University of Reading

Continente:: Europe
Country:: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Address:: University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, United Kingdom
Web Site:: www.reading.ac.uk

About University of Reading:

The University of Reading is a public university located in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as a university extension college of Christ Church, Oxford under the name University College, Reading. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by Royal Charter from King George V and was the only university to receive such a charter between the two world wars. The university is usually categorised as a red brick university, reflecting its original foundation in the 19th century. It has four major campuses both in the United Kingdom and internationally. The campuses on London Road and Whiteknights are based in the town of Reading itself, and Greenlands is based on the banks of the River Thames. It also has a campus in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia. The university is organised into three academic faculties, a graduate school and the Henley Business School.

World University Rankings

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
World University Rankings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	381	440	435	435	420	408	457	441	426

By Fields

Field	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Agriculture	100	106	106	121	39	111	121	114	111	109	119	121	134	137	147	154	156	168
Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Life Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	401-450	401-450	451-500	451-500	-	-	-	-	-
Medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	401-450	401-450	401-450	401-450	451-500	451-500	-	-	-
Natural Sciences	249	288	274	-	276	284	297	259	-	298	301-350	301-350	351-400	351-400	296	301-350	351-400	401-450
Social Sciences	-	268	293	261	235	237	250	242	243	234	270	241	219	209	229	219	172	164

By Subjects

Subject	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Agricultural Sciences	48	39	29	37	43	39	51	52	58	67	68	65	78	81	89
Biology & Biochemistry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Chemistry	-	-	-	-	-	-	451-500	401-450	401-450	451-500	-	-	-	-	-
Chemical Engineering	-	-	273	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Civil Engineering	223	257	257	300	291	242	285	-	289	-	218	253	255	301-350	301-350
Clinical Medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	451-500	451-500	451-500	451-500	-	-	-
Computer Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	401-450	451-500	-	451-500	451-500	451-500	-	-	-
Economics & Business	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	181	112	118	111	101	65	76
Electrical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Environment / Ecology	135	116	117	128	122	107	92	100	116	108	98	121	137	140	150
Geosciences	39	30	26	27	22	24	22	36	36	33	34	35	42	43	44
Immunology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Materials Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mathematics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	401-450	351-400	401-450	-	451-500	-	-	-
Mechanical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Microbiology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Molecular Biology & Genetics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Neuroscience & Behavior	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Pharmacology & Toxicolog	-	-	-	-	299	-	301-350	401-450	351-400	401-450	401-450	351-400	-	-	-
Physics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Plant & Animal Science	206	287	253	244	256	-	-	276	285	-	288	283	293	-	351-400
Psychiatry / Psychology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	222	253	223	223	245	226	265
Social Sciences, General	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	266	256	267	298	286	268	249
Space Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Energy Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Environmental Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	148	171	238	206	204
Biomedical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-