The University of Reading is a Top 30 UK University (placed 28th out of 89 UK universities featured in the QS World University Rankings, 2023).

Founded in 1892 as a University of Oxford extension college, Reading gained its Royal Charter in 1926. Since then we have welcomed more than 150,000 students from 180 different countries.

We are a campus university offering on-site student accommodation on our beautiful parkland campus which has been awarded the Green Flag Award for the 12th consecutive year in 2022.

Reading offers a wide range of programmes from the pure and applied sciences to languages, humanities, social sciences, business and the arts.

Together with Voicemap, we offer regular, bookable tours of our Whiteknights campus – you can find more information of when these run and how to book on our website.