• Kent was founded in 1965 and is recognised as a Beloff’s plate glass university.
• The university has its main campus north of Canterbury situated within 300 acres (1.2 km2) of park land, housing over 6,000 students, as well as campuses in Medway and Tonbridge in Kent and European postgraduate centres in Brussels, Athens, Rome and Paris.
• The University is international with students from 158 different nationalities and 41% of its academic and research staff being from outside the United Kingdom.
• It is about an hour from London and the closest universiites include, Canterbury Christ Church University, University of Greenwich and University of Creative Arts.
Things you should know
• The university has won the Outstanding Support for Students award for two consecutive years at the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards for its Student Success Project.
• The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018 put Kent in 25th place as does The Independent’s Complete University Guide. QS places Kent 46th in the UK and 366th in the world, while Times Higher Education places it 44th in the UK and in the 301-350 group worldwide.
• In The Sunday Times 10-year (1998–2007) average ranking of British universities based on consistent league table performance, Kent was ranked 48th overall in the UK.
• In 2015, Kent ranked ahead of 10 Russell Group universities according to the ranking of The Complete University Guide.
• In research, both The Guardian and The Times newspapers rank Kent 29th with The Independent rating the university 28th for its overall research activity in 2014.
Of University of Kent
• Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Michael Baigent – co-author of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
• E. L. James – author Fifty Shades of Grey.
• Wayne Garvie – President International Production at Sony Pictures Television.
• Max Hole – former Chief of Global Operations Universal Music.
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