University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is based in Leicester, England, with almost twenty thousand registered students - about ten thousand of them full-time students, and seven thousand of them distance-learning students (the largest distance learning population of any UK university other than the Open University). The main campus is about a mile from the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College.

Facts and figures

From the 2003-2004 annual reporthttp://www.le.ac.uk/press/annualreport/annual_report_2003_04.pdf:

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• 10,261 Undergraduate students
• 9,224 Postgraduate students (7,644 taught, 1,487 research)
• 10,201 Full-time students (8,622 UK and EU, 1,579 other)

:* 24.6% Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences

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:* 23.5% Faculty of Social Science

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:* 19.9% Faculty of Arts

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:* 17.6% Faculty of Science

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:* 10.1% Faculty of Law

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:* 4.3% Faculty of Education

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• 7,006 Distance learning students