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Surrey Libraries serves the City's residents with programs, reference services, free resources, and holdings of digital and physical items across its ten branches. It is the third-largest library system in British Columbia by total population served, after Fraser Valley Regional Library and Vancouver Public Library. [4]
The University of Surrey is a public research university in Guildford, Surrey, England. The university received its royal charter in 1966, along with a number of other institutions following recommendations in the Robbins Report. The institution was previously known as Battersea College of Technology and was located in Battersea Park, London.
University 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities [8] 2020 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities [9] 2020–21 University Ranking by Academic Performance [10] 2023 Center for World University Rankings [11] University of Alberta: 92 (5) 92 (4) 77 (4) 76 (4) University of British Columbia: 44 (2) 33 (2) 29 (2) 51 (3)
Sir Martin Sweeting – founder of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd [1] Allan Wells – Olympic 100m gold medalist; engineering lecturer [4] Henryk Zygalski – mathematician, cryptologist and breaker of the Enigma Machine; Max Lu – chemical engineer and nanotechnologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey as at 2024.
The library has 7,200 square metres (78,000 sq ft) of usable space spread over four floors. [3] Its 100,000-item collection of print materials is modest for a large urban library; the library is focused on community services such as language programs for Surrey's large immigrant population, youth and adult programs, and computer access. [3]
The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world's top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004. In 2024, they ranked 1500 universities, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and University of Cambridge taking the top 5 spots. [15]
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world university rankings. The league table was originally compiled and issued by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003, making it the first global university ranking with multifarious indicators. [1] [2]
Basic library statistics (not rankings) were initially maintained by the National Center for Educational Statistics; that body continues to collect data for academic libraries, but administration of the Public Libraries Survey and the State Library Agencies Survey was transferred to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in October 2007. [1]