The University of Nottingham is a leading University near the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. It gained its Royal Charter in 1948, with origins as an adult school from 1798.

In 2000, it had a total of 23,743 registered students, with an average of nine applications per place. This included 2,931 international students from more than 100 countries.

The University of Nottingham is famed for its campus, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful in the country. In fact, the University now has several campuses:

• The original University Park Campus, located to the west of Nottingham City Centre;
• The Jubilee Campus, 1 mile up the road from University Park;
• Sutton Bonington, a former agricultural college that has been part of the University for some time, about 12 miles away; and
• UNiM - the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, which is getting its own custom built campus near KL.

The University also runs courses at a number of teaching hospitals:

• The Queens Medical Centre (QMC) is located just across the road from the University Park Campus.
• In September 2003 the doors opened for the first intake at the University's new medical school in Derby, housing its postgraduate (shorter) medicine course;
• On top of these, a few years ago the University of Nottingham took on a number of nursing teaching sites, formerly the Mid Trent Nursing College. These are located across the East Midlands and include sites at Grantham, Derby, and Lincoln.

Interesting facts:

• University of Nottingham campuses are noted for their lakes. The new UNiM campus is having one dug especially.
• The University of Nottingham frequently has the highest number of applicants per place of any UK university.

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External links:

• The official web-site: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/
• The University of Nottingham Students' Union web-site: http://www.su.nottingham.ac.uk/