=REFranking /> The ''Times Higher Education'' described King's as "arguably the biggest winner" in REF2014 after it rose 15 places on GPA, while submitting about 200 more people.<ref name=the-ref2014 />

=== Medicine ===

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> King's College London School of Medicine has over 2,000 undergraduate students, over 1,400 teachers, four main teaching hospitals – Guy's Hospital, King's College Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital and University Hospital Lewisham – and 17 associated district general hospitals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/medicine/about/meded/ |title=Division of Medical Education|access-date=7 October 2010 |publisher=King's College London}}</ref> It is also ranked the 8th best University in the world to study Medicine at. King's College London Dental Institute is the largest dental school in Europe.<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 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 centres in Europe with a turnover of over £2&nbsp;billion and approximately 25,000 employees.<ref name=kingspartnersfacts /> It also is home to six Medical Research Council centres, 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 |website=NHS National Institute for Health Research |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 [[Organization:World Anti-Doping Agency|WADA]] accredited anti-doping laboratory in the UK and holds the official UK contract for running doping tests on UK athletes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/biohealth/research/drugcontrol/ |title=Drug Control Centre|access-date=7 October 2010 |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 London 2012 Olympic and 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 ===
King's library facilities are spread across its campuses. The collections encompass over one million printed books, as well as thousands of journals and electronic resources.

==== 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]]
The Maughan Library is King's largest library and is housed in the Grade II* listed 19th century gothic former Public Record Office building situated on Chancery Lane at the Strand Campus. The building was designed by Sir James Pennethorne and is home to the books and [[Academic journal|journals]] of the Schools of Arts & Humanities, Law, Natural & Mathematical Sciences, and Social Science & Public Policy. It also houses the Special Collections and rare books. Inside the Library is the octagonal Round Reading Room, inspired by the reading room of the British Museum, and the former Rolls Chapel (renamed the Weston Room following a donation from the Garfield Weston Foundation) with its stained glass windows, [[Engineering:Mosaic|mosaic]] floor and monuments, including a [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]] terracotta figure by Pietro Torrigiano of Dr Yonge, Master of the Rolls, who died in 1516.

==== Other libraries ====
* '''Foyle Special Collections Library:''' Situated at Chancery Lane, the library houses a collection of 180,000 printed works as well as thousands of [[Earth:Map|map]]s, slides, sound recordings and some manuscript material.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/special-collections/collections.aspx|title=About our collections|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=13 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113024439/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/special-collections/collections.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> The collections are built up by purchase, gift and bequest over centuries, which cover all subject areas and contain many special items, including incunabula.<ref name=specialcollections>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/specialcollections.aspx|title=Special Collections|access-date=11 November 2015|archive-date=13 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113025033/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/specialcollections.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> The collections are particularly strong in European [[Social:Military history|military]] and diplomatic history, Jewish and Christian theology, the history of the British Empire, Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, Germany, voyages and travels, medicine and science.<ref name=specialcollections />
* '''Tony Arnold Library:''' Situated at Chancery Lane, it houses a collection of over 3000 law books and 140 law journals. It was named after Tony Arnold, the longest serving Secretary of the Institute of Taxation. The library was opened on 18 December 1997, and in September 2001, the library became part of the law collection of King's College London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tax.org.uk/showarticle.pl?id=3951;n=3621 |title=CIOT – Using the Library |publisher=Chartered Institute of Taxation |date=18 December 1997 |access-date=29 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060930234116/http://www.tax.org.uk/showarticle.pl?id=3951%3Bn%3D3621 |archive-date=30 September 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tony Arnold Library |url=http://www.tax.org.uk/members/tony-arnold-library |publisher=The Chartered Institute of Taxation |access-date=30 January 2016 |archive-date=20 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120165110/http://www.tax.org.uk/members/tony-arnold-library |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* '''Archives Reading Room:''' Situated at Chancery Lane, it holds a collection of institutional and research papers from King's and organisations merged with or founded by King's (such as King's College Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' medical and dental schools, the Institute of Psychiatry).<ref name=arr>{{cite web |title=Archives Reading Room |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/archives.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 January 2016 |archive-date=4 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204170937/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/archives.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The reading room also houses research papers of former staff and students, including Sir Charles Wheatstone, [[Biography:Maurice Wilkins|Maurice Wilkins]] and Eric Mottram.<ref name=arr />
* '''Franklin-Wilkins Library:''' Situated at the Waterloo Campus, the library is home to extensive management and education holdings, as well as wide-ranging biomedical, health and life sciences coverage includes nursing, midwifery, public health, pharmacy, biological and environmental sciences, biochemistry and forensic science.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/libraries/waterloo.aspx |title=Franklin Wilkins Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428233725/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/libraries/waterloo.aspx |archive-date=28 April 2012 }}</ref>
* '''Wills Library and Keats Room:''' Situated in the Hodgkin Building at Guy's Campus, it was originally the main library for the Guy's Hospital Medical School. The Wills Library was a gift in 1903 by the former governor of Guy's Hospital, the 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 that can be retrieved by request.<ref name=wills>{{cite web |title=Wills Library & Keats Room |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/wills-library.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 January 2016 |archive-date=4 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204173753/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/wills-library.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Wills Library also incorporates the Keats Room named after King's alumni John Keats, who was a medical student at Guy's Hospital.<ref name=wills />
* '''New Hunt's House Library:''' Situated at Guy's Campus, the library covers all aspects of biomedical science, including anatomy, biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology and physiology. There are also extensive resources for medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy and health services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/libraries/guys.aspx |title=New Hunt's House Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916161302/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/libraries/guys.aspx |archive-date=16 September 2011 }}</ref>
* '''St Thomas' House Library:''' Situated at St Thomas' Campus, its holdings cover all aspects of basic medical sciences, clinical medicine and health services research, and particularly focus on dermatology and paediatrics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/stthomas.aspx |title=St Thomas' House Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 January 2016 |archive-date=4 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204172746/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/stthomas.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* '''Institute of Psychiatry Library:''' The library is the largest psychiatric library in Western Europe,<ref>{{cite web |title=Institute of Psychiatry Library Collection |url=http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/8146 |website=Cornucopia |publisher=Museums, Libraries and Archives Council|access-date=14 February 2016}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> holding 3,000 print journal titles, 550 of which are current subscriptions, as well as access to over 3,500 electronic journals, 42,000 books, and training materials. The collections focus on psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, neurology, genetics and psychotherapy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/iop.aspx |title=Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Library |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 January 2016 |archive-date=4 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204173417/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/visiting/iop.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* '''Weston Education Centre Library:''' Situated at the Denmark Hill Campus, the library has particular strengths in the areas of [[Medicine:Gastroenterology|gastroenterology]], liver disease, diabetes, obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics and the history of medicine.<ref name=weclibrary>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/libraries/denmarkhill.aspx |title=Weston Education Centre |publisher=King's College London |access-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504035900/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/libraries/denmarkhill.aspx |archive-date=4 May 2012 }}</ref> The collection supports the teaching and research of the GKT School of Medicine and the Dental Institute, and also the clinical work of the King's College Hospital and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.<ref name=weclibrary />

Additionally, King's students and staff have full access to 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 currently operates two museums: Gordon Museum of Pathology and Museum of Life Sciences. Opened in 1905 at Guy's Campus, the Gordon Museum is the largest medical museum in the United Kingdom,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/gordon/about/index.aspx |title=About the Gordon Museum |publisher=Gordon Museum of Pathology |access-date=22 October 2015}}</ref> and houses a collection of approximately 8000 pathological specimens, artefacts, models and paintings, including Astley Cooper's specimens and Sir Joseph Lister's antiseptic spray.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/gordon/collection/index.aspx |title=The Gordon Museum collection |publisher=Gordon Museum of Pathology |access-date=22 October 2015}}</ref> The Museum of Life Sciences was founded in 2009 adjacent to the Gordon Museum, and it houses historic biological and pharmaceutical collections from the constituent colleges of the modern King's College London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/health/study/facilities/lifesciences/about.aspx |title=About the Museum of Life Sciences |publisher=Health Faculties, King's College London |access-date=23 October 2015}}</ref>

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 within King's, much of the museum's collections were transferred on loan to the 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 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 various 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 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>

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'', first editions of [[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]' novels, and the 1937 (first) edition of [[Biography:George Orwell|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>

King's College London Archives holds the institution's records, which are among the richest higher education records in London.<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> King's archives collections 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. Founded in 1964, the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 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>

Science Gallery London is set to open in 2018 on the Guy's Campus.<ref name=sciencegallery>{{cite web |title=Science Gallery London |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/sciencegallery/Index.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=15 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121061109/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/sciencegallery/Index.aspx|archive-date=21 January 2016 }}</ref> It is a public science centre where 'art and science collide',<ref name=whatissgl>{{cite web |title=What is SG London |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/sciencegallery/whatissgl.aspx |publisher=KCL|access-date=15 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405071718/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/sciencegallery/whatissgl.aspx|archive-date=5 April 2016 }}</ref> and is a part of Global Science Gallery Network.<ref name=sciencegallery /><ref name=SGL>{{cite web |title=Science Gallery London |url=https://london.sciencegallery.com/ |publisher=Science Gallery London|access-date=15 January 2016}}</ref> A flagship project for 'Culture at King's College London', Science Gallery will include {{convert|2,000|m²|0|abbr=on}} of public space and a newly landscaped Georgian courtyard.<ref name=whatissgl /> There will be exhibition galleries, theatres, meeting spaces and a café; while unlike other science centre, it will have no permanent collection.<ref name=whatissgl /> Daniel Glaser, the former Head of Engaging Science at Wellcome Trust, is Director of Science Gallery London.<ref name=whatissgl />

=== Rankings and reputation ===
{{Infobox UK university rankings
| LEIDEN_W           = 39
| QS_W               = 40
| THE_W              = 38=
| ARWU_W            = 59
| LINE_1             = 0
| Complete           = 24=
| The_Guardian       = 23
| Times/Sunday_Times = 27
| LINE_2             = 0
| TEF                = Silver
| REF = 9
}}
[[File:King's 10 Years.png|thumb|upright=1.2|King's College London's [[Organization:Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom|national league table]] performance over the past ten years]]
Among global university rankings, King's is ranked 31st equal by the 2021 ''QS World University Rankings'', 35th by the 2021 world university rankings of the ''Times Higher Education'', 34th by the 2021 ''U.S. News & World Report'' (Best Global Universities Rankings) .<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/King%27s-College-London.html |title=King's College London &#124; Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2020 &#124; Shanghai Ranking - 2020 |website=www.shanghairanking.com |access-date=3 May 2021 |archive-date=29 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129071024/http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/King%27s-College-London.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=US News ranking 2021 |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings}}</ref>

As of 2021, King's is ranked in the top seven UK universities in all the six major academic rankings of global universities: ''QS'', ''Times Higher Education'',  ''University Ranking by Academic Performance'', ''U.S. News & World Report'' (Best Global Universities Rankings) and Center for World University Rankings.<ref>{{cite web |title=United Kingdom |url=http://www.urapcenter.org/2016/country.php?ccode=GB&rank=all |website=Rank by Country |publisher=URAP |access-date=17 September 2017 |archive-date=18 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918022223/http://www.urapcenter.org/2016/country.php?ccode=GB&rank=all |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=United Kingdom |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/search?region=europe&country=united-kingdom&name= |website=Best Global Universities Rankings |publisher=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=CWUR 2016 – United Kingdom |url=http://cwur.org/2016/united-kingdom.html |publisher=Center for World University Rankings|access-date=17 September 2017}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

According to the 2021 ''Complete University Guide'', 9 out of the 30 subjects offered by King's rank within the top 10 nationally, including Business & Management Studies (2nd), Law (4th), Psychology (5th), Linguistics (6th), Food Science (7th), Sociology (8th), Dentistry (9th), Classics & Ancient History (9th), and Biological Sciences (10th).<ref>{{cite web |title=Who's in the Top Ten for their Subjects 2021 |url=http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/who's-who-in-the-subject-league-tables/ |publisher=The Complete University Guide|access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref> ''{{wipe|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> King's College London has had 24 of its subject-areas awarded the highest rating of 5 or 5* for research quality in the 2004 [[Social:Research Assessment Exercise|Research Assessment Exercise]],<ref name="Profile2006">{{citation |title=''Profile'' |year=2006 |publisher=King's College London}}</ref> and in 2007 it received a good result in its audit by the Quality Assurance Agency.<ref name="Profile2006" />

King's was ranked joint 14th overall in ''The Sunday Times'' 10-year (1998–2007) average ranking of British universities based on consistent league table performance.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/pdfs/univ07ten.pdf |title=University ranking based on performance over 10 years |work=The Times |location=London |year=2007|access-date=28 April 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080414064446/http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/pdfs/univ07ten.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 14 April 2008}}</ref> In recent years, however, the university has performed less well in domestic league tables, being placed outside of the top 20 in all three major tables for 2016. The methodologies of these tables include student satisfaction scores with teaching and feedback as a significant input.<ref>{{cite web |title=Methodology |url=http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/methodology/ |website=League Tables |publisher=The Complete University Guide |access-date=4 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416071152/http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/methodology/ |archive-date=16 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Methodology behind the Guardian University Guide 2016|first=Matt |last=Hiely-Rayner |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/may/25/methodology-behind-the-guardian-university-guide-2016 |newspaper=The Guardian|date=25 May 2015 |access-date=5 February 2016}}</ref> In common with most other London institutions, King's performs less well on the [[Social:National Student Survey|National Student Survey]] (NSS), ranking 133rd for student satisfaction (out of 160 institutes) in the 2015 survey.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Times Higher Education |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/carousels/national-student-survey-2015-overall-satisfaction-results-full |title=National Student Survey 2015: the overall satisfaction results in full |date=12 August 2015}}</ref>

According to the 2015 ''Times'' and ''Sunday Times'' University Guide, their inclusion of student satisfaction scores, along with international guides including reputation scores from academics and employers, explains the disparity between King's ranking on their (domestic) table and global tables. They add that when the university is ranked according to student satisfaction scores from undergraduates on factors such as academic support, teaching, assessment and feedback, "King's ranks 106 out of 123 institutions", although "despite the iffy student satisfaction scores, students continue to apply here in their droves" with an average of 8.1 applicants per place available for 2014 entry.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://st.hitcreative.com/education/university_guide/active/UniversityGuide/university/year/2015/id/3296/kings-college-london |title=King's College London |work=The Times |location=London |access-date=15 June 2015}}</ref> However, although the Complete University Guide has used the results of the NSS since at least 2011,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/methodology/ |title=Methodology |date=2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416071152/http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/methodology/ |archive-date=16 April 2011}}</ref> King's retained a position in their top 20 until the 2015 tables (published 2014),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/universities/kings-college-london-university-of-london |title=King's College London, University of London- Complete University Guide |website=www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk}}</ref> managing 19th on the 2014 tables despite ranking joint 102nd (out of 124) for student satisfaction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?o=Student+Satisfaction&v=wide&y=2014|title=University League Table 2014|access-date=7 February 2016|archive-date=23 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323054949/http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?o=Student+Satisfaction&v=wide&y=2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In a survey by ''{{wipe|The New York Times}}'' assessing the most valued graduates by business leaders, King's College London graduates ranked 22nd in the world and 5th in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |title=What business leaders say |url=https://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/10/20/education/20iht-SReducEmploy20-graphic.html?ref=education |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=14 February 2016 |date=20 October 2011}}</ref> In the 2015 Global Employability University Survey of international recruiters, King's is ranked 43rd in the world and 7th in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/carousels/global-employability-university-ranking-2015-results |title=Global Employability University Ranking 2015 results |work=Times Higher Education|date=6 November 2015 |access-date=15 November 2015}}</ref> King's was chosen as the 5th best UK university by major British employers in 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The best UK universities chosen by major employers |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/best-uk-universities-chosen-major-employers |magazine=Times Higher Education|access-date=23 February 2016}}</ref>

In 2014, King's ranked 5th amongst multidisciplinary UK universities for highest graduate starting salaries (i.e. graduates' average annual salary six months after graduation).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9532912/Best-universities-for-high-starting-salaries.html?frame=2334361 |location=London |work=Daily Telegraph |title=Best universities for high starting salaries |date=17 April 2016}}</ref> In a [[Big data|big data]] research by the [[Organization:Institute for Fiscal Studies|Institute for Fiscal Studies]], [[Organization:University of Cambridge|University of Cambridge]] and [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]], it was revealed the top 10% of King's male graduates working in England were the 7th highest earning students 10 years after graduation in comparison to graduates of all Higher Education providers (both multi and uni-disciplinary universities) in the UK and the top 10% of its female graduates were the 9th highest earning students 10 years after graduation in the same study.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/wps/wp1606.pdf |location=London |work=Institute of Fiscal Studies |title=How English domiciled graduate earnings vary with gender, institution attended, subject and socio-economic background |date=17 April 2016 |access-date=17 April 2016 |archive-date=17 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417152232/http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/wps/wp1606.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Guardian University Guide 2017 named King's as the 6th best university in the country for graduate career prospects, with 84.3% of students finding graduate-level jobs within six months of graduation.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/guardian-university-guide-2017-imperial-college-london-beats-oxbridge-universities-for-highest-a7047046.html |title=Imperial College London beats Oxbridge universities for highest graduate employment rate |date=24 May 2016 |first=Aftab |last=Ali}}</ref>

