University_of_Glasgow

University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in

University of Glasgow
post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu[7])
is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu
Founded by papal bull in 1451 [O.S. 1450],[8] it is the
fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world
and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Along
with the universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen, and
Edinburgh, the university was part of the Scottish
Enlightenment during the 18th century. Glasgow is the
largest university in Scotland by total enrolment and,
with over 15,900 postgraduates, the fifth-largest in the
United Kingdom by postgraduate enrolment.[6]
In common with universities of the pre-modern era,

Glasgow originally educated students primarily from Coat of arms
wealthy backgrounds; however, it became a pioneer in
Latin: Universitas Glasguensis[1][2][3]
British higher education in the 19th century by also
Motto Latin: Via, Veritas, Vita
providing for the needs of students from the growing
urban and commercial middle class. Glasgow Motto The Way, The Truth, The
in English Life
University served all of these students by preparing
them for professions: law, medicine, civil service, Type Public research university
teaching, and the church. It also trained smaller but Ancient university
growing numbers for careers in science and Established 7 January 1451
engineering.[9] Glasgow has the fifth-largest
Endowment £234.3 million (2023)[4]
endowment of any university in the UK and the annual
income of the institution for 2022–23 was Budget £944.2 million (2022/23)[4]
£944.2 million of which £220.7 million was from Chancellor Dame Katherine Grainger
research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of Rector Ghassan Abu-Sittah
£827.4 million.[4] It is a member of Universitas 21, the Principal Sir Anton Muscatelli
Russell Group[10] and the Guild of European Research-
Academic staff 5,585 (2022/23)[5]
Intensive Universities.
Administrative 4,265 (2022/23)[5]
The university was originally located in the city's High staff
Street; since 1870, its main campus has been at Students 39,755 (2022/23)[6]
Gilmorehill in the City's West End.[11] Additionally, a Undergraduates 23,845 (2022/23)[6]
number of university buildings are located elsewhere,
Postgraduates 15,915 (2022/23)[6]
such as the Veterinary School in Bearsden, and the
Crichton Campus in Dumfries.[12] Location Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Flag
The alumni of the University of Glasgow include some Colours
of the major figures of modern history, including More
James Wilson, a signatory of the United States Arts
Declaration of Independence, 3 Prime Ministers of the
United Kingdom (William Lamb, Henry Campbell-
Bannerman and Bonar Law), 3 Scottish First Ministers Dentistry
(Humza Yousaf, Nicola Sturgeon and Donald Dewar),
economist Adam Smith, philosopher Francis
Hutcheson, engineer James Watt, physicist Lord Divinity
Kelvin, surgeon Joseph Lister along with 4 Nobel Prize
laureates (in total 8 Nobel Prize winners are affiliated
with the University) and numerous Olympic gold Engineering
medallists, including the current chancellor, Dame
Katherine Grainger.
Law
History
Medicine
The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 by a
charter or papal bull from Pope Nicholas V, at the
suggestion of King James II, giving Bishop William
Turnbull, a graduate of the University of St Andrews, Nursing
permission to add a university to the city's
Cathedral.[13] It is the second-oldest university in
Scotland after St Andrews and the fourth-oldest in the Science
English-speaking world. The universities of St
Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen were ecclesiastical
foundations, while Edinburgh was a civic foundation. Social Sciences
As one of the ancient universities of the United
Kingdom, Glasgow is one of only eight institutions to
award undergraduate master's degrees in certain Veterinary Medicine
disciplines.[14]
The university has been without its original Bull since

