UCL's Department of Physics and Astronomy is one of the top departments in the UK for graduate study (RAE 2008).  Our international collaborations provide opportunities to work with an international team, including recently the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the EISCAT radar instruments in Scandinavia and at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble.  For graduate students whose interests tend towards the more theoretical, there is access to national supercomputer facilities, such as the HECToR service, capable of computing speeds up to 100 Teraflops.  In some cases, there are opportunities for students to broaden their experience by spending part of their time overseas