The University of Nottingham is a public research university located in Nottingham, England. A royal charter was granted to it in 1948 after it was established in 1881 as University College Nottingham. Nottingham University is a member of the prestigious Russell Group, an organization with a strong focus on research. In addition to a variety of smaller campuses and sites spread around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, Nottingham's main campus (University Park), Jubilee Campus, and teaching hospital (Queen's Medical Center) are all situated within the City of Nottingham. The university has campuses outside of the UK in Ningbo, China, and Semenyih, Malaysia. With more than 50 schools, departments, institutes, and research centers, Nottingham is divided into five core faculties. There are 7,000 employees and roughly 45,500 students in Nottingham.
The institution has produced alumni who have won the Fields Medal, Turner Prize, Gabor Medal and Prize, and three Nobel Prizes. The university is a part of the Russell Group, Universitas 21, Universities UK, the Virgo Consortium, and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. It also takes part in the Sutton Trust Summer School programme as a Sutton 30 member.
The University of Nottingham has been listed among the top 200 institutions in the world by important academic organisations. For the past five years, QS (Top Universities) has put it among the top 100 universities in the world. Since 2018 and 2017, respectively, Nottingham has continuously been placed among the top 200 universities worldwide by US News & World Report and Times Higher Education. Additionally, the University of Nottingham is ranked among the top 50 universities in the United Kingdom.