Location
A independent campus is placed I mile (1.Sixer kilometer) northward of the central city of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire in northern England. A campus is inside real life walk few feet away from either a city & Headingley (a popular location to survive for students). A independent entrance to a campus for visitant by car get on Woodhouse Lane (A660), touching the Parkinson Building (as well referred to as University tower).

Additionally to the independent campus, there are too satellite locations at Wakefield and Bretton Hall College in West Bretton.

A circumferent countryside as much as Leeds includes a picturesque Yorkshire Dales and Ilkley Moor (part of the Yorkshire Moors), and a historic spa towns of Harrogate, Ilkley and Knaresborough. A lot come in real life email by car, train or even bus.

History
A various bodies that were to turn into a university were at first founded in the 2nd half of the 19th century in response to the need to improve scientific education in the area, especially in the areas of fabric function & medicine. It besides espoused a general principle encountered within a establishment of more academician bodies in northern cities at the period, videlicet to challenge the "exclusivity of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which served only the needs of the Anglican aristocracy and gentry." ([http://www.leeds.ac.uk/about/origins.htm Origins]). These bodies were at the start to be section of the federal Victoria University, but as punishment a enthusiasm of the more member institutions - around Manchester and Liverpool - to break away and form their have city Universities, Leeds did a equivalent. Around 1904, King Edward VII granted the University of Leeds the charter as an independent person.

Within August 2001, a University merged sustaining Bretton Hall College.

Present day
When of 2004, the university has an fantabulous reputation for teaching & will bring the wide range of courses for students. In the period of this academic season (2004-Five) above 31,500 students come bound to 700 different foremost-degree programmes & 312 graduate degree programmes. a farther 52,000 men & women come enrolled in short courses using the university. It enjoys an fantabulous reputation around numerous different cases, using further students researching languages & physical sciences than at any more UK institution. It has too developed expertness within extra distinctive & uncommon specialist areas like colour chemistry, fire science and aviation technology with pilot studies.

Leeds is besides the leading locate institution, & the member of the Russell Group of Universities. These are committed to working using a private sector and invests heavily within realising a commercial expected of its academic developments. Leeds attracts a greatest level of industrial funding of any university in the UK.

A todays Chancellor is Lord Bragg of Wigton and the Vice Chancellor (when of 1 September 2004) is Professor Michael Arthur.

Within December 2004, fiscal pressures forced a University's establishment (Council) to decide to close a Bretton campus (along using a University's more satellite places around Wakefield). Activities presently at Bretton is moved to the independent University campus in the summertime of 2007 (letting wholly todays Bretton-depending students to complete their studies there). There has been real opposition to a closure per Bretton students, several of whom sense that it degrades the quality of their degree.

Facilities
Leeds University Library is cover half a dozen locations & holds, within amount, Two.7 million books & across 9,400 printed & on the internet periodics. A independent arts library is referred to as a Brotherton Library, while a independent science & student library is the Edward Boyle Library (both on the independent campus).

There are 9,000 pc available through a campus along by using 150 Sun computers & servers, Eighter high performance Sun servers & 256 supercomputers.

A university has 496 hectares (1,230 demesne) of land, by owning a independent campus ingesting higher Xl hectares (98 acres).

Leeds boasts one of a united states's finest university newspapers, Leeds Student, & the successful student radio station, [http://www.lsrfm.com/ LSRfm], two of which regularly win national awards. Leeds University Union, which includes numerous shops & blocks & an award-winning cabaret, is one of a big student union operations in the UK. Various noted elastic use played at a University Refectory, including The Who (who recorded Live at Leeds there), Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Strokes and the Manic Street Preachers.

Accommodation
For even 1st season students, there exists accommodation provided inside either catered or self-catered rooms. Bodington Hall is the University's large hall of home, housing in the area of 1200 students, catered & self-catered.

Noted alumni
Far-famed graduates include:

Byford, Mark, deputy Director-General of the BBC (graduated LLB in Law, 1979) Cryer, Barry, writer and comedian (English) Dacre, Paul, editor of the Daily Mail (English, 1970) Dyson, Jeremy, screenwriter and member of The League of Gentlemen (Philosophy) Enkhbayar, Nambaryn, President of Mongolia (2005-) Fay, Dr Christopher, CBE (chairwoman of the consultative committee in business & the epa, chairman of Expro International & a director by using BAA & Anglo U.s., & chairperson and chief executive of Shell UK from 1993–1998, graduated from Leeds by having BSc and Ph.D. in civil engineering). Jameson, Storm, writer (English, 1912; MA 1914) Jordan, Professor V. Craig, OBE (responsible for pioneering research into breast cancer and the development of the cancer drug Tamoxifen, BSc and Ph.D. in pharmacology in 1969 and 1972) McGowan, Alistair, actor, comedian and impressionistic (English, 1986) Kershaw, Liz, radio presenter (Textile Management, 1978) Knopfler, Mark, guitarist and singer sustaining Dire Straits (English, 1973) Porter, George, chemist and President of the Royal Society (Chemistry, 1941) Shipman, Harold, serial killer (Medicine, 1970) Short, Clare, former International Development Secretary (graduated BA in Political Science, 1969) Soyinka, Wole, Nigerian writer and number one African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 Straw, Jack, United Kingdom Foreign Secretary (graduated LLB in Law, 1967) Wood, Mark, Chairman of ITN News (German, 1974)

Noted faculty
Illustrious lecturers include:

Bauman, Zygmunt - sociologist Bragg, William Henry - physicist/chemist (Physics, 1909-1915) Crighton, David - mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1986) Meadow, Roy - paediatrician McGuckin, John Anthony - former Reader around Patristic and Byzantine Theology Stewart, J. I. M. (Michael Innes) - writer (English, 1930-1935) Tolkien, J. R. R. - writer (English, 1920-1925)