Facts about City

• 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)

• Cass is ranked as the 4^th business school in the UK, 13^th 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 1^st in London and 2^nd in UK by the Guardian University Guide 2013.
• Cass is ranked 10^th 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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• 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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• The School is ranked 1^st in London and 14^th 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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• Engineering 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 18^th in the UK for Electrical and Electronic Engineering by the Guardian University Guide 2013.

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• The 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 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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