University · Exeter, United Kingdom

University of Exeter

Public research university located in Exeter, United Kingdom

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About

instance of	public research university higher education institution open-access publisher educational organization
inception	1955
language used	English

Location and contact

country	United Kingdom
located in the administrative territorial entity	Exeter
location	Streatham Campus Penryn Campus St Luke's Campus
street address	University of Exeter, Northcote House, The Queen's Drive, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QJ (en-gb)
postal code	EX4 4QJ
coordinate location	50.7361, -3.5350
historic county	Devon
official website	https://www.exeter.ac.uk/ · country: United Kingdom http://info.ex.ac.uk/ https://www.exeter.ac.uk/ · language of work or name: English
phone number	+44-1392-263263 +44-1392263263

Rankings and recognition

ranking	155 · QS World University Rankings · 2026 174 · Times Higher Education World University Rankings · 2026 Earlier figures (13) 169 · QS World University Rankings · 2025 153 · QS World University Rankings · 2024 163 · QS World University Rankings · 2023 149 · QS World University Rankings · 2022 164 · QS World University Rankings · 2021 163 · QS World University Rankings · 2020 154 · QS World University Rankings · 2019 158 · QS World University Rankings · 2018 164 · QS World University Rankings · 2017 161 · QS World University Rankings · 2016 161 · QS World University Rankings · 2015 168 · QS World University Rankings · 2014 182 · QS World University Rankings · 2012

ranking

155 · QS World University Rankings · 2026
174 · Times Higher Education World University Rankings · 2026

Earlier figures (13)

169 · QS World University Rankings · 2025
153 · QS World University Rankings · 2024
163 · QS World University Rankings · 2023
149 · QS World University Rankings · 2022
164 · QS World University Rankings · 2021
163 · QS World University Rankings · 2020
154 · QS World University Rankings · 2019
158 · QS World University Rankings · 2018
164 · QS World University Rankings · 2017
161 · QS World University Rankings · 2016
161 · QS World University Rankings · 2015
168 · QS World University Rankings · 2014
182 · QS World University Rankings · 2012

Finances

funder	Open Society Foundations · prize money: $407,811 · award rationale: to support the scientific research and analysis of the effects of mining of critical materials to determine where it will be particularly detrimental for the environment and vulnerable communities · 2023 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $210,000 · award rationale: to support research into misinformation and harmful content within the Mastodon ecosystem to protect users including marginalised communities, by evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches to content moderation in the ecosystem · 2023 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $114,367 · award rationale: to support an international lethal force monitor that will enable meaningful comparisons between jurisdictions so as to secure greater state accountability and reduce violence by and against the police · 2021 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $250,000 · award rationale: to support the Global Systems Institute to establish a science-led and justice-based climate action agenda that considers the risks of escalating racial inequalities and is commensurate with the scale of the current ecological crisis · 2021 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $19,996 · award rationale: to support the Grantee’s work on education, scholarship, and research · 2019 2 more Open Society Foundations · prize money: $78,924 · award rationale: to support assessing the prospects for developing a consistent and structured methodology to analyse data on the use of force by Law Enforcement Officials that results in death within Western Europe in order to allow for the meaningful monitoring of circumstances, trends and patterns · 2019 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $59,630 · award rationale: to build and inform an international network of partners around the issue of political exiles · 2017

funder

Open Society Foundations · prize money: $407,811 · award rationale: to support the scientific research and analysis of the effects of mining of critical materials to determine where it will be particularly detrimental for the environment and vulnerable communities · 2023
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $210,000 · award rationale: to support research into misinformation and harmful content within the Mastodon ecosystem to protect users including marginalised communities, by evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches to content moderation in the ecosystem · 2023
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $114,367 · award rationale: to support an international lethal force monitor that will enable meaningful comparisons between jurisdictions so as to secure greater state accountability and reduce violence by and against the police · 2021
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $250,000 · award rationale: to support the Global Systems Institute to establish a science-led and justice-based climate action agenda that considers the risks of escalating racial inequalities and is commensurate with the scale of the current ecological crisis · 2021
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $19,996 · award rationale: to support the Grantee’s work on education, scholarship, and research · 2019

