Historically, King’s College London (“Kings” or “KCL”) has stood at the forefront of extending higher education to women and men in lower social economic classes.
The school has developed and merged with several other respected academic institutions over the years, including the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals (the world’s first professional school for nursing), Chelsea College, Queen Elizabeth College, and the Institute of Psychiatry.
Now, this unified conglomerate forms a first-class research university with an endowment exceeding £154 million. KCL is connected to 12 Nobel Prizes.
It was here that the great poet John Keats received his training (in medicine), and here that the civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu began his fight against apartheid.
The distinguished physicist James Clerk Maxwell conducted his pioneering research here as well (proving that magnetism, electricity, and light are all different aspects of the same physical phenomenon).
