With campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia, the University of Nottingham is a truly global institution, providing innovative and engaging education and producing world-leading research. Last year, it had a turnover of more than £590 million.

The university’s foundations lie in University College Nottingham, a constituent college of the University of London set up in 1881, which was then granted its own Royal Charter in 1948. It was the first British university to establish a campus in Malaysia, in 2000, and the first foreign university to open a campus in China, in 2004.

Across the three countries it has more than 8,000 staff, 32,800 undergraduates and 9,500 postgraduates. At its main Nottingham campuses, 23% of students are from overseas, as are a third of academic staff.

The University of Nottingham conducts wide-reaching, world-class research across and between disciplines at all three of its locations. In the most recent assessment of research quality in UK universities 32% of the university’s research was rated world-leading, and a further 49% rated internationally excellent. One example of great research that has had global impact is that of Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of magnetic resonance imaging, now used in hospitals worldwide.

The University of Nottingham is regarded as one of the best universities in the world and regularly features in the UK’s top 30 Higher Education institutions. The University of Nottingham also performed well in the 2024 QS World Rankings by Subject. The best-performing subjects include Pharmacy & Pharmacology (fifth in the world, third in the UK), Nursing (25th in the world, fourth in the UK), Veterinary Science (44th in the world, eighth in the UK), Education and Training (46th in the world, ninth in the UK) and English Language & Literature (65th in the world, 18th in the UK).

Admission to the University is highly competitive, and Nottingham regularly receives one of the largest numbers of applications per undergraduate place in the country. Nearly 30,000 students are currently enrolled, with over 9,000 of whom are international.