History
•In the year 1881the Nottingham's first civic college was opened; awarded its Royal Charter in the year 1948, becoming The University of Nottingham.
•International campuses opened in Malaysia in the year 2000 and China in the year 2005, and a brand new Vet School at Sutton Bonington campus, UK, in the year 2006. A campus in Shanghai is ongoing project.
•Previous award-winner of the university of year and entrepreneurial university of the year.
Location and transport
•Nottingham is one of the UK's most multi-ethnic cities: its compact centre combines heritage and history with the cutting-edge culture, sport, shopping, and nightlife.
•The city is served by bus and rail links which includes trains to London in every 30 minutes. East Midlands Airport is around 21km (13 miles) from the city. There are late night buses also across the city and the existing tram network is because of extended to serve popular student area of Beeston.
•Nottingham campuses are just 15 minutes from city centre by bus and fun to get to by bike.
•The campuses 133.5-km University Park campus has won a Green Flag Award for the last 9 years and helped the city of Nottingham to win Britain in Bloom 2008.
Entry standards
•The proportion of low income students has risen by six percentage points in six years. There is a well-established programme of master classes, summer schools, and support for post 16 students from the backgrounds without history of progressing to some selective universities. This work, along with activities for the younger learners to encourage progression to higher education more usually, reaches over 22,000 learners per year. The main new Nottingham Potential project will expand this work, particularly at the primary level.
Student mix
•Student population of more than 25,000 undergraduate students from over 150 countries at campuses in the China UK, and Malaysia.
•Undergraduate gender ratio can be given as 52% female, 48% male.
Course flexibility
•Over 350 UK-based undergraduate degrees provides the facility of check online prospectus.
•Except Medicine, all courses are modular.
•Over 900 Nottingham students are presently studying or working abroad. The university has over 320 associate institutions in over 44 countries.
Teaching standards
•In teaching assessments organized by Quality Assurance Agency, 39 of our subjects have been awarded superb ratings of 22-24, out of 24.
•Famous internationally as the centre for academic excellence.
•The teachers and lecturers usually published and respected within the academic circles.
•Range of innovative teaching resources employed, including an e-learning system which is uploaded with weblinks and handouts which are useful from lectures, lecture capture facilities, podcasts, and open educational materials,
Research standards
•In the last Research Assessment Exercise, university was ranked 7th in the terms of research power.
•Over 90 per cent of our research was found of international standard and nearly 60 per cent to be world leading or internationally excellent.
•27 of our subject areas feature in London top 10, and 14 in the top five. We were ranked first in fields of Agriculture, Food Sciences and Veterinary; Iberian and Latin American Languages; American Studies and Anglophone Area Studies; and Pharmacy.
•The University is internationally renowned for groundbreaking research and continually attracts world-class academics.
•Nottingham has launched many award winning companies and was founding partner in BioCity – Britain's largest biomedical business incubator.
Student facilities, including library and computing
•Ten libraries provide access to nearly 1.3 million printed volumes and journals, 18,000 e journals, 70,000 e books, manuscripts. There is also a short loan collection of books most in demand.
•Several of the libraries have been re arranged with group work spaces, study rooms, silent study zones, laptops, plasma screens and a cafe with sofas in Hallward Library.
•Libraries are open 24 hours a day at exam time.
•IT support is available via helplines, email, advisory desks and school IT reps; there is an induction to library and information services on a school/department basis for new students.
•The Language Centre is open to all students and offers the opportunity to learn 12 languages, including British Sign Language, at different levels.
Students' union
•The union has over 200 societies and around 75 sports clubs, and runs a cinema, magazine, and radio station, URN. University Radio Nottingham (URN).
•URN won 9 gold awards at national Student Radio Awards 2010, including Best Student Radio Station, and in the year 2011 became the first station to retain the Best Student award.
Sport
•Three state-of-the-art sports centres provide resources for sports including badminton, football, archery, martial arts, basketball, dance, table tennis and circuit training.
•Other facilities include a large eight lane swimming pool, fitness centre, floodlit artificial sports surface, sports injury clinic, squash courts, tennis courts, and wide playing fields for football, rugby, cricket and lacrosse.
•Greater Nottingham provides facilities including the National Water Sports Centre, National Ice Arena and one of Europe's prime Lawn Tennis Association centres.
Notable alumni
•Jeff Randel, the former editor-at-large at the Daily Telegraph; presently broadcaster for Jeff Randall Live.
•Graham Dury – writer and cartoonist, Vizcomic.