University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland, founded by papal bull in 1451. It is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities, and along with St Andrews, Aberdeen and Edinburgh it took part in the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century. Originally educating mainly wealthy students, it became a pioneer of British higher education in the 19th century by also serving the growing urban and commercial middle class, training students for law, medicine, the civil service, teaching and the church as well as science and engineering. Its alumni include the economist Adam Smith, the philosopher Francis Hutcheson, the engineer James Watt, the physicist Lord Kelvin, three prime ministers of the United Kingdom, and eight Nobel Prize laureates in total.