In September 2010, the ''Sunday Times'' selected King's as the "[[Organization:Sunday Times University of the Year|University of the Year]] 2010–11".<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> King's was ranked as the 5th best university in the UK for the quality of graduates according to recruiters from the UK's major companies.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/best-uk-universities-chosen-major-employers |location=London |work=Times Higher Education |title=The best UK universities chosen by major employers |date=12 November 2015}}</ref>

=== Associateship of King's College ===
The Associateship of King's College (AKC) is the original award of King's College, dating back to its foundation in 1829 and 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 ===

The [[Social: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 chaplain of King's, was the first FKC. Each fellow had to pay two 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 />

== Student life ==
=== Students' union ===
[[File:reggiethelion.jpg|thumb|A papier-mâché version of Reggie the Lion, the mascot of KCLSU, outside the Great Hall in King's Strand Campus]]
[[File:King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU) Logo.png|thumb|Logo of the King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU)]]
Founded in 1873,<ref>{{cite web |title=Timeline |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/dates.aspx |website=History & today |publisher=King's College London|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref> King's College, London Union Society which later, in 1908, reorganised into King's College London Students' Union, better known by its acronym KCLSU, is the oldest students' union in London (University College London Union being founded in 1893)<ref name="Reference to UCLU foundation in 1893">{{cite web |url=http://uclu.org/ |title=UCLU |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=University College London Union}}</ref> and has a claim to being the oldest Students' Union in England.<ref name="kclsudates">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/dates.aspx |title=Dates: 1850–1899 |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London}} "1873 – The first students' Union Society is instituted at King's."</ref><ref name="KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: Union of Students">{{cite web |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k-o/10ki80-1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415052230/http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k-o/10ki80-1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: Union of Students |date=March 2001 |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=King's College London Archives}} "Records, 1874–1994, of King's College London Union Society, Students' Union, and other student societies".</ref> Athletic Club was one of the nineteenth-century student societies at King's formed in 1884.<ref>{{cite web |title=KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: Union of Students |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k/10ki80-1 |publisher=College Archives|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref> The union provides a wide range of activities and services, including over 50 sports clubs (which includes the boat club which rows on the River Thames and the rifle club which uses the college's shooting range located at the disused Aldwych tube station beneath the Strand Campus),<ref name="KCLSU Sports Clubs">{{cite web |url=http://www.kclsu.org/page.asp?section=1196&sectionTitle=Clubs |title=Clubs |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=KCLSU}}</ref> over 200 activity groups,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kclsu.org/page.asp?section=1149&sectionTitle=Activities |title=Activities |access-date=21 January 2013 |publisher=KCLSU}}</ref> a wide range of volunteering opportunities, bars/eateries (The Shack, The Shed, The Vault and Guy's Bar), a shop (''King's Shop'') and a gym (Kinetic Fitness Club). Between 1992 and 2013 the union operated a nightclub, Tutu's, named after alumnus [[Biography:Desmond Tutu|Desmond Tutu]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/farewell-tutus |title=Farewell Tutu's: nightclub closes after over 20 years |publisher=King's College London Alumni Online|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref>

The former President of KCLSU, Sir Ivison Macadam, after whom the former students' union building on the Strand Campus (Macadam Building) is named, went on to be elected as the first president of the National Union of Students.<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history |url=http://www.nus.org.uk/en/who-we-are/our-history/a-brief-history/ |website=Our history |publisher=National Union of Students|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref>

"Reggie the Lion" (informally "Reggie") is the official mascot of the students' union. In total there are four Reggies in existence. The original can be found on display in the undercroft of the Union's Bush House base at the Strand Campus. A papier-mâché Reggie lives outside the Great Hall at the Strand Campus. The third Reggie, given as a gift by alumnus Willie Kwan, guards the entrance of Willies Common Room in Somerset House East Wing.<ref>{{cite web |title=A new space for undergraduates |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers/news/Archive/2011/SomersetHouseCommonRoom.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=27 December 2015}}</ref> A small [[Chemistry:Sterling silver|sterling silver]] incarnation is displayed during graduation ceremonies, which was presented to King's by former Halliburton Professor of Physiology, Robert John Stewart McDowall, in 1959.<ref>{{cite web |title=Graduation ceremonies |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad/ceremonies/afterceremony/KGRADBarbicanGradProgJul2015FORWEB.pdf |publisher=King's College London|access-date=14 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092902/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad/ceremonies/afterceremony/KGRADBarbicanGradProgJul2015FORWEB.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>

KCLSU owns and operates several student run social spaces, including the cafe/coffee shop The Shed, and the bars Guy's Bar (both on Guy's Campus), The Vault and Philosophy Bar (both on Strand campus).

=== Student media ===
KCLSU Student Media won Student Media of the Year 2014 at the Ents Forum awards<ref>{{cite web |title=King's student media 'best in the country' after another successful awards evening |date = 11 July 2014|url=http://roarnews.co.uk/wordpress/?p=12966 |publisher=Roar! News}}</ref> and came in the top three student media outlets in the country at the NUS Awards 2014.<ref name=roar>{{cite web |title=Student media at King's comes in top three nationwide at NUS Awards |date = 4 July 2014|url=http://roarnews.co.uk/wordpress/?p=12916 |publisher=Roar! News}}</ref>

''Roar News'' is a tabloid newspaper for students at King's which is owned and funded by KCLSU. It is editorially independent of both the university and the students' union and its award-winning website is read by tens of thousands of people per month in over 100 countries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roar! wins best website |work=King's College London |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/international/yourcountry/usa/News/Roar!-wins-best-website.aspx |access-date=30 July 2014 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714134221/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/international/yourcountry/usa/News/Roar!-wins-best-website.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2014 it had a successful awards season, scooping several national awards and commendations, including a Mind Media Award and Student Media of the Year.<ref name="roar" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Mind Media Awards shortlist announced |url=http://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/news/mind-media-awards-2014-shortlist-announced/#.VBQoP2MzJX8 |website=www.mind.org.uk|access-date=13 September 2014}}</ref>

The radio station of KCLSU, KCL Radio, was founded in 2009 as a podcast producer. The first live broadcast of KCL Radio was in 2011 at the London Varsity.<ref name=sra /> In 2013, KCL Radio relaunched as a live station with more than 45 hours of live programming a week. The schedule of the radio station includes news, music, entertainment, debate, sport and live performance.<ref name=sra>{{cite web |title=KCL Radio – King's College, London |url=http://www.studentradio.org.uk/stations/kcl-radio/ |publisher=The Student Radio Association Ltd |access-date=29 January 2016 |archive-date=15 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160715144108/https://www.studentradio.org.uk/stations/kcl-radio/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Other King's student media groups include the student television station KingsTV, and the photographic society KCLSU PhotoSoc.<ref>{{cite web |title=Student Media |url=http://www.kclsu.org/studentmedia/ |publisher=KCLSU|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref>

=== Sports ===
[[File:Macadam Cup 2008.jpg|thumb|right|The annual Macadam Cup]]
There are over 60 sports clubs, many of which compete in the University of London and British Universities & Colleges (BUCS) leagues across the South East.<ref name="KCLSU Sports Clubs" /> The annual Macadam Cup is a varsity match played between the sports teams of King's College London proper (KCL) and King's College London Medical School (KCLMS). King's students and staff have played an important part in the formation of the London Universities and Colleges Athletics.

Created in January 2013, King's Sport, a partnership between King's College London and KCLSU, manages all the sports activities and facilities of King's.<ref>{{cite web |title=King's Sport |url=http://www.kclsu.org/sport/ |website=Sports |publisher=KCLSU|access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/sport/about/aboutus.aspx |website=King's Sport |publisher=King's College London|access-date=8 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215203821/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/sport/about/aboutus.aspx|archive-date=15 February 2016 }}</ref> King's Sport runs three fitness centres at the Waterloo, Guy's and Strand Campuses which include various studio spaces. King's Sport also operates three sports grounds in New Malden, Honor Oak Park and Dulwich.<ref>{{cite web |title=Facilities |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/sport/facilities/index.aspx |website=King's sport |publisher=King's College London|access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> There are also on-campus sports facilities at Guy's, St Thomas's and Denmark Hill campuses.<ref name="On-Campus">{{cite web |title=On Campus |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/sport/facilities/oncampus.aspx|access-date=8 February 2016 |website=Facilities |publisher=King's College London}}</ref> King's students and staff can utilize Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust's fitness centre and swimming pool based within the Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals.<ref name="On-Campus" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The Thomas Guy Club |url=http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/why-work-here/thomas-guy-club.aspx |publisher=Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust|access-date=8 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216131945/http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/why-work-here/thomas-guy-club.aspx|archive-date=16 February 2016|url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Societies and organisations ===
In addition to their sporting societies, King's College London also boast 300 other societies and groups in a wide variety of activities.<ref name="kclsu.org">{{cite web |url=https://www.kclsu.org/societies/ |title=Societies & Groups |website=www.kclsu.org}}</ref> The Societies can be categorised by twelve main groups; Academic, Business & Entrepreneurship, Campaign, Common Interest, Culture, Faith & Spirituality, Fundraising, Media, Medical, Music Performance & Creative, Political and Volunteering.

