United College, St Andrews

The United College of St Salvator and St Leonard (commonly referred to as United College) is one of the two statutory colleges of the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland. It was founded in 1747 by the merging of St Salvators College and St Leonard's College when the university was in decline.

United College of St Salvator and St Leonard

Type	College
Established	1747; 278 years ago (1747)
Master	Professor Ineke De Moortel
Students	6,109
Location	St Andrews , Fife , Scotland
Affiliations	University of St Andrews

The college encompasses the Faculties of Arts, Medicine and Science.

The college no longer functions as an administrative body and its use is purely formal. The other statutory college of the university is St Mary's College which encompasses the university's Faculty of Divinity. A third college, St Leonard's College, was re-established in 1972 as a non-statutory college, which encompasses postgraduate and postdoctoral students.^[1]

Master of the United College

The Master of the United College is a senior academic at the University of St Andrews who is charged with carrying out duties as required by the Academic Senate of that University. The post was created to head United College. The Master of the United College is Professor Ineke De Moortel.^[2]