Our Global Outlook The University has expanded its global presence in recent years. Most significantly, our Dubai campus is taking, for the first time, the qualities, and values of a global top 100 universi - ty to the heart of Dubai’s academic city. We opened the first, start-up, phase of our Dubai campus in 2018 and opened our full campus at the start of 2022, with capacity for up to 4,500 students. The campus will be a centre for education and research, offering a growing range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuous professional development programmes.
Student Experience and Learning
Birmingham has encouraged independent thinking and provided academic programmes that stretch and chal- lenge for more than a century. Our stunning Edgbaston campus is a distinctive element of the experience we offer to our students. In recent years, this has been enhanced even further by major investments in a new main library, the Collaborative Teaching Laboratory, a Teaching and Learning Building, and a major sports centre. Centred around the Green Heart, one of the largest open green spaces of any UK university, our 672-acre campus also includes The Vale student accommodation village, set around a lake in its own beautiful parkland. Our research enhances and reinforces our teaching, and we value and reward teaching quality. Experiences learnt during the Covid pandemic have allowed us to enhance our in-person teaching with enhanced digital learning. Our student experience is enriched by a huge range of extracurricular opportunities from sport and music to volunteering. We are pleased with our high rates of graduate employment, and our students are the most frequently targeted of any university by the country’s top employers looking for graduate recruits. Our student population has increased by over 4,000 since 2009-10, and we now have a total student popu - lation of over 25,000 undergraduate and 13,000 post- graduate students. We are a global community, with nearly 11,000 interna- tional students studying either at Edgbaston or over- seas (at our Dubai campus, through our partnership with Jinan University, and on distance learning cours- es). We have 2,500 students undertaking distance learning courses.
Our international strategy has an emphasis on key country partnerships. In China, we have developed a broad range of activities, including a signa- ture collaboration with the Guangzhou Municipal Government, and well-de- veloped research collaborations in many parts of the country; we also have a dedicated China Institute to further these partnerships. In Brazil, we have a strong network of strategic partnerships with Brazilian universities and indus- trial partners. In North America, the University has a major collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign underpinned by a flourishing network of faculty-to-faculty relationships. In Australia, we partner with the University of Melbourne, and in India, our academic and business partnerships continue to develop across a range of disciplines. We value our long-standing links with Europe and have deepened our European allianc- es in recent years. We are a founder member of EUniWell alliance of European universities and have signed partnerships with Trinity College Dublin and the University of Amsterdam, covering joint work in areas such as clinical trials, biomaterials, medical training, and equality and diversity. We are a founder member of the Universitas 21 international network of research-in- tensive universities and play an active role in much of its work, including hosting its offices on campus. We deliver University of Birmingham degree programmes in Sin - gapore and China, have partnership agreements with many of the world’s leading universities, and offer a range of different educational collaborations, including joint master’s programmes with IIT Madras, joint PhDs with the University of Melbourne, ‘2+2’ degree programmes, and a developing suite of Masters courses delivered in conjunction with partners around the world. We have offices in New Delhi, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
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