Building on Excellence
In the world's top 100 universities


By continuing to invest in internationally excellent research and by providing

 an outstanding learning environment for talented students from all backgrounds

our aim is not only to maintain this position, but to improve upon it, thereby retaining

our status as one of the select number of institutions which are regarded as being the

 best in the world. Our mission

Our mission is to undertake leading-edge, internationally-competitive research while

 offering a challenging student-centred learning environment. Through our status as a

 leading international university, we aim to sustain and add value to Scottish culture and

 society, to the natural environment and to the national economy. A long pedigree

Founded in 1451, we are the fourth oldest university in the United Kingdom and have 15000

 undergraduates, almost 5000 postgraduates and 5000 adults in continuing education.

 We welcome students from more than 100 countries. A research powerhouse

The University is a major research powerhouse. Our annual research income of more

 than £116m places Glasgow in the UK's top ten earners for research. In the latest independent

research survey, RAE 2008, almost 70% of the University's research was rated as world-leading

 or internationally excellent. Outstanding teaching quality

We offer an exceptional breadth of undergraduate student choice across the physical and

 life sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, together with a rapidly-expanding range

of postgraduate courses. Our teaching quality has been independently rated as among the top ten

 in the UK and our medical and veterinary schools are consistently rated amongst the very

 best in the UK. Working together

We cannot succeed alone and we work closely with partners and friends in the city,

 Scotland and beyond to ensure that we are an internationally successful university

 at the heart of Glasgow.
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