About the University of Leicester
Awards and accreditation
Awards
- We have won Times Higher Education's University of the Year 2008 and were shortlisted for Times Higher Education's University of the Year 2024.
- Leicester has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education on three occasions - the highest form of national recognition open to a UK academic or vocational institution.
- In August 2015, HSBC announced for the second year running that the University of Leicester is the most affordable destination in Britain for both first and second-year students, according to their research.
- In 2013 our Students' Union was named HE Students' Union of the Year in the NUS Awards.