UK and International Rankings for King's College London

I'm betting it's the postgraduate research and facilities... you always hear about King's or University of London research in the news.

EDIT: Totally misread your post, sorry! >.<

The reputation and standing of King's College in the US has been severely damaged by its decisions to end posts in the school of Arts and Humanities last year. The Times Higher ran a headline 'International scholars decry the madness of King's' on 11th February 2010. There were international petitions about the plan to make three distinguished philosophers redundant and to end the College's Chair of Palaeography (the study of ancient handwriting.) The College did not win friends by refusing to answer the letters it received.

That's minor.

I submit that it is NOT minor. It reveals all too well how King's College is run, how little value it places on the views of international scholars who dare to challenge its policy, how blinkered its vision. Never forget that one of the Principal's Central Team at King's wrote speeches for Blair to deliver at the UN in support of the Iraq war, and one of the College Council is director of a firm that sells CS Gas and Tear Gas.

To be perfectly honest I'm not quite sure why it was so high up anyway lol. Its a good uni, but not top class

You are doing dentistry. You should know then that it has the most reputed dentistry course in Europe and their Dentistry is referred to as the 'Oxbridge of Dentisty'. Maybe not top class in the overall UK rankings but top class for your course for sure?

All dentistry unis are above ~93/100 on all university ranking tables, so all dental schools are reputable. But for other subjects its not top class, but its good. I don't particularly like the uni IMO

All dentistry unis are above ~93/100 on all university ranking tables, so all dental schools are reputable. But for other subjects its not top class, but its good. I don't particularly like the uni IMO

I actually heard from someone that King's has one of the best law departments in the country, on par with UCL. Is that true?

Fair enough. There are many things I don't like about the university either. But KCL has the undisputed best Dentistry department. Sorry. Couldn't resist. You know its true

Do you want me to be completely honest? Yes, its on par but by no means better. In London universities UCL and LSE probably lead the way with generic law but some specific courses are KCL tend to me more reputable. One such course is EU Law where students prefer KCL over UCL. So yeah. But if you would HAVE to pick one for the best law department it would probably be LSE = UCL >= KCL. But you do have many advantages of being a Law student at KCL because the Law department is now housed in the Somerset House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_House. As well as that, the Law Society and Law Reporting Council for England and wales are literally on the campus. You also got the Royal Courts of Justice and all the major legal book stores. Many of the Inns of Court are also part of or near the campus. So yeah, in that view point it can be convenient for a student to take up Law at KCL.

Yeah the dentistry dept is nice, probably top 3! But I just don't like the uni and the surrounding areas. Have you been to that huge building full of body parts? That's so ace

I actually heard from someone that King's has one of the best law departments in the country, on par with UCL. Is that true?

Your opinion seems to be a bit biased though . No worries, I'm not looking at King's but I'm just surprised to see people talking down about it since I've heard many good things about the uni over here. Oh well, I guess league tables and word of mouth don't tell the whole story. Those are still pretty decent rankings imo

Not top 3. The best. Really. Check Wikipedia. :P Anyway, what room with body parts? Are you serious? lool. I want to check it out. Where is it?