Affiliations ACU · EUA · The Guild ·
the mid-sixteenth century. In 1560, during the political
PEGASUS · Russell Group
unrest accompanying the Scottish Reformation, the
· UArctic · Universitas 21 ·
then chancellor, Archbishop James Beaton, a supporter
Universities Scotland ·
of the Marian cause, fled to France. He took with him,
Universities UK
for safe-keeping, many of the archives and valuables of
the cathedral and the university, including the Mace Website gla.ac.uk (https://gla.ac.uk/)
and the Bull. Although the Mace was sent back in
1590, the archives were not. Principal James Fall told the Parliamentary Commissioners of Visitation on
28 August 1690, that he had seen the Bull at the Scots College in Paris, together with the many charters
granted to the university by the monarchs of Scotland from James II to Mary, Queen of Scots. The
university enquired of these documents in 1738 but was informed by Thomas Innes and the superiors of
the Scots College that the original records of the foundation of the university were not to be found. If they
had not been lost by this time, they certainly went astray during the French Revolution when the Scots
College was under threat. Its records and valuables were moved for safe-keeping out of the city of Paris.
The Bull remains the authority by which the university awards degrees.
Teaching at the university began in the Chapter House of Glasgow Cathedral, subsequently moving to
nearby Rottenrow, in a building known as the "Auld Pedagogy". The university was given 13 acres
(5.3 ha) of land belonging to the Black Friars (Dominicans) on High Street by Mary, Queen of Scots, in
1563.[15] By the late 17th century its building centred on two courtyards surrounded by walled gardens,
with a clock tower, which was one of the notable features of Glasgow's skyline—reaching 140 feet
(43 m) in height[16]—and a chapel adapted from the church of the former Dominican (Blackfriars) friary.
Remnants of this Scottish Renaissance building, mainly parts of the main façade, were transferred to the
Gilmorehill campus and renamed as the "Pearce Lodge", after Sir William Pearce, the shipbuilding
magnate who funded its preservation. The Lion and Unicorn Staircase was also transferred from the old
college site and is now attached to the Main Building.
John Anderson, while professor of natural philosophy at the university, and with some opposition from
his colleagues, pioneered vocational education for working men and women during the Industrial
Revolution. To continue this work in his will, he founded Anderson's College, which was associated with
the university before merging with other institutions to become the University of Strathclyde in 1964.
In 1973, Delphine Parrott became its first female professor, as Gardiner Professor of Immunology.[17]
In October 2014, the university court voted for the university to become the first academic institution in
Europe to divest from the fossil fuel industry.[18]
Campus
The university is currently spread over a few campuses. The main
one is the Gilmorehill campus, in Hillhead. As well as this there is
the Garscube Estate in Bearsden, housing the Veterinary School,
Observatory, ship model basin and much of the university's sports
facilities, the Dental School in the city center, the section of
Mental Health and Well Being at Gartnavel Royal Hospital on
Great Western Road, the Teaching and Learning Centre at the
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Crichton Campus in
Dumfries (operated jointly by the University of Glasgow, the
University of the West of Scotland and the Open University).
University of Glasgow, Older
The Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) was opened at the Queen
Building Sign
Elizabeth University Hospital on 29 March 2017, including a
Clinical Innovation Zone spanning 11,000 square feet (1,000 m2)
of collaboration space for researchers and industry.[19]
High Street
The university's initial
accommodation including
Glasgow University
Library[20][21] was part of
the complex of religious
buildings in the precincts
of Glasgow Cathedral. In
1460, the university
A model of the old High Street
received a grant of land The University of Glasgow in 1650
Building, in the Hunterian Museum from James, Lord

Hamilton, on the east side
of the High Street,[22] immediately north of the Blackfriars
Church, on which it had its home for the next four hundred years. In the mid-seventeenth century, the
Hamilton Building was replaced with a very grand two-court building with a decorated west front facing
the High Street, called the 'Nova Erectio', or New Building. This foundation is widely considered to have
been one of the finest 17th-century buildings in Scotland. Decorated fragments from it, including a
complete exterior stairway, were rescued and built into its 19th-century replacement. In Sir Walter Scott's
best-selling 1817 novel Rob Roy, set at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715, the lead character fights a
duel in the New Building grounds before the contest is broken up by Rob Roy MacGregor.
Over the following centuries, the university's size and scope

continued to expand. In 1757 it built the Macfarlane Observatory
and later Scotland's first public museum, the Hunterian. It was a
center of the Scottish Enlightenment and subsequently of the
Industrial Revolution, and its expansion in the High Street was
constrained. The area around the university declined as well-off
residents moved westwards with the expansion of the city and
overcrowding of the immediate area by less well-off residents. It
was this rapid slumming of the area that was a chief catalyst of the
university's migration westward.
Gilmorehill
In 1870, the university moved to a (then greenfield) site on
Gilmorehill in the West End of the city, around three miles (five Front of The University of Glasgow
kilometres) west of its previous location, enclosed by a large on High Street, Glasgow, 1870.
Original photograph by Thomas
meander of the River Kelvin. The original site on the High Street
Annan and Richard Annan.
was sold to the City of Glasgow Union Railway and replaced by
the college goods yard. The new-build campus was designed by
Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style. The largest of these buildings echoed, on a far
grander scale, the original High Street campus's twin-quadrangle layout, and may have been inspired by
Ypres' late-medieval cloth hall; Gilmorehill, in turn, inspired the design of the Clocktower complex of
buildings for the new University of Otago in New Zealand. In 1879, Gilbert Scott's son, Oldrid,
completed this original vision by building an open undercroft forming two quadrangles, above which is
his grand Bute Hall (used for examinations and graduation ceremonies), named after its donor, John
Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. Oldrid also later added a spire to the building's signature gothic
bell tower in 1887, bringing it to a total height of some 85 metres (278 ft).[23] The local Bishopbriggs
blond sandstone cladding and Gothic design of the building's
exterior belie the modernity of its Victorian construction; Scott's
building is structured upon what was then a cutting-edge riveted
iron frame construction, supporting a lightweight wooden-beam
roof. The building also forms the second-largest example of
Gothic revival architecture in Britain, after the Palace of
Westminster. An illustration of the Main Building previously
featured on the reverse side of £100 notes issued by Clydesdale
Bank.[24] The new buildings of the University
of Glasgow at Gilmorehill, circa
The university's Hunterian Museum resides in the Main Building, 1895.
and the related Hunterian Gallery is housed in buildings adjacent
to the University Library.[25] The latter includes "The Mackintosh
House", a rebuilt terraced house designed by, and furnished after,
architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Even these enlarged premises could not contain the expanding

