University of Leeds | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Leeds


00:02:38 1 History
00:02:47 1.1 Prior to formation
00:04:01 1.2 Origins of the Leeds School of Medicine and the Yorkshire College
00:06:19 1.3 Victoria University and Royal Charter
00:08:25 1.4 2000 to present
00:13:06 2 Campus
00:14:10 2.1 Parkinson Building
00:15:05 2.2 Maurice Keyworth Building
00:15:50 2.3 Great Hall
00:16:56 2.4 Post-war buildings
00:19:16 2.5 Modern expansion
00:22:41 3 Academic profile
00:23:30 3.1 Libraries
00:25:29 3.2 Computing
00:26:05 3.3 Research
00:27:55 3.4 Medicine
00:29:39 3.5 Rankings and reputation
00:31:09 3.6 Affiliations
00:32:00 3.7 Admissions
00:33:24 3.8 Nobel Prize winners
00:35:13 4 Organisation and governance
00:35:24 4.1 Faculties
00:37:07 4.2 Governance
00:38:05 4.3 International partners
00:38:43 4.4 Chancellor
00:40:11 4.5 Vice-Chancellor
00:40:53 5 Student life
00:41:02 5.1 Students' Union
00:42:35 5.1.1 Student Newspaper
00:43:52 5.1.2 Leeds Student Radio
00:44:14 5.1.3 LSTV (Leeds Student Television)
00:44:58 5.1.4 Awards
00:45:43 5.2 Sport
00:49:04 5.3 Accommodation
00:50:51 5.4 Miscellaneous
00:51:51 6 Notable people
00:52:00 6.1 Alumni
00:54:25 6.2 Honorary graduates
00:54:59 7 Other history
00:55:55 8 Partner institutions
00:56:09 9 See also



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The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884 it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Yorkshire College. It became part of the federal Victoria University in 1887, joining Owens College (which became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool). In 1903 a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.For 2017-18 Leeds is ranked nationally between 10th (Times and Sunday Times) and 14th (The Guardian; The Complete University Guide). The university is ranked as the 31st best in Europe and was ranked 93rd in the QS World University Rankings for 2019. Leeds was ranked in the top three in the UK and the top 20 in the world for graduate employability (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2016), and it was also ranked as the fifth most targeted British university by the UK's top graduate employers in 2016-17. Leeds was ranked 10th in the UK for research power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, the best result in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.  The university was named the 2017 Sunday Times University of the Year, having been runner-up in 2016.The university has 33,300 students, the fifth largest university in the UK (out of 167). From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked within the top 5 (alongside the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Nottingham and the University of Edinburgh) in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received. Leeds had an income of £706.2 million in 2017/18, of which £137.1 million was from research grants and contracts. The university has financial endowments of £77.2 million (2017–18), ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment.Notable alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, Piers Sellers (NASA astronaut) and six Nobel laureates.