Royal Holloway, University of London

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Royal Holloway, University of London
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motto Eat quam videri
founding 1879
Sponsorship state
place Egham , UK
Students ~ 7,700 from 130 countries
Website www.rhul.ac.uk

Royal Holloway is a college of the University of London . In the international Times Higher Education Ranking 2013-2014 it was ranked 102nd.

The Royal Holloway has three faculties and 18 academic departments. Around 9,000 people from over 100 countries study at the facility.

history

The Royal Holloway was founded in 1879 by the entrepreneur and philanthropist Thomas Holloway (1800-1883) and admitted to the University of London in 1900; the institution is located in Egham , around 30 km from London. In 1886 Queen Victoria's University opened to young women. Men were not admitted to university until 1965.

In 1985 the Royal Holloway College was merged with Bedford College and has been officially called Royal Holloway and Bedford New College since then , but continues to appear in public under its original name.

Faculties

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

  • Department of Classics & Philosophy
  • Department of Drama & Theater
  • Department of English
  • Department of European Studies
  • Department of History
  • Department of Media Arts
  • Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures
  • Department of Music
  • Department of Politics & International Relations
  • Department of Social Work

Faculty of Management & Economics

  • Department of Economics
  • School of Management
  • Center for Criminology & Sociology

Faculty of Science

  • School of Biological Sciences
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Department of Earth Sciences
  • Department of Geography
  • Information Security Group
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Psychology

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. www.timeshighereducation.co.uk

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 29 ″  N , 0 ° 34 ′ 1 ″  W.