university, which quickly spread across much of Gilmorehill. The
1930s saw the construction of the award-winning round Reading
Room (it is now a category-A listed building) and an aggressive
program of house purchases, in which the university (fearing the
surrounding district of Hillhead was running out of suitable The night view of the university's
building land) acquired several terraces of Victorian houses and main building
joined them together internally. The departments of Psychology,
Computing Science, and most of the Arts Faculty continue to be
housed in these terraces.
More buildings were built to the west of the Main Building,

developing the land between University Avenue and the River Kelvin
with natural science buildings and the faculty of medicine. The
medical school spread into neighboring Partick and joined with the
Western Infirmary. At the eastern flank of the Main Building, the
James Watt Engineering Building was completed in 1959. The
growth and prosperity of the city, which had originally forced the
university's relocation to Hillhead, again proved problematic when
more real estate was required. The school of veterinary medicine,
which was founded in 1862, moved to a new campus in the leafy
surrounds of Garscube Estate, around two miles (3 km) west of the
main campus, in 1954. The university later moved its sports ground
and associated facilities to Garscube and also built student halls of
The School of History building residence in both Garscube and Maryhill.
occupies what were formerly
townhouses on University The expected growth of tertiary education in the 1960s following
Avenue. publication of the Robbins Report led the university to build
numerous modern buildings across Hillhead in a development zone,
originally comprising mainly residential tenements, that had been
designated on the north side of University Avenue in 1945.[26][27] Several of these new buildings were in
the brutalist style; the Mathematics Building at the west end of University Avenue (opened 1968,
demolished 2017),[26] the Rankine Building at the east end of University Avenue (opened 1970),[28] the
multipurpose Adam Smith Building (opened 1967)[29] on the crest of the hill above University Gardens,
and the new Queen Margaret Union building (opened 1968) on the University Gardens site previously
occupied by the University Observatory.[30] These were joined by others in various modernist styles; both
the Library and Boyd Orr Building (opened 1968 and 1972 respectively)[27][31] were configured as tower
blocks, as was the Genetics Building at the very south end of the campus on Dumbarton Road (opened
1967, named for Guido Pontecorvo in 1994, demolished 2021),[32] while the amber-brick Geology
Building (opened 1980, named for John Walter Gregory in 1998, renamed for Silas Molema in 2021) was
built to a low-rise design on the former site of eight terraced houses in Lilybank Gardens.[33]
To further cater to the expanding student population, a new refectory—known as the Hub—was opened
adjacent to the library in 1966, and the Glasgow University Union building at the eastern end of
University Avenue was extended in 1965.
In October 2001 the century-old Bower Building (previously home to the university's botany department)
was gutted by fire. The interior and roof of the building were largely destroyed, though the main façade
remained intact. After a £10.8 million refit, the building re-opened in November 2004.
The Wolfson Medical School Building, with its award-winning glass-fronted atrium, opened in 2002,[34]
and in 2003, the St Andrews Building was opened, housing what is now the School of Education. It is
sited a short walk from Gilmorehill, in the Woodlands area of the city on the site of the former Queens
College, which had in turn been bought by Glasgow Caledonian University, from whom the university
acquired the site. It replaced the St Andrews Campus in Bearsden. The university also procured the
former Hillhead Congregational Church, converting it into a lecture theatre in 2005. The Sir Alwyn
Williams building, designed by Reiach and Hall, was completed at Lilybank Terrace in 2007, housing the
School of Computing Science.
In September 2016, in partnership with Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Life, and the National Library of
Scotland, the transformed Kelvin Hall was brought into new public use including in Phase I the Hunterian
Collections and Study Centre.[35]
The Mathematics Building, on University Way adjacent to the Boyd Orr Building, was demolished in
2017 to make way for a new 'Learning Hub' intended to provide individual and group study spaces for
more than 2,500 students, as well as a 500-seat lecture theatre. Built at a cost of £90.6 million, it opened
in April 2021 and is named for James McCune Smith, the first African American to earn a degree in
medicine and a University of Glasgow alumnus.[36][37] A further investment of over £900 million is being
made across the Gilmorehill campus, focused mainly on redeveloping the 5.7-hectare (14-acre) site
between University Avenue and Dumbarton Road that was occupied by the Western Infirmary between
1874 and 2015.[37][38]
Chapel
The University Chapel was constructed as a memorial to the 755 sons of the university who had died in
the First World War. Designed by Sir John Burnet, it was completed in 1929 and dedicated on 4 October.
Tablets on the wall behind the Communion Table list the names of those who died, while other tablets
besides the stalls record the 405 members of the university community who gave their lives in the Second
World War. Most of the windows are the work of Douglas Strachan, although some have been added over
the years, including those on the South Wall, created by Alan Younger.
Daily services are held in the chapel during term-time, as well as
seasonal events. Before Christmas, there is a Service of Nine
Lessons and Carols on the last Sunday of term, and a Watchnight
service on Christmas Eve. Graduates, students, members of staff,
and the children of members of staff are entitled to be married in
the chapel, which is also used for baptisms and funerals. Civil
marriages and civil partnerships may be blessed in the chapel,
although under UK law may not be performed there.
Interior of the Chapel
The current chaplain of the university is the Reverend Stuart

