University of Nottingham
| Motto | Latin: Sapientia urbs conditur |
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Motto in English | A city is built on wisdom |
| Type | Public |
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| Endowment | £82.5 million (2025) |
| Budget | £845.0 million (2024/25) |
| Visitor | Alan Campbell (as Lord President of the Council ex officio) |
| Chancellor | Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey |
| President and vice-chancellor | Jane Norman |
Academic staff | 3,850 Nottingham-based (2024/25) |
| Students | 36,460 Nottingham-based (2024/25) 15,925 overseas (2023/24) |
| Undergraduates | 28,415 (2024/25) |
| Postgraduates | 8,050 (2024/25) |
| Location | , England 52°56′20″N 1°11′49″W / 52.939°N 1.197°W |
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| Website | nottingham |
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter as a university in 1948.
Nottingham's main campus (University Park), the Jubilee Campus and the main teaching hospital (Queen's Medical Centre) are located within the City of Nottingham, with a number of smaller campuses and sites elsewhere in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Outside the UK, the university has campuses in Semenyih, Malaysia, and Ningbo, China. UK academic operations are organised into five faculties, and the university has more than 46,000 students and 7,000 staff across the UK, China and Malaysia. It had an income of £845 million in 2024–25, of which £140.3 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £924.2 million.
The institution's alumni, staff and former staff have won three Nobel Prizes and a Fields Medal. The university is a member of the Russell Group and the international Universitas 21 network.