The 2008/9 guide describes The University of Nottingham campus as a 'deal clincher' for talented university applicants. Winner of the prestigious Green Flag Award for five years in succession, the vast and manicured University Park campus in Nottingham received a special award from Britain in Bloom judges last year, and was praised by this year's panel when they declared the City of Nottingham 'Best Large City'. Jubilee Campus is a masterpiece of contemporary and sustainable modern architecture, and home to the UK's tallest free-standing sculpture 'Aspire', installed 60m high and celebrating 60 years of the University's Royal Charter. Sutton Bonington Campus — home to Biosciences and the Vet School — has a brand new sports centre and student residences to complement its semi-rural setting.
 
Editor Alistair McCall says: "In the past 18 months, the University has opened the first new school of veterinary medicine and science in 50 years and also a school of contemporary Chinese studies, the only one in the UK dedicated to the study of modern China. The University is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with a confidence born of two decades of academic success.
The University is woven into the fabric of this East Midlands city with three principal sites at University Park, the Jubilee campus and King’s Meadow. A £200m extension to the Jubilee campus is nearing completion, which will house the international office and a new innovation park. Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Colin Campbell has seen Nottingham establish itself on the global stage, too, with campuses near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Ningbo in China. With about one in eight enrolled in Nottingham from outside the European Union, Nottingham has one of the strongest international profiles of any UK university. Within five years, it is hoped that up to 30 per cent of undergraduates will complete some of their studies abroad, often at one of the two campuses in the Far East."

This year Nottingham students won Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze at the Beijing Olympics, they won UK Students in Free Enterprise for the fourth year in succession, they won the National Award for Participation at the NUS Awards 2008, triumphed at the National Student Drama Festival, and were declared UK Enterprising Graduate and UK Socially Responsible Graduate for the second year running.

Investment in facilities is constant — with a new Students' Union lounge and bar, new sports facilities, a Student Services Centre at the heart of campus and main libraries — with advanced learning technologies — open 24/7 in term-time. The City of Nottingham — with some of the best shopping, cultural and social facilities in Britain — is less than two miles away. A new Centre for Contemporary Art opens soon, and the city has numerous theatres, galleries and sporting venues, all linked by excellent public transport including a shiny new tram network. Rock City and the Trent FM Arena attract some of the biggest indie, alternative and mainstream bands in the world, there are two cinema multiplexes, as well as Broadway Cinema, one of the best arthouse and independent film venues in Europe. Lakeside, the University's own public arts centre, sits right within the campus, overlooking the boating lake.

University Park campus is home to some of the most exciting green energy and sustainable construction research in the UK. Eco-houses — developed in partnership with industry — now provide work and home to postgraduate students, and there are innovative sustainability projects in the UK, Malaysia and at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Teaching inspired and shaped by world-leading research is offered in a vast array of subjects. This year The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust attracted three national centres of excellence in health research — more than anywhere else in the country. This century the University's academics have twice been awarded Nobel Prizes, and Nottingham was declared UK University of the Year by Times Higher Education in 2006/7, and is ranked in the Top 10 and Top 70 of UK and World rankings by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Times Higher Education respectively. This year the University scored its best feedback so far in the recently established National Student Survey, helping it rise a further two places in The Sunday Times university league table, to 13th place overall.
 

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