=== Student-led think tank ===
Following the 2010 student demonstrations against increased tuition fees, King's College London students founded London's first student-led think tank, King's Think Tank (formerly known as KCL Think Tank).<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Story – Our Mission |url=http://www.kingsthinktank.com/#!about/c1cy0 |publisher=King's Think Tank|access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> With a membership of more than 2000,<ref>{{cite web |title=KCL Think Tank Society |url=http://www.campuspolicy.org/members/kcl-think-tank-society/ |publisher=CampusPolicy|access-date=8 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223124544/http://www.campuspolicy.org/members/kcl-think-tank-society/|archive-date=23 February 2016|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bored of party politics on campus? Think about thinktanks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jul/16/bored-of-party-politics-on-campus-think-about-thinktanks |website=Guardian Students |date=16 July 2015 |publisher=The Guardian|access-date=8 February 2016}}</ref> it is the largest organisation of its kind in Europe.<ref>{{cite news |last=King's College London |title=Student think tank launches at King's |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2011/03March/StudentthinktanklaunchesatKings.aspx|access-date=21 August 2015 |date=10 March 2011}}</ref> This student initiative organises lectures and discussions in seven different policy areas, and assists students in lobbying politicians, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other policymakers with their ideas. Every May, it produces a peer-reviewed journal of policy recommendations called ''The Spectrum''.<ref>{{cite web |last=KCL Think Tank Society |title=Our Story – Our Mission |url=http://www.kingsthinktank.com/#!about/c1cy0|access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=King's College London – Student Think Tank re-launched for new academic year |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/student/news/stories/2012/Student-Think-Tank-re-launched-for-new-academic-year.aspx |publisher=King's College London |access-date=21 April 2013 |archive-date=20 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420152212/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/student/news/stories/2012/Student-Think-Tank-re-launched-for-new-academic-year.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Music ===
There are many music societies at King's including a cappella groups, orchestras, choir, musical theatre and jazz society.<ref name=music>{{cite web |title=Music Societies |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/music/study/societies.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=13 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908084021/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/music/study/societies.aspx|archive-date=8 September 2015 }}</ref> King's has three orchestras: King's College London Symphony Orchestra (KCLSO), King's College London Chamber Orchestra and KCL Concert Orchestra.<ref name=music />

Founded in 1945, the Choir of King's College London, one of the most acclaimed university choirs in England,<ref>{{cite web |title=King's College London Choir |url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A2017 |publisher=Hyperion Records|access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Choir of King's College London at the Brandenburg Festival 2013 |url=https://bachtrack.com/review-brandenburg-2013-kings-choir-spem |publisher=Bachtrack Ltd.|access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref> consists of around 30 choral scholars.<ref name=choir>{{cite web |title=About the Choir |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/principal/dean/choir/about.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref> The choir regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 and has made recordings mainly focus on 16th-century English and Spanish repertoire.<ref name=choir />

All the King's Men (AtKM) is an all-male a cappella ensemble from King's College London. Founded in 2009, it has since risen to prominence in the university, becoming the first group outside of [[Organization:University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[Organization:University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] to win The Voice Festival UK.<ref name="ATKM">{{cite news |title=All the King's Men Reign in VF-UK Final |url=http://universityacappellauk.com/2012/03/10/all-the-kings-men-reign-in-vf-uk-final/ |publisher=The UK University A Cappella Blog |date=10 March 2012|access-date=9 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107115025/http://universityacappellauk.com/2012/03/10/all-the-kings-men-reign-in-vf-uk-final/|archive-date=7 January 2014 }}</ref><ref name="ATKM2">{{cite news |title=All the King's Men Place Third in ICCA Finals; SoCal VoCals Win Third Title |url=http://universityacappellauk.com/2012/04/29/all-the-kings-men-place-third-in-icca-finals-socal-vocals-win-third-title/ |publisher=The UK University A Cappella Blog |date=29 April 2012|access-date=9 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415032054/http://universityacappellauk.com/2012/04/29/all-the-kings-men-place-third-in-icca-finals-socal-vocals-win-third-title/|archive-date=15 April 2014 }}</ref>

Pop Superstar, Taylor Swift played at Strand Campus for her first UK gig.

=== Rivalry with University College London ===
[[File:UCL-KCL Varsity Rugby 2014.jpg|thumb|King's traditional rivalry with UCL is nowadays most noted at the yearly varsity rugby match]]

Competition within the University of London is most intense between King's and [[Organization:University College London|University College London]], the two oldest institutions. Indeed, the University of London when it was established has been described as "an umbrella organisation designed to disguise the rivalry between UCL and KCL."<ref name="Thompson7">Thompson (1990), p. 7</ref> In the early twentieth century, King's College London and UCL rivalry was centred on their respective [[Social:Mascot|mascot]]s.<ref name="varsity">{{cite web |url=http://www.thelondonvarsity.com/#/history/4541866243 |title=History – The London Varsity |publisher=The London Varsity|access-date=31 March 2013|archive-date=6 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806142429/http://thelondonvarsity.com/#/history/4541866243|url-status=dead}}</ref> University College's was Phineas Maclino, a wooden [[Finance:Tobacconist|tobacconist]]'s sign of a kilted Jacobite [[Place:Scottish Highlands|Highlander]] purloined from outside a shop in Tottenham Court Road during the celebrations of the relief of Ladysmith in 1900. King's later addition was a giant beer bottle representing "bottled youth". In 1923 it was replaced by a new mascot to rival Phineas – Reggie the Lion, who made his debut at a King's–[[Organization:University College London|UCL]] sporting rag in December 1923, protected by a lifeguard of engineering students armed with T-squares. Thereafter, Reggie formed the centrepiece of annual freshers' processions by King's students around Aldwych in which new students were typically flour bombed.<ref>{{cite web |title=The College mascots: Phineas and Reggie |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/mayhem/origins/mascots |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref>

Although riots between respective college students occurred in central London well into the 1950s, rivalry is now limited to the rugby union pitch and skulduggery over mascots, with the annual London Varsity series culminating in the historic match between King's College London RFC and University College London RFC.<ref name="varsity" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unisportonline.co.uk/The-London-Varsity-LIVE/Sports-News/ |title=The London Varsity Live |date=29 February 2012 |publisher=UniSportOnline|access-date=31 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524071811/http://www.unisportonline.co.uk/The-London-Varsity-LIVE/Sports-News/|archive-date=24 May 2013 }}</ref>

=== Rivalry with the London School of Economics ===
On 2 December 2005, tensions between King's and the [[Organization:London School of Economics|London School of Economics]] (LSE) were ignited when at least 200 students from LSE (located in Aldwych near the Strand Campus) diverted off from the annual "barrel run" and caused an estimated £32,000 of damage to the English department at King's.<ref name="rampage">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4506664.stm |title=Students in university rampage |work=BBC News |date=7 December 2005|access-date=20 November 2006}}</ref><ref>''The Beaver''. LSESU. 26 September 2006.</ref> ''The Times'' reported that LSE director Howard Davies attended the fun run event,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Foster |first1=Patrick |last2=Blair |first2=Alexandra |title=LSE director at event that led to £30,000 rampage |work=The Times |publisher=Times Newspapers Limited |date=8 December 2005 |quote="Twenty-four hours after the LSE director expressed regret for "the damage and disturbance caused by a number of our students", photographs have revealed that Mr Davies, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, also attended the event."}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Today's news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/todays-news/200300.article |magazine=Times Higher Education|access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref> while LSE claimed that Davies only attended for a short time.<ref name=AUBarellStatement>{{cite web |title=AU Barrel incident on Friday 2 December |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2005/AUBarellStatement.aspx |publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science|access-date=16 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231031219/http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2005/AUBarellStatement.aspx|archive-date=31 December 2015 }}</ref> King's principal, Sir Rick Trainor, deplored the behaviour, appealed to King's students to remain calm and called for no retaliation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Partying students attack college |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4506066.stm|access-date=16 February 2016 |work=BBC News |date=7 December 2005}}</ref><ref name=LSEapologises>{{cite news |last1=MacLeod |first1=Donald |title=LSE apologises for student rampage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/dec/06/highereducation.students|access-date=16 February 2016 |work=The Guardian |date=6 December 2005}}</ref> The LSE Students' Union later on 6 December issued a formal apology, condemned the actions, as well as promising to foot the bill for the damage repair.<ref name=AUBarellStatement /><ref name=LSEapologises />
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=== Student residences ===
==== Halls of residence ====
[[File:Great Dover street apartments.jpg|thumb|The Great Dover Street halls of residence]]

