ESSENTIAL WARWICK 2019 ESSENTIAL WARWICK 2019 27,278 WELCOME Exchange/ TO WARWICK. Visiting, Students Abroad/Industry Warwick is a leading university, and IFP** students somewhere forward-looking and ambitious, where the starting point 1,481 is always ‘anything is possible’. We consistently perform strongly in the UK league tables, and we’re proud to be among the top 20 ‘Most International’ universities in the world*. We’re as respected for boundary-breaking research as for teaching and business collaborations – our pursuit of excellence and intellectual curiosity is tireless. We strive to lead rather than follow, and are renowned for our entrepreneurialism and cosmopolitan outlook. *Times Higher Education, 2018 **International Foundation Programme PLACE Total number of staff OUR (as at 31 March 2019) PEOPLE. 6,947 Total number of students 2018/19 including Academic/Research/ Teaching staff Professional and 27,278 Support staff including 2,610 Undergraduates 4,337 15,998 Postgraduates 9,799 Faculty populations Full-time undergraduate (as % of total student numbers) admissions, October 2018 Applicants Arts % 85% undergraduates12.40 39,974 15% postgraduates Entrants Science Engineering Medicine 5,244 and Medicine 5.73% 54% undergraduates 43.01% 46% postgraduates 63% undergraduates 37% postgraduates Total number of alumni Social Sciences 54% undergraduates 228,080 44.59% 46% postgraduates 3 ESSENTIAL WARWICK 2019 Sport and Wellness Hub OUR CAMPUS.We support a diverse and welcoming community, and we want everyone connected with us to thrive and reach their potential. We’re always looking at ways to improve the campus environment to deliver a space that’s both welcoming and enriching. Our campus is always developing – The new Mathematical Sciences both our buildings and our minds. Building is the most energy-efficient building on campus. It supports our The National Automotive Innovation Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Centre in the Lord Bhattacharyya Science departments in the work they Building focuses on developing do that has a profound impact on novel technologies to reduce our society, our communities and dependency on fossil fuels and our cities. to cut down CO2 emissions. 4 PLACE Warwick Arts Centre 20:20, artist’s impression The recently-opened Sport and Wellness Hub supports our vision to have the most active campus in the UK by 2020. Open to staff, students and the local community, it offers world- class facilities including a sports hall, a flexible swimming pool, fitness suites and climbing walls. Still to come Our campus will see investment and development for many years, with environmentally-sustainable projects to support every aspect of Warwick life. The Warwick Arts Centre 20:20 refurbishment and extension project will see the creation of a new art gallery, three HD digital auditoria and more open spaces for eating, drinking and socialising, while the Faculty of Arts building will nurture culture, creativity and innovation whilst providing an open space for all. The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building will facilitate research on understanding more on the body and brain, with the aim of finding new ways to extend healthy life spans. Discover more at warwick.ac.uk/yourspaces 5 ESSENTIAL WARWICK 2019 REGIONAL AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. Our impact stretches far beyond our campus, working in partnership with people and organisations across Coventry, Warwickshire and the wider West Midlands. Economic Educational We’re equipping people with the Our regional impact study shows that in right skills to help our region thrive, 2016/17 we generated through initiatives including our Degree Apprenticeships and our £1bn economic impact WMG Academies for Young Engineers for the regional economy and supported in Coventry and Solihull. 9,425 full-time equivalent jobs across the West Midlands. We offered We’re committed to supporting Widening economic growth in our region; 21 Participation we’re active in the Coventry and programmes, Warwickshire Local Enterprise engaging with Partnership and are developing an 341 Innovation Campus at Wellesbourne. local schools, to encourage young people (especially from less advantaged communities) to consider higher education. 