Regent's University London is a private non-profit university located in London, United Kingdom, created in 1984, and granted taught-degree conferring status from 2012-2013. It is one of five private universities (and one of two non-profit) in the country, and is one of six private institutions in the United Kingdom to have been granted taught degree awarding powers. The university has an international student body with 15 per cent of applicants from within the UK, 10 per cent from the United States, and the rest from all over the world.