City St George's, University of London

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City St George's,
University of London
City St George's, University of London logo.png
Type Public research university
Established2024
Chancellor The Princess Royal
(as Chancellor of the University of London)
President Sir Anthony Finkelstein
Location,
England
CampusUrban

City St George's, University of London is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was formed on 1 August 2024 by the merger between City, University of London and St George's, University of London. The names "City, University of London" and "St George’s, University of London" will provisionally continue as trading names until March 2025. [1] [2]

The current president of City, Anthony Finkelstein, became the first president of the new university. For the 2024-2025 academic year, the university is expected to be "dual running", maintaining separate programmes and policies for City and St George's students, and retaining "City, University of London" and "St George’s, University of London" as trading names. [2]

City St George's was awarded University of the Year for Graduate Jobs in the Daily Mail University Guide 2025 [3]

Originally founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, it officially became a university when The City University was created by royal charter in 1966.[5] The Inns of Court School of Law, which merged with City in 2001, was established in 1852, making it the university's oldest constituent part.[6] City joined the federal University of London on 1 September 2016, becoming part of the eighteen colleges and ten research institutes that then made up that university.[7]

City has strong links with the City of London, and the Lord Mayor of London serves as the university's rector.[8][9] The university has its main campus in Central London in the London Borough of Islington, with additional campuses in Islington, the City of London, the West End and East End. It is organised into six schools, within which there are around forty academic departments and centres,[10] including the Department of Journalism, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School), and City Law School which incorporates the Inns of Court School of Law.[11] The annual income of the institution for 2021–22 was £262.1 million, of which £12.9 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £328.2 million.[1]

City is a founding member of the WC2 University Network which developed for collaboration between leading universities of the heart of major world cities particularly to address cultural, environmental and political issues of common interest to world cities and their universities.[12] The university is a member of the Association of MBAs, EQUIS and Universities UK. Alumni of City include Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah,[13] members of Parliament of the United Kingdom, governors, politicians and CEOs.

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References

  1. "Merger with St George's". City, University of London.
  2. 1 2 "St George's and City formally and legally merged to form City St George's, University of London". www.sgul.ac.uk. 2024-08-01. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  3. "City St George's named University of the Year for Graduate Jobs". 5 September 2024.

Both institutions keep their original websites until March 2025, when a single website will be launched.