Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town is situated upon the River Avon, 18 km south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it looks connected.
University of Warwick, which is named after the county of Warwickshire, instead of the town, is actually located many miles north of Warwick on the southern outskirts of Coventry, close to Kenilworth.
The introduction of the University of Warwick got recommendation by the government in 1961 and obtained its Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1965. Established in 1965, the University of Warwick is regarded as the most well-known and reputable universities in the UK, with strong international recognition for its high-quality of teaching and high quality of research.
The university has 16,000 students, including 4,000 international students from over 120 countries. It provides a wide selection of subjects in Arts, Business, Computer Science, Education, Psychology, Politics, Engineering, Philosophy, Mathematics, Languages, Social Studies and Medicine. There are lots of decent facilities in the university campus which include the post office, bank, restaurants, bars, pharmacy, sport centre, library.
The University of Warwick is never been apart from the top ten universities in the UK on a number of league tables such as the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Times Good University Guide, Sunday Times University Guide and Guardian newspapers. It gets a member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading research-intensive universities in the UK.
University Ranking Information
- ranked 7th in both the Sunday Times and Times Good University Guide 2007.
- ranked 57th in the Times Higher Education Supplement World Ranking of Universities in 2007.
- ranked 4th in the Guardian newspaper 2008.
- ranked in the top five universities in the Independent University Guide 2008.
- ranked 29th in the world for its MBA program by the Financial Times World MBA Ranking.
- According to the Financial Times survey of UK universities 2003, Warwick is ranked 6th overall, 4th for teaching, 5th for research.
Warwick's academic activities are organized into the following 4 faculties and departments within which there are 32 departments. Warwick has around 23,400 full-time students and 1,390 academic and research staff.
1. Faculty of Arts
Classics and Ancient History
Comparative American Studies
English and Comparative Literary Studies
Film and Television Studies
French Studies
Hispanic Studies
German Studies
History
History of Art
Italian
Theatre Studies
2. Faculty of Medicine
Warwick Medical School
Education and Development Unit
3. Faculty of Science
Chemistry
Computer Science
Engineering
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Physics
Psychology
Statistic
4. Faculty of Social Sciences
Applied Linguistics
Economics
Education
Health and Social Studies
Law
Philosophy
Politics and International Studies
Sociology
Warwick Business School
Women and Gender
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