£32 million from funding body grants (2022/23 – £36.5 million), £33.7 million from research grants and contracts (2022/23 – £34 million), £9.6 million from investment income (2022/23 – £7.4 million) and £4.1 million from donations and endowments (2022/23 – £4.9 million).
At year end, Reading had endowments of £111.4 million (2023 – £101.9 million) and total net assets of £533.6 million (2023 – £453.2 million). It holds the thirteenth-largest endowment of any university in the UK.
Between 2009 and 2010, the university was beset by controversy, with the closure of departments and job losses among staff. The university lost 7.7% of its HEFCE funding in fiscal year 2010–2011. In 2016 a move to reorganise the structure of Reading University provoked protests.
== Academic profile ==
=== Reputation and rankings ===
Departments in the university have been awarded the biannual Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education five times: in 1998, in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law category, for work on Shakespeare; in 2005, in the Environment category; in 2008, again in Humanities, Social Sciences and Law; in 2011, for "teaching and design applications in typography, through print and new technologies" in Typography & Graphic Communication; and in 2021, again in the category of Environment And Conservation, for "connecting communities with climate change" through "new modelling work on the interaction between the Earth’s climate and local weather systems, enabling the development of risk assessment, community preparedness and action to tackle climate change."
Reading was ranked 35th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research and 28th for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. In total, 98% of the university's research is labelled as 'internationally recognised', 78% as 'internationally excellent and 27% as 'world leading'.
Its School of Agriculture Policy and Development was ranked top in the UK and 11th in the world, according to the QS …
