Overview
• The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
• It was established in 1874 and received its royal charted from King Edward VII.
• The university has 38,000 students, including over 9,000 international students from more than 170 countries making it the fifth largest university in the UK.
• Leeds is one of the top ten most targeted universities in the UK by employers.
• Manchester and Bradford are under an hour away from Leeds and London is two hours away by train.
• Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Trinity University and University of Bradford are some of the other universities in the region.
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Things you should know
• The university is a founding member of the Russell Group.
• The Complete University Guide ranked Leeds 14th in the UK over all and 4th for Accounting and Finance, 6th for Business and Management and 11th for Economics.
• According to the Guardian University Guide 2020, Leeds is ranked 10th in the UK overall.
• It’s Accounting and Finance program has been ranked 1st in the UK, Business, Management and Marketing program has been ranked 6th in the UK and its Economics program has been ranked 5th in the UK.
• Leeds University Business School was placed in the top 10 universities in the UK across all business subject groups in The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020. It ranked 13th nationally.
• The QS World University Rankings (2020) ranks University of Leeds 93rd in the world.
• It is ranked 20th in the world for Earth Sciences, 22nd for Communication and Media courses, 34th for English language, 36th for geography, 41st for environmental sciences between 51 and 100 for sports related studies, arts and humanities, medicine, civil engineering, chemical Engineering, Medicine and Business and Management According to the QS World University Rankings (2020) it is ranked 51st in the world for Graduate Employability.
• According to the Times World rankings 2020, the university is ranked 67th in the world for arts and humanities, 97th for life sciences, 91st for Business and Economics, 86th for Law, and 70th for Education It is ranked 30th in the European Teaching Rankings.
• It has got a gold ranking in the TEF Leeds was ranked joint 19th (along with the University of St Andrews) amongst multi-faculty institutions in the UK for the quality (GPA) of its research [68] and 10th for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework The university was named the University of the Year 2017 (The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide).
• Financial Times Masters in Management Rankings 2019 ranks University of Leeds 10th in the UK and 78th globally for their MSc International Business program.
• The Leeds University Business School holds the ‘Triple Crown’ of accreditations from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Association of MBAs and the European Quality Improvement System.
• The University is famous for its social opportunities, with its Student Union being the only one in the country to have won two gold standards in the Student Union Evaluation Initiative, and there are over 300 different clubs and societies to join.
Alumini
Of University of Leeds
• Sir William Henry Bragg, OM, KBE, PRS (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915).
• George Porter, OM, FRS (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
• Wole Soyinka (awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986).
• Bekele Geleta – Director-General of the International Federation of Red Cross.
• Archer John Porter Martin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952).
• Richard Laurence Millington Synge (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952).
• Piers Forster – University of Leeds staff member who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. – Mark Knopfler of the band Dire Straits.
• Jack Straw- former Cabinet Minister of the UK.
• Piers Sellers- NASA astronaut.
• V. Craig Jordan- developed the cancer drug Tamoxifen.
• Manmohan Singh (former Prime Minister of India)- Received Honorary Doctorate.
• Dame Judi Dench- (Famous English Actress)Received Honorary Doctorate.
• Sunil Mittal- (Chairman of Airtel) Received Honorary Doctorate.
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