King's College London

King's College London, informally King's or KCL, is a public research university in London, England. It was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington, and in 1836 it became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. It is one of the oldest university-level institutions in England. King's grew in the late twentieth century through mergers and reincorporations, including its medical and dental school in 1983, Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology in 1985, the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997 and the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in 1998. It operates across five main campuses, the historic Strand Campus in central London, three other Thames-side campuses nearby and one in Denmark Hill, and its academic work is organized into nine faculties.