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The University of Nottingham (informally Nottingham University) is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. One of UK's oldest universities, it was founded as University College, Nottingham in 1881, and received its Royal Charter in 1948. Today, it has branch campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
In 2010/2011, Nottingham had 30,370 full-time students, 2,735 full-time staff and a total income of ₤511 million. It received 49,000 applications for 5,500 places in 2012, making it the most popular university in the UK. Admission into popular courses such as Law and Economics are among the most competitive in the country.
Cited by some as a "prime alternative to Oxbridge", Nottingham was ranked 13th in the UK in the 2011 QS World University Rankings, and 9th in the UK in the 2011 ARWU. The 2008 RAE ranked it 7th in the UK for "research power", and The Graduate Market Report of 2012 placed it amongst the five most targeted universities in the country by graduate employers. It was named the THE "University of the Year" in 2006 and "Entrepreneurial University of the Year" in 2010. In 2011, Nottingham was ranked the greenest campus in the world, ahead of Northeastern University (2nd) in the United States of America.
Nottingham (i/ˈnɒtɪŋəm/ NOT-ing-əm) is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and is one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group.
Nottingham is famed for its links with the legend of Robin Hood and, during the Industrial Revolution, obtained worldwide recognition for its lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. With origins tracable back to 600 AD, Nottingham was granted its city charter as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria in 1897 and has since been officially titled the City of Nottingham. The city has historically been nicknamed The Queen of the Midlands, being the smaller yet less industrialised regional neighbour to the Midlands biggest city, Birmingham. Nottingham is considered the primary centre of England's East Midlands region, being home to numerous regional headquarters and media stations including the BBC East Midlands and the Regional Government Office.
Whilst Nottingham has always had a tightly-drawn authority boundary, accounting for its relatively small population of 306,700, Nottingham's Urban Area has a population of approximately 670,000; in the 2001 census, it was the eighth largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Eurostat's concept of the Larger Urban Zone listed the area's population at 825,600 as of 2004.