2 more

Open Society Foundations · prize money: $78,924 · award rationale: to support assessing the prospects for developing a consistent and structured methodology to analyse data on the use of force by Law Enforcement Officials that results in death within Western Europe in order to allow for the meaningful monitoring of circumstances, trends and patterns · 2019
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $59,630 · award rationale: to build and inform an international network of partners around the issue of political exiles · 2017

Structure and memberships

child organization or unit	University of Exeter Press University of Exeter Fine Art Collection
has part(s)	Exeter University Library Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy · since September 2022 Faculty of Health and Life Sciences · since September 2022 Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences · since September 2022 College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences · until September 2022 5 more College of Humanities · until September 2022 College of Social Sciences and International Studies · until September 2022 College of Life and Environmental Sciences · until September 2022 European Centre for Palestine Studies University of Exeter Special Collections
affiliation	Russell Group
member of	Russell Group ORCID, Inc. · October 2023 Jisc European University Association University and College Union · membership number: SO097 Worldwide Universities Network
owner of	University of Exeter Fine Art Collection

Other facts

exact match	https://scigraph.springernature.com/resource?u=http://www.grid.ac/institutes/grid.8391.3 · content deliverer: SciGraph https://findthatcharity.uk/orgid/XI-ROR-03yghzc09

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (2)

image	University of Exeter Clock tower.jpg
logo image	Exeposé Logo 2012 - present (cropped).jpg

Wikimedia and technical details (10)

Commons category	University of Exeter
topic's main category	Category:University of Exeter
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Alumni of the University of Exeter
on focus list of Wikimedia project	Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
described by source	Open GLAM Survey · 2 July 2023
IPv4 routing prefix	81.5.141.104/29 82.153.152.96/29 144.173.0.0/16
API endpoint URL	https://elibrary.exeter.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth · protocol: Shibboleth
Commons Institution page	University of Exeter
Commons gallery	University of Exeter
social media followers	77,983 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 60642183 · 3 February 2023 21,800 · YouTube channel ID: UCPwftEor7g8nOg6cu-R0KXw · 9 February 2025 Earlier figures (6) 74,811 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 60642183 · 24 February 2022 71,201 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 60642183 · 7 January 2021 19,600 · YouTube channel ID: UCPwftEor7g8nOg6cu-R0KXw · 16 January 2024 16,600 · YouTube channel ID: UCPwftEor7g8nOg6cu-R0KXw · 17 February 2023 14,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCPwftEor7g8nOg6cu-R0KXw · 17 March 2022 12,100 · YouTube channel ID: UCPwftEor7g8nOg6cu-R0KXw · 4 July 2021

Identifiers in other databases (64)

Academia.edu institutional ID	exeter
ARCHON code	29 · subject named as: University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)
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ARWU university ID	University-of-Exeter
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Open Funder Registry funder ID	501100000737
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QS World University ID	university-exeter
Quora topic ID	University-of-Exeter
Ringgold ID	3286
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SNARC ID	Q50040
SoundCloud ID	university-of-exeter · subject named as: University of Exeter · number of works: 636 · number of subscribers: 354 · does not have characteristic: verified account or profile · since 26 January 2012
subreddit	exe
The Guardian topic ID	education/universityofexeter
Threads username	uniofexeter
Times Higher Education World University ID	university-exeter
U-Multirank university ID	university-of-exeter
UK Parliament thesaurus ID	33697 · subject named as: University of Exeter
UK Provider Reference Number	10007792
VIAF cluster ID	130905726
Weibo user ID	exeteruni exeteruni · has characteristic: verified account or profile
WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID	university_of_exeter · subject named as: University of Exeter
X (Twitter) username	UniofExeter · country: United Kingdom · has characteristic: verified account or profile · number of subscribers: 60,998 · number of subscribers: 68,189 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 60642183 · 27 April 2020
YouTube channel ID	UCPwftEor7g8nOg6cu-R0KXw · subject named as: University of Exeter · number of works: 1,846 · number of subscribers: 11,900 · number of viewers/listeners: 19,184,902 · 30 May 2021
‎Scilit organization ID	564
‎Yale LUX ID	group/f0f7c77f-545c-4ee8-92a6-9a4c5b47361a

Campuses and colleges

St Luke's Campus · Campus
Penryn Campus · Campus
Streatham Campus · Campus