University of Leeds

University  of  Leeds

which eventually became the University of University College Liverpool which became the Liverpool

 In 1904, a royal charter, created in 1903, was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.

The University of Leeds 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 

The university has around 33,500 students, the eighth-highest number of any university in the UK.

From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked second in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received, second only to the University of Manchester.

The university is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the Group for research collaboration,

Leeds had a total income of £547.3 million in 2010/11, of which £124 million was from research grants and contracts.

 The university has financial endowments of £49.3 million  ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment.

the Worldwide Universities Network, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the White Rose University Consortium, the Network and and is also affiliated to the Association of , and Universities UK.

 in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise,the best result in the Yorkshire and the in 2010, Leeds was ranked as the 9th most targeted British university by graduate employers

Leeds is ranked nationally between 14th Times Higher Education and 

 Internationally, the university is ranked as the 32nd best in Europe and globally ranked 87th in the 2015 World University Rankings Leeds was ranked 8th in the UK

Notable alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party , American actor Chris Pine, Piers Sellers NASA five Nobel laureates.

provide education for the children of middle-class industrialists and merchants. Financial support from local industry was crucial in setting up the College and aiding the students. The university continues to these elements of its history; for example, there is still remains a ' Court on campus.

In 1831, the Leeds School of Medicine was established with the aim of serving the needs of the five medical institutions which had been established in the city. In 1874, the Yorkshire College of Science was created to 

The College of Science, on Owens College, Manchester, was established in 1851 as non-sectarian and was open to Protestant Dissenters, Catholics and Jews though not then to women

The Northern colleges continued to promote themselves as offering a general education that was progressive and pragmatic in nature as were the technical colleges of Germany and the ancient universities upon which they were .

since the Oxford and Cambridge, restricted attendance to members only of the Church of England. University College London was non-sectarian. The religious qualification ceased in the but the classics-based education continued at Oxford and Cambridge. 

The Yorkshire College of Science began by teaching experimental physics, mathematics, geology, mining, chemistry and biology, and soon became well known as an international for the study of engineering and textile technology due to the manufacturing and textile trades being strong in the West Riding

of Medicine and subsequently joined the federal Victoria University at Manchester in 1880 on 3 November 1887. Students in this period were awarded external degrees by the University of London

. When classics, modern literature and history went on offer a few years later, the Yorkshire College of Science became simply the Yorkshire College. In 1884, the Yorkshire College absorbed the Leeds School 

Leeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November. The Victoria University had been established by royal charter in 1880; Owens College being at first the only member college.[18] Leeds now found itself in an educational union with close social cousins from Manchester and Liverpool.

Unlike Owens College, the Leeds campus of the Victoria University had never barred women from its courses. However, it was not until special facilities 

The Victoria  University was a short-lived concept, as the multiple university locations in Manchester and Liverpool were keen to establish themselves as separate, independent universities. This was partially due to the benefits a university had for the cities of Liverpool and Manchester whilst the institutions were also 

were provided at the Day Training College in 1896 that women began enrolling in significant numbers. The first female student to begin a course at the university was Annie Clark, who studied Modern Literature and Education.

 1903, the then newly formed University of Liverpool began the fragmentation of the Victoria University by being the first member to gain independence. The University of Leeds soon followed suit and had been granted a royal charter as an independent body by

unhappy with the practical difficulties posed by maintaining a federal arrangement across broad distances. The interests of the universities and respective cities in creating independent institutions was further spurred by the granting of a charter to the University of Birmingham in 1900 after lobbying from Joseph Chamberlain.

Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in

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

University of Strathclyde

The University of is a Scottish public research university located in Glasgow, United Kingdom. It is Glasgow's second university by age, being founded in 1796 as the Institute, 

and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university. It takes its name from the historic Kingdom of .

The University of is Scotland's third largest university by number of students, with students and staff from over 100 countries.he institution was awarded University o

This means that successful applicants to had the 12th highest average score, compared to other UK higher education institutions.

The university was founded in 1796 through the will of John Anderson, professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow who left instructions and the

f the Year 2012 and Entrepreneurial University of the year 2013 by Times Higher Education.

