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Notable alumni

    -Christopher Pissarides – winner of 2010 Nobel Economic Prize.
    -Dr Oscar Arias Sanchez – Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of Costa Rica.
    -Daniel Libeskind – world-renowned architect and master-planner for the new World Trade Centre site in New York.
    -David Yates, BAFTA–award-winning film and television director, and director of the Harry Potter films.
   
History

    Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions with an international reputation excellence in both research and teaching, particularly in the social sciences.
    Essex was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize: Human Rights (2010) and the Queen’s awards for enterprise: Sustainable Development (2008).
    In 2012 Essex was ranked in the top 50 in the world for universities under 50 years old.
    The University’s largest campus, on the edge of Colchester, is set in historic Wivenhoe Park which was originally landscaped in the eighteenth century and painted by celebrated artist, John Constable.