Leeds University, founded in 1904, is successful in a way that reflects both its own virtues and the determined reinvention which the city of Leeds has undergone in recent years, and from which the institution benefits.
You can take a virtual tour of Leeds, which is a mecca for nightlife. What with the nightlife, Harvey Nichols and Harry Ramsden’s, students at Leeds apparently have the biggest overdrafts in the country. Leeds is buzzing: this is an exciting place to live.
Leeds University has a very active students’ union. One union PR said: “You don’t come to a place like [this] if you’re an introvert”.
The university has embraced modular courses, enabling students to study for mixed degrees. This allows them to exploit the huge language school which facilitates the flow of students both ways, with over 100 partners across the globe.
In August 2001, the university merged with the specialist arts institute, Bretton Hall College, situated just outside Wakefield. Now the university’s Bretton Hall campus it specialises in music, acting, dance, theatre and creative writing, and is expected to become a major force in performance and cultural studies.
Alumni of bold, brash Leeds include Richard Hoggart, author of The Uses of Literacy, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, cartoonist Steve Bell, and Paul Dacre, editor of the Mail.

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