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Facts and Figures 2013 www.nottingham.ac.uk

Design: www.campbellrowley.com The UK’s global university Our purpose is to improve life We seek to be the first choice for: Contents for individuals and societies worldwide. By bold innovation • students who want a top A world-leading university 02 Engaging with business 20 and excellence in all that we quality international education Academic departments 04 Supporting innovation 22 do, we make both knowledge • researchers who want the best Our students 06 Encouraging enterprise 24 and discoveries matter. opportunity to make a Careers 08 Global reach 26 significant global impact Making an impact 10 University life 28 Our vision is to be internationally • businesses that want innovative Excellence in education 12 Our environment 30 recognised for our signature partners who give them an Student satisfaction 14 Social responsibility 32 contributions, especially in global edge on their competition World-changing research 16 Sustaining excellence 34 food security, environmental Research excellence 18 Overview 36 sustainability, and health. www.nottingham.ac.uk

Group study by the lake, University Park Campus, UK. 01 A world-leading university

Nottingham is ranked within • We have over 43,000 the top 1% of all universities high-calibre students based at worldwide and placed 72nd campuses in the UK, Malaysia in the QS World University and China. Rankings 2012/13. Placed • We are a founding member of 7th in the UK for research the Russell Group and power by the latest Research Universitas21. Assessment Exercise, Nottingham is a major research • The University is a major institution which delivers work employer with over 8,000 of international significance. members of staff working across our campuses.

Ningbo city, China. 02 03 Academic departments

We have five faculties and a wide range of schools offering over 360 undergraduate courses and over 380 postgraduate taught courses. Our teaching is informed by the latest research delivered by hundreds of specialist cross-faculty research groups. Our faculties Arts Engineering Medicine and Health Sciences Science Social Sciences www.nottingham.ac.uk/departments

Undergraduate students studying in a lecture theatre, Chemistry Building, University Park Campus, UK. 04 05 Our students

We have over 43,000 students studying at our campuses in the UK, Malaysia and China.

Summary of students based in Nottingham Undergraduate 24,412 Postgraduate 7,910 Other 1,622 Total 33,944 Summary of students based at our Malaysia Campus Undergraduate 3,686 Postgraduate 674 Total 4,360 Summary of students based at our China Campus Undergraduate 4,675 Postgraduate 582 Total 5,257 Overall total 43,561 2012/13 figures

Students studying in the Trent Cafe, University Park Campus, UK. 06 07 Careers

Nottingham is the 2nd most • Our students develop their own targeted university in the UK by careers and support business leading graduate employers.* growth in the region by working Our Careers and Employability part-time through our recruitment Service is award-winning and agency Unitemps. our graduates have access to • A recent £1m investment in the service for life. our service has resulted in the • Nottingham is a world top 25 creation of faculty based careers choice for employers according teams, offering careers advice to the QS World University and guidance tailored to the Rankings 2012. needs of students, supported by a programme of bespoke events. • Over 93% of our undergraduates In addition, a new Global Labour and 90% of our postgraduates Market team works to develop are employed or in further study the global dimension in all of our six months after graduation.** employer relationships. • Over 1,500 employers * The Graduate Market in 2013 by High approached us in 2011/12 with Fliers Research. a view to recruiting our students. ** 2011/12, data source – known destinations of full-time leavers of those • Our Enterpriselab provides an available for employment. environment in which students can learn about the practical aspects of business development.

www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers

Media training class at Nottingham University Business School, Jubilee Campus, UK.

08 09 Making an impact

We have more than 225,000 Matthew Bannister graduates in our alumni Broadcaster and journalist community, a global family Dr Tim Brabants MBE originating from the foundation Olympic gold medallist of the University in 1881. Our famous alumni include: Robert Clift Olympic gold medallist Jeff Randall Jeremy Browne MP Broadcaster and journalist Minister of State for John Rishton Crime Prevention CEO, Rolls-Royce Sir Peter Mansfield Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Honorary graduate and Nobel Prime Minister of Malaysia Laureate for discoveries concerning Sir John Sawers magnetic resonance imaging Head of MI6 DH Lawrence Ruth Wilson Author BAFTA-nominated and Olivier Deng Yaping Award winning actress Six time world table tennis Sir champion and four time Olympic CEO, GlaxoSmithKline and gold medallist Chancellor of The University In 2011, the University launched of Nottingham Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, Dr Stewart Adams OBE our biggest fundraising campaign Pharmacologist and inventor ever, which will raise £150m to of ibuprofen ensure our work has global impact Tim Baillie MBE www.nottingham.ac.uk/ London 2012 Olympic impactcampaign gold medallist

