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The University of Warwick sits equidistant between the town of Kenilworth and the city of Coventry. 

The University of Warwick occupies a 292 hectare site halfway between Kenilworth and the city of Coventry.

The University was formed in 1965, with the support of both Coventry and Warwickshire local authorities, and in only 40 years has become one of the leading higher education institutions. The Times Good University Guide 2005 declared Warwick to be the top university in the Midlands, and 5th overall amongst all UK universities.

During 2003/04, there were a total of 15,536 full-time students at Warwick, split between the 4 “Faculties” of Arts, Medicine, Social Studies and Science. The University has 30 different academic departments – including the world-renowned Warwick Business School - and 49 specialised research centres and institutions.

The University of Warwick makes an enormous contribution to the cultural, economic, educational and social life of the local community. It is the fourth largest employer in Coventry & Warwickshire (many staff live in Kenilworth); its Science Park hosts 134 high tech companies, with 2,000 employees; many of its students live locally; Warwick Arts Centre attracts around 250,000 people to more than 1600 events every year; more than 8,000 local people attend its Open Studies courses; and thousands of its graduates have gone on to work in local schools, hospitals and other community organisations.

Recent developments at The University of Warwick include:

• the recent integration with the prestigious Horticulture Research International, to form a new department “Warwick HRI”, which has sites at Wellesbourne and at Kirton in Lincolnshire
•  Warwick has been chosen to be the main academic partner of the National Health Service University (NHSU)
• the purchase of the former National Grid headquarters building, which has become the main administrative hub of the University and a new student resource centre (and is now known as University House)
•  the government’s Lambert Review of business-university collaboration described Warwick as “one of the most entrepreneurial universities in the country”
• the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth is now well established at Warwick, having run two successful summer schools and a flourishing outreach programme
• the first crop of 63 students have graduated from the new Warwick Medical School, and many have gone on to become junior doctors in local hospitals.

For further information, go to http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/community