King's has a total of thirteen halls of residence located throughout London. Accommodation is guaranteed for first year undergraduates and international postgraduates.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/accommodation/residences/index.aspx |title=King's College London Residences |year=2016 |publisher=King's College London|access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> Great Dover Street Apartments, Wolfson House and Iris Brook and Orchard Lisle are located on Guy's Campus in London Bridge. Brian Creamer House, which was named after Dean of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Brian Creamer,<ref>{{cite news |title=Brian Creamer |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1497210/Brian-Creamer.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1497210/Brian-Creamer.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=Telegraph|access-date=21 January 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and the Rectory are situated in the grounds of Lambeth Palace near St Thomas' Campus. Stamford Street Apartments is located opposite Waterloo Campus and within walking distance of Strand Campus, and Champion Hill Residence is close to Denmark Hill Campus in south London. Urbanest Tower Bridge is located within a walking distance from the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. There are two new accommodations for 2018 such as Atlas and Vauxhall. Angel Lane in Stratford, Ewen Henderson Court, Julian Markham House in Elephant and Castle, Moonraker Point in Southwark and Stratford One are nominated residences run by the Unite Group.<ref name=Residences>{{cite web |title=Our Residences |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/residences/Our-Residences/index.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524034223/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/residences/Our-Residences/index.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 May 2015 |publisher=King's College London|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> Hampstead Residence was a residence near the former King's Hampstead Campus, but was sold by King's College London and is no longer a King's venue.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hampstead Residence |url=http://www.kingsvenues.com/Summer-Accommodation/Hampstead-Residence.aspx |publisher=King's Venues|access-date=21 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127004116/http://www.kingsvenues.com/Summer-Accommodation/Hampstead-Residence.aspx|archive-date=27 January 2016|url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== Intercollegiate halls of residence ====
In addition to halls of residence run by King's, full-time students are eligible to stay at one of the Intercollegiate Halls of Residence offered by the University of London. King's has the largest number of bedspaces in the University of London Intercollegiate Halls.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lon.ac.uk/halls.html |title=University of London – Intercollegiate Halls |publisher=University of London |date=3 March 2010 |access-date=29 April 2010 |archive-date=3 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503014525/http://www.lon.ac.uk/halls.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> There are a total of eight intercollegiate halls of the University of London. Canterbury Hall, College Hall, Commonwealth Hall, Connaught Hall, Hughes Parry Hall and International Hall are located near Russell Square in Bloomsbury. Lillian Penson Hall is situated in Paddington, and Nutford House is situated in Marble Arch. Additionally, students can apply to live in International Students House.

== Notable people ==

=== Notable alumni ===
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Notable alumni in the sciences include Nobel laureates [[Biography:Peter Higgs|Peter Higgs]] (Physics),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/famouspeople/peterhiggs.aspx |title=Professor Peter Higgs |publisher=King's College London|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref> [[Biography:Michael Houghton (virologist)|Sir Michael Houghton]] (Medicine), [[Biography:Michael Levitt|Michael Levitt]] (Chemistry),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/ |title=Michael Levitt |access-date=15 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715200937/http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/ |archive-date=15 July 2010 }}</ref> [[Biography:Max Theiler|Max Theiler]] (Medicine) and [[Biography:Frederick Gowland Hopkins|Sir Frederick Hopkins]] (Medicine);<ref name="nobelpr">{{cite web |title=King's Nobel laureates |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/nobellaureates.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=31 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="Hopkins Obit">{{cite journal |first=Joseph |last=Needham |title=Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, O.M., F.R.S. (1861–1947) |journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society |publisher=The Royal Society |volume=17 |issue=2 |date=December 1962 |pages=117–162 |jstor=531218 |doi=10.1098/rsnr.1962.0014 |s2cid=145795016|doi-access=free }}{{subscription required}}</ref> polymath [[Biography:Francis Galton|Sir Francis Galton]];<ref>‘GALTON, Sir Francis', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014</ref> Chief Investigator on the [[Medicine:Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine|Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine]] Sir Andrew Pollard;<ref>"Pollard, Prof. Andrew John, (born 29 Aug. 1965), Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity, University of Oxford, since 2008; Fellow, since 2006, and Vice Master, since 2017, St Cross College, Oxford; Senior Investigator, National Institute of Health Research, since 2018." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 December 2017</ref> Raymond Gosling who took [[Biology:Photo 51|Photograph 51]] which was critical evidence in identifying the structure of [[Biology:DNA|DNA]]; co-discoverer of [[Medicine:Hepatitis C|Hepatitis C]] and of the [[Medicine:Hepatitis D|Hepatitis D]] [[Biology:Genome|genome]] [[Biography:Qui-Lim Choo|Qui-Lim Choo]];<ref name="ref904913078">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5P696E7T0wC&q=dr+Michael+Houghton&pg=PA344 |title=Liver Cirrhosis and Its Development – Google Books|access-date=12 January 2014 |isbn=978-0-7923-8760-2 |date=31 March 2001 |last1=Boyer |first1=J. L. |last2=Blum |first2=H. E. |last3=Maier |first3=K. P. |last4=Sauerbruch |first4=T. |last5=Stalder |first5=G. A.|publisher=Springer }}</ref> pioneer of [[Biology:In vitro fertilisation|in-vitro fertilisation]] (IVF) Patrick Steptoe;<ref>‘STEPTOE, Patrick Christopher', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016</ref> mammal cloning pioneer Keith Campbell;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/9602836/Professor-Keith-Campbell.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/9602836/Professor-Keith-Campbell.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |title=Professor Keith Campbell |date=11 October 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>  pathologist Thomas Hodgkin;<ref name=Notable-alumni>{{cite web |title=Notable Alumni |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/news-features/notable-alumni |website=News & features |publisher=King's Alumni Community|access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref> founder of modern hospice philosophy Dame Cicely Saunders; botanist David Bellamy;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c4/37/95/profile2007.pdf |title=Notable Alumni |publisher=King's College London |year=2005|access-date=16 January 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070824093403/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c4/37/95/profile2007.pdf  |archive-date=24 August 2007}}</ref> Shaw Prize laureate [[Biography:Richard Doll|Sir Richard Doll]]; Kyoto Prize laureate Anthony Pawson;<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituaries: Professor Tony Pawson |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10245680/Professor-Tony-Pawson.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10245680/Professor-Tony-Pawson.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=21 March 2016 |date=15 August 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Wolf Prize laureates Michael Fisher (Physics) and Sir James Gowans (Medicine); Lasker Award winner John Hughes; Gairdner Foundation International Award winner R. John Ellis; beriberi researcher Takaki Kanehiro; inventor of [[Chemistry:Kerosene|kerosene]] Abraham Pineo Gesner; inventor of the [[Earth:Seismometer|seismometer]] John Milne, and at least 111 Fellows of the Royal Society.

Notable King's alumni in poetry and literature include the poet John Keats (Guy's Hospital),<ref name=Notable-alumni /> the dramatist Sir W. S. Gilbert,<ref>Jane W. Stedman, ‘Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck (1836–1911)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004</ref> and the writers Thomas Hardy, [[Biography:Arthur C. Clarke|Sir Arthur C. Clarke]], [[Biography:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf]],<ref name=Notable-alumni /> [[Biography:Alain de Botton|Alain de Botton]], Sir Michael Morpurgo, W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Kingsley, C. S. Forester, [[Biography:John Ruskin|John Ruskin]], [[Biography:Radclyffe Hall|Radclyffe Hall]], Dame Susan Hill,<ref name=Notable-alumni /> Hanif Kureishi, Maureen Duffy,<ref name=Notable-alumni /> Khushwant Singh, Sir Leslie Stephen and the Booker Prize winner Anita Brookner.

[[File:Desmond tutu wef.jpg|Archbishop Desmond Tutu (BD '65, MTh '66) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984|thumb|left|200px]]
King's alumni in religion include the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, [[Biography:Desmond Tutu|Desmond Tutu]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/archbishop-desmond-tutu |title=Desmond Tutu |website=King's College London |access-date=29 December 2021}}</ref> former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/george-carey-103rd-archbishop-of-canterbury.html |title=George Carey – 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury |publisher=The Archbishop of Canterbury|access-date=31 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110155052/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/george-carey-103rd-archbishop-of-canterbury.html|archive-date=10 November 2013|url-status=dead }}</ref> former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, Lord Sacks,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chiefrabbi.org/chief-rabbi-sacks/biography-of-the-chief-rabbi-lord-sacks/ |title=Biography of the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks |publisher=Office of the Chief Rabbi|access-date=31 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401053230/http://www.chiefrabbi.org/chief-rabbi-sacks/biography-of-the-chief-rabbi-lord-sacks/|archive-date=1 April 2013 }}</ref> Primate of All Ireland, Richard Clarke, Archbishops of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane and Joost de Blank, Archbishop of the West Indies John Holder, Archbishop of New Zealand Churchill Julius, Bishop of Cape Coast, Victor Atta-Baffoe, and the Ethiopian cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel.