Graduation on University Park Campus, UK. www.nottingham.ac.uk/alumni

10 11 Excellence in education

The Quality Assurance Agency It also recognised: for Higher Education awarded • good practice in how the its highest possible judgement University responds to the to the University for the quality student voice of learning opportunities • our integrative activities across provided to our students and our campuses our systems for ensuring high • the contribution of the Graduate academic standards. * Centres and Student Services Centres in enhancing the student experience * Quality Assurance Agency Institutional Audit 2009, published 2010. www.nottingham.ac.uk/teachingandlearning

Students studying in the Pope Building, University Park Campus, UK. 12 13 Student satisfaction

In the latest National Student • extended library opening times, Survey, Nottingham received as well as improved computer its highest ever result with an and wifi accessibility across overall student satisfaction the University score of 88%*. Our current • Student Services Centres students benefit from: on Jubilee Campus, Sutton Bonington Campus and The • the Nottingham Advantage School of Graduate Entry Award – a free programme of Medicine at the Royal activity focusing on skills, Derby Hospital Centre employability and personal development • a University-wide minimum for scheduled teaching delivered • continued investment in to students and a guarantee our facilities – a £90m of prompt feedback on all redevelopment of UK campuses examinations and coursework has included new mathematical sciences, engineering and * National Student Survey 2012. humanities facilities • unique opportunities to add an international element to their course via our own campuses in Asia, exchanges with partners or work placements

Group study in the Coveny Library, Lincoln Hall, University Park Campus, UK. 14 15 Students working in the Biotechnology World-changing research Research Centre, Malaysia Campus.

Wide-reaching, multi- • In the Leiden Ranking 2011/12, disciplinary research is which measures the research delivered by all of our faculties. performance of universities We have 12 priority groups that worldwide according to the address global issues number of most highly cited in key thematic areas or articles published in the support the delivery of world’s top research journals, research excellence. Nottingham was ranked in the top 100 with 841 articles. Themes • The extent of our international • Advanced Manufacturing research collaboration was • Aerospace also measured, with • Biomedical Imaging 1,446 research articles on • Drug Discovery projects involving Nottingham • Energy and international partners. This • Global Food Security result demonstrates the global • Integrating Global Society reach of our research. • Operations in a Digital World • Science, Technology and Society • Impact: The Nottingham • Sustainable Chemical and Campaign will raise £150m over Biological Processing the next five years to support a series of high-impact projects on Platform the local, national and global • Centre for Advanced Studies stage – www.nottingham.ac.uk/ • Clinical Translational Research impactcampaign • Facilities • International www.nottingham.ac.uk/research

16 17 Postgraduate student working in the lab, University Park Campus, UK. Research excellence

The latest Research Assessment • In 2012, we admitted our Exercise found that: first students to our £5m • 90% of our research is of an Biotechnology and Biological ‘international standard’ Sciences Doctoral Training Programme, on which we are • 60% is ‘world-leading’ or collaborating with Rothamsted ‘internationally excellent’ Research. In total, we manage • 34 of our subjects are ranked in or are a partner in 12 Doctoral the top 10 within the UK Training Centres. • we are ranked 7th overall for • In 2011/12 we secured in research power excess of £10m for Doctoral Training Centres. Our research excellence underpins • In 2011 we were awarded a the University’s continued success £6m Doctoral Training Centre in winning new research awards – by the Economic and Social we attracted £132m in 2011/12: Research Council.

Research Councils – 33% • Our research in global food UK government – 11% security was awarded a Charities – 10% 2011 Queen’s Anniversary Prize. EU government – 22% • Additional funding secured in Industry and commerce – 16% 2011/12 includes £7m for the Other sources – 8% Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, £2m for a research • In 2011, the University signed partnership on dairy cattle an agreement to establish a health, £2m for Rural Hybrid pioneering £17m International Energy Enterprise Systems and Doctoral Innovation Centre at our £1m from the Leverhulme Trust campus in China, which will train for Making Science Public: 100 PhD students. Challenges and Opportunities.

www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/excellence

18 19 A Trent 1000 engine, Rolls-Royce. Image courtesy of Rolls-Royce plc. Engaging with business

We have over 200 industrial • the development of the Crops sponsors of research globally. for the Future Research Centre Examples of some recent (CFFRC) in partnership with partnerships include: the Government of Malaysia. • a major collaboration with Working closely with industry, the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to build Malaysian based project is at the a new Centre for Sustainable heart of an international effort to Chemistry. The centre will discover which crops have the develop collaborations with potential to be grown for food, pharmaceuticals or biomaterials in industry partners and other institutions to develop expertise in the climates of the future sustainable chemical synthesis • the creation of the Institutes for • a partnership agreement with the Advanced Manufacturing and Chinese car manufacturer, FAW, to Aerospace Technology. These research thermal management and new centres of excellence bring heat transfer in electric vehicles together leading academic experts across a range of • a research agreement with disciplines, together with state-of- German energy giant, E.ON, to the-art equipment and facilities, develop a next generation ‘super to provide world class research battery’ which will improve energy services to our industrial partners storage technologies and enable households and businesses to benefit from clean, cheap and powerful energy storage

