Our academic community achieves remarkable things. We are proud that the University has contributed to the national and international response to Covid-19, drawing on our expertise across our disciplines including virology, immunology, business, economics, law and social sciences. EXCEPTIONAL RESEARCH As a comprehensive university, the breadth of our subject base creates many opportunities for inter-disciplinary research to solve global challenges. These are encouraged by our Institute for Global Innovation (IGI), as well as our close collaboration with industry, business, and healthcare. The College of Arts and Law are involved in the delivery of world-leading research across a number of the IGI challenge themes. Our robust industrial partnerships support enterprise and innovation across a number of sectors, working with companies as diverse as Siemens, AstraZeneca and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and drawing on our innovation assets such as the Birmingham Health Innovation Campus and the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Ansty, near Coventry. One of the Shakespeare Institute’s largest research projects is ‘Everything to Everybody’, which is a £1.7 million collaboration with Birmingham City Council. We support academics to engage with policy makers, and through the work of University of Birmingham Enterprise, manage the University’s extensive technology transfer and academic consultancy business, IP protection and spinout portfolio. We have been integral to some of the greatest scientific discoveries of recent times, such as the discovery of the Higgs boson particle and the detection of gravitational waves. We enjoy world-class expertise in areas as diverse as mental health, Shakespeare, history, conflict and security, psychology, water science, air pollution, corpus linguistics, inter-faith understanding, and character education. The total value of research funding won by the University has grown rapidly to over £200 million per annum for the last two years. We have a portfolio of over 2,600 live projects with an award value to the University of over £900 million.
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
We have been encouraging independent thinking and providing academic programmes that stretch and challenge for more than a century. Our stunning Edgbaston campus is a distinctive element of the experience we offer to our students. 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. We have continued to provide in-person teaching through the pandemic and have blended this with enhanced digital learning. Our student experience is enriched by a huge range of extra-curricular opportunities from sport and music to volunteering. A University of Birmingham degree is valued by the country’s top employers, founded on our commitment to provide our students with both an outstanding education and the intellectual confidence, knowledge, and skills required to thrive in their careers and make a difference in the world. 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 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). We have 2,500 students undertaking distance learning courses.
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