The University of Nottingham is a leading research-led University near the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. It gained its Royal Charter in 1948, with origins as an adult school from 1798.
In 2000, it had a total of 23,743 registered students, with an average of nine applications per place. This included 2,931 international students from more than 100 countries.
The University of Nottingham is famed for its campus, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful in the country. In fact, the University now has several campuses:
- The original University Park Campus, located to the west of Nottingham City Centre;
- The Jubilee Campus, 1 mile up the road from University Park;
- Sutton Bonington, a former agricultural college that has been part of the University for some time, about 12 miles away; and
- UNiM - the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, which is getting its own custom built campus near KL.
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Climbing and mountaineering club of the University of Nottingham, England that has nurtured many distinguished climbing talents including Peter Boardman (the first British university graduate to summit Everest), Seb Grieve (established many hard trad gritstone routes such as Meshuga, E9, at Black Rocks), and Brian Davidson (first ascentionist of Mort, IX, Britain's hardest winter route).Teaching hospitals
The University also runs courses at a number of teaching hospitals:Facts
Nottingham University Mountaineering Club