• Newcastle University (formally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England.
• Newcastle University is a red brick university and is a member of the Russell Group an association of prestigious research-intensive UK universities.
• Teaching and research are delivered in 24 academic schools and 40 research institutes and research centers, spread across three Faculties: – The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Faculty of Medical Sciences; and the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering.
• The university offers around 175 full-time undergraduate degree programmes in a wide range of subject areas spanning arts, sciences, engineering and medicine, together with approximately 340 postgraduate taught and research programmes across a range of disciplines.
• Leeds and Bradford are two hours away from Newcastle and London is three hours away by train.
• Northumbria University,University of Durham and University of Sunderland are other universities in the region.
Things you should know
First UK university to establish a fully-owned international campus for medicine at its NUMed campus in Malaysia.
• The university is a member of the Russell Group of the UK’s research-intensive universities.
• Nationally Newcastle University ranks 21st in the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 and 27th in the Guardian University league tables 2020.
• It holds first Class in the People and Planet University League 2017 and 20th overall. It ranks 106th globally in the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2019.
• In 2016, Newcastle University became one of 16 universities in the world, and only two in the UK, to achieve Five Plus Stars from Quacquarelli Symonds.
• The university is ranked 23rd in Europe under the European Teaching Ranking 2019.
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• Rowan Atkinson – comedian and actor( MBean).
• Kane Avellano – Guinness World Record for youngest person to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle (solo and unsupported) at the age of 23 in 2017.
• Neil Bartlett – chemist, creation of the first noble gas compond.
• Ann Cairns – President of International Markets for MasterCard.
• Graham Wylie – co-founder of the Sage Group.
• Chris Vance – actor in Prison Break and All Saints.
• Martin Ince – founder of the QS World University Rankings.
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