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| 2025 | Ranked 5th in world and 1st in Europe in QS Global MBA Rankings |
| 2025 | According to the Complete University Guide, Royal Holloway has graduate prospects of 79%, ranking 53rd out of 130 universities. |
| 2025 | RUMS RFC wins the United Hospitals Cup for the third time since the merger of constituent medical schools (fourth overall), defeating Bart's and The London RFC 27-0 in the final. |
| 2024 | Ranked 8th in world and 4th in Europe in Financial Times Global MBA Rankings |
| 2024 | Received a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles seal for 'Becoming a Historian: An Informal Guide' by Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock. |
| 2024 | Received the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award in the History category for 'Freedom Seekers' by Simon P. Newman. |
| 2024 | City St George's, University of London is formed through a merger of City, University of London and St George's, University of London. |
| 2024 | King's Business School changed its academic dress color from Teal to Emerald Green |
| October 2024 | Brunel University of London becomes a member institution of the University of London. |
| August 1 2024 | Sergei Guriev officially took up his post as Dean and joined the university's faculty as a professor of Economics. |
| July 2024 | Documentary film 'Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory' was released, written by Nigerian writer and linguist Kola Tubosun, focusing on the historic street and Soyinka's former residence. |
| January 2024 | Announced that Sergei Guriev would become the new Dean, succeeding François Ortalo-Magné. |
| 2023 | Achieved notable rankings in QS Global MBA by Career Specialisation Rankings, including 6th in Consulting, 12th in Finance, 18th in Entrepreneurship, 9th in Information Management, and 7th in Technology |
| 2023 | Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide reported that approximately 10% of Royal Holloway's undergraduates come from independent schools. |
| 2023 | Free bus service to Kingswood I and II halls was closed. |
| 2023 | Simon P. Newman's 'Freedom Seekers' was named joint winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. |
| 2023 | The Press rebrands with a new logo, website, and mission to 'open up humanities research'. |
| 2023 | Nii Ashie Kotey concludes his active service as a justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana |
| 2023 | University College London achieves university status within the University of London. |
| 2022 | Royal Holloway became a university in its own right within the University of London. |
| 2022 | Julie Sanders becomes Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, succeeding Paul Layzell DL CBE. |
| 2022 | Published 'Becoming a Historian: An Informal Guide' by Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock, which later won a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles seal in 2024. |
| 2022 | Published 'Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London' by Simon P. Newman, which won multiple prestigious awards in 2023-2024. |
| 2022 | The London School of Economics achieves university status within the University of London. |
| 2022 | Lumumba Hall was declared defunct, marking the end of its operational status as a men's residence hall at Makerere University. |
| November 30 2022 | Received approval as a university through an Order of Council, specifying its status as 'a higher education institution which holds university title'. |
| October 7 2022 | Centenary celebration ceremony held at Freedom Square, attended by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. A statue monument was unveiled at the university's Freedom Square to commemorate 100 years of the institution's existence. |
| April 2022 | Reconstruction of the Main Building began with Excel Construction Company Limited awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract. The process started by demolishing the structurally unsound original building, which was initially constructed in the 1930s and commissioned in 1941. |
| 2021 | London Business School achieved third place in the Research Excellence Framework for business and management research in the UK. |
| 2021 | Anita Annet Among became Deputy Speaker of the 11th Parliament of Uganda |
| August 2021 | The Ugandan Cabinet resolved to demolish the remaining structure of the Main Building and approved plans to construct a new building that will replicate the original design, with a budget of approximately UGX:21 billion (US$6 million). |
| May 12 2021 | In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, Royal Holloway was confirmed to be within the top 25% of UK universities for world-leading and internationally excellent research, with 43% of research rated as world-leading (4*). |
| 2020 | New students entered the university with an average entry tariff of 128 points, equivalent to ABB at A Level. |
| 2020 | Charles Barugahare concluded his tenure as university secretary. |
| 2020 | József Váradi made a significant philanthropic contribution by donating £1 million to support external scholarships and financial aid at the university. |
| September 20 2020 | The main building of Makerere University (the Ivory Tower) was severely damaged by fire, allegedly following a Uganda Parliament probe into financial mismanagement by university authorities. |
| July 31 2020 | Royal Holloway concluded its financial year with a total income of £188.9m, including £119.9m from tuition fees, £18.6m from Office for Students and Research England grants, £17.2m from research grants, and £2.3m from donations and endowment income. |
| July 31 2020 | The university reported a capital expenditure of £10.2m for the 2019/20 financial year and held endowments of £78.8m at year-end. |
| 2019 | University of London Press is relaunched as an open access publisher. |
| 2019 | Eliza Manningham-Buller, former Director General of MI5, received an honorary degree from the University of London. |
| 2019 | The assessment methodology was modified to allow coursework and forum participation to make up a percentage of the overall assessment, in addition to in-person or online examinations. |
| 2019 | University of London Worldwide and LSE established a partnership with 2U to deliver a fully online bachelor's degree in data science and business analytics through 2U's online platform. |
| 2019 | Wendy Thomson becomes Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2019 onwards. |
| November 2019 | The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists vacated their building, which was acquired by London Business School. |
| January 2019 | Heythrop College closed, resulting in the University of London directly providing academic direction for distance learning courses in divinity, rather than through a specific college. |
| 2018 | Dame Margaret Hodge, Baroness Hodge of Barking PC assumes the role of Chair of Council, becoming the third chair since 2004. |
| 2018 | Sue Black, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Lancaster University, received an honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from the University of London. |
| 2018 | Nii Ashie Kotey becomes an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana |
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