According to Linkedin study, University of Leeds best academic path to a media career Leeds topped a survey by the social media site LinkedIn to determine the best institutions for “media professionals”. Oxford came second, Cambridge seventh. Regardless of incessant talk of an Oxbridge mafia, it would seem the University of Leeds, institute of matriculation of the Daily Mail manager in-boss Paul Dacre, is the best scholastic way to a media profession. Leeds topped a review by the social networking site Linkedin to focus the best organizations for “media experts”. Oxford came next, Cambridge seventh. The colleges most regularly connected with expert instructing in news-casting did not rule either. Cardiff, which gloats of being the UK’s “most established and most accomplished school of news coverage”, came joint third with Nottingham, while media authorities Bournemouth and Westminster were ninth and fourteenth. Among its journalistic graduated class, Leeds claims such high-fliers as the BBC business manager, Kamal Ahmed, and his imperial partner Nicholas Witchell. Sports moderators Georgie Thompson and Jacqui Oatley additionally went there. The college makes no notice, nonetheless, of the previous BBC agent executive general Mark Byford, a Leeds contemporary of Dacre’s. ------------------ The University of Leeds is a redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally named the Yorkshire College of Science and later simply the Yorkshire College, it incorporated the Leeds School of Medicine and became part of the federal Victoria University alongside Owens College (which eventually became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool). In 1904, a royal charter, created in 1903, was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII. Leeds has around 33,600 students, the eighth-highest number of any university in the UK. From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked second in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received, second only to the University of Manchester. Leeds had a total income of £547.3 million in 2010/11, of which £124 million was from research grants and contracts. The university has financial endowments of £49.3 million (2009–10), ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment. The University is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. The university is also a founding member of the Worldwide Universities Network, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the White Rose University Consortium, the Santander Network and CDIO and is also affiliated to the Association of MBAs, EQUIS and Universities UK. Leeds is ranked nationally between 19th (Times Higher Education) and 28th (The Guardian). Internationally, the university is ranked as the 41st best in Europe and globally ranked 97th in the 2014 QS World University Rankings and 101-150 (2014 ARWU). Leeds was ranked 8th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the best result in the Yorkshire and the Humber region and in 2010, Leeds was ranked as the 9th most targeted British university by graduate employers. Notable alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, American actor Chris Pine, Piers Sellers (NASA astronaut) and five Nobel laureates.
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