During the last ten years £75 million has been invested in the University of Lincoln's Brayford Pool campus In 2005 the university won the East Midlands Regeneration Award from English Partnerships for its work in developing its Brayford Pool campus in Lincoln The University of Lincoln now boasts a total of 60 world-class professors The university has achieved the highest possible rating in its two recent Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) inspections In 2004 the university opened the Great Central Warehouse Library which won the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) East Midlands Regeneration Award in 2005 The University of Lincoln was ranked second in the UK for value for money for students in a survey in The Guardian Lincoln was ranked tenth most visited city in the UK in a survey in The Observer More than 50 different nationalities are represented among the student population on the Brayford Pool campus The university accepts 97% of its full-time undergraduates from state schools or colleges 18% of undergraduates come to the university from neighbourhoods with traditionally low levels of participation in higher education Lincoln's main campus was the first new city centre university campus to be built in the UK in 25 years - it opened in 1996