www.nottingham.ac.uk/servicesforbusiness

20 21 Supporting innovation

Research teams at Nottingham • Our Intellectual Property have developed inventions Commercialisation Office including life-saving supports the formation and technologies and we have development of new companies established a reputation and manages a portfolio for introducing this cutting- of over 300 patents. edge research to the global • The University has been involved marketplace. in over 40 spin-out and related companies and has a current • MRI scans, safer pedestrian portfolio of 28 spin-outs, 15 crossings, a fetal heart of which have products in the monitor and breakthroughs in marketplace. Each of these regenerative medicine are all companies has grown from results of pioneering research research undertaken at at Nottingham. the University. www.nottingham.ac.uk/servicesforbusiness

Professor of Neuroimaging Dorothee Auer with an MRI scanner. 22 23 Encouraging enterprise

Nottingham was the winner Our Haydn Green Institute for of the first ever Times Higher Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Education Entrepreneurial one of the leading centres in Europe University of the Year Award for the development of enterprise and judges praised our skills in the next generation of commitment to “nurturing the entrepreneurs. most enterprising and globally- minded graduates in British The Institute provides higher education.” entrepreneurial students with: • business advice and mentoring Nottingham Entrepreneurs is • surgeries on finance, idea a Students’ Union affiliated generation, intellectual property, entrepreneurship society at the marketing and taxation University. The Society runs • free shared office space numerous events, including including computers, phones workshops, competitions and meeting rooms and lectures from successful • a business address entrepreneurs as well as an • subsidised access to the facilities annual conference. for a year after graduation

www.nottingham.ac.uk/enterprise

Nottingham University Business School students studying in the Business School South atrium, Jubilee Campus, UK.

24 25 Global reach

Internationalisation is at the • Launched in 2001, our innovative heart of everything we do as Developing Solutions scholarship a university. Described by The programme is one of the largest Sunday Times University Guide of its kind, helping students from 2013 as “one of the first to the developing world to study embrace a truly international at Nottingham. approach to higher education”, • We have initiated a unique The University of Nottingham partnership with the Chinese has award-winning campuses government to establish in the UK, China and Malaysia an International Doctoral and hosts a truly global Innovation Centre, training the academic community in all next generation of Chinese three countries. researchers. • We collaborate with institutions • Students from almost 150 from around the world to address nations studied at Nottingham globally relevant research UK in 2012/13, bringing agendas and deliver genuinely international numbers to more world-changing research. than 9,000, with a further • We are a founder member of 9,600 students studying at our Universitas21, the leading global campuses in Asia. network of research intensive universities for the 21st century. • We work with over 320 institutions in more than 40 countries to create opportunities for student exchange.

www.nottingham.ac.uk/aglobaluniversity

Students studying outside, Sutton Bonington Campus, UK. 26 27 University life

Nottingham students excel • 14 elite student athletes, all of in academic terms – but they whom represent their country also play a full part in our internationally, received one of rich and rewarding extra- our sports bursaries this year curricular calendar. including one Olympian – Great Britain hockey player Harry Martin. • Nottingham New Theatre, our award-winning student-run • Five of our graduates won medals theatre, produces up to 15 at the 2012 Olympic Games, shows a semester, travels to the making Nottingham the 2nd most Edinburgh Fringe and is prolific at successful UK university at the annual National Student London 2012. Drama Festival, winning seven • University Radio Nottingham awards in 2013. (URN) won eight awards at the • 2012 was a record year for National Student Radio Awards Lakeside, the University’s public 2012, including Best Student arts centre and museum, with Radio Station for the third just under 200,000 visitors. The year running. recently relocated University • Over 200 Students’ Union of Nottingham Museum of societies and 75 Athletic Union Archaeology has seen a 500% clubs are on offer and our sports increase in visitor numbers since teams are consistently ranked in becoming part of the arts centre. the top 10 of the national • Karnival, the Students’ Union BUCS league. fundraising body, collected £1.6m • The student-run Sutton in 2012 for good causes including Bonington Farmers’ Market was Oxfam, the Poppy Appeal, Hope named ‘Market of the Year’ in the for Children, the Meningitis Trust 2012 BBC Food and Farming and Children in Need. Awards, dubbed the Oscars of • 180 student athletes from across the food world by Jamie Oliver. all of our campuses took part in Speed skater and former sports bursar the 2012 Tri Campus Games, held Gemma Cooper trains at the National at University Park Campus, UK. Ice Centre in Nottingham, UK. 28 29 Our environment

