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Facts and Figures

• Keele is 3^rd in England for employability of graduates 2011 in the Higher Education Statistics Agency  (HESA) graduate employment table (excluding the small specialist institutions)

• We came 5^th in the National Student Survey of UK universities for overall student satisfaction with an exceptionally high score of 91%, exceeding the national overall satisfaction rate of 85%

• In the most recent national Research Assessment Exercise, 85% of our research was classified as world leading or of international importance

• We were voted in the top 10 of Britain's most intellectually stimulating universities by the Telegraph (October 2012)

• Our Students’ Union is ranked the 4^th top Student Union in the UK for nightlife (‘Which?’ University)

• We are ranked 61st in the Times Higher Education ‘100 Under 50’ league table of the world’s best young universities

• Keele has moved up three places to 29^thin the prestigious Sunday Times University League Table 2013 for UK universities

• Keele has been placed, for the second consecutive year, amongst the world’s top universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings positioned in the top 3%. (based on approximately 10,000 institutions recognised by UNESCO)

• Keele was the first new post-war UK University of the 20^th Century and is the UK’s largest integrated campus university

• We are one of the UK’s largest and most attractive university campus, with 617 acres of landscaped parkland, fields, woodlands and lakes 

• We are ranked 6^th place in The Telegraph’s, ‘Britain’s most beautiful universities’ guide

• We are the safest campus in the West Midlands in the BBC news league tables for crime rates

• In the last 10 years alone we have invested £115 million in our campus and infrastructure

• Although Keele is one of the largest and most attractive university campus in the UK, it is one of the smallest universities in terms of student numbers, with a genuine, friendly student and staff community

• There are 3,200 bedrooms on campus and we have one of, if not the highest, proportion of student rooms owned and managed by a university

• We are in contact with more than 43,000 alumni living in 139 countries

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