About University of Leeds

Located in a diverse and student-friendly city, the University of Leeds is one of the largest and most prestigious universities in the UK. From day one, you will be studying among internationally renowned and inspirational academics working at the forefront of their fields; some will have even written your textbooks.
The University of Leeds has one of the largest range of courses on offer in the UK, with more than 300 undergraduate and 200 taught postgraduate programmes taught across our seven faculties. With over 35,000 students from 170 countries we have been welcoming international students to our world-class campus for over 100 years.

Why the University?
o Established in 1904, and a Russell Group University (research intensive universities)
o One single campus, 10 minutes’ walk from the city centre
o Top 10 in the UK for Research
o £520m investment into the campus over the next five years
o We are top 100 in the QS World University Rankings 2021
o 3rd in the UK for student experience
o Gold Rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework
o Winner: University of the Year 2017 in UK
o Industrial Placement Year available for most UG courses for 1000 students each year

o Award-winning Leeds University Union (LUU) offers over 300 clubs and societies

The City/Campuses
Leeds is the 3rd largest city in the UK, 2 hours away from London by train. The university campus is 10 minutes’ walk from the city centre. The city of Leeds is a multi-cultural student friendly city with 3 universities and student population over 70,000.
Leeds is located in Yorkshire and one of the happiest places to live in the UK with one of the greenest counties in the UK.
University of Leeds offers quality facility/student support, our main library has more than 2.8 million items and 500,000 online books. 4th largest in the UK with over 3,900 study spaces, over 3,000 PC’s. We are the largest campus PC network in the UK and award winning ‘Virtual Learning Environment’.

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University of Leeds Rankings

We're ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2019.

We were named the University of the Year 2017 in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide

Our staff have been awarded 26 National Teaching Fellowships – more than any other university

Leeds is ranked in the top 100 universities in the QS World University Rankings 2020

We are a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities

We are part of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), which comprises 22 research-intensive institutions spanning six continents

We are a top 10 university for research power in the UK according to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework

We were awarded the Queen’s Anniversary prize, the country’s highest accolade for an academic institution, in 2009 and 2011
In the National Student Survey 2018, 88% of final year Leeds students said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the course - five points above the national average

The University won the Entrepreneurship award at the Guardian University Awards 2016