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The University of Nottingham
Front of Trent Building, Nottingham University.JPG
Motto
Sapientia urbs conditur
Type Public
Established 1798 (became a London university college 1881, separated from University of London 1948)
Endowment £28.4 million
Chancellor Professor Fujia Yang
Vice-Chancellor Peter Greenaway
Students 33,550
Undergraduates 24,355
Postgraduates 9,195
Location
Nottingham
,
United Kingdom

52°56′20″N 1°11′49″W / 52.939°N 1.197°W / 52.939; -1.197
Campus 330 acres
Website http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

The University of Nottingham is a university in the city of Nottingham, in the United Kingdom. It has four different sites in the United Kingdom. It also has a site in China and a site in Malaysia. It was named the 'University of the Year' in 2006 by the London newspaper, The Times.

The University of Nottingham is ranked in the UK's Top 10 and the World's Top 100 universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education - Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings.

Associations

Nottingham University is the fifth largest university in the UK. It is a member of:

  • the Russell Group,
  • Universitas 21,
  • the Association of Commonwealth Universities,
  • and the European University Association.

Images for kids

  • Photograph of the University College Nottingham (Arkwright Building), from the Illustrated Guide to the Church Congress 1897

    University College Nottingham in 1897; the building is now known as the Arkwright Building, and is part of Nottingham Trent University

  • Photograph of the University of Nottingham's Trent Building on University Park, in the January 2013 snow

    Trent Building – Originally housed the entire university when it moved to University Park in 1928

  • Nott logo

    The logo the university used until 2001.

  • Trent Building and Lake

    University Park pictured, the only university to win the Green Flag Award for Parkland greenery each year consecutively over the past decade

  • Nottinghamunimalaysia

    University of Nottingham Malaysia campus

  • University Park MMB X5 Humanities

    The Humanities Building in University Park

  • 0130 - England, Nottingham, Trent Building HDR -HQ-

    University of Nottingham's Trent Building

  • University Park MMB D0 Florence Boot Hall

    Florence Boot Hall (pictured) is the oldest hall of residence at the university. It is named after Florence Boot, the wife of Jesse Boot who was a major benefactor to the university

  • University Park MMB S7 Cripps Hall

    Cripps Hall, one of the university's undergraduate halls of residence

  • D H Lawrence passport photograph

    D.H. Lawrence, novelist

  • Peter Mansfield Leipzig

    Peter Mansfield, physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

  • Martynpoliakoff

    Sir Martyn Poliakoff, Research Professor in Chemistry and known for his leading role in The Periodic Table of Videos

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Universidad de Nottingham para niños

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