University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews is a public research university in the town of St Andrews, Scotland, founded in 1413 when the Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small founding group of Augustinian clergy. It is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, after Oxford and Cambridge, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world; along with Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh it took part in the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century. It comprises three colleges and 18 academic schools across four faculties, with over 145 nationalities represented among its students and among the most selective undergraduate admissions in the United Kingdom, and its alumni and former staff include five Nobel laureates and Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales.