The University of Warwick - Top 10 in everything
- Student Lounge
- Mar 4, 2016
- 2 min read
The University of Warwick is a public research university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education. Warwick Business School was established in 1967 and Warwick Medical School was opened in 2000. Warwick merged with Coventry College of Education in 1979 and Horticulture Research International in 2004. As of 2015, Warwick is in the top 100 of every major university world ranking.
Warwick is primarily based on a 290 hectare campus on the outskirts of Coventry with a satellite campus in Wellesbourne and a London base at the Shard in central London. It is organised into four faculties—Arts, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences—within which there are 32 departments. Warwick has around 23,600 full-time students and 1,800 academic and research staff and had a total income of £512.8 million in 2014/15, of which £100.8 million was from research grants and contracts. Warwick Arts Centre, a multi-venue arts complex in the university's main campus, is the largest venue of its kind in the UK outside London.
Warwich snapshot:
UK rankings:
6th - The Times and The Sunday Times, September 2015 6th - The Guardian, May 2015
7th - The Complete University Guide, April 2015
Global rankings:
45th most international university in the world - Times Higher Education most international universities 2016
48th in the world - QS World University Rankings, September 2015
80th in the world - Times Higher Education World Rankings, September 2015
92nd in the world - Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities, August 2015
9th young university globally - Times Higher Education 100 under 50 rankings, April 2015
3rd fastest-rising young university in the world - Times Higher Education, March 2015
Warwick is one of the top ten most targeted universities by the top graduate employers according to the High Fliers Report 2014
The results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) reiterate Warwick’s position as one of the UK’s leading research universities, with Warwick ranked at 7th overall in the UK (based on multi-faculty institutions).
87% of Warwick's research is 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent' (Quality level of either 3* or 4*)
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