The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university based in Norwich, England. The university was established in 1963 under the stewardship of its first Vice-Chancellor Frank Thistlethwaite. In 2013 the University was ranked 17th in the UK by The Times and Sunday Times, 17th by The Guardian and 20th by The Complete University Guide. It was also ranked 1st for student satisfaction by the Times Higher Education magazine in 2013.
In 2013 the ratio of applications to acceptances was 6.7 to 1. 71.6% of graduating students achieved First-class honours or Upper second-class honours. In 2011 the proportion of students admitted to the University from independent schools was 14%.
Faculties and schools
The University offers over 300 courses it its four Faculties, which contain 23 Schools of Study.:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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• American Studies
• Art History and World Art Studies
• Film, Television and Media
• History
• Language and Communication Studies
• Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
• Music
• Philosophy
• Political, Social and International Studies
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

UEA Drama Studio
• Norwich Medical School
• Nursing Sciences
• Rehabilitation Sciences
Faculty of Science

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• Actuarial Sciences
• Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Computing Sciences
• Engineering
• Environmental Sciences
• Mathematics
• Natural Sciences
• Pharmacy
Faculty of Social Sciences
• Economics
• Education and Lifelong Learning
• International Development
• Norwich Law School
• Norwich Business School
• Psychology
• Social Work
The results of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), published on 8 December 2008, showed that over 50% of the University's research activity was deemed to be "world leading" or "internationally excellent", with 87% in total being of "international standing". The university's research in the domains of American and Anglophone Area Studies, Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, and in Development Studies placed its respective Schools within the top three nationally. The university also has the highest percentage of national world leading research in History of Art, Design and Architecture; in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences and in Pharmacy, the university places in the top ten nationally.
The postgraduate Master of Arts in Creative Writing, founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970, is regarded as the most respected in the United Kingdom, and admission to the programme is competitive. The course has gone on to produce a number of distinguished authors, including Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Enright, Tash Aw, Andrew Miller, Owen Sheers, Tracy Chevalier, Trezza Azzopardi, Panos Karnezis, and Suzannah Dunn. The German émigré novelist W. G. Sebald also taught in the School of Literature and Creative Writing, and founded the British Centre for Literary Translation, until his death in a car accident in 2001.[41] Experimental novelist Alan Burns was the University's first writer-in-residence.
The Climatic Research Unit, founded in 1972 by Hubert Lamb in the School of Environmental Sciences has been an early centre of work for climate change research. Publications include the recent study on anthropogenic polar warming. The School was also stated to be "the strongest in the world" by the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, Sir David King during a lecture at the John Innes Centre in 2005.