University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University)[8][9] is a public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery), and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), making it the first English civic or 'red brick' university to receive its own royal charter, and the first English unitary university.[2][10][11] It is a founding member of both the Russell Group of British research universities and the international network of research universities, Universitas 21.
Not to be confused with Birmingham City University or University of Alabama at Birmingham.Motto
Through efforts to heights[1]
- 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery
- 1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery
- 1843 – Queen's College
- 1875 – Mason Science College[2][3]
- 1898 – Mason University College
- 1900 – gained university status by royal charter
£142.5 million (2023)[4]
£909.1 million (2022/23)[4]
The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP (as Lord President of the Council ex officio)
4,100 (2021/22)[6]
37,990 (2021/22)[7]
25,150 (2021/22)[7]
12,840 (2021/22)[7]
Urban, suburban
The University
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College of Arts and Law
College of Social Sciences
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
The student population includes 23,155 undergraduate and 12,605 postgraduate students in 2019–20, which is the 7th largest in the UK (out of 169). The annual income of the university for 2022–23 was £909.1 million of which £196.7 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £884.7 million.[4] In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, the University of Birmingham ranked equal 13th out of 129 institutions on grade point average, up from equal 31st in the previous REF in 2014.[12]
The university is home to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, housing works by Van Gogh, Picasso and Monet; the Shakespeare Institute; the Cadbury Research Library, home to the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts; the Lapworth Museum of Geology; and the 100-metre Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower, which is a prominent landmark visible from many parts of the city.[13] Academics and alumni of the university include former British Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin,[14] the British composer Sir Edward Elgar and eleven Nobel laureates.[15]
Birmingham University Act 1900
An Act to transfer all the property and liabilities of Mason University College in the city of Birmingham to the University of Birmingham and to repeal the Mason University College Act 1897 to confer certain powers on the said University and for other purposes.
63 & 64 Vict. c. xix
25 May 1900
National rankings
14
37
22
151–200
84
101
