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London, United Kingdom · Public · Founded 1826
UCL was founded in 1826 as London University, a secular alternative to Oxford and Cambridge that admitted students regardless of their religion, and in 1878 it began admitting women on equal terms with men. It became a founding college of the University of London in 1836 and gained university status in its own right in 2023. It is a large multi-faculty university centred on Bloomsbury in central London.