MacQuarrie, and the university appoints honorary chaplains of
other denominations.
Library and archives

The University Library, situated on Hillhead Street opposite the
Main Building, is one of the oldest and largest libraries in Europe.
Situated over 12 floors, it hosts more than three million books and
journals, and provides electronic resources, including over 51,900
electronic journals. It also houses sections for periodicals,
microfilms, special collections and rare materials.[40] The Library
is open between 7 a.m. and 2 a.m., 361 days of the year.
In addition to the main library, subject libraries exist for Medicine, The university's library hosts over
Chemistry, Dental Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Education, three million volumes.[39]
Law, History of Art, and the faculty of Social Sciences, which are
held in branch libraries around the campus.[41] In 2007, a state-of-
the-art section to house the library's collection of historic photographs was opened, funded by the
Wolfson Foundation.[41]
The Archives of the University of Glasgow is the central place of deposit for the records of the university,
created and accumulated since its foundation in 1451.
Crichton campus, Dumfries

The university opened the Crichton campus in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway during the 1980s. It
was designed to meet the needs for tertiary education in an area far from major cities and is operated
jointly by the University of Glasgow, the University of the West of Scotland and the Open University. It
offers a modular undergraduate curriculum, leading to one of a small number of liberal arts degrees, as
well as providing the region's only access to postgraduate study.[42]
Non-teaching facilities
As well as these teaching campuses the university has halls of residence in and around the North-West of
the city, accommodating a total of approximately 3,500 students.[43] These include the Murano Street
Student Village in Maryhill; Wolfson halls on the Garscube Estate; Queen Margaret halls, in Kelvinside;
Cairncross House and Kelvinhaugh Gate, in Yorkhill. In recent years, Dalrymple House and Horslethill
halls in Dowanhill, Reith halls in North Kelvinside and the Maclay halls in Park Circus (near
Kelvingrove Park), have closed and been sold, as the development value of such property increased.
The Stevenson Building on Gilmorehill opened in 1961 and provides students with the use of a fitness
suite, squash courts, sauna, and six-lane, 25-metre swimming pool. The university also has a large sports
complex on the Garscube Estate, besides their Wolfson Halls and Vet School. This is a new facility,
replacing the previous Westerlands sports ground in the Anniesland area of the city. The university also
has use of half of the East Boathouse situated at Glasgow Green on the River Clyde where Glasgow
University Boat Club train.
Governance and administration

In common with the other ancient universities of
Scotland the university's constitution is laid out in the
Universities (Scotland) Acts. These Acts create a
tripartite structure of bodies: the University Court
(governing body), the Academic Senate (academic
affairs), and the General Council (advisory). There is
also a clear separation between governance and
executive administration.
The university's constitution, academic regulations,

and appointments are described in the university A block of buildings in Gilmorehill campus
calendar,[44] while other aspects of its story and
constitution are detailed in a separate "history"
document.[45]
University officials
The university's three most significant
officials are its chancellor, principal,
and rector, whose rights and
responsibilities are largely derived from
the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858.
The Chancellor is the titular head of the

