City University London (informally City) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute and became an affiliated college of the University of London in 1896. It received its charter as a full university in 1966, and today it is one of England’s leading universities for business and the professions.
City offers around 135 undergraduate programmes and 195 postgraduate courses through eight schools: Cass Business School, City Law School, the School of Arts & Social Sciences, the School of Health Sciences, the Sir John Cass School of Education & Communities, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and The City Literary Institute.
The annual income of the institution for 2017–18 was £247 million Of this total, £16.5 million was from research grants and contracts