A University of Reading (pronounced "Redding") occurs as university in the English town of Reading.

Constituted within 1892, receiving its Royal Charter in 1926, the University has an extended tradition of the food & drug administration, education & expert training videos at the local, national and international level. It was too awarded the Queen's Day of remembrance Prize for Higher & More Education within 1998.

Campuses
A University maintains ended 1.6 km² of grounds. Whiteknights Campus, at 1.23 km², is the largest and includes Whiteknights Lake, conservation meadows and woodlands as well as most of the University's departments. A little London Road Campus is a original University site & is however at home to the School of Continuing Education & the Nifty Hall, which plays hikers to the University graduation ceremonies. A Bulmershe Court Campus in Woodley is home to a Institute of Education & the School of Health & Social Care.

A University likewise owns 8.5 km² of farmland in the nearby villages of Arborfield, Sonning and Shinfield. These trend lines a mixed farming rules including milk cow, ewes & beef animate being, & unsuspecting hosts internationally illustrious search centres of which the flagship is the Centre for Dairy Research.

Community
In the 2004-5 academic year, a university experienced 4,024 staff & 15,326 students. Probably a better known todays member of the university community is the cyberneticist Professor Kevin Warwick.

Reading University Students' Union is a affiliated student organisation which is the students interest. By using about 3,000 international students from either Long hundred countries, a university adds substantially to Reading's dynamic multi-cultural environment.

Research and Business Development
the university experienced a the food and drug administration income of nearly £Xxiv.Five million within 2003-4, of which around 10 percent of annual the food and drug administration income from either industrial or even commercial sponsors. Above £Two million of funding has been secured within 2004 for business development and a commercial activities at a University.

around the The food and drug administration Assessment Exercise in 2001, five departments were awarded a top rate of 5* - Archaeology, English, Italian, Meteorology and Psychology and fifteen departments were awarded a rating of Pentad.

Reading was the foremost university to win a Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1989. Since so many initiatives to hyperlink a academician & commercial communities own followed. Reading Enterprise Hub, one of a network of SEEDA sponsored business incubators, opened on campus within 2003.

Museums and Botanical Gardens
Reading University maintains iii museums and a botanical garden. A big & better known one is the Museum of English Rural Life, which has recently relocated from a locatiin on Whightknights Campus to the places nigher the town centre on the London Road Campus. A Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, the Cole Museum of Zoology and the Harris Garden are all placed on the Whiteknights Campus.

Student accommodation
Student accommodation is provided within the total of halls of home offering the mix of fully-catered & self-catering accommodation, along by using more self-catering accommodation.

Bulmershe Hall is located on the Bulmersh Campus. Bridges, Childs, Wessex, Whiteknights, and Windsor Halls are placed on the Whiteknights Campus. St. George’s, St. Patrick’s, Sherfield, Sibley, Wantage, and Wells Halls are located in the residential areas surrounding Whiteknights, as is the self-catering accommodation of the Reading Student Village, Hillside Court and Martindale Court.

St. David's and Mansfield Halls laterly formed part of Witan Hall (see below) on the London Road Campus, and are not currently in use. A former St. Andrews Hall closed in 2001, and is now the home of the Museum of English Rural Life.

St. George's Hall & A Reading Student Village come leased back to the University from either UJC. A dollars and cents of leasing back a Student Village to a University, based on data from the University accounts, was £1.Five million for 2003/2004 and £1.3 million inside 2002/2003.

Associated institutions
Erstwhile associated by owning Reading University was Gyosei International College, the Japanese/British bi-cultural institution established on a share of the University's original London Road Campus. Afterwards a college's links by using a Japan-depending Gyosei organisation were broken, and it became the charitably funded institution known as Witan Hall. Recently this has successively been purchased per University of Reading, world health organization keep around ceased student enlisting.

A University of Reading Law faculty is as well associated by using Taylors College in Malaysia. Taylors College conducts the 'biparous' program whereby students complete half of their degree around Malaysia & a more half at a University of Reading. Malaysian Law students inside Reading typically achieve another class upper norm, & keep close at hand placed the high standard for Malaysian Law students.

Set in Reading University's Whiteknights campus is The College of Estate Management (CEM). A College was founded inside 1919 & granted its Royal Charter within 1922. It was originally depending inside London however moved to Reading within 1969 leading to a foundation of the Faculty of Urban & Regional Studies (FURS) at the University. A College will bring education & how to training for students & members of the property & construction professions worldwide across few feet away learning. Courses come delivered per provision of printed lesson sent to students by post & across web depending learning.

Alumni
Anton Apriantono - food technology scientist, serving when Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture since 2004 Eve Balfour - farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and the introduction figure in the organic movement Julian Barratt - comedian from BBC's The Mighty Boosh Arthur Brown - rock and roll singer Jamie Cullum - jazz musician James Cracknell - rowing champion and double Olympic gold medallist. Sir Peter Crane - Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Robert Gillmor - ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Richard Holmes - noted military historian and television presenter Azahari Husin - leading member of the Jemaah Islamiyah group, wanted for his suspected involvment in the 2005 Bali bombing Andy Mackay - musician, best called a saxophonist for the group Roxy Music Dragan MaruÅ¡iÄ? - Slovene mathematician Mike Penning - Conservative Member of Parliament for the Hemel Hempstead parliamentary constituency. Richard Sambrook - Director of the BBC World Service A. E. Wilder-Smith - creationist and chemist Richard Wilson - installation artist Rob Wilson - Conservative Member of Parliament for the Reading East parliamentary constituency