Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university in Nottingham, England. The university was formed by the amalgamation of many separate institutions of higher education. It originated from the Nottingham Government School of Design founded in 1843. It was founded as a new university in 1992 from Trent Polytechnic (later Nottingham Polytechnic). It is the sixth largest university in the UK with 35,785 students split over five different campuses. The university is composed of eight academic schools.
The university has “one of the best employability records of any university in England and Wales”. In November 2015, the university was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, “the highest national honour for a UK University” based on numerous research projects.It was ranked 600 globally by the QS World University Rankings in 2013. In 2015, WhatUni ranked the university 12th in its ‘Student Choice Awards’. In the same year, the Times Higher Education ranked the university as 31st out of 113 universities in the country for student experience.
42 in League Table Ranking of The Complete University Guide
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating
Type
University Public
Year Founded
1992
Size
Large
25,000 Students