A University of Birmingham is the oldest of trine universities in the English city of Birmingham. It was founded within 1900 as a successor to Mason Science College, and is so a earliest of the "Redbrick" universities. The major the food & drug administration-led institution, it presently has about 17,000 undergrad and 7,000 graduate students.

About the university

Its independent campus, in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, is arranged around a 100m-high Chamberlain clock tower (known dearly by students when "Old Joe"), commemorating Joseph Chamberlain, the University's number one Chancellor. A Awesome Hall of the University is in the vaulted Aston Webb Building, which is named when one of its designer (a more was Ingress Bell).

A University's Selly Oak campus is a short few feet away south of the independent campus. It was a front yard of a federation of nine higher education colleges, principally center theology & education, which were integrated into the University for teaching purposes inside 1999. Among these was Westhill College (late a University of Birmingham, Westhill) which merged by owning a University's School of Education within 2001. A University too operate many more web sites in the city.

Due to Birmingham's role as the centre of lightly engineering, a University traditionally got a favorite center on science, engineering & commerce. It currently teaches the fully range of academic cases & hwhen 5-star rating for teaching & locate within many departments; in addition, these are widely regarded as making the large contribution to cancer studies. These are likewise considered when one of a better universities in the united states for its sports teams.

Around 2005 a university began rebranding itself as a less conservative institution, changing a logotype from either a Eighties crest. This freshly logotype is, within point of fact, further in line by owning a crest when it appears on the University's original Royal Charter. Confusion above the precise changes existence mass produced per university stimulated students to imagine a crest was existence replaced sustaining a letters UB, a newly logotype designed to exist as utilized on the university's promotional poop. This aspect of a rebrand met by having wide disapproval including criticism from either the University's notable alumna Chris Tarrant.

Principal officers of the university
The Chancellor of the University, the ceremonial figurehead, is Sir Dominic Cadbury. The Pro-Chancellor is Lord Hannay of Chiswick. The Vice-Chancellor & Principal is Professor Michael Sterling

History of the university

In 23 February 1875, Sir Josiah Mason, the Birmingham industrialist and philanthropist, who mass produced his fortune inside making key rings, pens, nib & electroplating, based Mason Science College. It was this institution that would sooner or later form a nucleus of the University of Birmingham. Within 1882 their Departments of Chemistry, Botany and Physiology were transferred to Mason Science College, soon followed per Departments of Physics and Comparative Anatomy. A transport of the School of medicine to Mason Science College gave considerable impetus to the growing importance of that College, and within 1896, a move to incorporate it as a University College was mass produced. When a symptom of the Mason University College Work 1897 it became incorporated as Masin University College on 1 January 1898, with the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain MP becoming the President of its Court of Governors. It was largely due to Chamberlain's tireless enthusiasm that the University was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria on 24 March 1900. A Calthorpe family offered twenty-five demesne (Tenner hectares) of land on the Bournbrook side of their estate in July. A Court of Governors received a Birmingham University Work 1900, which put a Royal Charter into effect, in 31 May. A transport of Mason University College to the recently University of Birmingham, by having Chamberlain when its number 1 Chancellor and Sir Oliver Lodge as the number one Principal, was complete.

Chancellors of the University
1st Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain 1900-1914 2nd Rt Hon Robert Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood 1918-1944 3rd Rt Hon Sir Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon 1945-1973 4th Sir Peter Scott 1973-1983 5th Sir Alex Jarratt 1983-2002 6th Sir Dominic Cadbury 2002-present

Off-campus establishments

A School of Dentistry, inside Birmingham City Centre A Shakespeare Institute, in Stratford-upon-Avon A Ironbridge Institute, around Telford A Raymond Priestley Outdoor Pursuits Centre, touching Coniston in the Lake District

Other items of interest
A University:

is one of a top 5 virtually all popular universities in the UK. ranks in a top Century in the globe, based on data from the Days Higher Education Supplement of October 2004. was a number 1 civic university inside England. was a number one 'campus' university inside England. occurs as member of the Russell Group of Universities and a founder member of Universitas 21. is at home to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. hosted Edward Elgar as Professor of Music from either 1905 to 1908. green goods supplementary medical doctors than any more university around Britain. has a oldest business school inside England. experienced a foremost common man inside 240 years, Joseph Chamberlain, to hold a post of Chancellor of the British University, & a foremost such chancellor ever does'nt to develop been a member of the Established Church. has the Botanic Garden; the 24,000 square metre Edwardian Arts and Crafts style garden on the University's Edgbaston campus. was in which a Frisch-Peierls memorandum, a 1940 document which demonstrated that a atomic bomb was more than just theoretically conceivable, was written. is the sole university around Britain sustaining its have railway station. University (Birmingham) railway station, situated on the independent campus, is on the Cross-City Line.

Guild of Students

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a Birmingham University Guild of Students was the number 1 purpose-purpose-made Students' Union within the country once it was built in 1930, and was the introduction member of the National Unions of Students. the Guild of Students has the radio statiin known as Burn FM which broadcasts twice a year on FM utilizing Restricted Service Licences, & a hebdomadally newspaper known as Redbrick.

Alumni

The fully names may be seen under :Category:University of Birmingham alumni.

Walter Allen - novelist and literary critic The Rt Hon Baroness Amos - first black woman to sit in the British Cabinet Kenny Anthony - Prime Minister of St. Lucia A Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP - Chief Whip for a Government and Parliamentary Secretary at the Treasury Francis Aston - Nobel Prize winner Professor Michael Aston - television archaeologist (when "Mick Aston"). Madeleine Carroll - film star James Clavell - novelist and screenwriter Lisa Clayton - first British woman to sail single-single-handedly about the world Tim Curry - actor and musician Spencer Davis - 1960s Pop Star Alex Deakin - BBC weatherman Roy Fisher - poet Philippa Forrester - television presenter Dr Liam Herringshaw - palaeontologist Dr Richard Hu - Singapore Minister of Finance from 1985-2001 General Sir Mike Jackson KCB CBE - Chief of the General Staff, the virtually all senior officer in the British Army. David Kelly - UN weapons inspector Simon Le Bon - lead singer of Duran Duran David Lodge - novelist Desmond Morris - zoologist Captain Adrian Nance OBE - Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal Sir Paul Nurse - Nobel Prize winner Adam Osborne - founder of the Osborne Computer Corporation C. J. Sansom - crime novelist Chris Tarrant - TV presenter Sir Ernest Titterton - nuclear physicist involved in the development of the atomic bomb Henry Treece - poet and novelist Sir John Vane, FRS - Nobel Prize winner Rodolfo Neri Vela - Mexican astronaut A Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP - former cabinet minister Victoria Wood - comedian Maurice Wilkins - physicist who helped discover DNA Francis Brett Young - novelist and poet