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The
University of Birmingham
(or
Birmingham University
) is a British
red brick university
in the city of
Birmingham
, England.
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It is based in the suburb of
Edgbaston
. It got its
royal charter
in 1900, and included the Birmingham Medical School (founded 1825) and Mason Science College (1875).
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Birmingham was the first redbrick university to get university status.
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It is a member of the
Russell Group
of research universities and a founding member of
Universitas 21
. Birmingham is one of the 12 institutions in England with highest entry requirements.
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The student population includes around 19,000 undergraduate and 9,000 postgraduate students, making the 11th largest in the UK.
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As of 2011 it is the seventh most popular English university by number of applications.
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In 2010 Birmingham was ranked as the 10th most popular British university by graduate employers. The annual income of the institution for 2010-11 was
￡
470.7 million, with an expenditure of ￡443.7 million.
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Birmingham has the ninth largest financial endowment of any British university at approximately ￡85 million in 2009.
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Birmingham is ranked nationally between 10th
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and 23rd.
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Internationally it is 99th in the 2010 rankings,
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and 67th in the 2011 rankings.
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The
Sunday Times
composite ranking put the university 19th from 1998 to 2007.
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Birmingham was ranked 12th in the 2008 research assessment.
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