UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
University College London was established in 1826 as London University and is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment and the largest by postgraduate enrolment and was the first university institution to be established in London, and the first in England to be entirely secular and to admit students regardless of their religion. It was also among the first university colleges to admit women alongside men in 1878, two years after University College, Bristol, and the first British university to be allowed to award degrees to women. On 28 November 1836 the University College, London the University of London was created by royal charter as a degree-awarding examining board for students from affiliated schools and colleges, with University College and King's College, London being named in the charter as the first two affiliates. and the first students from UCL and King's matriculated as undergraduates in 1838 and the first degrees were awarded to students of the two colleges in 1839. It has grown through mergers, including with the Institute of Ophthalmology in 1995, the Institute of Neurology in 1997, the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1998, the Eastman Dental Institute in 199), the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 1999, the School of Pharmacy in 2012 and the Institute of Education in 2014. UCL has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with several institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London and has a second campus, UCL East, at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London.