University of Birmingham Facts for Kids

The University of Birmingham (or Birmingham University) is a British red brick university in the city of Birmingham, England. It is based in the suburb of Edgbaston. It got its royal charter in 1900, and included the Birmingham Medical School (founded 1825) and Mason Science College (1875).

Birmingham was the first redbrick university to get university status. It is a member of the Russell Group of research universities and a founding member of Universitas 21. Birmingham is one of the 12 institutions in England with highest entry requirements.

The student population includes around 19,000 undergraduate and 9,000 postgraduate students, making the 11th largest in the UK. As of 2011 it is the seventh most popular English university by number of applications.

In 2010 Birmingham was ranked as the 10th most popular British university by graduate employers. The annual income of the institution for 2010-11 was £470.7 million, with an expenditure of £443.7 million. Birmingham has the ninth largest financial endowment of any British university at approximately £85 million in 2009.

Birmingham is ranked nationally between 10th and 23rd. Internationally it is 99th in the 2010 rankings, and 67th in the 2011 rankings. The Sunday Times composite ranking put the university 19th from 1998 to 2007. Birmingham was ranked 12th in the 2008 research assessment.

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A view across Chancellor's Court, towards the Law building
Ceiling of the Aston Webb building
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Friezes on the Aston Webb building
Poynting physics building
The Great Hall, where the final round of the first ever prime ministerial debate was held
Statues of the University of Birmingham (Beethoven, Virgil, Michelangelo, Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Watt, Faraday, and Darwin)
Plan of the new University Campus at Edgbaston, proposed by architects Sir Aston Webb and Mr Ingress Bell in 1909
Old Joe, the university's clock tower, remains the tallest freestanding clock tower in the world
The university's Learning Centre (left), School of Computer Science (right) and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's Faraday sculpture
Faculty of Arts Building
University railway station
The Mason College building housed the Faculties of Arts and Law until 1962
Aston Webb building from the rear
The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon
The University of Birmingham Astronomical Observatory
The old main library, which has now been demolished
The Medical School and Queen Elizabeth Hospital
William Bloye's Birmingham University mermaid
The Birmingham Business School
Birmingham University playing fields
High Hall as it appeared just prior to demolition in 2013
Barber Institute interior
William Bloye's mermaid fountain at Birmingham University
Nobel Prize winner Sir Norman Haworth
British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain
Saint Lucian Prime Minister, Kenny Anthony
Chief Justice of Hong Kong, Geoffrey Ma

University of Birmingham facts for kids

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