University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a redbrick college situated in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Initially named the Yorkshire College of Science and later essentially the Yorkshire College, it consolidated the Leeds School of Medicine and turned out to be a piece of the government Victoria University close by Owens College (which inevitably turned into the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which turned into the University of Liverpool). In 1904, an imperial sanction, made in 1903, was allowed to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.

The college has 31,030 understudies, the eighth biggest college in the UK (out of 165). From 2006 to exhibit, the college has reliably been positioned inside of the main 5 (close by Manchester University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham University and Edinburgh University) in the United Kingdom for the quantity of uses received. Leeds had an aggregate salary of £639.6 million in 2014/15, of which £152.1 million was from exploration gifts and contracts.The college has money related blessings of £66.7 million (2014–15), positioning outside the main ten British colleges by monetary endowment.

The college is an establishing individual from the Russell Group of exploration escalated colleges, the N8 Group for examination collaboration, the Worldwide Universities Network, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the White Rose University Consortium, the Santander Network and CDIO and is additionally partnered to the Association of MBAs, EQUIS and Universities UK.

For 2015-16, Leeds is positioned broadly between fourteenth (Times and Sunday Times) and 23rd (The Guardian). Universally, the college is positioned as the 32nd best in Europe and all inclusive positioned 87th in the 2015 QS World University Rankings[9] and 101–150 (2015 ARWU). Leeds was positioned tenth in the UK for examination power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework,[10] the best result in the Yorkshire and the Humber regio and between 2014-15, Leeds was positioned as the tenth most focused on British college by the UK's top graduate employ
Striking graduated class incorporate previous Secretary of State Jack Straw, previous co-administrator of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, American performing artist Chris Pine, Piers Sellers (NASA space traveler) and five Nobel laureates.