Coventry University
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| founding | 1992 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Coventry , UK |
| Vice-Chancellor | John Latham |
| Students | 18,900 (2012/13) |
| Employee | 2500 |
| Website | www.coventry.ac.uk |
The University of Coventry ( English Coventry University ) is next to the University of Warwick one of the two universities of Coventry ( United Kingdom ). The oldest university in the city goes back to the "Coventry College of Design" founded in 1843. After the merger with two other colleges and various name changes, it got its current name in 1992.
Coventry University has over 38,000 students (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses in 2005/06) from 90 countries. The university employs around 2500 people.
Facilities
In addition to its own radio station, the university has a well-organized student association (CUSU), which looks after the needs of the students, offers various sporting and social activities and services, and runs its own club.
Faculties and schools
The university consists of three faculties, two schools and a center
- Faculty of Business, Environment and Society
- Faculty of Engineering and Computing
- Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
- School of Art and Design
- School of Lifelong Learning
- Center for Higher Education Development
Evaluation of the university
In a ranking of the daily newspaper The Guardian , which is based on a survey of students and graduates about the study conditions and on an evaluation of the career prospects for graduates, the university achieved 15th place among 119 evaluated universities in 2015 and thus not only the best place to date for itself, but also for a university created by the British university reforms in the 1990s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.coventry.ac.uk/the-university/about-coventry-university/governance/vice-chancellors-office/
- ↑ Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2006/07 ( Microsoft Excel spreadsheet; 80 kB) Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved April 7, 2008.
- ↑ University tables: Coventry slips past Russell Group peers to enter top 20 in: The Guardian May 25, 2015, accessed May 26, 2015