Entry into many of the courses in the university is competitive and successful entrants in 2015 had an average of 473 points.

 majority of his estate to create a second university in Glasgow which would focus on "Useful Learning"or the good of mankind and the improvement of science, a place of useful learning". The University later named its city campus after him.

College was formed, becoming the Royal Technical College in 1912, and the Royal College of Science and Technology in 1956 concentrating on science and engineering teaching and research.

In 1828, the institution was renamed Anderson's University, partially fulfilling Anderson's vision of two universities in the city of Glasgow. The name was changed in 1887, to reflect the fact that there was no legal authority for the use of the title of 'university'.As a result, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical 

 Undergraduate students could qualify for degrees of the University of Glasgow or the equivalent Associate of the Royal College of Science and Technology

Under Principal Samuel , internationally respected nuclear physicist the Royal College gained University Status, receiving its Royal Charter to become The University of belief, The University of was not created as a result of the Robbins 

The university has developed its reputation and grown from approximately 4,000 full-time students in 1964 to over 20,000 students in 2003, when it celebrated the 100th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the original Royal College building.

decision to grant the Royal College university status had been made earlier in the  but delayed as a result of Robbins Report. The University the UK's first technological university 

reflecting its history, teaching and research excellence in technological education. In 1993, the University incorporated College of Education.

In July 2015, Her Majesty The Queen has opened the Technology and Innovation  at the University of .

education. Originally built as the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College Building, it now houses , Chemistry, and Electronic and Electrical Engineering. The 

building is currently undergoing major internal renovation following the relocation of the Pharmacology and departments to new accommodation in the John , and the installation of a new heating system.

The building has long been the massive Royal College Building. Started in 1903 and completed in 1912, it was partially opened in 1910 and at the time was the largest educational building in Europe for technical 

Meanwhile, a new sciences building was opened in early 2010. It was designed by Robson, and aims to bring the the Institute together under one roof. Sited on Cathedral Street in Glasgow, the building is the gateway to the University campus and city from the motorway.

The James Weir Building is currently undergoing reconstruction after a serious fire resulted in many rooms being unusable.

2012 also saw the 20th Century Society select the Architecture Building as their 'Building of the Month' for September due to its cultural significance and enduring 

The Architecture Building, completed in 1967, is considered to be the best post-war building on campus. It was designed by Frank and Associates, Frank being the Professor of Architecture in the Architecture School at the time. 

The Architects Journal Magazine at the time highly praised this building for its restraint in the 

choice of materials and its organisational of the within the constraints of a difficult site. In 2012, Historic Scotland granted Listed Building Status to it, along with the Building designed by Morris and Architects. 

University of Virginia

The University of a research university founded by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and located in, Virginia. known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code,

 

 and  of the original "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League

Its initial Board of Visitors included U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Monroe d in 1819, with its Academical Village and original courses of study conceived and designed entirely by Jefferson. UNESCO an honor shared with nearby Monticello

Since 1904,membership in the Association of American Universities for research-focused institutions and was the first university of the American South to attain membership. The university is classified as Very High Research 

Activity in the Carnegie Classification and is considered its state's flagship research university bye  is affiliated with 7 Nobel Laureates, and has produced seven NASA astronauts, seven Marshall Scholars, four Churchill Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, and 50 Rhodes Scholars, the most of any state-affiliated institution in the U

While is a public in part by the Commonwealth of Virginia, the university receives far more funding from private sources than public. Students come to attend the university in  from all 50 states and 147 countries.

 additionally operates the College at Wise in the far southwestern corner of the state, and previously operated George Mason University and the University of Mary Washington as branch campuses until 1972.

Virginia's athletic teams are known as the Cavaliers, and since 1953 have competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference of Division I of the NCAA.

 After winning NCAA titles (the College Cup in soccer, the College World Series in baseball, and the NCAA a single academic year, was the Capital One Cup for the top overall men's sports program in the nation for Cavaliers have won 31 national titles overall, including 23 in men's sports. Counting 

only NCAA sanctioned championships has won a total of 23 NCAA titles, with 16 in men's sports, ranking

 In contrast to other universities of the day, at which one could study in either medicine, law, or divinity, the first students at the University of Virginia could study in one or several of eight independent schoolmicine, law, mathematics, 

 chemistry, ancient languages, modern languages, natural philosophy, and moral philosophy.Another innovation of the new university was that higher education would be separated from religious doctrine.

