The £136 million campus transformation at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) has created the modern, inspiring environment students deserve.DMU has been named as one of the 150 best young universities in the world by the influential Times Higher Education magazine, and rated as No.1 for graduate employability, and in the top three for teaching excellence among UK universities, in a preliminary study of teaching quality by the Times Higher Education magazine.DMU is in the Top 10 of most popular universities in the UK for home and EU students, as rated by UCAS, and is more popular than ever, with one of the largest increases in UCAS acceptances of any UK university over the last year.The university was ranked in the top 3% of world universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-17 and named in the top 1.5% of global universities for international impact in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-17.Leicester has been named as one of the best cities in which to live and work in the UK, ahead of London and Cardiff (2016 Good Growth for Cities Index).