Our four Colleges support the University’s mission to undertake groundbreaking research that inspires the best quality teaching, in an inclusive academic culture.

Our College structure creates greater opportunities for research and teaching, especially of an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary kind, and reduces any administrative barriers that may exist.

The Head of each College is a Pro-Vice-Chancellor who also sits on the University’s senior management team, led by the Vice-Chancellor.

We’re achieving some great things because of our Colleges:

The creation of the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology has been crucial to the successful reorganisation of biomedical and related research in Leicester into cross-departmental themes. This is generating an exciting range of new collaborations between basic scientists from different departments studying a common problem, and even more encouragingly, between laboratory scientists and clinical researchers. For example, the Cancer Studies theme has undoubtedly created a step change in its support for medical research from Cancer Research UK.

A key aim of the College of Science and Engineering is to foster interdisciplinary research that can meet global challenges, for example, supporting work on adaptation to climate change and environmental sustainability.

We have four colleges, within which our 35 departments and schools are located:

• College of Arts, Humanities and Law
• College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology
• College of Science and Engineering
• College of Social Science