university and President of the General
Dame Katherine Sir Anton Muscatelli, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Council. They award all degrees,
Grainger, current current Principal and current Rector although this duty is generally carried
Chancellor Vice-Chancellor out by the Vice-Chancellor, appointed
by them. The current Chancellor is
Dame Katherine Grainger, a former
rower who is Britain's most decorated female Olympian, the current chair of UK Sport, and former
Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. She is an alumna of the university, with a Master of
Philosophy (MPhil) in Medical Law and Medical Ethics. She is the first woman to hold the office in the
university.
Day-to-day management of the university is undertaken by the University Principal (who is also Vice-
Chancellor). The current principal is Sir Anton Muscatelli who replaced Sir Muir Russell in October
2009.[46] There are also several Vice-Principals, each with a specific remit. They, along with the Clerk of
Senate, play a major role in the day-to-day management of the university.
All students at the university are eligible to vote in the election of the Rector (officially styled "Lord
Rector"), who holds office for a three-year term and chairs the University Court. In the past, this position
has been a largely honorary and ceremonial one, and has been held by political figures including William
Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Bonar Law, Robert Peel, Raymond Poincaré, Arthur Balfour, Charles
Kennedy and 1970s union activist Jimmy Reid, and latterly by celebrities such as TV presenters Arthur
Montford and Johnny Ball, musician Pat Kane, and actors Richard Wilson, Ross Kemp and Greg
Hemphill. In 2004, for the first time in its history, the university was left without a Rector as no
nominations were received. When the elections were run in December, Mordechai Vanunu was chosen for
the post,[47] even though he was unable to attend due to restrictions placed upon him by the Israeli
government. In 2014, Edward Snowden, an American computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) employee, and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor—who came to
international attention when he disclosed a large number of classified NSA documents to several media
outlets—was elected.[48] In 2017, Aamer Anwar a Scottish lawyer and former student of the university
was elected rector[49] until 2020 when rector elections had to be postponed due to the COVID-19
pandemic. On April 21, 2021, Rita Rae, Lady Rae a Scottish lawyer, judge and former Senator of the
College of Justice was appointed Rector after a decisive victory.[50][51] The current office holder is Dr.
Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who was installed in the position on the 11th of April 2024, after winning 80% of
the vote and while under investigation by the University.[52][53]
University Court
The governing body of the university is the University Court, which is responsible for contractual
matters, employing staff, and all other matters relating to finance and administration. The Court takes
decisions about the deployment of resources as well as formulating strategic plans for the university. The
Court is chaired by the Rector, who is elected by all the matriculated students at the university. The
University Secretary is the Head of University Services and assists the Principal in day-to-day
management. The current University Secretary is David Duncan.[54]
Academic Senate
The Academic Senate (or University Senate) is the body which is responsible for the management of
academic affairs, and which recommends the conferment of degrees by the Chancellor. Membership of
the Senate comprises all Professors of the university, as well as elected academic members,
representatives of the Student's Representative Council, the Secretary of Court and directors of university
services (e.g. Library). The President of the Senate is the principal.
The Clerk of Senate, who has a status equivalent to that of a Vice-Principal and is a member of the Senior
Management Group, has responsibility for regulation of the university's academic policy, such as dealing
with plagiarism and the conduct of examinations. Notable Clerks of Senate have included the chemist,
Joseph Black; John Anderson, father of the University of Strathclyde; and the economist, John Millar.
Committees
There are also a number of committees of both the Court and Senate that make important decisions and
investigate matters referred to them. As well as these bodies there is a General Council made up of the
university graduates that is involved in the running of the university. The graduates also elect the
Chancellor of the university.
Research System and Repository

The University maintains an in-house constructed research information system containing data on all
institutional research, including financial and personnel information. This Research System is closely
linked to the "Enlighten" institutional repository, which is effectively a collection of research output in
the form of publications and theses.[55]
Organisation
There are currently four Colleges, each containing a number of Schools. They are:
College of Arts & Humanities
ArtsLab Glasgow
Graduate School of the College of Arts & Humanities
School of Critical Studies
School of Culture and Creative Arts
School of Humanities
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

School of Cancer Sciences
School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health
School of Health & Wellbeing
School of Infection & Immunity
School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing
School of Molecular Biosciences
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
College of Science and Engineering
School of Chemistry
School of Computing Science
James Watt School of Engineering
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
School of Mathematics & Statistics
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Social Sciences
Adam Smith Business School

School of Education
School of Social & Environmental Sustainability (at Crichton Campus, Dumfries)
School of Law
School of Social & Political Sciences
At the university's foundation in 1451, there were four original faculties:

Arts, Divinity, Law, and Medicine. The Faculty of Divinity became a
constituent school of the Faculty of Arts in 2002,[56] while the Faculty of
Law was changed in 1984 into the Faculty of Law and Financial Studies,
and in 2005 became the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences.[57]
Although one of the original faculties established, teaching in the Faculty
of Medicine did not begin formally until 1714, with the revival of the
Chair in the Practice of Medicine.[58] The Faculty of Science was formed
in 1893 from Chairs removed from the Faculties of Arts and Medicine,
and subsequently divided in 2000 to form the three Faculties of
Biomedical and Life Sciences, Computing Science, Mathematics and
Statistics (now Information and Mathematical Sciences) and Physical
Adam Smith lends his name Sciences.[59] The Faculty of Social Sciences was formed from Chairs in
to the business school the Faculty of Arts in 1977, and merged to form the Faculty of Law,
Business and Social Sciences in 2005, the two having operated as a single
'resource unit' since 2002.[60] The Faculty of Engineering was formally
established in 1923, although engineering had been taught at the university since 1840 when Queen
Victoria founded the UK's first Chair of Engineering. Through a concordat ratified in 1913,[61] Royal
Technical College (later Royal College of Science and Technology and now University of Strathclyde)
students received Glasgow degrees in applied sciences, particularly engineering. It was in 1769 when
James Watt's engineering at Glasgow led to a stable steam engine and, subsequently, the Industrial
Revolution. The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was established in 1862 as the independent Glasgow
Veterinary College, being subsumed into the university in 1949 and gaining independent Faculty status in
1969.[62] The Faculty of Education was formed in 1999 when the university merged with St Andrew's
College of Education,[63][64] which had been formed in 1981 through the merger of two Catholic
colleges: Notre Dame College of Education, Glasgow, founded in 1895 and Craiglockhart College of
Education, Edinburgh, founded in 1920.[65]
On 1 August 2010, the former faculties of the university were removed and replaced by a system of four
larger Colleges, intended to encourage interdisciplinary research and make the university more
competitive.[66] This structure was similar to that at other universities, including the University of
Edinburgh.
Academic profile
Rankings and reputation

