University of Leeds

The University, established in 1904, is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK. We are renowned globally for the quality of our teaching and research.

The strength of our academic expertise combined with the breadth of disciplines we cover, provides a wealth of opportunities and has real impact on the world in cultural, economic and societal ways.

The University strives to achieve academic excellence within an ethical framework informed by our values of integrity, equality and inclusion, community and professionalism.  

• The university placed 93rd in the QS World University Rankings for 2019 and is ranked as the 31st best in Europe
• As of 2010, there were over 500 different first-degree courses and approximately 300 postgraduate programmes
• The university maintains the country's one of the largest research libraries which are extended over 5 locations. It contains a total of 2.78 million books, over 6,000 e-books, 850 databases and 26,000 journals
• There are 9,000 PCs available in the campus including 256 supercomputers, 150 Sun computers and some high-performance Sun servers
• The Leeds School of Medicine has more than 250 students studying medicine with over 1,000 training, administrative, research and technical staff, placing it amongst the largest medicinal schools in Europe
• It became the 4th most popular institutions after receiving 50,000 student applications for undergraduate programmes in 2016
• Piers Forster, a staff member of the university has been honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize award