The University of Leeds, established in 1904, is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK. It  is a redbrick university located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally named the Yorkshire College of Science and later simply the Yorkshire College, it incorporated the Leeds School of Medicine and became part of the federal Victoria University alongside Owens College (which eventually became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool).

It is a world top 100 university and is renowned globally for the quality of the teaching and research. From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked within the top 5 (alongside Manchester University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham University and Edinburgh University) in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received.

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

During the 2014/15 academic year, 31,030 students were enrolled. There were around 560 different first-degree programmes and approximately 300 postgraduate degree programmes in 2009-10. Whilst maintaining its strengths in the traditional subjects (for example more students studying languages and physical sciences than anywhere else in the UK), Leeds has also developed expertise in more distinctive and rare specialist areas such as Colour Chemistry, Fire Science, Nanotechnology and Aviation Technology with Pilot studies.

The single campus is a ten-minute walk from Leeds city centre. We have committed more than £520m to a transformative campus development programme. The Edge is our state-of-the-art fitness, sport and well-being facility, which includes a 25m eight lane swimming pool and the largest fitness suite of any UK university.