The university is a member of the Russell Group of Rankings
research-led British universities[73] and was a founding
member of the organisation, Universitas 21,[74] an National rankings
international grouping of universities dedicated to Complete (2025)[67] 29
setting worldwide standards for higher education. The Guardian (2025)[68] 14
university currently has fifteen Regius Professorships, Times / Sunday Times (2025)[69] 16
more than in any other UK university.[75]
Global rankings
In the QS World University Rankings Glasgow ARWU (2024)[70] 101–150
climbed from 59th overall in 2011[76] to 54th in QS (2025)[71] 78
2012,[77] then to 51st in 2013.[78] Glasgow places
THE (2025)[72] 87=
within the top 20 in the UK and 3rd in Scotland for the
employability of
its graduates as ranked
by recruiters from the
UK's major
companies. [79]
University of Glasgow's national league

table performance over the past ten years
Cloisters between quadrangles
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), almost 70% of
research carried out at the university was in the top two categories
(88% in the top three categories). Eighteen subject areas were rated top ten in the UK, whilst fourteen
subject areas were rated the best in Scotland. The 2008 Times RAE table ranks according to an 'average'
score across all departments, of which Glasgow posted an average of 2.6/4. The overall average placed
Glasgow as the thirty-third-highest of all UK universities, perhaps reflecting the broadness of the
university's activities. In terms of research 'power', however, Glasgow placed fourteenth in the UK and
second in Scotland.[80][81]
Admission and enrollment
UCAS Admission Statistics

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Applications[α][82] 37,300 41,915 42,180 36,455 35,035
Accepted[α][82] 6,055 6,220 6,605 6,495 5,445
Applications/Accepted Ratio[α] 6.2 6.7 6.4 5.6 6.4
Offer Rate (%)[β][83] 63.6 61.0 56.3 60.5 57.0
Average Entry Tariff[84] — — 209 204 199
α. Main scheme applications, International and UK

β. UK domiciled applicants
As of 2022/23, the university had 21,165 HESA Student Body Composition

undergraduate and 11,300 postgraduate
Domicile[85] and Ethnicity[86] Total
students.[89] Glasgow has a large (for the
British White 51%
UK) proportion of "home" students, with
almost 40 per cent of the student body British Ethnic Minorities[a] 9%
coming from the West of Scotland. [90] In the International EU 6%
2016–17 academic year, the university had a
International Non-EU 34%
domicile breakdown of 71:11:18 of
UK:EU:non-EU students, respectively, with a Undergraduate Widening Participation Indicators[87][88]
female-to-male ratio of 59:41.[91] Female 58%
Private School 16%
For undergraduate entry, course requirements
range from A*A*A* (for second year entry) Low Participation Areas[b] 15%
to BBB (for minimum requirements for
Primary Teaching) in A-levels.[92] Glasgow had the 23rd highest average entry qualification for
undergraduates of any UK university in 2015, with new students averaging 420 UCAS points,[93]
equivalent to ABBbb in A-level grades.
As the number of places available for Scottish applicants are capped by the Scottish Government as they
do not pay tuition fees, students applying from the rest of the UK and outside of the UK have a higher
likelihood of an offer.[94] For most courses, with the exceptions of Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary
Medicine and Law, the university guarantees unconditional offers to applicants who have achieved
AAAA or AAABB in one sitting at Scottish Highers. The other components of the applicant's UCAS
form (such as predicted grades and the personal statement) are only taken into account if the applicant has
not achieved these grades.[95]
Climate change
The University of Glasgow was the first university in Europe to
divest from fossil fuel companies in October 2014. The 12-month
campaign was led by the Glasgow University Climate Action Society
and involved over 1,300 students.[96]
Student life
The quadrangle at the University
Unlike other universities in Scotland, Glasgow does not have a single of Glasgow
students' association; instead, there exist a number of bodies
concerned with the representation, welfare, and entertainment of its
students. Due to the university's retention of its separate male and female students' unions, which since
1980 have admitted both sexes as full members, there are two independent students' unions, as well as a
sports association and the students' representative council. None of these are affiliated to the National
Union of Students: membership has been rejected on a number of occasions, most recently in November
2006, on both economic and political grounds. A student-run "No to NUS" campaign won a campuswide
referendum with more than 90% of the vote.[97]
In common with the other ancient universities of Scotland, students at Glasgow also elect a Rector.
The university has an eclectic body of clubs and societies, including sports teams, political and religious
groups, and gaming societies.
Students' Representative Council

