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The University of Glasgow abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by papal bull in 1451, this is a the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world as living as one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Along with the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St Andrews, the university was element of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century.
In common with universities of the pre-modern era, Glasgow originally educated students primarily from wealthy backgrounds; however, it became a pioneer[] in British higher education in the 19th century by also providing for the needs of students from the growing urban and commercial Universitas 21, the Russell Group and the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities.
The university was originally located in the city's High Street; since 1870, its leading campus has been at Gilmorehill in the City's West End. Additionally, a number of university buildings are located elsewhere, such(a) as the Veterinary School in Bearsden, and the Crichton Campus in Dumfries.
High educational standards, strict entrance specification 4th highest in the UK and a strong international research reputation realise made the university a competitive destination for students worldwide. Glasgow is a World Top 100 university so that the multiple is positioned at the top 1% of world universities. More specifically, the University of Glasgow ranked 53rd and 67th globally in the 2020 CWTS Leiden and 2020 QS World University Ranking respectively, as alive as placing nationally among the top 10 UK universities. According to the Research Excellence advantage example REF 2014, 81% of the research achievements were rated as "internationally excellent" and achieved the 10th position on research volume in the United Kingdom. The university was awarded the "2020 THE University of the Year" in recognition of its contribution to reparative justice.
The alumni of the University of Glasgow put some of the major figures of advanced history, including James Wilson, a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, 3 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom William Lamb, Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Bonar Law, 2 Scottish number one Ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Donald Dewar, economist Adam Smith, philosopher Francis Hutcheson, engineer James Watt, physicist Lord Kelvin, surgeon Joseph Lister along with 8 Nobel Prize laureates and numerous Olympic gold medallists, including the current chancellor, Dame Katherine Granger.
History
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, permission to add a university to the city's Cathedral. it is for the second-oldest university in Scotland after St Andrews and the fourth-oldest in the English-speaking world. The universities of St Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen were ecclesiastical foundations, while Edinburgh was a civic foundation. As one of the ancient universities of the United Kingdom, Glasgow is one of only eight institutions to award undergraduate master's degrees indisciplines.
The university has been without its original Bull since the mid-sixteenth century. In 1560, during the political unrest accompanying the Scottish Reformation, the then chancellor, Archbishop James Beaton, a supporter of the Marian cause, fled to France. He took with him, for safe-keeping, many of the archives and valuables of the Cathedral and the university, including the Mace and the Bull. Although the Mace was quoted back in 1590, the archives were not. Principal Dr. 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. whether they had non 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 keeps the a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. by which the university awards degrees.
Teaching at the university began in the Chapter combine of High Street by Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1563. By the gradual 17th century its building centred on two courtyards surrounded by walled gardens, with a clock tower, which was one of the notable atttributes of Glasgow's skyline—reaching 140 feet 43 m in height—and a chapel adapted from the church of the former Dominican Blackfriars friary. Remnants of this Scottish Renaissance building, mainly parts of the leading 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 works men and women during the Industrial Revolution. To cover this make-up 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 number one female professor, as Gardiner Professor of Immunology.
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.