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University College London is equivalent to what university in China?
University College London ranked 8th in QS World University in 2020, and Tsinghua University in China ranked 16.

University College London (UCL), founded in 1826, is located in London, England. It is a top public comprehensive research university in the world, ranking in the top ten in the world, and an old British prestigious school with a top reputation. It is also called "G5 Super Elite University" with Cambridge University, Oxford University, London Imperial College London and London School of Economics. It represents Britain's top scientific research strength, teachers and students' quality and economic strength.

The dominant majors of UCL are English, art, town planning, economics, law, history, mathematics, architecture, language, biology, electrical and electronic engineering, computer, chemistry, civil engineering and so on.

competence

University College London has more than 7,000 faculty members and more than 648 professors. Among them, 5 1 is an academician of the British Academy of Sciences, and 15 is an academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 12 1 academician of the academy of medical sciences and 56 academicians of the royal society.

Among UCL scholars and researchers, there are 34 Nobel Prize winners and 3 Fields Prize winners, among whom 15 are Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine. The latest award is that Professor John O'Keefe of UCL won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 20 14 years.

The National Centre for Medical Research is located at University College London. It won the Nobel Prize six times. Today, it has more than 7,265,438+0 researchers and an annual budget of more than 27 million pounds.

Academic cooperation

University College London, together with Oxford University, Imperial College London in London, Southampton University, King's College London and Queen Mary University in London, formed the "Science and Engineering Yugoslavia (SES)" in Britain. This academic and scientific research institution is a group established to collect knowledge, opinions and resources. This is the most powerful scientific alliance and group in Britain and one of the world's leading scientific and engineering research centers.

University College London established the Thomas Young Materials Science Center (TYC) in cooperation with the National Physics Laboratory, Imperial College London and King's College London. According to Li Liuxue, at present, the research team is over 100, involving academic departments such as physics, materials, chemistry, earth science, biology and engineering.