The Goldsmiths University of London was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths’ Company’s Technical and Recreative Institute. At the beginning of the 20th century, the company handed over the institute to the University of London. Initially, The Technical and Recreative Institute offered a range of courses in arts and sciences. By the early 1960, the university started teaching highly respected Diploma courses in painting, sculpture, and textiles. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the university extended its portfolio of degree programs as the number of students increased.
Goldsmiths acquired its present status as a higher education institution at the start of the 1990s. Her Majesty, the Queen, presented the college with a Royal Charter. Goldsmiths
University of London ranked #593 on QS World University Rankings. The university offers 104 undergraduate courses and 342 postgraduate programs in fields, including art, anthropology, computing, design, history, law, english and creative writing, psychology, sociology, and visual cultures. The university has a beautiful, lush green campus equipped with numerous facilities for students. Students can explore a variety of eating options on campus including Thirty Five Cafe, Benugo, Professor Stuart Hall Building, and the Refectory. The campus has tennis and netball courts, and a large backfield. Goldsmiths Student’s Union provides a variety of sports societies, both recreational and competitive. There are also art and design facilities that include studio spaces, a yarn store, and nine specialist research laboratories - casting, constructed textiles, digital media, fine art printmaking, metalwork, photography, print and dye, stitch and fabric, and woodwork. The other facilities include a library, radio and TV studios, darkrooms and production rooms, a theatre, a scenography workshop, and wardrobe and props stores.