Graduate, to a student who had completed the courses of one school; and Doctor to a graduate in more than one school who had shown research

  ad no divinity school, was established independently of any religious sect, and the Grounds were planned and centered upon a library, the Rotunda, rather than a church, distinguishing it from peer universities still primarily functioning as seminaries for one particular strain 

 of Protestantism to philosopher Thomas Cooper that "a professorship of theology should have no place in our institution", and never has there been one. There were initially two degrees awarded by the university:

 

 

 

University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado  referred to as , CU, Boulder,University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876.

In 2010, the university consisted of nine colleges and schools and offered over 150 academic programs and enrolled 29,952 students.Twelve Nobel Laureates, nine MacArthur Fellows, and 18 astronauts have been affiliated with CU-Boulder as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history.

  The university received nearly $454 million in sponsored research in 2010 to fund programs like the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and 

The Colorado members of the NCAA Division

  The Buffaloes have won 28 national championships: 20 in skiing, seven total in men's and women's cross country, and one in football. Approximately 1,500 students participate e club sports annually as well. 

CU-Boulder's distinctive architecture style, known as Tuscan Vernacular Revival, was designed by architect oldest buildings, such as Old Main, were in the Collegiate Gothic style of many East Coast schools

plans for the university's new buildings were in the same style. A month or so after approval, however,updated his design by sketching in a new wrap of rough, textured sandstone walls with sloping, \ed-tiled roofs and Indiana limestone trim.

he Engineering Center is located on the North-East side of campus, on the corner of Colorado and Regent. The Engineering Center consists of departments which are: Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and 

 This formed the basis of a unified style which was used in the design of fifteen other buildings between 1921

The sandstone used in the construction of nearly all the buildings on campus was selected from a a variety of front range mountain quarries. In 2med the Boulder campus as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.

Mechanical Engineering. Rankings published by the US World and News report ranked the Undergraduate Engineering Programs at 34th overall and 19th among public engineering programs nationwide. Graduate Engineering Programs at CU are ranked 34thll and 20th among public engineering programs nationwide.

 This architecturally distinctive and modern center is home to the nation's largest  centrifuge, ion-implantation and microwave-propagation facilities, spectrometers, electron and other microscopes, and a structural analysis facility.

The es students hands on experience by connecting them with faculty and industrial advisers on sponsored projects. CU Engineering is also part outreach, programs for students and teachers at the elementary, middle and high math and engineering lessons and activities 

CU Engineering houses many signature programs. The Integrated Teaching and Learning Program gives students hands on design experience in the award 34sign Center within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

Auditorium is a large building on the north edge of the University of Colorado campus, near 17th Street and University Avenue, which plays host to various talks, plays, and musical performances. Andrew J. 

y was a prominent businessman involved with the town of Boulder in the supporter Lewis Cheney. is credited with a number of landmarks throughout Boulder, where he was a carpenter and involved in politics.

The Auditorium opened its doors thirteen years after construction started.adopted daughter, May, sued for a third state, a case that took thirteen years to settle. May was angered that her father left her no money in his will, while leaving $300,000 ton the case, and the majority of critical construction on the building resumed.

University of California, Santa Cruz

 

The University of California, Santa Cruz  known as  Cruz or  is a public, collegiate university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system. San Francisco at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean

Founded in 1965, Cruz is considered as a Public Ivy s a showcase for progressive, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture. 

 Since then, it has evolved into a modern research university with a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate programs, 

A number of shrines, dens and other student-built curiosities are scattered around the northern campus. These structures, mostly assembled from branches and other forest detritus, were formerly concentrated in the area known as  glen the University razed in 1992 to build colleges Nine and Ten. Students were able to relocate and save some of the structures, however

while retaining its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student political activism. The residential college system, which consists of ten small colleges, is intended to combine the student support of a small college with the resources of a major university. 

 There are a number of natural points of interest throughout ts. The "Porter Caves" are a popular site among students on the west side of campus.

