University of Reading

The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christ Church, Oxford, and became University College, Reading in 1902. The institution became a university with the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by royal charter from King George V, and was the only university to receive such a charter between the two world wars. It has four major campuses: London Road and Whiteknights in the town of Reading, Greenlands on the banks of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, and one in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia. The university has been arranged into 16 academic schools since 2016.