The University of Leicester is based in Leicester, England, with about 8,000 full-time students and over 10,000 distance-learning students, one of the larget distance learning populations of any UK university. The main campus is not far away from the city centre and is adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College.
University of Leicester seen from Victoria Park
It was founded as Leicestershire and Rutland College in 1918 in the memory of those who lost their life in World War I. The university motto "Ut vitam habeant" - 'so that they may have life' - reminds one of that origin. Students were first admitted in 1921. In 1927, after it became University College, Leicester, students sat the examinations for external degrees of the University of London.
In 1957 the college was granted its Royal Charter and has since then the status of a University with the right to award its own degrees.
It is notable for its research. Genetic fingerprinting was developed at Leicester, and it has built space probes, most notably the Mars lander Beagle 2, in collaboration with the Open University.
The University's Engineering Building was the first major building by important British architect James Stirling. It comprises workshops at ground level, and a tower containing offices and lecture theatres. It was completed in 1963 and is notable for the way in which its external form reflects its internal functions.
University of Leicester produces the first-ever 'world map of happiness'
Adrian White, Analytic Social Psychologist at the University of Leicester produces first ever global projection of international differences in subjective well-being; the first ever World Map of Happiness.
Adrian White, an analytic social psychologist at the University's School of Psychology, analysed data published by UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR, to create a global projection of subjective well-being: the first world map of happiness.
The University of Leicester was established in the early part of the last century as a University College - a memorial to those men from Leicestershire and Rutland who had died in the Great War.
The University of Leicester currently has over 18,500 students and is celebrating its 80th Anniversary with record achievements in terms of undergraduate recruitment, research income and research and teaching assessments.
The University of Leicester is ranked as the leading provider of postgraduate degree programmes in the UK by the Financial Times (2002) and is ranked as a top 20 university by the Financial Times and the Sunday Times.
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