University of Leicester

Template: Infobox university / professors missing

The University of Leicester (English University of Leicester) is a university in Leicester [ lɛstə ], England. Founded in 1921, is now regarded as a research university and is divided into five faculties.

The university has 23,000 students in 2010. Around 6,000 of them use the university as a distance learning university; the second largest number in England, according to the Open University.

One of the most famous discoveries of the University of Leicester is the DNA analysis, which was developed in 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffreys.

Central School of Speech and Drama London Business School London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Royal Academy of Music SOAS, University of London Royal College of Art Royal College of Music University of West London Coventry University Keele University Loughborough University Staffordshire University Lancaster University Manchester Metropolitan University Newcastle University Northumbria University Cranfield University University for the Creative Arts University of Ulster Edinburgh Napier University Glasgow Caledonian University Queen Margaret University Robert Gordon University Aberystwyth University Bangor, Gwynedd Cardiff University Swansea University School of Medicine Extramural
505092
de