University of Leicester   

Overview

Leicester is one of just 23 UK universities to feature in the world’s top 200 universities in the Shanghai Jiao Tong table (2009), and is ranked 196th in the world by the Times Higher Education magazine. In the league tables published by UK national newspapers, the University is ranked 20th by The Independent's Complete University Guide, 15th by The Guardian and The Times University Guides and 20th by The Sunday Times University Guide.

In October 2008 the University was named University of the Year by the Times Higher Education magazine at their annual awards. The judges cited Leicester's ability to demonstrate "commitment to high quality, a belief in the synergy of teaching and research and a conviction that higher education is a power for good".

Leicester is a leading provider of graduate education, both campus-based and distance learning. Over half of the 20,000 full and part-time students are postgraduates. International students make up about 18% of the full-time student population.

Strengths

• Leicester is a strong, research-active university across the range of academic disciplines. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Leicester emerged as having one of the highest proportions of research-active staff, with approximately 93 per cent of staff contributing research to the RAE.
• For five consecutive years the University of Leicester has achieved some of the highest scores for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey.
• Teaching in 18 subject areas has been graded as “Excellent” by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), including 14 successive scores. Our MBA programme is accredited by the Association of MBAs.
• Accommodation is guaranteed to all new international students who apply by specified deadlines.
• Leicester is a cosmopolitan, friendly city of around 300,000 people located 160km north of London in the English Midlands. London is just 70 minutes away by train, and the rest of the UK is easily accessible by train and coach.
• Leicester is Britain’s first Environment City, with many parks and green spaces, including the University’s Botanic Gardens.

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