Glasgow School of Art

The roots of Glasgow can be traced back to 1845 when it was founded by the Pope's decree, the Papal Bull, making it the fourth of the oldest English-speaking universities, and a part of Scotland's Scottish Enlightenment along with three other ancient universities, namely St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh during 18th century A. D. Founded by Bishop William Turnbull on the orders of King James II, who expressed his desire to add another university in Scotland. The university is one of the rare universities in the world today that awards master’s degrees to undergraduate students for some courses.

Initially started in the chapterhouse of the Glasgow Cathedral, the university moved to a building called Auld Pedagogy in the nearby Rottenrow. The university was granted a swathe of 13 acres of land by Mary, the Scottish Queen. By the 17th century A.D., Glasgow University stretched across two courtyards, a clocktower piercing the sky courtesy the Church of the Blackfriars, and enclosed by walled gardens. Initial disciplines of the study included law, medicine, civil service, teaching, and the church. In the early 1800s, the university moved to the city's High Street before finally making Gilmorehill it's home.

Today, sprawled across five campuses, Glasgow has expanded its study programs to medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, biological and physical sciences, engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences, and law and education. Glasgow has its main campus in Gilmorehill, with other campuses in Bearsden, the Dental College in the city center, another one at Gartnavel Royal hospital, the Queen Elizabeth University hospital, and the last one at Dumfries. With an annual pool of 19000 undergraduate students and 6000 postgraduate students, Glasgow continues to churn out the sharpest minds in every field.

Today, Glasgow University boasts of a diverse learning group, with students from 140 countries around the globe vying for a seat on this prestigious top-100 University. The educational institute also prides itself on being a part of the prestigious Russell group and earning itself a place in leading 24 research universities of the United Kingdom, and one of the founding establishments of the much-coveted Guild of European research-intensive Universities and also of Universita 21 that operates on a global scale to bring improvements for higher education.

The university also boasts of highly distinguished alumni, and an equally impressive list of distinguished people who have passed out of Glasgow, including three prime ministers, and 7 Nobel Laureates. Some of the more famous names include Lord Kelvin, Adam Smith, James Watt, Henry Faulds, Joseph Lister, John Boyd Orr, William Lamb, William Ramsay, James Boswell, and Joseph Black. The university has also played host to several landmarks in history, from bearing witness to the first house to be run entirely on electricity built on its very own campus by Lord Kelvin, to hosting Albert Einstein for his first lecture on the theory of relativity.