Why go
A 2014 PricewaterhouseCoopers report termed London as the global capital of higher education. A number of world-leading education institutions are based in London. Primary and secondary education The majority of primary and secondary schools and further-education colleges in London are controlled by the London boroughs or otherwise state-funded; leading examples include City and Islington College, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, Leyton Sixth Form College, Tower Hamlets College, Bethnal Green Academy and Newham College.
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According to the QS World University Rankings 2015/16, London has the greatest concentration of top class universities in the world and its international student population of around 110,000 is larger than any other city in the world. In the 2014/15 QS World University Rankings, Imperial College London is ranked joint 2nd in the world, University College London is ranked 5th, and King's College London (KCL) is ranked 16th. The London School of Economics has been described as the world's leading social science institution for both teaching and research. The London Business School is considered one of the world's leading business schools and in 2015 its MBA programme was ranked second best in the world by the Financial Times. With 120,000 students in London, the federal University of London is the largest contact teaching university in the UK.