Brunel University

Brunel University
founding	1966
Sponsorship	state
place	London , United Kingdom
Chancellor (Chancellor)	Sir Richard Sykes FRS , Julia Buckingham (Vice Chancellor and President)
Students	15,150 (2006)
Employee	2,162 (2006)
Website	www.brunel.ac.uk

The Brunel University , since 2014 officially Brunel University London (often only briefly: Brunel ) is a public University in Uxbridge , a district of London . It is named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel .

history

The university was established in 1966 by Royal Charter . The founding history of the colleges, which were absorbed into the university, goes back to 1928. Today around 15,000 students study at the university. Brunel is one of the few real campus universities in the British capital and has invested £ 250 million in new buildings and the centralization of the institutes in recent years, according to the Guardian newspaper . However, the strong expansion of research in recent years has also caused criticism of the university's personnel policy.

The Guardian University Guide from 2010 describes the university's strategy of combining "academic excellence with the practical, entrepreneurial and visionary approach" in the sense of its namesake as successful and highlights, among other things, the cosmopolitan atmosphere with students from more than 110 nations.

Academic units

The second Brunel campus (Runnymede Campus) sold in 2007 as part of the centralization of the institutes

There are eight schools that represent the roof for different departments :

School of Arts
Brunel Business School
Brunel Law School
School of Engineering and Design
School of Health Sciences and Social Care
School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics
School of Social Sciences
School of Sport and Education

There are also eight Specialist Research Institutes :

Brunel Center for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST)
Center for Contemporary Music Practice (CCMP)
Experimental Techniques Center
Health Economics Research Group (HERG)
Institute for Bioengineering (BIB)
Institute for the Environment
Wolfson Center for Materials Processing
Magna Carta Institute

Rankings

Brunel is counted among the leading universities in London. In the Sunday Times University Guide of 2012, the university ranks 39th and is thus in the top third of British universities. In the Complete University Guide 2013 it is ranked 41st. In the official British research ranking Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Brunel University is listed in the top quarter of universities. According to the RAE, 82 percent of the scientists work on an international level. Brunel University has a leading position in the Early Carreer Researchers sector.