Name: University of Leicester Location: Midlands, England City: Leicester Distance from London by train: 1 hr, 10 mins
Situated in the heart of England, just 75 minutes from London by train, the University of Leicester has a long history of welcoming international students.
With a broad academic base in the Arts, Education, Law, Medicine, Sciences and the Social Sciences, the University attracts students from over one hundred countries. We are a leading provider of graduate education in the UK, both campus-based and distance learning, and over half of our 19,000 registered students are graduates.
We have over eighty years' experience in delivering high quality courses and undertaking pioneering research. Only one other University can match our 14 consecutive “Excellent” scores for teaching quality as awarded by the Quality Assurance Agency. We ranked joint 1st in the 2005 UK’s National Student Survey for teaching quality and overall satisfaction amongst universities teaching full-time students, and more than two-thirds of our subjects are in the top ten in the UK.
The University is renowned for the discovery of DNA genetic fingerprinting and has an international reputation for space research.
