Since its founding by royal charter in 1963, the University of East Anglia has had an impressive global reputation and is consistently positioned in the Top 30 universities in the United Kingdom in national rankings and in the Top 5 for student satisfaction by the annual National Student Survey.
Situated in the lovely mediaeval city of Norwich in the region of East Anglia, the University has a wide variety of programmes for undergraduates and graduates alike and is home to a diverse body of over 14,000 students from more than 110 countries.
The University is arguably most famous for its glitteringly successful Creative Writing department and successful Arts programmes, producing an enormous array of award-winning writers, comedians and actors in addition to a vast list of notable academics and researchers. The award-winning Rose Tremain was both a lecturer and student at UEA; Ian McEwan (Atonement), Kaszuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) and Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) studied there, as did The Fast Show creators Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson. Malcolm Bradbury, a former student and faculty member, wrote The History Man during his time there.
Having the oldest School of Environmental Sciences in the UK, the University remains at the forefront of environmental study and research and has been named by Professor Sir David King, the UK Government's Chief Scientific Advisor, as 'the strongest in the world.' In 2008, UEA launched the world's first MBA in Strategic Carbon Management, a unique multidisciplinary approach with the aim of leading to a low carbon business environment.
Other notable programmes and centres include: International Development Studies; Norwich Law School; the Climatic Research Unit; the Arthur Miller Centre; and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art.
