University of Birmingham
About
University of Birmingham is a UK university founded in 1900, based in Birmingham, with around 30,832 students. The Teaching Excellence Framework awarded University of Birmingham a Silver rating.
Academic staff have published 2,767 works cited 111,951 times, with an h-index of 135.
Courses at University of Birmingham (591)
Accounting
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Accounting and Finance
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Accounting and Finance
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A-Levels
AAA
NSS Score
85.68%
Avg. grad pay (5y)
£26,500
Advanced Chemical Engineering
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Advanced Child Protection Studies
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Advanced Clinical Practice
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Who gets into University of Birmingham
See full breakdown →Full-time undergraduates admitted in 2023-24, by neighbourhood deprivation. Source: Office for Students.
From the least deprived 20% of UK neighbourhoods
32.0%
From the most deprived 20%
19.3%
The richest-area share is 12.7 percentage points higher than the poorest-area share among 5,250 entrants in 2023-24.
Notable alumni of University of Birmingham
See all 241 →241 notable graduates and former students with Wikipedia coverage, ranked by international reach. Source: Wikidata.
Neville Chamberlain
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940
Stanley Baldwin
British statesman (1867–1947)
Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
Tim Curry
British actor
Yanis Varoufakis
Greek economist and politician
Paul Nurse
Nobel prize winning British biochemist
John Vane
English pharmacologist (1927-2004)
Hakainde Hichilema
7th President of Zambia
David Lodge
English writer (1935–2025)
John Stewart Bell
Northern Irish physicist (1928–1990)
Christine McVie
British musician (1943–2022)
Rankings
- Complete University Guide 2026
- #14
- The Guardian (UK) 2026
- #28
- QS World 2026
- #76
- Times Higher Ed (World) 2026
- =98
- ARWU (Shanghai) 2025
- #151
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Quick Facts
- Location
- Birmingham
- Postcode
- B15 2TT
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1900
- Student Count
- 30,832
- TEF Rating
- Silver