The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a leading campus university located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, founded as part of the British Government's New Universities programme in the 1960s. The university is a member of the 1994 Group of leading research-intensive universities. Academically, it is one of the most successful universities founded in the 1960s, consistently ranking amongst Britain's top higher education institutions; 19th in the Sunday Times University League Table 2006, and joint first for student satisfaction among mainstream English universities, in the 2006 National Student Survey. Furthermore, the university was ranked 57th in Europe, and one of the top 200 universities in the world, in the 2006 World University Rankings undertaken by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
