The University of Warwick is a plate glass research university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education. Within the University, Warwick Business School was established in 1967, Warwick Manufacturing Group (now WMG) was established in 1980 and Warwick Medical School was opened in 2000. Warwick merged with Coventry College of Education in 1979 and Horticulture Research International in 2004.
Warwick is primarily based on a 290 ha (720 acres) campus on the outskirts of Coventry, with a satellite campus in Wellesbourne and a central London base at the Shard. It is organised into four faculties—Arts, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences—within which there are 32 departments. As of 2015, Warwick has around 25,600 full-time students and 2,400 academic and research staff.[2] It had a consolidated income of £591.0 million in 2016/17, of which £120.3 million was from research grants and contracts.[1] Warwick Arts Centre, a multi-venue arts complex in the university's main campus, is the largest venue of its kind in the UK outside London.