About Nottingham University
Overview
- The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
- It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881 and was granted a royal charter in 1948.
- In 1970 it founded the UK’s first 20th century Medical School. Nottingham is organized into five constituent faculties, within which there are more than 50 schools, departments, institutes and research centers.
- Nottingham has about 45,500 students and 7,000 staff.
- The university is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the Russell Group, Universitas 21, Universities UK, the Virgo Consortium, and participates in the Sutton Trust Summer School programme as a member of the Sutton 30.
- Derby and Leicester are under 45 minutes away from Nottingham and London is two hours away by train.
- The university has 4 campuses.
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Reputation
Things you should know
- In 2016/17, Nottingham was named 'University of the Year' for graduate employment by The Sunday Times.
- The Guardian University Ranking 2020 placed Nottingham 19th, The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide (2020) 21st nationally. In 2019, it ranked 126th among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings.
- According the QS 2020 ranking, the university is 96th in the world and 62nd in terms of the employability ranking.
- According to the QS ranking 2020, their pharmacology department is ranked 8th in the world, nursing 27th, animal Sciences 36th, 77th for life Science and Medicine, between 51 and 100 for Law, Psychology, Communication and Media studies, Civil Engineering, Economics, and Mechanical Engineering.
- Nottingham is ranked 2nd in the UK (after Oxford) and 13th in the world in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs of the 500 largest companies worldwide.
- According to the Times World Ranking-2020 the university is ranked 73rd for Law and 64th for education.
- It is ranking 15th in the European Teaching ranking.
- In 2017, Nottingham was ranked Europe's 71st 'Most Innovative University'.
- It is also ranked 2nd (joint with Oxford) in the 2012 Summer Olympics table of British medal winners.
- The institution's alumni have been awarded a variety of prestigious accolades including 3 Nobel Prizes, a Fields Medal, a Turner Prize and a Gabor Medal and Prize.
Alumni
Of Nottingham University
- Najib Razak- former Prime Minister of Malaysia.
- Peter Mansfield- physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Sir Clive Granger- economist awarded the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Andre Geim – Nobel Prize–winning physicist.
- Caucher Birkar - Fields medal-winning mathematician.
- Jonathan Browning – former President and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America.
- Steve Holliday – former CEO of National Grid plc.
- Tim Martin – Founder and Chairman of J D Wetherspoon.
- Simon Nixon – billionaire businessman, co-founder of Moneysupermarket.com,dropped out.
- John Rishton – former CEO of Rolls-Royce plc.
- Richard Scudamore – CEO of the Premier League.
- Sir Andrew Witty – former CEO of GlaxoSmithKline.
- John Timpson – Chairman of Timpson.
- Ruth Yeoh – Executive Director of YTL Singapore.
- Peter Rice – President of 21st Century Fox.
- Tuanku Bahiyah – 5th Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia (Queen of Malaysia).
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