6 warwick.ac.uk/community PLACE Warwick Arts Centre is one of the 22,831 biggest multi-artform venues outside school-aged London and we are investing £17m children updating our spaces to welcome participated in even more visitors each year to our Warwick Arts Centre’s theatre, dance, music, comedy and creative activities. Over 2,000 visual arts events. people came to each of our twice-yearly Family Days. And almost 6,000 family We have recently invested £49m members took part in free activities in into our new world-class Sport and our Creative Learning Space. Wellness Hub, and our facilities are Cultural/social also used extensively by local schools and clubs. We work in partnership with our local authorities - we are a principal More partner of Coventry’s winning bid to than 2,500 of become the UK City of Culture 2021, our students are registered and are hosting the British Science with our volunteering network, Warwick Volunteers. Festival in September 2019, working In 2017/18, they gave more with local partners to kick start longer than term engagement with Science and 14,000 hours Technology in the region. of their time to local schools and community groups. 7 ESSENTIAL WARWICK 2019 BUSINESS COLLABORATIONS. Working with business is Building the National Automotive at the heart of what we do. Innovation Centre with partners Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors From our inception, Warwick European Technical Centre and has always had strong WMG, on our campus. connections with industry. Warwick Ventures commercialises The present is no different. innovations produced from Warwick’s world-leading research. Last year, its We apply our innovative, cutting- portfolio of 30 spinout companies edge research to industry challenges, attracted over £27m in investment. working with global corporates to Warwick Ventures is a delivery partner SMEs and local start-ups. for Innovate UK’s national Innovation- Our collaborations include: to-Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) programme which Discovering crop protection and gives experience-based training for plant biotechnology solutions with early career researchers. It’s also a Dow AgroSciences partner in the Midlands Innovation Working with Waitrose to tackle Commercialisation of Research global food security Accelerator (MICRA) which is building a single gateway for industry and investors to access the collective intellectual property and resources of 8 warwick.ac.uk/business eight universities in the region. INNOVATION BUSINESS COLLABORATIONS. EXPERTISE AND FACILITIES. Businesses can access our state- The University of Warwick Science of-the-art scientific equipment and Park has 130 tenant companies expertise through Warwick Scientific employing more than 2,900 staff, Services, with 300 investigations and provides facilities for start-ups carried out last year. and established companies. It also manages the Minerva Business Warwick Conferences offers first-class Angel Network, and the European facilities on campus including an Structural and Investment Funds innovative new 650m2 flexible space (ESIF)/Warwickshire County venue, The Slate. Council-supported Business Ready programme. 9 ESSENTIAL WARWICK 2019 Monash Warwick Alliance The Alliance between the Non-UK University of Warwick and domiciled students: Monash University is a model that is changing the way universities approach their 10,453from approx. 150 countries international partnerships. It’s Non-UK alumni: about co-development, co-publishing and offering a truly transnational experience, 81,344 living in 198 countries with a focus on addressing the global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Building international Our Student partnerships Recruitment team visited Warwick is international to the core. We partner with leading 51countries, institutions around the world generating 38,011 applications for to address global challenges study in 2018 through collaborative research, and to develop innovative teaching and learning opportunities for our staff and students. OUR Warwick in Venice Our students visit Venice to engage with teaching, GLOBAL research and partnership activity. PROFILE. 10 GLOBAL Study abroad ‘Go Global’ We encourage our students to spend time overseas with a work/ Our students have a real voluntary placement, or a study chance to stand out in the abroad opportunity at one of our international world of work partner institutions and research, gain a global + across 40 countries perspective and develop the 200 intercultural skills to be a truly positive force in today’s global Student placements society. Students can take part Outgoing: in initiatives including language cafés, cultural events and study, work or volunteering 907 abroad, while our Go Global Incoming: Ambassadors help to promote intercultural curiosity and 598 integration on campus. International volunteering Our students are making a difference through numerous International volunteering programmes Foundation Programme (IFP) in the local community and offers over across the world. Through our philanthropically-funded Warwick in Africa and Warwick 250 international students Laksh programmes, we support OUR access to Warwick and other prestigious UK universities maths and English teaching in schools in South Africa, GLOBAL Tanzania, Ghana and New Delhi, India.