The University of Bristol is an international powerhouse of learning, discovery and enterprise. Its vision is of a university whose excellence is acknowledged locally, nationally and globally.
The University was rated by The Times Good University Guide 2009 as one of the top ten universities in the UK. In the same year it came within the top 35 in The Times Higher Education/QS World University Rankings. The Sunday Times has described Bristol as ‘one of the jewels of British higher education’ and ‘at the cutting edge academically’.
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, which carried out an institutional audit of the University in 2009, awarded Bristol the highest rating available for its management of education and the academic standards of its awards
The University is a member of the Russell Group, an association of 20 major research-intensive universities in the UK. It has 31 Fellows of the Royal Society and nine of the British Academy – a remarkable achievement for a relatively compact institution.
Bristol is a research-intensive university, supporting both individual scholarship and interdisciplinary or thematic research of the highest quality. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 93% of research at Bristol was deemed to be of international standard. Over 61% of the research work assessed in 48 research fields was awarded either the top 4* rating, defined as ‘world leading’, or the 3* rating, classified as ‘internationally excellent’.
Facts
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12,500 full-time undergraduates
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Average of about 11 home/EU applications for every undergraduate place, making Bristol more popular than almost any other UK university
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5,250 postgraduates
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2,000 international students from about 100 countries
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5,600 staff
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More than two dozen companies have been spun out from the University’s research
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£400 million turnover
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There are some 145,000 Bristol alumni in about 160 countries