Glasgow University Students' Representative Council is the legal representative body for students, as
recognized by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889. The SRC is responsible for representing students'
interests to the management of the university, to local and national government, and for health and
welfare issues. Under the Universities (Scotland) Acts, all students of the university automatically
become members of the SRC; however, they are entitled to opt-out of this. Members of the SRC sit on
various committees throughout the university, from the departmental level to the Senate and Court.
The SRC organizes Media Week, RAG (Raising And Giving) Week, and Welfare Week, as well as
funding some 130 clubs and societies.
Unions
In addition to the Students' Representative Council, students are commonly members of one of the
university's two students' unions, the Glasgow University Union (GUU) and the Queen Margaret Union
(QMU).[98] Unlike many other student unions in the UK, membership to either GUU or QMU is not
automatic and students must apply, for free, to become a member of either. Students are also permitted to
be a member of both. These are largely social and cultural institutions, providing their members with
facilities for debating, dining, recreation, socializing, and drinking, and both have a number of meeting
rooms available for rental to members. Postgraduate students, mature students and staff were previously
able to join the Hetherington Research Club;[99] however, large debts led to the club being closed in
February 2010.[100][101] However, in February 2011, students gained access to the old HRC building,
situated at 13 University Gardens (Hetherington House) and "reopened" it as the Free Hetherington, a
social centre for learning and lectures, as well as protesting the
shutting down of the club. Attempts to evict this occupation
resulted in complaints of heavy-handed policing and much
controversy on campus.[102][103]
The separate unions exist due to the university's previous male-

only status; the GUU was founded before the admission of
women, while the QMU was originally the union of Queen
Margaret College, a women-only college which merged with the
The Glasgow University Union's
university in 1892. Their continued separate existence is due
building at No. 32 University Avenue
largely to their individual atmospheres. The GUU's focus is
mainly towards people involved in sports and debates (as among
its founders were the Athletic Association and Dialectic Society), the QMU is one of Glasgow's music
venues, and has played host to Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biffy Clyro and Franz Ferdinand.
In 1955, the GUU won the Observer Mace, now the John Smith Memorial Mace, named after the
deceased GUU debater and former leader of the British Labour Party. The GUU has since won the mace
debating championship fourteen more times, more than any other university. The GUU has also won the
World Universities Debating Championships five times, more than any other university or club in the
series' history.[104]
Sports association
Sporting affairs are regulated by the Glasgow University Sports Association (GUSA) (previously the
Glasgow University Athletics Club) which works closely with the Sport and Recreation Service. There
are a large number of varied clubs, including Squash, Gaelic Football, Basketball, Cycling, Football,
Hockey, Netball, Martial Arts and Rowing, who regularly compete in BUCS competitions. Students who
join one of the sports clubs affiliated with the university must also join GUSA. However, there are also
regular classes and drop-in sessions for various sports which are non-competitive and available to all
university gym members.
Mature Students' Association

The community of mature students—that is those students aged 21 or over—are served by the Mature
Students' Association located at 62 Oakfield Avenue. The MSA aims are to provide all mature students
with facilities for recreation and study. Throughout the year, the MSA also organizes social events and
peer support for the wide range of subjects studied by the university's mature students.[105]
Media
There is an active student media scene at the university, part of, but editorially independent from, the
SRC. There is a newspaper, the Glasgow University Guardian; Glasgow University Magazine; Glasgow
University Student Television; and Subcity Radio. In recent years, independent of the SRC, the Queen
Margaret Union has published a fortnightly magazine, qmunicate,[106] and Glasgow University Union has
produced the G-you magazine, formerly known as GUUi.[107]
Mountaineering Club
Glasgow University Mountaineering Club is an outdoor association whose membership is composed of
students and staff. Its origins are known from the late 1930s when students were already meeting on the
Arrochar Alps; however, the club was officially constituted at the university in March 1941.[108]
Notable alumni and staff

