UCL (University College London)

UCL (University College London) ranked the fourth best university in World University Rankings 2009. UCL is a multidisciplinary university with an international reputation for quality research and teaching across the academic spectrum, with subjects spanning the sciences, arts, social sciences and biomedicine. In 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) UCL rated the best research universities in London, and the third in the UK as a whole, for the number of shipments that are considered world-leading quality. The university is located on a compact site in the heart of London and surrounded by the greatest concentration of libraries, museums, archives, cultural institutions and professional bodies in Europe.