Creeks several ravines. Footbridges span those ravines on pedestrian paths linking various areas of campus. The footbridges make it possible to walk to any part of campus utes in spite of the campus being built on a mountainside with varying elevations.At night, orange lights illuminate the occasionally fogged-in paths.

. A large Douglas Fir spanning approximately 1ee Nine is located in the upper campus of behind College Nine. T off the limbs to make it nearly impossible to climb.For specific directions, reference: directions to Tree Nine For the less also frequent Sunset Tree located on the east side of the meadow behind the Music Center

 The entrance is located in the forest between the Porter College meadow and Empire Grade Road. The caves wind through a set of caverns, some of which are challenging, narrow passages. Tree Nine is another popular destination for students

 A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures, ruling they were improperly put on the ballot. In 2008, the university,  scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans, to provide housing font of the additional students on campus, and to pay municipal development and water fee
 

  Plans for increasing enrollment to 19,500 be anticipated environmental impacts of such action, encountered opposition from the city, the local community, and the studen voters in 2006 passed two measures calling on  to pay for the impacts of campus growth. 

 A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures, ruling they were improperly put on the ballot. In 2008, the university, city, county  local government scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans, to provide housing font of the additional students on campus, and to pay municipal development and water fee

George0th Chancellor, intends to mitigate growth constraints in Santa Cruz by developing off-campus sites in Silicon Valley. campus is planned to ultimately hold 2,0ntire university's future student body as

University of California, Riverside

The University of California, a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits in a suburban district of Riverside, California, United States, with a branch campus of 20 acres in Palm Desert.

College of Letters and Science opened in 1954. The Regents of the University of California general campus of the system in 1959, and graduate students were admitted in 1961.  

News ranks U, the 15th most economically diverse student body in the of all  students graduate within six years without regard to economic  outreach and retention programs have contributed to its reputation as a "campus of choice" for minority students, including students

 extending the citrus growing season in California from four to nine months. Some of the world's most important research collections on citrus diversity and entomology, as well as science fiction and photography, are located at Riverside. 

 Founded in 1907 as the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside pioneered research in biological pest control and the use of growth regulators responsible for

To accommodate an enrollment of 21,000 students by 2015, more than $730 million has been invested in new construction projects since 1999eliminary accreditation off Medicine was granted in October 2012 and the first class of 50 students was enrolled in August 2013. It is the first new research-based public medical school in 40 years

team won back to back Big West championships in 2006 and 2007. In 2007, the men's baseball team won its first conference championship and advanced to the second time since the university moved to Division I in 

is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United  2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings places 

i58th among top public universities, and school programs including the Graduate School of Education and the  College of Engineering based on peer assessment, student selectivity, financial resources, and other

  factors. Washington Monthly ranked  2nd in the United States in terms of social mobility, research and community s U.S. 

 Their nickname was inspired by the high altitude of the campus, which lies on the foothills of Box Springs Mountain.

sports teams are known as the Highlanders and play in the Big West Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I.

 enrollment exceeded 1,000 students by the time Clark Kerr became president of the system in 1958.Anticipating a "tidal growth required by the baby boom generation, Kerr developed the California Master Plan for Higher Education and the Regents designated Riverside a general university campus in 195

first chancellor, Herman Theodore oversaw the beginnings of the school's transition to a full university and its expansion to a capacity of 5,000 students. second chancellor,the campus through the era of the free speech movement and kept student protests peaceful in Riverside

According to a 1998 interview with  the city of Riverside received negative press coverage for smog after the mayor asked Governor Ronald Reagan to declare the South Coast Air Basin a disaster area in subsequent student enrollment decline

In the 1990s, by 2010African American, American Indian, and Latino student enrollments accounted for 30% of the R student body, the highest proportion of at the time

grams in business administration and biomedical sciences created incentive for enough students to enroll at Riverside to
Entrance along University Avenue. The Arts Building is visible in the background

 June 200eived its largest gift, 15.5 million from two local couples, in trust towards building its medical Regents formally a school proposal in 2006. Projected to be completed by 2013, it will be the first new medical school in 40 years built

 students voted for a fee NCAA Division I standing in 1998 In the 1990s, proposals were made to establish a law school, a medical school, and a school of public policy at , with  School of Medicine and the School of Public Policy becoming reality in 2012 In