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Notable King's alumni to have held senior positions in British politics include two Speakers of the House of Commons (Lord Maybray-King and Lord Ullswater), one Foreign Secretary (David Owen), and the former Cabinet ministers Lord Watkinson, Lord Passfield and Lord Wilmot. As of the current Parliament there are 18 King's graduates in the House of Commons and 17 King's graduates in the House of Lords including Lord Carlile,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2012/01Jan/New-Years-Honours-2012.aspx |title=New Year's Honours 2012 |publisher=King's College London|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref> Lord Clinton-Davis, Lord Dunlop,<ref>‘DUNLOP', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref> Lord Kakkar,<ref>‘KAKKAR', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref> Lord MacGregor, Baroness Morgan, Baroness O'Loan,<ref>‘O'LOAN', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref> Lord Owen, Lord Plant,<ref>‘PLANT OF HIGHFIELD', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref> Lord Rowlands,<ref>‘ROWLANDS', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref> Baroness Watkins, and the [[Religion:Lords Spiritual|Lords Spiritual]] Tim Dakin,<ref>‘WINCHESTER, Bishop of', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref> Nick Holtam,<ref>‘SALISBURY, Bishop of', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref> and Tim Thornton.<ref>TRURO, Bishop of', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref>

King's alumni in the arts include the impressionist Rory Bremner;<ref name="oldnotable">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/alumni/about/known/ |title=King's Notable Alumni |publisher=King's College London |year=2006|access-date=16 January 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070829044710/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/alumni/about/known/  |archive-date=29 August 2007}}</ref> Queen bassist John Deacon;<ref name="oldnotable" /> Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House Alex Beard; Oscar winners Greer Garson, Edmund Gwenn and Anne Dudley; Grammy Award winners Boris Karloff, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Peter Asher; Emmy Award winning director Sacha Gervasi, and the Golden Globe-winning composer Michael Nyman.<ref>‘NYMAN, Michael', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref>

In law, King's alumni include the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Ahmad Khan, Judge of the International Court of Justice, Patrick Lipton Robinson;<ref name="ICJ">{{cite web |url=http://www.icj-cij.org/presscom/files/4/18394.pdf |title=ICJ Press Release |publisher=ICJ official site | access-date=19 November 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129064422/http://www.icj-cij.org/presscom/files/4/18394.pdf | archive-date=29 November 2014 }}</ref> current High Court judges Sir David Foskett, Dame Bobbie Cheema-Grubb, Sir David Foxton and Dame Heather Williams,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/council/members/sirdavidfoskett.aspx |title=The Hon Sir David Foskett FKC |publisher=King's College London |access-date=31 March 2013 |archive-date=20 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420170235/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/council/members/sirdavidfoskett.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>‘CHEEMA, Parmjit-Kaur, (Bobbie), (Mrs R. P. S. Cheema-Grubb)', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016</ref> and current Lady Justice of Appeal Geraldine Andrews.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/media/media-releases/2013/appointment-high-court-judge-geraldine-andrews |title=Courts and Tribunals Judiciary |work=judiciary.gov.uk |access-date=11 October 2013 |archive-date=21 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221183242/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/media/media-releases/2013/appointment-high-court-judge-geraldine-andrews |url-status=dead }}</ref>

King's alumni in the military include former Deputy Supreme Allied Commanders Europe Sir Keith Blount, Sir Adrian Bradshaw and Sir Tim Radford, Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Tony Radakin, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Lord Harding, Chief of the Air Staff Sir Michael Wigston, head of the Singapore Armed Forces Neo Kian Hong, head of the Brazilian Armed Forces Renato Rodrigues de Aguiar Freire, head of the Nigerian Armed Forces Ola Ibrahim, head of the Maltese Armed Forces Martin Xuereb, head of the Bruneian Armed Forces Hamzah Sahat, the first female officer of The Life Guards Captain Elizabeth Godwin, and two recipients of the Victoria Cross, Ferdinand Le Quesne and Mark Sever Bell.

King's is also the alma mater of the founder of Bentley Motors, Walter Bentley;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rolls-royceandbentley.co.uk/w-o-bentley-the-founder-of-bentley.html |title=W. O. Bentley – The Founder of Bentley |publisher=Rolls-Royce & Bentley |year=2016|access-date=14 July 2016}}</ref> oil magnate and philanthropist Calouste Gulbenkian; journalists Antoine Allen, Martin Bashir, Francine Lacqua, Diana Magnay, Sophie Long, Jane Corbin, Tom Rogan, Sean Fletcher, Anita Anand and David Bond;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?news_id=442&year=2005 |title=King's alumnus to anchor US TV news show |publisher=King's College London |year=2005|access-date=31 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627182839/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?news_id=442&year=2005|archive-date=27 June 2013 }}</ref> and the Olympic gold medalists Dame Katherine Grainger,<ref name=Notable-alumni /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/graingerolympicgold |title=KCL's Katherine Grainger wins gold – King's Alumni Online |work=kcl.ac.uk}}</ref> Paul Bennett,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/sport/newsevents/newsrecords/alumniriomedalists.aspx |title=Alumni produce Super Saturday double in Rio |work=kcl.ac.uk}}</ref> and Kieran West.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/kingsolympichopefuls |title=King's Olympic Hopefuls – King's Alumni Online |work=kcl.ac.uk}}</ref>

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File:John Keats by William Hilton.jpg|Romantic poet John Keats (Medicine, 1816)
File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|Polymath [[Biography:Francis Galton|Sir Francis Galton]] (Medicine, 1839)
File:Gilbert-GS-Big.JPG|Dramatist Sir W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan (BA, 1856)
File:Frederick Gowland Hopkins nobel.jpg|1929 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate [[Biography:Frederick Gowland Hopkins|Sir Frederick Hopkins]] (Medicine, 1894)
File:Max Theiler nobel.jpg|1951 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate [[Biography:Max Theiler|Max Theiler]] (Medicine)
File:Arthur C. Clarke (1982).jpg|Science fiction writer [[Biography:Arthur C. Clarke|Sir Arthur C. Clarke]] (BSc, 1948)
File:Archbishop george carey1.jpg|Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey (BD, 1962)
File:John Deacon (1977).jpg|Queen bassist John Deacon (BSc, 1971)
File:Rory Bremner at the Savoy 2007.jpg|Impressionist and comedian Rory Bremner (BA, 1984)
File:Alain de Botton.jpg|Writer and philosopher [[Biography:Alain de Botton|Alain de Botton]] (MPhil, 1992)
File:Vice Admiral Keith Blount DSACEUR (cropped).jpg|Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Sir Keith Blount (MA, 2004)
File:CODS_Sir_Tony_Radakin.jpg|24th Chief of the Defence Staff Tony Radakin (MA, 2000)
</gallery>

=== Nobel laureates ===
There are 14 Nobel laureates who were either students or academics at King's College London.<ref name="nobelpr" /> The latest laureates are [[Biography:Michael Houghton (virologist)|Sir Michael Houghton]] who received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2020/press-release/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 |website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref> and [[Biography:Roger Penrose|Sir Roger Penrose]] who received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/penrose/facts/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 |website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref>

=== Notable academics and staff ===
{{category see also|Academics of King's College London}}

King's has benefited from the services of academics and staff at the top of their fields, including Sir Charles Lyell (lawyer and geologist), [[Biography:Charles Wheatstone|Sir Charles Wheatstone]] (best known for the [[Physics:Wheatstone bridge|Wheatstone bridge]]), Robert Bentley Todd (best known for describing Todd's paresis), [[Biography:James Clerk Maxwell|James Clerk Maxwell]] (mathematical physicist), Florence Nightingale (the founder of modern nursing), Joseph Lister (pioneer of antiseptic surgery), Charles Barkla (best known for the study of X-rays), [[Biography:Charles Scott Sherrington|Sir Charles Sherrington]] (known for his work on the functions of neurons), [[Biography:Edward Victor Appleton|Sir Edward Appleton]] (physicist), [[Biography:Owen Willans Richardson|Sir Owen Richardson]] (physicist), [[Biography:Maurice Wilkins|Maurice Wilkins]] (best known for contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA), Rosalind Franklin (best known for contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA), Jean Hanson (biophysycist, best known for sliding filament theory), Mario Vargas Llosa (writer), [[Biography:Roger Penrose|Sir Roger Penrose]] (mathematical physicist) and [[Biography:John Ellis (physicist, born 1946)|John Ellis]] (theoretical physicist).