Many distinguished figures have taught, worked and studied at the University of Glasgow, including
seven Nobel laureates and three Prime Ministers, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman and Bonar Law. Famous names include the physicist Lord Kelvin, his pupil, and
later partner of the Carnegie Steel Corporation, George Lauder, 'father of economics' Adam Smith,
engineer James Watt, inventors Henry Faulds and John Logie Baird, chemists William Ramsay, Frederick
Soddy and Joseph Black, biologist Sir John Boyd Orr, philosophers Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid and
Dugald Stewart, mathematician Colin Maclaurin, ethnologist James George Frazer, missionary David
Livingstone, writers James Boswell, John Buchan, A. J. Cronin, Amy Hoff, Tobias Smollett and Edwin
Morgan, and surgeon Joseph Lister. Famous orientalist and president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Henry Beveridge, University of Aberdeen founder Bishop William Elphinstone also graduated from
Glasgow. In June 1933 Albert Einstein gave the first Gibson Lecture, on his general theory of relativity;
he subsequently received an honorary degree from the university.[109] Also John Macintyre, pioneer of
radiology and Jocelyn Bell Burnell who discovered radio pulsars.[110] In 1974, professors Graham
Teasdale and Bryan Jennett developed the Glasgow Coma Scale.
In more recent times, the university was the focus of the "Glasgow Group" of poets and literary critics,
including Philip Hobsbaum, Tom Leonard and Alasdair Gray. The university boasts one of Europe's
largest collections of life scientists, as well as having been the training ground of numerous politicians
including former Prime Ministers Bonar Law and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, former First Minister
Donald Dewar, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and former Rector Charles Kennedy, Defence
Secretaries Liam Fox and Des Browne, the founder of the UK Independence Party Alan Sked, former
Labour Party leader John Smith, Business Secretary Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
Sir Menzies Campbell, and former First Ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf. Other notable
alumni include banker Fred Goodwin, actor Gerard Butler, Rangers and Scottish footballer Neil Murray,
actor, writer, television and radio broadcaster Colin Lamont (aka Scottie McClue), novelist Robin
Jenkins, founder of the world's largest non-governmental development organisation BRAC Fazle Hasan
Abed, television writers Armando Iannucci and Steven Moffat, comedian Greg Hemphill, television
presenter Neil Oliver, journalists Andrew Neil and Raman Bhardwaj, and musicians Emeli Sandé and
Simon Neil.
Lord Lister Francis Thomas Reid Lord Kelvin Joseph William
Hutcheson Black Elphinstone
James Watt Sir Menzies Nicola Andrew Neil

Campbell Sturgeon
World Changing Alumni Award

With the World-Changing Alumni Award, formerly the Young Alumnus of the Year Award, the university
is recognizing and celebrating the achievements of alumni who have graduated within the last 15 years
and made a major contribution to the community, arts, sciences, or business.
The award was established in 2001 as part of the university's 550th-anniversary celebrations and is given
out once per year. The trophy was donated by the Old Boys of Allan Glen's School, is presented to the
winning candidate at one of the year's graduation ceremonies or flagship events.[111]
Winners:
2021: Fiona McPhail (LLB 2007)[112]

2020: Selina Hales (MA 2005)[113]
2019: Eunice Ntobedzi (MSc 2016)[114]
2018: Amal Azzudin (BA 2011, MSc 2014)[115]
2017: Susanne Mitschke (MSc 2015); Patrick Renner (MSc 2015)[116]
2016: Matt Fountain (MA Hons 2011)
2015: Mhairi Black MP (MA 2015)[117]
2014: Martin Patience (MA 2002)
2013: Karina Atkinson (BSc 2007)
2012: Katherine Grainger MBE CBE (MPhil 2001)
2011: Emeli Sandé (BSc 2009)
2010: Patrick Gunning (BSc 2001, PhD 2005)
2009: Euan Murray (BVMS 2003)
2008: Mark Beaumont (MA 2006); John Tiffany (MA 1994)
2007: Vanessa Munro (LLB 1997, PhD 2001)
2006: Richard Dixon (BVMS 1993, PhD 2000)
2005: Christopher Brookmyre (MA 1989)
2004: Colin McInnes (BSc 1988, PhD 1991)
2003: Emma Richards (BSc 1996)
2001: Mark Johnston (BVMS 1983); Lorraine Clinton (MA 1986)
See also
Academic dress of the University of Glasgow
Armorial of UK universities
Banknotes of Scotland (Gilmorehill featured on design)
List of medieval universities
List of universities in the United Kingdom
Notes
a. Includes those who indicate that they identify as Asian, Black, Mixed Heritage, Arab or any
other ethnicity except White.
b. Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated
from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.
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The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in

In common with universities of the pre-modern era,

The university has been without its original Bull since

Building, in the Hunterian Museum from James, Lord

Over the following centuries, the university's size and scope

Even these enlarged premises could not contain the expanding

More buildings were built to the west of the Main Building,

The current chaplain of the university is the Reverend Stuart

Library and archives

Crichton campus, Dumfries

Governance and administration

The university's constitution, academic regulations,

The Chancellor is the titular head of the

Research System and Repository

College of Arts & Humanities

School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

Adam Smith Business School

At the university's foundation in 1451, there were four original faculties:

Rankings and reputation

University of Glasgow's national league

Admission and enrollment

UCAS Admission Statistics

Applications[α][82] 37,300 41,915 42,180 36,455 35,035

Accepted[α][82] 6,055 6,220 6,605 6,495 5,445

Applications/Accepted Ratio[α] 6.2 6.7 6.4 5.6 6.4

Offer Rate (%)[β][83] 63.6 61.0 56.3 60.5 57.0

Average Entry Tariff[84] — — 209 204 199

α. Main scheme applications, International and UK

As of 2022/23, the university had 21,165 HESA Student Body Composition

Students' Representative Council

The separate unions exist due to the university's previous male-

Mature Students' Association

Notable alumni and staff

James Watt Sir Menzies Nicola Andrew Neil

World Changing Alumni Award

2021: Fiona McPhail (LLB 2007)[112]

community, many congratulations on your election 🎉

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