Coventry is an exciting and lively city located in the heart of England, with a population of around 360,000. Many of our staff and students choose to live here.

Warwick and Coventry Universities have approximately 60,000 students between them, bringing spending power and a youthful vibe to the city, as well as making the population seven years younger than the UK average (The Sunday Times).

Chosen as the City of Culture 2021, Coventry has many attractions and opportunities for entertainment. The home of 2-Tone, Coventry still has a vibrant music scene. In 2022 the city hosted the Radio One Big WeekendLink opens in a new window, while major acts visit every year to take the stage at the annual Godiva Festival.

The city has an extremely interesting history and is famous not only for Lady Godiva but also for its medieval cathedral, left in ruins after the WWII Coventry Blitz, and the radical "New Cathedral", designed by Sir Basil Spence.

In the late 19th century Coventry became a major centre of bicycle and motor vehicle manufacture, and while the large-scale works have mostly closed the city is still a centre of technical research and innovation. The Coventry Transport Museum tells this story in more detail, with impressive displays of vehicles from its collection, the biggest archive of British made cars, motorcycles and bicycles in the world.

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