📸 At a Glance
🌍 London, England, UK (Campuses/sites around the Strand, Waterloo, Guy’s, Denmark Hill, and St Thomas’ areas)
🎓 Russell Group ✅
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Bronze Award
💰 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 19 (Complete University Guide 2026)
🔎 Overview
King’s College London (KCL) is a public research university founded by royal charter in 1829, one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. Based across five campuses in central London, it’s part of the “Golden Triangle” alongside Oxford, Cambridge, and Imperial, and is renowned for medicine, law, nursing, and War Studies, consistently ranking among the world’s top 40 universities.
📊 Ethnicity Breakdown
- Black: 11%
- Mixed race: 7%
- White: 43%
- Asian: 31%
- Other: 5%
- Not known: 2%
💷 Scholarships & Funding
- Black & Ethnic Minority Scholarships – Two postgraduate scholarships covering 50% of fees are available to those who identify to a listed ethnic group at King’s Business School.
- Dr Harold Moody Studentship – The Harold Moody Postgraduate Research Studentships scheme provides four years of full funding to PhD candidates in the Arts & Humanities and the Social Sciences.
- Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme (CSSS) – King’s College London, in partnership with the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, offers Commonwealth Shared Scholarships for talented students from eligible Commonwealth countries who could not otherwise study in the UK. The award covers tuition fees, return flights, a living stipend, and additional allowances including study travel and thesis grants.
- King’s College–Goodenough Scholarship – The Goodenough College Scholarship covers up to 50 weeks of single accommodation for postgraduate students from Africa studying at King’s College London, with priority given to students at the African Leadership Centre.
- African Creativity Beyond Borders Scholarship – Four fully funded PhD scholarships open to candidates of African heritage or Black and Mixed Black backgrounds.
👩🏿🎓👨🏾🎓 Student Life & Support
- KCL Black Students Network
- KCL African & Caribbean Society (ACS)
- KCL Black Creatives
- General Counselling Service The Counselling & Mental Health Support Service is committed to providing equity of access and mental health provision specifically to Black, Asian and ethnic minority students.
*The university also points students to its full clubs and societies directory under cultural/national societies, which may include additional or more up-to-date groups not listed here.
📣 Things Uni To Know
Aspire Network (via K+): Aspire is a network for Black and Mixed Heritage students that prepares and empowers them by exploring the realities of being at university through the current Black student experience. It was co-created with the African and Caribbean Society at KCL.
Report + Support: If a student experiences discrimination, harassment, bullying or microaggressions of any kind, they can report the incident and get help through King’s dedicated Report + Support webpages.
