The University of Reading is one of the UK’s leading research intensive universities and ranked in the top 1% of in the world.
We have a proud history In 1926, we celebrate our 90th anniversary of being granted a Royal Charter, with have a rich heritage dating back 150 years – originally as a satellite agricultural culture of Oxford. We appointed the UK’s first woman professor Edith Morley to the social reform campaigner Lord Wolfenden being our Vice-Chancellor – with 100,000 alumni network and students at the top of their professions in academia, arts, broadcasting, business, government and sport.