University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a leading research-led University near the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. It gained its Royal Charter in 1948, with origins as an adult school from 1798.

In 2000, it had a total of 23,743 registered students, with an average of nine applications per place. This included 2,931 international students from more than 100 countries.

Table of contents

1 Campuses
2 Teaching hospitals
3 Facts
4 See also:
5 External links:

Campuses

The University of Nottingham is famed for its campus, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful in the country. In fact, the University now has several campuses:

The original University Park Campus, located to the west of Nottingham City Centre;
The Jubilee Campus, 1 mile up the road from University Park;
Sutton Bonington, a former agricultural college that has been part of the University for some time, about 12 miles away; and
UNiM - the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, which is getting its own custom built campus near KL.

Teaching hospitals

The University also runs courses at a number of teaching hospitals:

The Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) is located just across the road from the University Park Campus.
In September 2003 the doors opened for the first intake at the University's new medical school in Derby, housing its postgraduate (shorter) medicine course;
On top of these, a few years ago the University of Nottingham took on a number of nursing teaching sites, formerly the Mid Trent Nursing College. These are located across the East Midlands and include sites at Grantham, Derby, and Lincoln.

Facts

The University of Nottingham frequently has the highest number of applicants per place of any UK university.
Much of the pioneering work on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was done at Nottingham, work for which Professor Sir Peter Mansfield received a Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2003 (in the same year, Clive Granger, a former student and academic at the university also won a Nobel prize for Economics).
Nottingham graduates include the writer D. H. Lawrence, two former Kings of Malaysia and the current Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister.
University of Nottingham campuses are noted for their lakes. The new UNiM campus is having one dug especially.