University of Nottingham
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The University of Nottingham is a research university located in the central England city of Nottingham.
History
The University's history dates back to the year 1798. The university operation was, however, only began in 1881 with the founding of University College Nottingham, which was established as a part of the University of London to life. Finally, the University in 1948 was completely independent by the awarding of the Royal Charter and is entitled since to award degrees in its own name. In 1928, the relocation of the vocational training programs of the Nottingham city center followed in today's University main campus, the University Park on the western outskirts. In the following years, the University was attended by some prominent personalities. So Albert Einstein explained the Nottingham students during a visit in 1930 the theory of relativity and described by him board you can today still be seen in the original in the Department of Mathematics and Physics. Mahatma Gandhi gave a speech in 1931 at the University College of Nottingham while his nephew, then a student of the university attended. The science fiction author HG Wells is also one of the prominent visitors in the history of the university. A special relationship also exists to the famous British writer DH Lawrence, who was born near Nottingham and studied at the beginning of the 20th century at the university. A collection of his works and his private correspondence is now kept at the university.
Campus
Nottingham Campus
The main campus is University Park, located just west of the city center in Nottingham. With a total area of approximately 1.3 square kilometers, this is not only the largest campus of the University, but also one of the largest in the United Kingdom. Located on a lake with a bell tower in the main building and the many green landscapes, which also leads to the fact that there are among the most popular campus in the country. Most of the approximately 27,000 students are located here in a total of 12 residences. There are here also 13 listed building.
The twelve residences are located here Florence Boot ( FB), Willoughby, Cavendish ( Cav ), Ancaster ( Ancy ), Nightingale, Sherwood, Rutland, Derby, Lincoln, Lenton and Wortley, Cripps, Hugh Stewart ( Hu Stu ), the each other in constant competition. Due to its convenient location Hugh Stewart and Cripps are the most popular of the university.
The largest library, the Hallward Library, located in University Park. It was opened in 1972 and was designed by architect H. Faulkner - Brown and won a RIBA Award. The library was named after the first Vice Chancellor of the University, Bertrand Hallward, named. It contains the sections for the departments of arts, humanities, law and social sciences.
The Jubilee Campus is the second largest campus of the University. Here is the Business School and the Faculty of Computer Science. In addition, here is the international headquarters of the University. The Jubilee Campus was opened in 1999 and is located about 1.6 kilometers east of the main campus where previously was the operation of the Raleigh Cycle Company. The buildings and the campus plan designed by the architect Michael Hopkins and Partners and won the BCIA 2000 Building of the Year ( Building of the Year ) award.
Sutton Bonington is the third campus of the University of Nottingham, where the departments of Biological Sciences and Veterinary Medicine are located. The campus is 420 acres (4.2 km ²) in size and is located near the village of Sutton Bonington, about 19 km south of the main campus, University Park Campus, and 2 km from the motorway junction 24 of the M1 Motorway. In the campus there are research buildings, a large library, and the largest university residence: Sutton Bonington Hall, where about 650 students can be accommodated. A 400- acre farm and a dairy are also part of this area.
Education
The university offers with the areas of Humanities, Education, Engineering, Law and Social Sciences, Medicine and Natural Sciences a broad spectrum.
The business courses and management courses are offered at the Nottingham University Business School, which is housed on the Jubilee Campus in Nottingham.
Ranking and reputation
The university was selected in 2006 by the Times Higher Education to the "University of the Year " (University of the Year) and 2008 ' Entrepreneurial University of the Year " (Corporate richest university of the year). She came on the 2nd place for the best university of the year 2010 in the Sunday Times. The research power by number 7 and the size after it is among the top five of the UK universities. With nearly 50,000 applicants, she was in 2011 even the third - most popular university in Britain. The University already has two Nobel Prize winners, one each in medicine and economics, spawned in the 21st century. In the UK it is, depending on the ranking, currently among the top 10, top 15 or top 20 places.
The university operates two campuses in Asia with a third is planned in Shanghai. Thus it is aligned most internationally well among British universities. Furthermore, according to Andrew Oswald, an English economist, the University of Nottingham is one of the few British universities that could hold its own in the case of privatization and the elimination of tax money financing of leading research universities in the United States. In addition, the university is a member of several associations of universities: the Russell Group, Universitas 21, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the European University Association.
Also, among employers, nationally and internationally, the University of Nottingham enjoys a very high reputation. 2014 lead the graduates of the University of Nottingham with the 1st place the tip of the universities, the UK's top 100 companies visited to recruit new staff. 2011, it is even among the top 15 universities in the world measured by the reputation among employers.
The University is regularly listed in rankings among the 100 best universities in the world:
- Times Higher Education ( QS World University Rankings ) 2011 /2012: 74th place
- Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai, 2006: 79th place
- Newsweek Top 100 Global Universities, 2007: 74th place
The Times of London summed up that the University of Nottingham " has developed less than two decades from a solid middle-class university with a main alternative to Oxbridge " in.