University of Warwick

University of Warwick

Motto	Mens agitat molem (Latin)
Motto in English	Mind moves matter
Type	research university
Established	1965
Endowment	£4.3 million (as of 31 July 2016)
Chancellor	Catherine Ashton
Vice-Chancellor	Stuart Croft
Administrative staff	5,678 incl. 1,842 academics/researchers
Students	23,570
Undergraduates	13,049
Postgraduates	9,317
Location	Coventry, England Coordinates: 52°22′48.29″N 1°33′42.95″W / 52.3800806°N 1.5619306°W / 52.3800806; -1.5619306
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Affiliations	List AACSB Association of Commonwealth Universities Association of MBAs EQUIS European University Association Universities UK Russell Group M5 Universities
Website	warwick.ac.uk

The University of Warwick ((/ˈwɒrɪk/)) is a research university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education. Warwick Business School was established in 1967 and Warwick Medical School was opened in 2000. Warwick merged with Coventry College of Education in 1979 and Horticulture Research International in 2004.

Warwick is primarily based on a 290 hectare campus on the outskirts of Coventry with a satellite campus in Wellesbourne and a London base at the Shard in central London. It is organised into four faculties—Arts, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences—within which there are 32 departments. Warwick has around 23,600 full-time students and 1,800 academic and research staff and had a total income of £573.6 million in 2015/16, of which £117.1 million was from research grants and contracts.Warwick Arts Centre, a multi-venue arts complex in the university's main campus, is the largest venue of its kind in the UK outside London.

Warwick consistently ranks in the top ten of all major domestic rankings of British universities and is the only multi-faculty institution aside from Oxford and Cambridge to have never been ranked outside the top ten. It was ranked 7th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research and 15th for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. Entrance is competitive, with around 7 applicants per place for undergraduate study. Warwick has been ranked as the world's 20th best university based on employer reputation.