Qualla: University of Reading https://qualla.com/university-of-reading en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/k/university-of-reading-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: University of Reading https://qualla.com/university-of-reading University of Reading: Introduction https://qualla.com/university-of-reading/ Photo credit University of Reading, CC BY-SA 3.0. Somewhere in a brick building on the Whiteknights estate, computers are deciding what tomorrow's weather will look like. The University of Reading's meteorology department runs forecast models used by aviation, agriculture, and shipping across Europe - and has been ranked among the top five in the world for atmospheric science. The campus, landscaped in the eighteenth century by the Marquis of Blandford and named for a thirteenth-century knight nicknamed the White Knight, sprawls across more than a square mile of meadows, lakes, and woodland just east of Reading town centre. It is one of those English universities that grew sideways from Oxford, then quietly became something specific and useful on its own.

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