Key facts

Milestones

The University of Nottingham has, throughout its history, been at the forefront of internationalisation in higher education.

• It was the first British university to establish campuses overseas, in Malaysia (2000), and China (2004).
• In 2009, we formally launched a comprehensive new Internationalisation Strategy, entitled ‘Knowledge Without Borders’.
• Our second Dearing Memorial Conference, in February 2011, ‘The Globalisation of Higher Education’, drove the agenda for discussion of international higher education and drew contributions from all over the world.
• We launched the Knowledge Without Borders Public Lecture series in December 2011, hosting a number of distinguished speaker events, mapping and exploring this rapidly developing field.
• In 2012, we opened satellite offices in India, Ghana and Brazil.

The Knowledge Without Borders Network builds on these initiatives, confirming our status as pioneers and leaders in global higher education.

Facts and figures

At the University of Nottingham:

• We have over 9,000 international students in the UK and almost 9,000 students in Malaysia and China.
• 25% of our academic staff are international.
• 20% of the undergraduate cohort undertakes international mobility.
• We have one of the UK’s largest scholarship programmes for the developing world.
• 17% of published outputs are internationally co-authored.
• 37% of our research income is obtained internationally.
• We have strategic partners in 25 countries worldwide.