University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. It traces its history to University College Nottingham, founded in 1881, and received its Royal Charter in 1948. It is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive UK universities. In the UK it teaches across University Park, Jubilee Campus, Sutton Bonington and King's Meadow, and it also runs overseas campuses in Semenyih, Malaysia, and Ningbo, China. Teaching and research are organised in five faculties: Arts, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Science, and Social Sciences. QS records about 31,200 students in Nottingham, of whom around 8,700, or 28%, are international, and THE counts 34,370 students with a student-to-staff ratio of 14.2. In REF 2021 the university was rated seventh in the UK for research power. It is known for engineering, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, agriculture and food science at Sutton Bonington, business and economics. Undergraduates apply through UCAS, while taught master's applicants use the university's own portal and pay a GBP 4,500 deposit before their CAS is issued. Its 27 halls of residence range from catered halls on University Park to self-catered blocks on Jubilee Campus.

Ranked #97 in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and joint #97 in QS 2027, joint #157 in the THE World University Rankings 2027 and 26th in the Complete University Guide 2027.

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The main campus is University Park, a parkland site west of the city centre with lakes, the Trent Building and most catered halls; Jubilee Campus nearby houses the business school, computer science and the self-catered halls, and the medical school is at the Queen's Medical Centre next door. Sutton Bonington Campus in south Leicestershire hosts biosciences and veterinary medicine, and King's Meadow Campus holds the university's archives and special collections.

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Undergraduate degrees start in September and are applied for through UCAS (institution code N84); the course pages now list September 2027 entry. Most taught master's courses start in September; the GBP 4,500 deposit for courses starting on 21 September 2026 had to be paid by 11 September 2026, and for other start dates at least seven days before the CAS is issued. Accommodation applications open from 1 April for firm offer holders.