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The University of Exeter combines world-class research with excellent student satisfaction at its campuses in Exeter and Cornwall. It is a member of the Russell Group of leading research-intensive universities. Formed in 1955, the University has 22,085 students from more than 130 different countries. Its success is built on a strong partnership with its students and a clear focus on high performance. Recent breakthroughs to come out of Exeter's research include identifying and treating new forms of diabetes and creating the world's most transparent, lightweight, and flexible conductor of electricity. Our research focuses on some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today and, in order to continue our reputation, we are furthering investment in research infrastructure. Development of our new £52.5 million Living Systems research center is now complete. It will focus on disease prevention through predictive biology and will eventually house 200 scientists. It follows a major refurbishment project, which saw world-class research and teaching facilities for Biosciences. Exeter was named The Times and The Sunday Times Sports University of the Year 2015-16, acknowledging the University as the best in the country in academic and athletic achievement across a wide range of sports. The University has also voted the Sunday Times University of the Year 2012/13. It is ranked amongst the UK's top universities in the Higher Education league tables produced by the Times and the Sunday Times. It is also ranked amongst the world's top 200 universities in the QS and Times Higher Education rankings. Exeter has always been among the leaders for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey. The senior management team has sought to build on this strength by putting student service at its strategy center. The Students' Guild is involved at the earliest stages of strategic planning and given a significant role in making spending decisions through a specially created Budget Scrutiny Group. This has led to a remarkable degree of collaborative thinking and teamwork. The most visible expression of this partnership is the Forum, a £50m student services building that provides a centerpiece for the Streatham Campus and opens onto an attractive piazza. It houses a purpose-built student services center, a 400-seat lecture theatre, a shop, a bank, and a café. Other new facilities on the Streatham Campus include the INTO building, which provides flexible teaching spaces, a lecture theatre, and a learning resource center for international students to improve their English. Our mission is to make exceptional happen by challenging traditional thinking and defying conventional boundaries. We will achieve our mission and lay the foundations for our future success as a Global 100 research leader. Our Research and Impact Strategy 2015-2020 aims to increase our research volume, quality, and impact across our disciplines. It sets out how we will enhance our research environment, growing our academic community, and investing in new initiatives such as the Global Vision 2050 Project and the Global Systems Institute to create opportunities for researchers to excel in the global research field. We will deliver an internationally exceptional educational experience for our students and enable them to make a positive difference in the world. We will deliver this through the provision of research-inspired learning, the development of employability, empowering and engaging learners, and multi-disciplinary learning. The overarching aim of the Global Strategy is to raise the University's international reputation and achieve our aim of becoming a sustainable Global 100 research institution. The strategy defines how we will create a global culture and broaden excellence across our research and education – it supports all our strategies Our Strategy, sovereign and enabling strategies, all of which depend on how global we are as an institution. View full university

Phillips Exeter Academy, co-founded by John and Elizabeth Phillips in 1781, believed every student should have access to the very best education — one that embraces the ideals of both goodness and knowledge. Now a co-educational residential school with more than 1,000 high school students from the U.S. and 33 foreign countries, Exeter has a centuries-old tradition of academic excellence and a commitment to empowering Exonians to find their place the world. We are a community that celebrates curiosity and cultivates potential. With a student-to-teacher ratio of 5:1, more than 450 courses in 18 subject areas, and the opportunity to study on five continents, Exeter provides unparalleled opportunities for discovering and exploring both self and subject matter. The founder of Phillips Exeter Academy defined its mission more than two centuries ago. "Above all," John Phillips stated, "it is expected that the attention of instructors to the disposition of the minds and morals of the youth under their charge will exceed every other care well considering that though goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous, and that both united form the noblest character, and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind." Exeter today continues the commitment to unite knowledge and goodness. It seeks students who combine proven academic ability, intellectual curiosity, and tenacity with decency and good character. At the Academy, exacting inquiry and thoughtful discourse foster the life of the mind, instruction and activity promote fitness and health, and the daily interactions of a residential school nurture integrity, empathy, and kindness. Because learning and growth at Exeter arise from each individual's engagement with others, the richness of education here requires diversity in all its dimensions. Students and faculty value the differences they bring to the community they share. The challenges that students meet at Exeter and their supporters have a common purpose: to stimulate their development as individuals and society members. Exeter seeks to graduate young people whose creativity and independence of thought sustain their continuing inquiry and reflection, whose interest in others and the world around them surpasses their self-concern, and whose passion for learning impels them beyond what they already know. View full school