University of London

The University of London is a federal public research university in London, England, whose member institutions teach students and award degrees under shared university arrangements.

University of London federation: A collegiate university structure in which legally distinct institutions belong to a shared university. Explains how the university combines a central body with autonomous member institutions.
University College London: A London university founded in 1826 as a nonsectarian alternative to Oxford and Cambridge. Its foundation helped prompt the creation of a degree-awarding university for London.
External degree: A degree earned through study outside the awarding university's ordinary campus-based instruction. The university's external programmes have long offered a route to qualifications beyond its colleges.
Senate House: The University of London's headquarters and a prominent university building in Bloomsbury, London. The building became the visible center of the university's federal administration.
University of London colleges: Member institutions of the University of London that provide teaching and research. These institutions make up the federation and deliver much of its academic work.
King's College London: A public research university in London founded in 1829. Its establishment formed the other early institutional pillar behind the University of London.
Distance education: Education delivered when teachers and students are separated by location, often using digital or printed materials. University of London Worldwide applies this model across national borders.
University of London Union: A student representative body historically serving students across the University of London. It gave students from different colleges a shared institution for representation and activities.
University of London Worldwide: The University of London's distance-learning and online education provision. It extends the university's teaching beyond its campus-based member institutions.
University of London Act 1836: A British act that established the University of London as an examining and degree-awarding body. The act created the university to examine students from London's colleges.

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