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Oxford taught students by 1096 and never stopped, surviving plague, civil war, and eight centuries of politics. Its 39 colleges an...

Cambridge began with scholars fleeing Oxford town-gown violence in 1209 and organized into colleges soon after. Trinity College cl...

UCL was founded as a secular alternative when Oxford and Cambridge required Anglican conformity, earning the nickname Godless Coll...

Founded by the town council with a royal charter, Edinburgh became the Enlightenment's Athens north of the border. David Hume and ...

Imperial formed by merging the Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, and City and Guilds College on Albertopolis land b...

Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, and Fabian colleagues founded LSE to study the conditions of the people. It became ...

Founded as the Government School of Design to improve British manufactured goods, the RCA became the world's only entirely postgra...

King George IV and the Duke of Wellington backed the founding of King's College in 1829 as an Anglican response to the secular Uni...

A papal bull from Nicholas V founded the university in 1451, making it the second oldest in Scotland and the fourth oldest in the ...

Teaching began around 1410, and a papal bull from Benedict XIII in 1413 gave the university its full status, making St Andrews the...

Established in 1964 as a graduate school of the University of London, LBS took up residence in Sussex Place, a John Nash terrace o...

Founded in 1822 by Lord Burghersh and granted a royal charter in 1830, the Royal Academy of Music is the oldest conservatoire in B...