University of Edinburgh

                                                         

 University of Edinburgh 

The University of Edinburgh abbreviated as Enid. in post-nominal founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city of Edinburgh, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university.

The University of Edinburgh is ranked 17th in the world by the 2013 14 and 20115 Q S rankings.The Research Excellence Framework, a research ranking used by the UK government to determine future research funding, ranked Edinburgh 4th in the UK for research power, with Computer Science and 

ranking 1st in the UK. It is ranked 12th in the world in arts and humanities by the 2014 15 Times Higher Education Ranking.

It is ranked the 15th most employable university in the world by the 2013 Global University Ranking. It is ranked as the 6th best university in Europe by the U.S. News' Best Global Universities Ranking.It is a member of both the Russell Group, and the League of European Research Universities, a consortium of 21 research universities in Europe.

 It has the third largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom, after the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

The university played an important role in leading Edinburgh to its reputation as a chief intellectual  during the Age of Enlightenment, and helped give the city the nickname of the Athens of the North. Alumni of the university include some of the major figures of modern history, including physicist James Clerk Maxwell,

 naturalist Charles Darwin, philosopher David Hume, mathematician Thomas Bayes, surgeon Joseph Lister, signatories of the American declaration of independence James Wilson, John and Benjamin Rush, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, first president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, and a host of famous authors such as Sir 

Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M. Barrie and Sir Walter Scott. Associated people include 20 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Turing Award winners, 1 Abel Prize winner, 1 Fields Medal winner, 1 Pulitzer 

Prize winner, 3 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, 2 currently-sitting UK Supreme Court Justices, and several Olympic gold It continues to have links to the British Royal Family, having had the Duke of Edinburgh as its Chancellor from 1953 to 2010 and Princess Anne since 2011.

Edinburgh receives approximately 50,000 applications every year, making it the fourth most popular university in the UK by volume of applicants. Entrance is competitive, with 2012–2013 having an acceptance rate of 11.5% and offer rate of 38.6%.

 After St Andrews, it is the most difficult university to gain admission into in Scotland, and 9th overall in the UK
Before the building of Old College to plans by Robert Adam implemented after the Napoleonic Wars by the architect William Henry , the University of Edinburgh did not have a custom-built campus and existed in a of buildings from its establishment until the early 19th century. The university's first custom-built building was the 

Old College, now the School of Law, situated on South Bridge. Its first forte in teaching was anatomy and the developing science of surgery, from which it expanded into many other subjects. From the basement of a nearby house ran the anatomy tunnel corridor. It went under what was then North College Street now 

Chambers under the university buildings until it reached the university's anatomy lecture , delivering bodies for dissection. It was from this tunnel that the body of William Burke was taken after he had been hanged.
University Sports Union  which was founded in 1866.

The medical school is renowned throughout the world. It was widely considered the best medical school in the English-speaking world throughout the 18th century and first half of the 19th century

The first medical school in the United States was founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 1765 by Edinburgh alumni John Morgan and is currently ranked 1st in the UK's most recent RAE. The Edinburgh Seven, the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at any British university, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. Although they were unsuccessful in their struggle to 

graduate and qualify as doctors, the campaign they fought gained national attention and won them many supporters including Charles Darwin. It put the rights of women to a University education on the national 

political agenda which eventually resulted in legislation to ensure that women could study at University in 1877. In 2015 the Edinburgh Seven were commemorated with a plaque at the University of Edinburgh, as part of the Historic Scotland Commemorative Plaques Scheme