The University of Warwick (informally known as Warwick University or Warwick) is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education and Warwick Medical School was opened in 2000.
Warwick is primarily located on a 290 hectare campus on the outskirts of Coventry, with an additional site in Wellesbourne. It is organised into four faculties - Arts, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences - within which there are approximately 30 departments. Warwick has around 23,400 full-time students and 1,390 academic and research staff and had a total income of £419.1 million in 2010/11, of which £86.3 million came from research grants and contracts.
Warwick describes itself as a "research-led institution" and in the last Research Assessment Exercise (in 2008) it was ranked 7th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions. Warwick currently regularly ranks in the top ten in all major rankings of British universities and entrance is highly competitive, with around 8.25 applicants per place for undergraduate study.
Warwick is a member of AACSB, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, EQUIS, the European University Association, the Russell Group and Universities UK.
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