Facts about City

Facts about City

Our location in the heart of London

See how far City is from London's major institutions & landmarks

  • Sadler's Wells Theatre, 0.19 miles (0.32km)
  • Barbican Arts Centre, 0.67 miles (1.08km)
  • Museum of London, 0.74 miles (1.19km)
  • Old Bailey, 0.88 miles (1.42km)
  • Fleet Street, 0.94 miles (1.52km)
  • St Paul's Cathedral, 0.94 miles (1.52km)
  • British Library, 1.1 miles (1.78km)
  • Bank of England, 1.17 miles (1.88km)
  • River Thames, 1.19 miles (1.92km)
  • British Museum, 1.2 miles (1.94km)
  • "The Gherkin", 1.29 miles (2.09km)
  • Tate Modern, 1.39 miles (2.24km)
  • West End, 1.65 miles (2.66km)
  • National Gallery & National Portrait Gallery, 1.66 miles (2.67km)
  • Tower of London, 1.69 miles (2.72km)
  • "The Shard", 1.74 miles (2.80km)
  • Houses of Parliament, 2.15 miles (3.46km)
  • Buckingham Palace, 2.49 miles (4.02km)
  • Hyde Park, 2.64 miles (4.26km)
  • Royal Albert Hall, 3.69 miles (5.95km)
  • National History Museum, 3.74 miles (6.02km)
  • O2 Arena, 4.74 miles (7.63km)

Our commitment to academic excellence

Our focus on business and the professions

Our six Schools

City has six Schools - Cass Business School, School of Arts & Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, School of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences, School of Informatics and The City Law School. Our Graduate School, six interdisciplinary centres and the Learning Development Centre complete the academic structure of the University.

Click on a School below to find out more.

Cass Business School

  • nullCass is ranked as the 4th business school in the UK, 13th in Europe over the past three years and is in the top 1% of business schools in the world (Financial Times, 2011/12).
  • Business and Management courses at Cass are ranked 1st in London and 2nd in UK by the Guardian University Guide 2013.
  • Cass is ranked 10th in the UK for Finance courses in the Times Good University Guide 2013.
  • Cass Business School holds the gold standard of 'triple-crown' accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).
  • The Sir John Cass Foundation has supported education in London since 1710.

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School of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Politics courses are ranked 8th in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2013.
  • The last Research Assessment Exercise (2008) placed the School's Centre for Music Studies in the top 15 in the UK for music research.
  • The Centre for Cultural Policy and Management, part of the School, is the longest-established centre of its kind in the country.
  • The School currently has around 4,000 alumni working as journalists and media professionals around the world.

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School of Health Sciences

  • nullThe School is ranked 1st in London and 14th in the UK for Nursing (Guardian University Guide 2013 and Times Good University Guide 2013).
  • The School incorporates the former St Bartholomew's School of Nursing and Midwifery with over 120 years' experience in educating health professionals.
  • The last Research Assessment Exercise (2008) Nursing and Midwifery submission by the School was named the best in London.
  • City was the first institution in the world to offer a full-time course in ophthalmic optics in 1927.

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School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

  • nullEngineering was at the heart of City's foundation in 1894. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering were two of the first departments formed.
  • City was the first to offer courses in Aeronautical (now commonly known as Aerospace) Engineering in the UK.
  • The School is ranked 18th in the UK for Electrical and Electronic Engineering by the Guardian University Guide 2013.

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School of Informatics

  • nullThe School holds accreditation from BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP).
  • Over 87% of postgraduate students from the School of Informatics were employed within six months of graduating, 9% above the national average in 2010 (HESA, 2010).

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The City Law School

  • nullThe School was the first in London to educate students and practitioners at all stages of legal education.
  • It incorporates the former Inns of Court School of Law, established 1852.
  • Alumni include many global leaders, such as Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi, Herbert Henry Asquith, Clement Attlee, Jawaharlal Nehru, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.

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