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The University of Worcester is the one university in the city of Worcester and the surrounding county of Worcestershire in the United Kingdom. It acquired university status by the granting of a Royal charter in September 2005, having previously been known as University College Worcester, and prior to that as Worcester College of Higher Education.In 2008 the University of Worcester was awarded "best social university" as part of the national sports tour in Lloret De Mar despite being one of the country's smallest universities.
OFSTED has rated the University's teaching education as "Excellent".
The EcoCampus scheme has awarded the University a "Silver" level award.
The National Student Survey of former students consistently rates the University as one of the top institutions in the UK.
The University of Worcester has jumped a massive 71 places, to 22nd out of 119 Institutions overall in the People and Planet's "Green League".
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Coventry University is a post-1992 university in Coventry, West Midlands, England. Under the terms of the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992, the institution's name was changed from Coventry Polytechnic to Coventry University. However, its roots can be traced as far back as 1843 to the Coventry College of Design. Much has changed since then and the university has made great strides in its development as an institution, particularly over the last ten years.
The expanding main campus is situated on the east side of Coventry city centre, which boasts one of the most innovative (and unusual-looking) university libraries in the UK. The university is particularly noted for its world-renowned automotive design and engineering degree courses as well as the UK's first disaster management programme
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The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a British 'red brick' university located in the city of Birmingham, England. Founded in Edgbaston in 1900 as a successor to Mason Science College, and with origins dating back to the 1825 Birmingham Medical School, it was the first of the so-called 'red brick' universities to receive a Royal Charter and thus official university status.
The university is a member of the Russell Group of research universities and a founding member of Universitas 21. It currently has over 18,000 undergraduate and 11,000 postgraduate students, making it larger than the other two universities in the city; Aston University and Birmingham City University, and the largest university in the West Midlands region. In 2006-07, it was the fourth most popular English university by number of applications. In the same year the annual income of the university was £389m, with an expenditure of £372m.
The Times Higher Education Supplement placed the University 65th in the 2007 world university rankings table. It is ranked 11th in the UK and 30th in Europe in the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It was rated fifth in the UK for research quality in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, with 32 departments holding a 5 or 5* rating. The Guardian University Guide describes it as "Large, prestigious, and rather grand".
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