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UCL Earth Sciences is one of the oldest and largest centres for earth and planetary sciences in the UK, situated in Bloomsbury in the heart of London and within minutes from the British Museum, the British Library and the Royal Institution. The Times Good University Guide described London as "one of the most exciting cities in the world - the ideal place to be a student".

UCL Earth Sciences enjoys world-class facilities

• hosts the UK’s only NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility
• students use the University of London Observatory in Mill Hill, North London
• world-leading mineral, ice and rock physics research groups
• major thermochronometry (fission-track and U-Th/He) laboratories
• extensive collaboration with the Royal Institution & Natural History Museum
• hosts the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, Europe's leading multidisciplinary academic hazard research centre

UCL Earth Sciences provides a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programmes

• quality-assured teaching and research - government HEFCE assessors rate teaching as excellent and research at level 5
• staff-student ratio of 1:6.4 with extensive use of small-group teaching
• benefits from small class sizes with lots of interaction with higher years
• over 72% of students graduate with first and upper-second class degrees

www.earthsciences.ucl.ac.uk/