We aim to become a leading • Over a two-year period, 2010- green university in all of 2012, our CO2 emissions fell our activities. by 2,700 tonnes due to our Carbon Management Plan with • Nottingham has been placed investments of £3m in energy in the top two for the last three saving projects. years in the world’s greenest • Across the University, we university ranking according to have increased our waste the UI GreenMetrics table. recycling and recovery from 4% • We won the Times Higher in 2005 to 91% in 2012. Education 2012 Award for • Nottingham has received 10 Outstanding Contribution to Green Flag Awards for Sustainable Development. University Park Campus. • We have a comprehensive • Our researchers are investigating Environmental Strategy and renewable energy technologies, sustainability is part of our sustainable homes, CO2 capture Teaching and Learning Strategy. and storage, carbon neutral • The University is a major partner buildings, business ethics in a £3m, city-wide cycling and sustainability. partnership project led by charity • We minimise the environmental Sustrans, which has resulted in impact of our development by new cycle lanes, increased using low carbon and innovative facilities on and off campus and renewable technologies. a student cycle hire scheme. www.nottingham.ac.uk/sustainability

Students rowing boats on Highfields Lake, University Park Campus, UK. 30 31 Social responsibility

In 2011/12 the University’s • We delivered 449 activities in sense of social responsibility 94 local secondary schools and was powerfully expressed colleges to support progression through many initiatives to higher education. and activities. • Over 8% of our undergraduate intake were from local schools and • Phase one of Nottingham colleges in disadvantaged areas. Potential included opening the first Nottingham Potential • Over 80 of our students were Learning Centre in Broxtowe, placed in local schools, acting Nottingham in November 2011, as informal role models and doubling the number of places providing practical assistance on our July summer schools, the to teachers. award of three inaugural Teacher • A total of 83 staff and students Fellowships and much more. In supported 60 third sector and all, we provided nearly 40,000 community organisations and opportunities to engage in learning social enterprises. and prepare for higher education. • At The University of Nottingham • The Nottingham University Ningbo China, over 1,500 Samworth Academy was rated students took part in a ‘Good’ school in every respect voluntary work. at its first full Ofsted inspection in 2012. The school now has a • The Student Volunteer Centre waiting list for places. based within the Students’ Union helped over 3,500 • Over 250 of our students students to volunteer with and staff were involved in over 100 voluntary, charity and aspiration-raising activities in community groups throughout 32 primary schools, supporting Nottinghamshire in 2012. almost 2,900 children.

Child taking part in summer scientist week, Jubilee Campus, UK. 32 33 Sustaining excellence

At Nottingham we continually invest in our facilities to ensure we can provide the surroundings and resources necessary for world-changing research, high-achieving students and dedicated staff.

Recent developments include the establishment of a rapidly expanding Innovation Park on Jubilee Campus and the investment of over £200m in teaching, learning and research facilities over the last five years.

New buildings completed over the last two years include:

• Aerospace Technology Centre, Jubilee Campus • BioEnergy and Brewing Science Building, Sutton Bonington Campus • Centre for Advanced Studies, University Park Campus • The Energy Technologies Building, Jubilee Campus • Engineering and Science Learning Centre, University Park Campus • The Gateway Building, Sutton Bonington Campus • Humanities Building, University Park Campus • Institute for Mental Health, Jubilee Campus • Mathematical Sciences Building, University Park Campus • Nursing Building, Royal Derby Hospital • Si Yuan Centre of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Jubilee Campus • 202-bed Orchard Hotel, University Park Campus

Mathematical Sciences Building, University Park Campus, UK. 34 35 Overview

Students Estate The University of Nottingham has made every effort to ensure that the information in this UK 33,944 UK booklet was accurate when published. Please note, however, that the nature of the content Malaysia 4,360 University Park Campus – means that it is subject to change from time 330 acres to time, and you should therefore consider the China 5,257 information to be guiding rather than definitive. Jubilee Campus – 66 acres Total 43,561 © The University of Nottingham 2013. All Sutton Bonington Campus – core rights reserved. campus areas 100 acres/farmland Staff 1,000 acres Published May 2013. UK 7,275 – including 3,239 academic and research staff King’s Meadow Campus – Malaysia 467 – including 230 academic and research staff 16 acres

China 517 – including 277 academic and research staff Malaysia Total 8,259 – including 3,746 academic and research staff Semenyih Campus – 125 acres

Finance China Year ended 31 July 2012 Ningbo Campus – 140 acres Turnover £520m Chancellor Tuition fees and education contracts £185m Sir Andrew Witty Funding body grants £139m Vice-Chancellor Research grants and contracts £100m Professor David Greenaway Other operating income and interest £96m ­

QS World University Rankings (2012/13) – world, 72nd Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings (2012) – UK, 9th UI Green Metric World University Ranking (2012) – world, 2nd This publication is available in

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