University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen University is a public
research university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is an old university
founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, asked Pope
Alexander VI, on behalf of James IV, king of Scotland to create King's College.
This makes it the third oldest university in Scotland (after the University of
St Andrews and the University of Glasgow) and the fifth oldest in the English
speaking world. The university today as they formed in 1860 by the merger of
King's College (which had always referred to herself as the University of
Aberdeen) and Marischal College, a second university founded in 1593 in the
city center of Aberdeen as an alternative to the Protestant King's College.
Today, the University of Aberdeen is consistently ranked among the 200 best
universities in the world and is one of two universities in Aberdeen, the other
is the Robert Gordon University.
Emblematic buildings of the
university act as symbols of the city of Aberdeen, in particular Mariscal
university in the center of the city and the tower of King's College in Old
Aberdeen. There are two campus; Campus school of the main King is in Old
Aberdeen about two miles north of the city center, around the original area of
King's College, although most of the campus buildings were built in the 20th
century, during a period of expansion. Forester Hill campus is located next to
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and houses the School of Medicine and Dentistry and
the School of Medical Sciences.
The University has
approximately 13,500 undergraduate students at the doctoral level, including
many international students. In addition, the University Center for Lifelong
Learning acts as an extension of the university, which offers higher education
courses for the local community, even for those without the usual requirements
for admission to degree level study. It offers a wide range of disciplines and
in 2012 the university offered more than 650 undergraduate programmers.
Five Nobel laureates are
associated with the University. Other scholars and graduates of the University
include many illustrious figures, including: the physicist James Clerk Maxwell;
Thomas Reid, the founder of the Scottish school of common sense and an
important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment; philosopher Robert Adamson;
educator and philosopher Alexander Bain; and theologian William Robinson Clark.
Established: 1495
Budget: £235 million (2014)
Chancellor: HRH The Duchess of
Rothesay
Academic staff: 1,409 (2014)
Administrative staff: 1,951
(2014)
Students: 13,825 (2013/14)
Undergraduates: 10,375
(2013/14)
Postgraduates: 3,450 (2013/14)
Location: Aberdeen,
Scotland,United Kingdom
Colours: Burgundy and White Mascot Angus the Bull
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