Why should I study at King's College London?

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Akanksha Malhotra | Contributor-Level 10

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KCL is one of the UK’s the oldest and most prestigious universities. In global rankings, KCL is ranked among the UK’s top 6 and world’s top 40 universities. Located in the heart of London, KCL is widely regarded as part of the UK’s ‘Golden Triangle’, which consists of the country’s elite research-intensive universities like Oxford, Cambridge, London School of Economics, Imperial College London and UCL. In the context of USA, KCL is considered to be at par with the universities like Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown. A wide a variety of academic programs, with its departments in Law, Medicine,

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