The University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a attainable assay university amidst in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It acclimatized its aloof allocation in 1900 as a almsman to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1828 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery) and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), accurate it the ancient English angel or 'red brick' university to acquire its own aloof charter. It is a founding associate of both the Russell Group of British assay universities and the all-embracing adjustment of assay universities, Universitas 21.

The university was ranked 11th in the UK and 64th in the angel in the QS Angel University Rankings for 2014-15. In 2013, Birmingham was alleged 'University of the Year 2014' in the Times Higher Education awards. The Global Employability University Ranking conducted by THES places Birmingham at 57th all-embracing Birmingham is aswell ranked 4th in the UK for Graduate Prospects in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015.
The amateur citizenry includes about 19,000 undergraduate and 9,000 postgraduate students, which is the 11th bigger in the UK. The ceremony assets of the academy for 2013–14 was £528.2 million, with an bulk of £499 million.

The university is home to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, accommodation works by Van Gogh, Picasso and Monet, the Lapworth Museum of Geology, the Cadbury Assay Library home to the Mingana Collections of Middle Eastern manuscripts and the Chamberlain Collection, and the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower, which is a arresting battlefield arresting from abounding locations of the city. Academics and alumni of the university awning aloft British Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain, and Stanley Baldwin, and eight Nobel laureates.