University of Exeter

British university in Exeter, Devon, whose colleges date from 1851 and which received its charter in 1955, with campuses at Streatham and St Luke's in Exeter and at Penryn in Cornwall. Teaches medicine through the University of Exeter Medical School, nursing, medical sciences, biosciences and natural sciences and engineering, and carries out research in diabetes and genomic medicine, dementia and neuroscience, antimicrobial resistance and environment and health, with clinical trials and its own laboratories and links to the Royal Devon hospitals.