University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city , adjacent to Victoria Park.

The university has established itself as a leading research-led university and has been named University of the Year of 2008 by the Times Higher Education.

32nd in the The Guardian. Recent REF 2014, the University f Leicester ranked 49th among 126 universities.World University Rankings also placed Leicester eighth in the UK for research citations.

 The University of Leicester is also the only university ever to have won a Times Higher Education award in seven consecutive years. In 2016, the university ranked 24th in the The Complete University Guide and 

The central building, now known as the Fielding Johnson Building and housing the University's administration offices and Faculty of Law, dates from 1837 and was formerly the and Lunatic Asylum. Opposite the Fielding Johnson Building are the Clarke Building, home to the School of Economics, and the University Sports .

The university is most famous for the invention of genetic fingerprinting and for the discovery of the remains of King Richard III

The Ken Edwards building, built in 1995, lies adjacent to the Fielding Johnson Building and is home to the School of Management.

The David Wilson Library was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 4 December 2008, following an extensive refurbishment with a budget of £32 million.

Built in 1957, the Percy Gee building is home to Leicester University's Students' Union.

The university campus is home to several notable examples of architecture, including the Grade II listed Engineering Building and the Charles Wilson Building. Another prominent building on campus is the , home to the College of Social Sciences

Further along University Road and on Salisbury Road and Regents Road are the Department of Education and the Fraser Noble building.

The Department is host to around 350 undergraduate students, following courses, and over 70 postgraduate students registered for a higher degree.

The Bennett building, Physics and Astronomy building, the Chemistry building and the Adrian Building lie beyond the Charles Wilson Building. Across University Road lies the Maurice Shock and Hodgkin buildings, home to Leicester's Medical School.

The main Physics building accommodates several research and Space Plasma Physics and Observational Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics and Theoretical Astrophysics, microscopy, Gamma astronomy, and radar sounding, and the Swift UK Data .

f Leicester Observatory in Manor Road,  with telescope it is one of the UK's largest and most advanced astronomical teaching department has close involvement with the National Space also located in Leicester.

 A purpose built Space Research houses the Space Science and Instrumentation  group and provides laboratories, clean rooms and other facilities for instrumentation research, Earth Observation Science and the Bio-imaging Unit. The department also runs the University o

The department is home to the University's ALICE a member of the Advanced consortium. is the integrated facility for theoretical modelling and

 It was funded for five the Higher Education Funding Council for England's 

The department is a member collaboration of three university physics departments with a track record in teaching and learning innovation. The Physics Innovations 

s one of 74 for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, over all academic disciplines, and the only one in physics.

from the Government's Large Facilities Capital Fund, together with investment from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and from universities.

based research in particle physics, astronomy and cosmology, areas in which the UK is world. It was funded as a result of investment of £12.32 million, 

 involved collaboration between the Open University and the Universities of Leicester and Reading.

class teaching, research and consultancy in astronomy and space and planetary science fields. Practical results from advanced thinking"

In 1994 the University of Leicester celebrated winning the Queen's Anniversary Prize for its work in Physics & Astronomy. The prize citation reads: "World