King's College London is one of the two oldest and largest colleges of the University of London: a major multi-faculty university institution with some 19,200 students. It has a leading position in UK higher education and a world-wide reputation for research and teaching.

King's occupies several historic sites in central London. These include the Strand (its founding campus, next to Somerset House); the former Public Record Office building in Chancery Lane; Guy's Hospital, London Bridge; Denmark Hill, south London, and St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road.