OUR UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
At Birmingham, we teach and research across the full breadth of academic disciplines, creating a vibrant community with multi-disciplinary opportunities for research and education. We are a truly international community, comprising more than 8,000 staff, 38,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni. Our most recent staff survey indicates levels of engagement and pride which most employers would be delighted to achieve, and we are committed to building on this through the inclusion of ‘people and culture’ as a core pillar of the Birmingham 2030 Strategic Framework. We value our diversity and aim to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for all members of the University community. We believe our diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation and debate at the heart of our academic mission. We hold a Bronze Race Equality Charter Award and a Bronze Athena SWAN Charter Award at institutional level. Our student community is not only one of the largest of any UK university, it is also highly diverse, with 86 per cent of our home undergraduate students from state schools, 43 per cent from black, Asian or other minority ethnic backgrounds, and 36 per cent in the first generation of their family to attend university. Our student population has increased by over 4,000 since 2009- 10, and we now have a total student population of over 25,000 undergraduate and 13,000 postgraduate students. We are a global community, with nearly 11,000 international students studying either at Edgbaston or overseas (at our Dubai campus, through our partnership with Jinan University, and on distance learning courses).
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