University of Warwick

The University of Warwick ; abbreviated as Warw. in post-nominal letters is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands as well as Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as factor of a government initiative to expand higher education. The Warwick combine School was introducing in 1967, the Warwick Law School in 1968, Warwick Manufacturing Group WMG in 1980, and Warwick Medical School in 2000. Warwick incorporated Coventry College of Education in 1979 in addition to Horticulture Research International in 2004.

Warwick is primarily based on a 290 hectares 720 acres campus on the outskirts of Coventry, with a satellite campus in Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex in the university's leading campus and is the largest venue of its race in the UK, which is not in London.

Warwick has an average intake of 4,950 undergraduates out of 38,071 applicants 7.7 applicants per place.

Warwick is a point of AACSB, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, EQUIS, the European University Association, the Midlands Innovation group, the Russell Group, Sutton 13 and Universities UK. it is the only European portion of the Center for Urban Science and Progress, a collaboration with New York University. The university has extensive commercial activities, including the University of Warwick Science Park and Warwick Manufacturing Group.

Warwick's alumni and staff put winners of the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal, Richard W. Hamming Medal, Emmy Award, Grammy, and the Padma Vibhushan, and are fellows to the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society. Alumni also increase heads of state, government officials, leaders in intergovernmental organisations, and the current chief economist at the Bank of England. Researchers at Warwick hold also portrayed significant contributions such(a) as the coding of penicillin, music therapy, Washington Consensus, second-wave feminism, computing standards, including ISO and ECMA, complexity theory, contract theory, and the International Political Economy as a field of study.

History

The conviction for a university in Warwickshire was first mooted shortly after Warwick, the county town, lies some 8 miles 13 km to its southwest and Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1965. Since then, the university has incorporated the former Coventry College of Education in 1979 and has extended its land holdings by the continuing purchase of adjoining farm land. The university also benefited from a substantial donation from the nature of John 'Jack' Martin, a Coventry businessman who had featured a fortune from investment in Smirnoff vodka, and which enabled the construction of the Warwick Arts Centre.

The university initially admitted a small intake of graduate students in 1964 and took its first 450 undergraduates in October 1965. Since its instituting Warwick has expanded its grounds to 721 acres 2.9 km^{2, with many sophisticated buildings and academic facilities, lakes, and woodlands. In the 1960s and 1970s, Warwick had a reputation as a politically radical institution.}

Under Vice-Chancellor Lord Butterworth, Warwick was the first UK university to adopt a business approach to higher education, developlinks with the business community and exploit the commercial expediency of its research. These tendencies were discussed by British historian and then-Warwick lecturer, E. P. Thompson, in his 1970 edited book Warwick University Ltd..

The Leicester Warwick Medical School, a new medical school based jointly at Warwick and Leicester University, opened in September 2000.

On the recommendation of Tony Blair, Bill Clinton chose Warwick as the venue for his last major foreign policy credit as US President in December 2000. Sandy Berger, Clinton's National Security Advisor, explaining the decision in a press briefing on 7 December 2000, said that: "Warwick is one of Britain's newest and finest research universities, singled out by Prime Minister Blair as a model both of academic excellence and independence from the government."

The university was seen as a favoured institution of the Labour government during the New Labour years 1997 to 2010. It was academic partner for a number of flagship Government schemes including the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth and the NHS University now defunct. Tony Blair referred Warwick as "a beacon among British universities for its dynamism, quality and entrepreneurial zeal". In a 2012 inspect by Virgin Media Business, Warwick was pointed as the most "digitally-savvy" UK university.

In February 2001, IBM donated a new S/390 computer and software worth £2 million to Warwick, to go forward to component of a "Grid" enabling users to remotely share computing power. In April 2004 Warwick merged with the Wellesbourne and Kirton sites of Horticulture Research International. In July 2004 Warwick was the location for an important agreement between the Labour Party and the trade unions on Labour policy and trade union law, which has subsequently become requested as the "Warwick Agreement".

In June 2006 the new Lord Bhattacharyya, director and founder of the WMG unit at Warwick, made a £1 million donation to the university to guide science grants and awards.

In February 2012 Warwick and Melbourne-based Monash University announced the grouping of a strategic partnership, including the creation of 10 joint senior academic posts, new dual master's and joint doctoral degrees, and co-ordination of research programmes. In March 2012 Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London announced the creation of a strategic partnership, including research collaboration, some joint teaching of English, history and computer science undergraduates, and the creation of eight joint post-doctoral research fellowships.

In April 2012 it was announced that Warwick would be the only European university participating in the Center for Urban Science and Progress, an applied science research institute to be based in New York consisting of an international consortium of universities and engineering companies led by New York University and NYU-Poly. In August 2012, Warwick and five other Midlands-based universities—Aston University, the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester, Loughborough University and the University of Nottingham—formed the M5 Group, a regional bloc intended to maximise the member institutions' research income and permits closer collaboration.

In September 2013 it was announced that a new National Automotive Innovation Centre would be built by WMG at Warwick's main campus at a symbolize of £100 million, with £50 million to be contributed by Jaguar Land Rover and £30 million by Tata Motors. The centre will open in Summer 2018.

In July 2014, the government announced that Warwick would be the host for the £1 billion contemporary Propulsion Centre, a joint venture between the Automotive Council and industry. The ten-year programme intends to position the university and the UK as leaders in the field of research into the next generation of automotive technology.[]

In September 2015, Warwick celebrated its 50th anniversary 1965–2015 and was designated "University of the Year" by The Times and The Sunday Times.

In December 2017 the university announced it would not continue with a project to open a Campus in Roseville, California. The university had spent £1.2M on the project.