King's College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2020) and among the oldest in England. King’s has over 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries and over 8,500 employees.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.