Joining the University of Leeds is your opportunity to be a piece of a college that is a drive for change. We have been at the cutting edge of research for more than 100 years and the learning we have made in that time has genuine effect on worldwide society.
We have an understudy populace of 31,000 from 147 nations, and stay prominent with candidates. They are drawn by the brilliant benchmarks for educating and inquire about and the opportunity to live in an energetic city. We are one of the biggest single grounds colleges in the UK and only one mile from Leeds downtown area. Degrees from the University of Leeds are very much regarded by bosses and colleges around the world. We are a main 10 college for research control in the UK, (Research Excellence Framework 2014). We are additionally in the main 100 colleges on the planet (QS Rankings 2015).
A huge, understudy neighborly, dynamic city, Leeds is an incredible place to think about and live with a lot of chances for going out and having a fabulous time. There's additionally some noteworthy city engineering and it's the provincial community for appreciating expressions of the human experience. We have a dynamic understudy union, with more than 300 clubs and social orders, a honor winning.
"Remarkable understudy fulfillment levels don't occur unintentionally and mirror the accentuation set here on getting the understudy learning knowledge spot on," said Alastair McCall, editorial manager of The Sunday Times Good University Guide.
He proceeded with: "Substantial interest in grounds offices has run as an inseparable unit with a solid peaceful arrangement of understudy support, the presentation of a last year inquire about based venture as the centerpiece of understudies' scholarly exercises, and the Leeds for Life conspire that gets ready understudies for life after college.
"It is no big surprise that Leeds' graduates are so looked for after by businesses."
"We are exceptionally pleased to be University of the Year 2017 - an appreciated acknowledgment of our dedication to guaranteeing that understudies encounter a remarkable instruction here at Leeds"
Teacher Tom Ward, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Student Education
The honor takes after one more year of excellent understudy fulfillment levels, where Leeds secured 90% fulfillment in the late 2016 National Student Survey (NSS).
The University additionally achieves an unsurpassed high in the general Sunday Times factual rankings, which makes a class table of colleges over the UK in light of a wide scope of measures.
Supporting the University's exceptional execution – which sees it ascending to thirteenth place by and large - are solid outcomes in understudy understanding, high section gauges, administrations and offices, and graduate prospects.
Sir Alan Langlands, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, stated: "The declaration comes at a noteworthy point in the schedule, as we invite 11,000 new associates and understudies to grounds for the begin of the scholastic year.
"I realize that their vitality, duty and motivation will be basic as they work with the current University people group to expand on these qualities.
"We have been upheld by unparalleled interests in our staff, look into capacity and grounds, which makes Leeds a genuinely wonderful place with regards to rousing information and making opportunity.
"We are putting resources into future eras of autonomous, basic masterminds and bleeding edge research of genuine effect and noteworthiness."
"We might likewise want to thank the city, which assumes an essential part in making Leeds a top goal for understudies. Financially energetic, humane and outward looking, this is an uncommon place to live and learn."
Sir Alan Langlands, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds
Putting resources into learning and making opportunity
Cases of late speculations incorporate a multi-million pound extend for the Student Union working, to help Leeds University Union stay one of the UK's greatest and best unions.
The work incorporates changing retail spaces, bars and bistro ranges, and also making enhanced execution scenes and offices for social orders.
Region LUUThe Edward Boyle Library is likewise being renovated to make an IT-rich library, home to more than 2,000 gathering and noiseless understudy spaces, showing spaces and another postgraduate review zone.
This supplements the new cutting edge undergrad arrangement in the £26m Laidlaw Library, which formally opened in July 2015.
The ventures shape part of the University's £520m grounds improvement program, supporting Leeds' position as one of the UK's top advanced education establishments.
Taking a stab at achievement
Throughout the previous two years, Leeds has been runner-up for The Times and Sunday Times' University of the Year.
Alastair McCall, editorial manager of The Sunday Times Good University Guide, included: "Following two years as runner-up in our University of the Year grant, Leeds put forth a convincing defense to win the honor by and large this year when it has never been positioned higher in our class table."
"There are frameworks and arrangements set up to guarantee it ought to remain a prominent goal with understudies for quite a long time to come."
Alastair McCall, editorial manager of the Good University Guide
Jack Palmer Union Affairs Officer at Leeds University Union stated: "Congrats to the University for getting this honor, everyone in LUU is charmed to see the University of Leeds get the acknowledgment it merits as a top establishment.
"We are always working in Partnership with the University to guarantee understudies love their time at Leeds. An incredible college encounter does not simply end in the classroom, and we have worked vigorously with the University to guarantee understudies have a balanced affair, going along with one of our 300+ clubs or social orders, volunteering inside the city, offering autonomous counsel and bolster and getting a charge out of co-curricular exercises so they can get the most out of college.
"We feel that this honor additionally mirrors the work of LUU in helping understudies love their time at Leeds, which is reflected in our 92% fulfillment rate in the National Student Survey.
"We anticipate working with the University of Leeds to keep up these exclusive requirements and meet rising desires for nature of training, the average cost for basic items in Leeds and the financing of understudy administrations."
This new title takes after an amazing year of honors, with the University winning The Duke of York Award for University Entrepreneurship at the National Business Awards, being named Entrepreneurial University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards, and getting the Guardian University Award 2016 for its support of venturesome understudies.
The University was likewise positioned in the main 20 UK colleges in the Guardian University Guide 2017 alliance table. Perused the profile here.
Most as of late, Leeds secured a main position in the World University Rankings 2016/17, by and by being situated in the main 100 best colleges on the planet.
