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University College London (UCL) was founded in 1826 by students of the philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, as the original University of London. The first University to be founded in England after Oxford and Cambridge, UCL was the first to admit students of any race, class or religion, and the first to welcome women on equal terms with men.

There are nearly 5,000 academic staff including the largest professorial body in the country, at over 600. More than a third of the 20,000 students are involved in post-graduate study.

Today, UCL is one of the leading academic research and teaching universities in the world. In 2007 it was ranked in the top-ten global universities with 60 departments receiving top ‘5’ or ‘5*’ ratings in the last Research Assessment Exercise.

For more information visit: www.ucl.ac.uk

London Business School is recognised as one of the top business schools in the world.

The Financial Times rankings have placed the MBA programme in the Global top-ten in each of the last three years and has1,000 graduate students and 4,500 executive education participants a year.

The London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge is open to all students of London Business School and members of faculty will be involved in organising the programme and delivering the education elements.

For more information visit: www.london.edu

Birkbeck is a world-class research and teaching institution and London's only specialist provider of evening higher education. Its academic reputation also attracts many traditional full-time postgraduate students. Over 19,000 students study with Birkbeck every year and it is regarded as having a community as diverse and cosmopolitan as London's population.

For more information visit: www.bbk.ac.uk

The Royal Veterinary College, University of London is the oldest veterinary school in the English speaking world, established in Camden 1791. As well as being the largest undergraduate veterinary teaching centre and provider of veterinary continuing professional development in Europe it is a research intensive university. In the most recent 2008 Research Assessment Exercise RVC was rated the leading English veterinary school. It has well over 100 research active members of staff, it owns and operates the largest veterinary referral hospital in Europe and London’s premier bio-incubator (London BioScience Innovation Centre) which currently houses over 35 SME knowledge intensive businesses.

For more information visit: www.rvc.ac.uk

Welcome to the only free-standing specialist school in the UK which is devoted to teaching and research in pharmacy.

The demand for the School of Pharmacy’s graduates at all levels is strong. In our innovative Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree, we integrate the pharmaceutical and molecular sciences with clinical therapeutics and patient care to meet the needs of the next generation of pharmacists in all sectors - community, primary care, hospital, industry, regulatory and academia. Many of our undergraduates spend a period studying in other European countries or even further afield, for example in the USA, Australia or New Zealand.

Research underpins all our teaching and provides a rich knowledge base to be passed on to the scientists and practitioners of tomorrow. An important focus for the School is Molecular Pharmacy. We are now beginning to understand illnesses such as cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and infectious diseases at the molecular level - the genes that cause them and how individuals differ from each other in the types of illnesses that they have and their response to the medicines used to treat them. Molecular Pharmacy focuses on medicines. Understanding how they act and how patients respond to them supports our goal of developing new safer medicines that truly capitalise on the revolution in genomics. Progress offers the enticing prospect of personalised medicine.

We are proud that we have a strong reputation both nationally and overseas, as a result of over 150 years of proven excellence in teaching and research.

For more information visit: www.pharmacy.ac.uk