Loughborough University

Loughborough named University of the Year

The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019

Top 10 in all league tables

Loughborough is ranked in the top 10 in each of the most recent national league tables, cementing our status as one of the country’s leading higher education institutions.

Research excellence

We are renowned for the relevance of our research. Our results help business and industry to compete more effectively, shape public policy and ultimately improve the quality of people’s lives.

Revolutionising how emergency services tackle life threatening incidents

Research led by Loughborough University seeks to set the new global ‘Gold Standard’ for how emergency services should tackle a chemical, biological, radioactive, or nuclear incident.

Recruiting: Director of Research and Enterprise

This new role will play a leading role in shaping and delivering the University’s research and enterprise strategy, and establish a first-class service for our researchers. Apply today.

Chelsea uses Loughborough AI research for smarter football coaching

Commentators always like to imagine what players could have done better – we're using AI to prove it.

Loughborough's first female fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Loughborough's Pro Vice-Chancellor for Teaching Professor Rachel Thomson is a woman of firsts

Wilfred Owen 100 years on: poet gave voice to a generation of doomed youth

Dead at 25, a week before World War I ended, Owen summed up the conflict's waste and futility.

Spiders scare me, but I also find them fascinating – and they help with my art

Autumn is spider season. It's worth getting to know more about our eight-legged friends.

Happy birthday Mickey Mouse – animation's greatest showman is 90

Paul Wells, Director of the Animation Academy on 90 years of those famous ears.

Students beat global competition and secure place on renowned accelerator programme with tech start-up

21 November 2018

LU Arts offer scholarships to creative students to showcase the arts at Loughborough

20 November 2018

Student product allows you to take the ‘purr-fect’ selfie with your feline friend

16 November 2018

Local organisations supported through the University’s Community Donations Fund

16 November 2018

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Public Lecture: Are we spending too much time sitting, and is this a real cause for concern?

Nov

Centre for Faith and Spirituality annual lecture: Turning the world upside down

Nov

FLIX Cinema: The Florida Project

Nov

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