University of Warwick

The University of Warwick was founded in 1965 with an exciting, radical vision of education's power to transform lives. The idea of a university in Coventry was first raised shortly after the Second World War, and a bold partnership between the City and the County brought it into being on a 170-hectare site between Coventry and Kenilworth. The university received its Royal Charter in 1965 and took its first 450 undergraduates in October of that year. Today Warwick teaches more than 28,500 students, around a third of whom come from overseas, from approximately 150 countries. It is a member of the Russell Group and is consistently ranked among the best universities in the UK and the world, known for economics, business, mathematics, statistics, politics, history and the sciences, and for the Warwick Business School, Warwick Manufacturing Group and its research centres and institutes. Warwick's campus is a self-contained, green community with its own shops, restaurants, the Warwick Arts Centre, one of the largest arts centres in the UK, and extensive sports facilities, and the university has always encouraged admission from anyone with the potential to succeed, including through its 2+2 degree programme with local further education colleges.