Regent's College
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Regent's Park
Regent's Park is one of the Royal Parks of London. It is in the north-western part of central London, partly in the City of Westminster and partly in the London Borough of Camden...
, London
London
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, England
England
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. It is one of the two largest groups of buildings in the park, along with the London Zoo
London Zoo
London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. It was opened in London on 27 April 1828, and was originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study. It was eventually opened to the public in 1847...
, and was built on the site of South Villa, one of the original eight Regent's Park villas.
Regent's College is a private college which accommodates seven schools:
- European Business School LondonEuropean Business School LondonEuropean Business School London is a constituent school of Regent's College and is located in Regent's Park in central London, England...
- Regent's American College LondonRegent's American College LondonRegent's American College London, , is a part of Regent's College, the campus of which was originally built in 1913 in the midst of Regent's Park in central London, UK. Until 2007 the college was known as British American College London. RACL is the official London campus of Webster University,...
- Regent's Business School
- School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology
- Webster Graduate SchoolWebster Graduate SchoolThe Webster Graduate School in London, England, is the official London campus of Webster University, whose main campus is in St Louis, Missouri, USA.Webster Graduate School is currently based in the Regent's College campus at Regent's Park in central London...
- London School of Film, Media & Performance
- Internexus English Language School
The College offers a wide range of courses in Business and Management & the Arts and Humanities, including American and British degree programmes.
Regent's College also operates a conference centre.
Campus history
Until 1985, the Regent's College premises were the campus of the University of LondonUniversity of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
's Bedford College. The site was leased by Bedford College in 1908, and a new set of buildings designed by the architect Basil Champneys
Basil Champneys
Basil Champneys was an architect and author whose more notable buildings include Newnham College, Cambridge, Manchester's John Rylands Library, Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford's Rhodes Building.- Life :...
was opened by Queen Mary
Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....
in 1913. The buildings were modified and added to over the years, especially after bomb damage during the Second World War. Bedford College
merged with Royal Holloway College
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...
(another college of the University of London) in 1985 and moved to Royal Holloway's campus at Egham
Egham
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in Surrey
Surrey
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, vacating the premises in Regent's Park.
There were plans in the late 1980s to set up a private medical school on the site with Saudi Arabian funding. These came to nothing, except that name "Hunter School of Medicine" appeared on the London street map at this site.