Having been founded as the first civic university in the UK the University of Birmingham is committed to making a positive economic, social, and cultural contribution through our education and research. We serve our diverse and vibrant region in many ways, including through addressing sustainability challenges at the Tyseley Energy Park, working closely with local NHS partners to establish the Birmingham Health Innovation Campus, and establishing the non-selective University of Birmingham School. We work with industry, business, universities, and governments around the world to address global challenges in areas as broad as rail engineering, maternal health, interfaith studies, air and water pollution, and social inequality. Ranked in the top 100 universities globally, Birmingham is a member of the Russell Group and a founder member of the Universitas 21 global network of research universities. We offer one of the broadest range of programmes of all UK universities, teaching 38,000 students and employing 8,500 staff. We are a highly diverse community: our staff and students come from Birmingham and the West Midlands, across the UK, and from around the world. Ten of our alumni and staff have been recognised with Nobel Prizes, and many others are recipients of the most prestigious awards in their fields. We rank highly amongst employers seeking to recruit graduates.
Our heritage as the original ‘redbrick’ is combined with an ambitious agenda to continue the transformation of the University. In recent years we have significantly increased the number of leading academic colleagues, and have undertaken a £1 billion renewal of the campus estate. We have established our own non-selective secondary school and sixth form serving the diverse communities of Birmingham, and have just opened our new campus in Dubai. Through our Birmingham 2030 Strategic Framework we have set an aspiration to become a top 50 global institution. We recognise this is a genuinely challenging aim, which will require a vibrant, intellectually-exciting, and diverse University community for research and education, as well as working closely with our partners in Birmingham and around the world.
The University of Birmingham
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