University of Bristol

The University of Bristol(abbreviated as . in post-nominal letters, sometimes referred to as Bristol is a red brick research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom.


It received its royal charter in 1909,and its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.

Bristol is organised into six academic faculties composed of multiple schools and departments running over 200 undergraduate courses situated in the Clifton area along with three of its nine halls of residence.

 The other six halls are located in Stoke Bishop, an outer city suburb located 1.8 miles away. The university had a total income of £485.5 million in 2013/14, of which £cotillion was from research grants and is the largest independent employer in Bristol

The University of Bristol is ranked 11th in the UK for its research, according to the Research Excellence Framework REF 2014 by GPA.

The University of Bristol has been ranked 37th jot 34th by the SQ World University Rankings, and is ranked the top ten of UK 

 A highly selective institution, it has an average of 6.4 Sciences faculty to 13.1 (Medicine & Dentistry Faculty applicants for each undergraduate place. The University of Bristol is the youngest British university to be ranked among the top 40 institutions in the world according to the World University Rankings.

Current academics include 21 fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 13 fellows of the British Academy, 13 fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and 44 fellows of the Royal Society.
 The university has been associated with 12 Nobel laureates throughout its history, including Paul Dirac, Sir William Ramsay, Cecil Frank Powell, Sir Winston Churchill, Dorothy Hodgkin, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Max , Gerard , Sir Francis Mott, Harold Pinter, Jean-Marie Gustav Le and Angus .

Bristol is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities, the European-wide Grout and the Worldwide Universities Network, of which the university's previous vice-chancellor, Eric Thomas, was chairman from 2005 to 2007

 In addition, the university holds an Erasmus Charter, sending more than 500 students per year to partner institutions in Europe.

After the founding of the University College in 1876, Government support began in 1889. After mergers with the Bristol Medical School in 1893 and the Merchant ' Technical College in 1909,

 this funding allowed the opening of a new medical school and an engineering subjects that remain among the university's greatest strengths. In 1908, gifts from the Fry and Wills families, particularly £100,000 from 

Henry Wills III £6 in today's money, were provided to endow a University for Bristol and the West of England, provided that a royal charter could be obtained within two years. In December 1909, the King granted such a charter and erected the University of Bristol.

 Henry Wills became its first chancellor and Lloyd Morgan the first vice-chancellor

 Wills died in 1911 and in tribute his sons George and Harry built the Wills Memorial Building, starting in 1913 and finally finishing in 1925.

 Today, it houses parts of the academic provision for earth sciences and law, and graduation ceremonies are held in its Great Hall. The Wills Memorial Building is a Grade II* listed building 

In 1946, the university established the first drama department in the country.

 In the same year, Bristol began offering special entrance exams and grants to aid the resettlement of servicemen returning home. Student numbers continued to increase, and the Faculty of Engineering eventually 

needed the new premises that were to become Queen's Building in 1955. This substantial building housed all of the university's engineers until 1996, when the department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science moved over the road into the new Merchant ' Building to make space for these rapidly 



expanding fields. Today, Queen's Building caters for most of the teaching needs of the Faculty and provides academic space for the "heavy" engineering subjects civil, mechanical, and aeronautics

With unprecedented growth in the 1960s, particularly in undergraduate numbers, the Student's Union eventually acquired larger premises in a new building in the Clifton area of the city, in 1965. This building was more spacious than the Victoria Rooms, which were now given over to the Department of Music. 

 The new Union provides many practice and performance rooms, some specialist rooms, as well as three bars: Bar 100; the Mandela known as Armand the Avon Gorge. Whilst spacious, the Union building is thought by many to be ugly

 and out of character compared to the architecture of the rest of the Clifton area, having been mentioned in a BBC poll to find the worst architectural eyesores in Britain. The university has proposed relocating the Union to a more central location as part of its development ''.recently, plans for redevelopment of the current building have been proposed.