<gallery class="center">
File:Charles Lyell.jpg|Sir Charles Lyell
File:Wheatstone Charles drawing 1868.jpg|[[Biography:Charles Wheatstone|Sir Charles Wheatstone]]
File:Robert Bentley Todd2.jpg|Robert Bentley Todd
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|[[Biography:James Clerk Maxwell|James Clerk Maxwell]]
File:Florence Nightingale headshot.png|Florence Nightingale
File:Lister Joseph.jpg|Joseph Lister
File:Charles Glover Barkla.jpg|Charles Barkla
File:Charles Scott Sherrington2.jpg|[[Biography:Charles Scott Sherrington|Sir Charles Sherrington]]
File:Appleton.jpg|[[Biography:Edward Victor Appleton|Sir Edward Appleton]]
File:Owen Richardson.jpg|[[Biography:Owen Willans Richardson|Sir Owen Richardson]]
File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|Rosalind Franklin
File:Maurice Wilkins nobel.jpg|[[Biography:Maurice Wilkins|Maurice Wilkins]]
File:Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza Oct 29 2011.jpg|[[Biography:Roger Penrose|Roger Penrose]]
File:Vargas Llosa Madrid 2012.jpg|Mario Vargas Llosa
File:Johnellis cropped.jpg|[[Biography:John Ellis (physicist, born 1946)|John Ellis]]
</gallery>

=== Heads of state, government and international organizations ===

King's has educated numerous foreign Heads of State and Government including two former Presidents of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos<ref name="phileleftheros 1">{{cite news |first=Helena |last=Smith |title=Obituary: Tassos Papadopoulos |date=8 January 2009 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/08/cyprus-obituary-tassos-papadopoulos |newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=31 March 2013 |location=London}}</ref> and Glafcos Clerides,<ref name="Glafkos Ioannou Clerides">{{cite web |url=http://www.mlahanas.de/Cyprus/Bios/GlafkosClerides.html |title=Glafkos Ioannou Clerides|access-date=16 January 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804110415/http://www.mlahanas.de/Cyprus/Bios/GlafkosClerides.html|archive-date=4 August 2012 }}</ref> Prime Minister of Jordan Marouf al-Bakhit,<ref name="Biography of Marouf al-Bakhit">{{cite web |url=http://www.globalinsight.com/Perspective/PerspectiveDetail2538.htm |title=Biography of Marouf al-Bakhit|access-date=22 December 2008}}{{subscription required}}</ref> President of the Seychelles France-Albert René,<ref name="France-Albert Rene">{{cite book |author=((Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries ))|title=The Riverside dictionary of biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zxQ5dr61X8C&pg=PA670| access-date = 31 March 2013 |year=2005 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=978-0-618-49337-1 |page=670}}</ref> Prime Minister of the Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling,<ref name="Sir Lynden Pindling">{{cite book |last=O'Neill |first=Terry |title=The Bahamas Speed Weeks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkXnZF-WcT4C&pg=PA353| access-date = 31 March 2013 |year=2006 |publisher=Veloce Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-1-84584-018-1 |page=353}}</ref> President of Uganda Godfrey Binaisa,<ref name="autogenerated204">{{cite book |author1=Wolfgang, M. E. |author2=Lambert, R. D. |title=Africa in Transition |publisher=American Academy of Political and Social Science |year=1977 |page=204}}</ref> Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz,<ref name="al-bazzaz">{{cite book |first1=John L |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam – Abdul-Rahman al-Bazzaz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VeCWQfVNjkC&pg=PA40| access-date = 31 March 2013 |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-512559-7 |last1=Esposito}}</ref> Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis Sir Lee Moore,<ref name="Biography of Sir Lee Moore">{{cite web |url=http://www.cuopm.com/newsitem.asp?articlenumber=49 |title=Court Building to be named in honour of Sir Lee Llewellyn Moore on National Heroes Day |publisher=Office of the Prime Minister of the Government of St. Kitts & Nevis |access-date=31 March 2013 |archive-date=24 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124154057/http://www.cuopm.com/newsitem.asp?articlenumber=49 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Governor General of Ghana William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, Governor General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, Governor of The British Virgin Islands Augustus Jaspert,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad-old/ceremonies/afterceremony/gradlist/Awards%20by%20Faculty/SSPP-16.pdf |title=Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy and Global Institutes |publisher=King's College, London|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516182143/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad-old/ceremonies/afterceremony/gradlist/Awards%20by%20Faculty/SSPP-16.pdf|archive-date=16 May 2017 }}</ref> Governors of the Turks and Caicos Islands Martin Bourke<ref name="Martin Bourke">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U8222 |title=Martin Bourke |publisher=Who's Who}}{{subscription required}}</ref> and John Freeman,<ref>{{cite thesis |title=Britain's nuclear arms control policy in the context of Anglo- American relations 1957-68 / John Patrick George Freeman. |url=http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S24?/afreeman/afreeman;T=Britain%27s+Nuclear+Arms+Control+Policy/1%2C2%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=afreeman;T=Britain%27s+Nuclear+Arms+Control+Policy&2%2C2%2C |website=Senate House, London|access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref> Governor of the Falkland Islands Nigel Phillips,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-governor-of-the-falkland-islands |title=Change of Governor of the Falkland Islands |date=30 June 2017 |publisher=gov.uk |access-date = 5 August 2017}}</ref> and Acting Prime Minister of Moldova Natalia Gherman.

At ministerial level King's alumni include Deputy Prime Ministers of Canada (Anne McLellan), Singapore (S. Rajaratnam), Turkey (Recep Akdağ) and Egypt (Ziad Bahaa-Eldin); Vice Presidents of Kenya (Michael Kijana Wamalwa) and Sierra Leone (Francis Minah and Abdulai Conteh); Foreign Ministers of Albania (Igli Hasani), Bulgaria (Nickolay Mladenov), Japan (Hayashi Tadasu), Malaysia (Rais Yatim), Pakistan (Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, later President of the UN General Assembly and the International Court of Justice), Ghana (Obed Asamoah), Kenya (James Nyamweya), Sierra Leone (J. B. Dauda) and Guyana (Sir Shridath Ramphal, later Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, and Frederick Wills); and Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government Michael Collins.

