University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It received its royal charter in 1904, growing out of the Yorkshire College of Science, founded in 1874, and a period as a constituent college of the Victoria University. It is a civic red-brick university whose main campus is a compact precinct north of the city center, organized around the Parkinson Building.

Teaching and research are grouped into faculties that include Arts, Humanities and Cultures; Biological Sciences; Business; Engineering and Physical Sciences; Environment; Medicine and Health; and Social Sciences. Leeds University Business School, engineering and physical sciences, and medicine and health are the units most visible to graduate applicants. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and research centers in climate, materials, and food science support doctoral work.

Enrollment is about 38,000 students, with a large postgraduate population. More than a quarter of students come from outside the United Kingdom, from well over 100 countries. The university has several thousand academic staff. Alumni and former students include Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who completed postgraduate work in Leeds, politician Jack Straw, and actor and writer Sanjeev Bhaskar.

Graduate study centers on taught master's, research master's, and PhD degrees, with supervision-led doctorates and a large set of one-year taught master's. The academic year runs on a two-semester calendar. Doctoral students are commonly funded by UK research councils, university scholarships, and departmental studentships. The campus is a walkable precinct in a large northern English city, with graduate housing in Headingley, Hyde Park, and the city center.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Leeds lists 195 graduate programs across 52 subjects: 166 master's programs and 23 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in health & medical sciences, law and communication, media & journalism. University of Leeds holds rank 139 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.