University of East Anglia: Research Excellence
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a 320-acre (130-hectare) campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of study. The annual income of the institution for 2021Ð22 was £295 million, of which £30 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £370 million, and had an undergraduate offer rate of 85% in 2021. The university is a leading member of Norwich Research Park which has one of Europe’s biggest concentrations of researchers in the fields of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Medicine and Health Sciences. UEA is a research-intensive institution recognised for the quality of its research with it being in the top 20 nationwide for research quality and is one of the nationÕs most prominently cited institutions worldwide. UEA alumni and faculty include three Nobel Prize winners, a co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome as well as the small interfering RNA, a co-inventor of the OxfordÐAstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, one President of the Royal Society, three Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences and forty-eight Fellows of the Royal Society. Alumni also include one current monarch and former prime minister, two de facto heads of state, one vice president, one deputy prime minister, and two former leaders of the House of Lords along with two Lasker Award winners, three Booker Prize winners, eleven Costa Book Award winners, and three Caine Prize winners
