The University of Warwick
The University of Warwick, located in Coventry, was founded in 1965. It is one of UK's leading universities, well-known for its excellence in research and teaching, for innovation and for links with business and industry. Warwick has four faculties - arts, medicine, science and social science and has more than 22,000 students. It is currently ranked in the top 10 of all UK university league tables. It is the second most targeted university, by graduate employers, for graduate recruitment programmes. In the last government Research Assessment Exercise, Warwick was rated seventh in the UK; applications for undergraduate places currently stand at around 30,000 for 3,000 undergraduate places, and over the last seven years the university has built up from scratch a flourishing Medical School.
The University of Warwick has a lively, cosmopolitan campus with its own shops, banks, bars and restaurants, making it an exciting place to live and work with everything you could need close at hand. The campus is huge, occupying over 290 hectares on three adjacent sites: Central campus, Gibbet Hill campus and Westwood campus. The campus also hosts a large sports centre comprising of an Olympic-size swimming pool, two sports halls, gymnasium, squash courts and rock-climbing facility. A modern multi-venue arts centre is also situated on the central campus which comprises of concert hall, two theatres and a cinema, gallery. There is also a great sense of community at Warwick as the campus is home to students and staff from over 120 different countries representing a diversity of culture.
The University of Warwick has one of the largest student’s unions in the UK, which currently has over 260 societies and 76 sports clubs. Warwick also hosts many major student-run events including One World Week, Warwick Economics Summit, Go Green Week, Warwick International Development Summit, RAG week and Warwick Student Arts Festival.