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200 years of UCL
UCL was founded as a progressive alternative to Oxford and Cambridge, welcoming students regardless of their religion or gender. What has it achieved in 200 years?
UCL was founded to be a progressive alternative to Oxford and Cambridge, offering higher education to students regardless of their religion or, later, gender.
It had the country's first student union - and it's alumni includes Alexander Graham Bell, Baroness Scotland and Ricky Gervais.
So what has it achieve in it's first 200 years?
