18 Feb 08

The University of Oxford had the highest external research income in the UK for 2006–7, recent figures show.

Oxford is also the number one recipient of Wellcome Trust funding for medical research, receiving one fifth of all funding given out.

Oxford’s total external research income for the 2006–7 year was £248.2m, up 16.5 per cent on the previous year and the highest of any UK university.