[[File:Petr Pavel.jpg|thumb|Petr Pavel (MA)|129px]] thumb|Marouf al-Bakhit (PhD, 1990)|129px [[File:France-Albert René, June 2014.jpg|thumb|France-Albert René (LLB, 1957)|129px]]
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|-
!State/Government !! Individual !! Office !! Reference
|-
|{{flagu|Bahamas}}
|Sir Lynden Pindling
|Prime Minister (1969–1992)<br />Premier (1967–1969)
|<ref name="alumniheadgov">{{cite web |title=Connect, Give, Benefit |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/about/alumfundraising/index.aspx |website=Alumni & Fundraising |publisher=King's College London |access-date=15 February 2016 |archive-date=23 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223192615/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/about/alumfundraising/index.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Sir Lynden Pindling2">{{cite book |first=Terry |last=O'Neill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkXnZF-WcT4C |title=The Bahamas Speed Weeks |page=353 |year=2006 |publisher=Veloce Publishing Ltd|access-date=31 March 2013 |isbn=978-1845840181}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|British Virgin Islands}}
|Augustus Jaspert
|Governor (2017–2021)
|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/grad-old/ceremonies/afterceremony/gradlist/Awards%20by%20Faculty/SSPP-16.pdf |title=Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy and Global Institutes |publisher=King's College, London|access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Cyprus}}
|Tassos Papadopoulos
| President (2003–2008)
|<ref name="phileleftheros 1" />
|-
|{{flagu|Cyprus}}
|Glafcos Clerides
| President (1993–2003)
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Glafcos Clerides - obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/10453574/Glafcos-Clerides-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/10453574/Glafcos-Clerides-obituary.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Telegraph|access-date=15 February 2016}} </ref><ref name="Glafkos Ioannou Clerides" />
|-
|{{flagu|Cyprus}}
|John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
| Governor (1955–1957)
| <ref>{{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40129?docPos=12 |title=John Harding |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/40129 |access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Czech Republic}}
|Petr Pavel
|President of the Czech Republic (2023–)
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Petr Pavel: Ukraine supporter and military hero who swept to the Czech presidency |url=https://www.euronews.com/2023/01/28/petr-pavel-polygot-and-war-hero-who-swept-to-the-czech-presidency |website=Euronews |date=28 January 2023 |access-date=29 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Falkland Islands}}
|Nigel Phillips
|Governor (2017–)
|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-governor-of-the-falkland-islands |title=Change of Governor of the Falklands Islands |date=30 June 2017 |publisher=gov.uk |access-date = 5 August 2017}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Ghana}}
|William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel
|Governor-General (1957–1960)
|<ref>{{cite thesis |title=A critical history of the main currents of modern aesthetics. |url=http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/record=b2982034~S24 |publisher=Senate House Libraries|access-date=15 February 2016|last1 = Listowel|first1 = W. F.}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Gibraltar}}
|Ed Davis
|Governor (2016–2020)
|<ref>‘DAVIS, Lt Gen. Edward Grant Martin', Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Grenada}}
|Maurice Bishop
|President (1979–1983)
|<ref>{{cite book |url=https://booksj.google.com/books?id=TMZMAgAAQBAJ |title=Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |access-date=15 February 2016 |page=471 }} </ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Iraq}}
|Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz
|Prime Minister (1965–1966)
|<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VeCWQfVNjkC |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam – Abdul-Rahman al-Bazzaz |year=2004|access-date=15 February 2016 |isbn=978-0-19-512559-7 |last1=Esposito |first1=John L |page=40|publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Ireland}}
|Michael Collins
|Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government (1922)
|<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mackay |first1=James |title=Michael Collins: A Life |date=21 December 2012 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1780575025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/Page.aspx?pid=483 |title=Famous alumni |publisher=King's College London|access-date=23 December 2008}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Jordan}}
|Marouf al-Bakhit
|Prime Minister (2005–2007; 2011)
|<ref>{{cite web |title=H.E. Dr. Marouf al-Bakhit |url=http://ju.edu.jo/Lists/NewsLetter/Disp_form.aspx?ID=750&Issue=October%202014&order=10 |publisher=The University of Jordan|access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Biography of Marouf al-Bakhit"/>
|-
|{{flagu|Moldova}}
|Natalia Gherman
|Acting Prime Minister (2015)
|<ref>{{cite web |title=International Women's Day |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/worldwide/newsevents/Newsletter-Archive/International-Womens-Day/International-Womens-Day.aspx |website=News, events & features |publisher=King's College London|access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="gov">{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.md/pageview.php?l=en&idc=507|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103061048/http://www.gov.md/pageview.php?l=en&idc=507|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2012 |title=Iurie LEANCA, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration &#124; Iurie LEANCĂ, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration &#124; Government of Republic of Moldova|access-date=19 September 2018}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Saint Kitts and Nevis}}
|Sir Lee Moore
|Prime Minister (1979–1980)
|<ref name="Biography of Sir Lee Moore"/>
|-
|{{flagu|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}}
|Sir Sydney Gun-Munro
|Governor (1976–1979)<br />Governor-General (1979–1985)
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Gun-Munro, Sir Sydney Douglas (1916 - 2007) |url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E000439b.htm |publisher=The Royal College of Surgeons of England|access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Seychelles}}
|France-Albert René
|Prime Minister (1976–1977)<br />President (1977–2004)
|-
|{{flagu|Turks and Caicos Islands}}
|Martin Bourke
|Governor (1993–1996)
|<ref name="Martin Bourke"/>
|-
|{{flagu|Turks and Caicos Islands}}
|John Freeman
|Governor (2016–2019)
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Britain's nuclear arms control policy in the context of Anglo- American relations 1957-68 / John Patrick George Freeman. |url=http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S24?/afreeman/afreeman;T=Britain%27s+Nuclear+Arms+Control+Policy/1%2C2%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=afreeman;T=Britain%27s+Nuclear+Arms+Control+Policy&2%2C2%2C |website=Senate House, London|access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagu|Uganda}}
|Godfrey Binaisa
|President (1979–1981)
|<ref name="autogenerated204b">{{cite book |author1=Wolfgang, M. E. |author2=Lambert, R. D.  |name-list-style=amp |title=Africa in Transition |publisher=American Academy of Political and Social Science |year=1977 |page=204}}</ref>
|}

== In popular culture ==
[[File:01-02-05 New Year 45.jpg|thumb| Somerset House adjacent to King's College London's East Wing has a yearly ice skating rink from November to January]]

=== Film and television settings ===
The neoclassical facade of King's, with the passage which connects the Strand to the Somerset House terrace has been utilised to reproduce the late Victorian Strand in the opening scenes of Oliver Parker's 2002 film ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. The East Wing of King's appears, as a part of Somerset House, in a number of other productions, such as ''Wilde'', ''Flyboys'', and ''The Duchess''.<ref name=films>{{cite web |url=https://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/kings-in-film |title=King's on screen: film scenes around campus |publisher=Alumni Online|access-date=31 October 2015}}</ref>

The Maughan Library has also been the location of some film shoots of popular movies and TV series, most notably ''Johnny English'' (see Maughan Library description), ''The Imitation Game'', ''Enola Holmes'' and ''V for Vendetta''.<ref name=films /> Corridors from Guy's Campus were also used in the making of BBC series ''Killing Eve''.

Part of Dan Brown's novel ''[[Unsolved:The Da Vinci Code|The Da Vinci Code]]'' was set in the Round Reading Room of the Maughan Library, although no part of the film adaption was filmed there.<ref>{{cite web |title=Round Reading Room |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/library-newsletter-spring-2013.pdf |work=Library News |publisher=King's College London |date=Spring 2013 |access-date=10 June 2016 |archive-date=25 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325043655/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/library-newsletter-spring-2013.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In September 1979, The Greenwood Theatre at Guy's Medical School (now King's GKT Medical School) became the first home for the ''BBC's'' ''Question Time'' programme.  In December 2018, ''Question Time'' returned to the Greenwood Theatre for David Dimbleby's last programme as host.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/News-Article?id=eedafa08-45bb-47fe-acbd-9999be488ed3 |title=news-article &#124; News Centre &#124; King's College London |website=www.kcl.ac.uk}}</ref>

==See also==
* Armorial of UK universities
* List of universities in the UK

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|30em|group="note"}}
{{notelist|30em}}

== References ==
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* {{cite book |title=The Centenary History of King's College, London, 1828–1928 |author=Hearnshaw, F. J. C. |publisher=George G. Harrap & Co |year=1929|}}
* {{cite book |title=King's College London, the Chapel |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/principal/dean/chaplaincy/strand/chapel/heulin.pdf |publisher=King's College London |first=Gordon |last=Heulin |year=1979 |access-date=22 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621033936/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/principal/dean/chaplaincy/strand/chapel/heulin.pdf |archive-date=21 June 2013 }}
* {{cite book |title=The London Encyclopedia |page=958 |author1=C. Hibbert |author2=B. Weinreb |author3=J. Keay |author4=J. Keay |year=2008 |edition=3rd}}
* {{cite book |last=Holmes |first=Richard |title=Wellington The Iron Duke |year=2002 |publisher=London: Harper Collins Publishers |isbn=978-0-00-713750-3}}
* {{cite book |last=MacIlwraith |first=W. |title=The Life and Writings of George Grote: An Essay |publisher=Barford & Newitt |year=1884}}
* {{cite book |last=Maddox |first=Brenda |title=Rosalind Franklin The Dark Lady of DNA |url=https://archive.org/details/rosalindfranklin00madd |url-access=registration |year=2002 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=0-00-655211-0 }}
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* {{cite book |author=King's College London |title=Prospectus of King's College, London academical year 1854-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-thLAAAAcAAJ |access-date=4 March 2013 |date=1854–1855 |publisher=R. Clay |location=London }}
* {{cite book |title=House of Lords Sessional Papers 1801–1833 – Appendix to seventh Report of Commissioners of Woods, Forests & Land Revenue |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9JbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA48 |access-date=3 March 2013 |volume=270 |year=1830 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |page=48 }}
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite book |title=The Centenary History of King's College, London, 1828–1928 |author=Hearnshaw, F. J. C. |publisher=George G. Harrap & Co |year=1929|}}
* Huelin, G. (1978) ''King's College London, 1828–1978''.
* Jones, C. K. (2004) ''King's College London: In the service of society''.
* {{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Claire |last2=Williams |first2=Gwyn |last3=Kenyon-Jones |first3=Christine |title=King's College London Contributions to biomedicine A continuing story |year=2006 |publisher=King's College London School of Medicine |isbn=978-0-9552620-0-5}}
* {{cite web| url=http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/studentrecords.shtml| title=Student Records, 1836–1930| work=University of London| access-date=6 May 2017| archive-date=14 September 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914105055/http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/studentrecords.shtml| url-status=bot: unknown}} (Includes King's students who matriculated in or graduated from the University of London)
* {{cite web|url=http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/historic-collections/archives-manuscripts/university-of-london-military-service-1914-1945/|title=Military Service, 1914–1945|work=University of London|access-date=6 May 2017|archive-date=10 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510143909/http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/historic-collections/archives-manuscripts/university-of-london-military-service-1914-1945/|url-status=bot: unknown}} (Includes personnel from King's)

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