High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With more than 49,000 applications for 5,500 places in 2011, Nottingham is the third most popular university in the United Kingdom, and has been described by The Times as "the nearest Britain has to a truly global university" and a "prime alternative to Oxbridge".