Original: The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With more than 49,000 applications for 2011 entry, Nottingham is the third most popular university in the UK, and has been described by the Times as "the nearest Britain has to a truly global university" and the "prime alternative to Oxbridge".
Simplified: Nottingham University is the fifth largest university in the UK.