We’re a world-leading university with the highest academic and research standards. But we’re not letting the story end there.
That’s because we’re a place of possibility. We’re always looking for new ways to make things happen. Whether you’re a dedicated student, an innovative lecturer or an ambitious company, Warwick provides a tireless yet supportive environment in which you can make an impact.
And our students, alumni and staff are consistently making an impact - the kind that changes lives, whether close to home or on a global scale.
It’s the achievements of our people that help explain why our levels of research excellence and scholarship are recognised internationally.
It’s a prime attraction for some of the biggest names in worldwide business and industry.
It’s why we’re ranked highly in the lists of great UK and world universities.
All of this contributes to a compelling story, one that’s little more than 50 years old. But who said youth should hold you back from changing the world?
5 Facts You (probably) Didn’t Know about Warwick
1. The motto is "mind moves matter". Is this a take off of "mind over matter", like when you hit your knee on the edge of a desk and convince yourself that pain does not exist? The Latin of this is "mens agitat molem" which would bring out the feminist in me because of the word "men" but because it sounds like "men agitate moles", an unusual visual image, I think I can let it be.
2. The Warwick Business School has a campus in the Shard in London, ie, a couple of rooms. Let’s hope no one has vertigo.
3. The Warwick Student Union is one of the largest in the UK, and uses its profits to employ students in its offices. I like it. There are over 260 societies, so there’s not much excuse for having no friends here.
4. Warwick won University Challenge in 2007. Take that, Oxbridge.
5. According to Wikipedia, the student male to female ratio at Warwick is 50:50. Yay gender equality.
In 2008 the university launched a new prize, the Warwick Prize for Writing, worth £50,000. It is defined as "an international cross-disciplinary award which will be given biennially for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that will change with every award". The inaugural winner of the award was Naomi Klein for her critically acclaimed book Shock Doctrine.
Warwick is ranked 54th in the 2019 QS World University Rankings, 64th in the 2020 CWTS Leiden ranking, 77th in the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 101-150 by the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
In subject rankings, Warwick's Politics and International Studies department (PAIS) was ranked as 1st in the UK by the The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 and 49th globally by QS 2020. PAIS also has partnerships with schools such as the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the School of International Service at American University. Warwick's Economics department was ranked 3rd in the UK by the Complete University Guide and 25th globally by QS in 2020. Warwick's Mathematics department was ranked 10th in the world (3rd in the UK) in 2019 by Academic Ranking of World Universities. It is widely regarded as one of the four best Mathematics departments in the UK, commonly known as COWI (Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick, Imperial). Overall, 19 of the 27 subjects offered by Warwick were ranked within the top 10 nationally in 2019, with Creative Writing taking first place.
Warwick ranked 4th in Europe in the Times Higher Education (THE) European Teaching Rankings 2018, being beaten only by Oxbridge and the Sorbonne.
Warwick is consistently ranked amongst the top ten in the three major national rankings of British universities. Warwick is a member of the 'Sutton 13' of top ranked universities in the UK. Warwick was declared as The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2015.
In 2017, Warwick was named as the university with the joint second highest graduate employment rate of any UK university (along with St Andrews), with 97.7 per cent of its graduates in work or further study three and a half years after graduation.
