Lancaster

Lancaster University (legally the University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public research university in Lancaster, , England. The university was established by royal charter in 1964, one of several new created in the 1960s.

The university was initially based in St Leonard's Gate in the city centre, before starting a move in 1967 to a purpose-built 300 acres (120 ha) campus at , 4 km (2.5 mi) to the south. The campus buildings are arranged around a central walkway known as the Spine, which is connected to a central plaza, named Alexandra Square in honour of its first chancellor, Princess Alexandra.

Lancaster is a residential collegiate university; the are Coat of arms of Lancaster University weakly autonomous. The eight undergraduate colleges are named Motto Latin: Patet after places in the historic county of Lancashire, and each have their omnibus veritas own campus residence blocks, common rooms, administration staff, and bars. Motto Truth lies open to all in English

Lancaster is ranked in the top ten in all three national league tables, Type Public and received a Gold rating in the Government's inaugural (2017) Established 1964 Teaching Excellence Framework. The annual income of the institution for 2018/19 was £317.9 million of which Endowment 13.9 million (as of 31 £42.0 million was from research grants and contracts, with an July 2019) expenditure of £352.7 million. Along with the universities of Budget £317.9 million Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and (2018/19) York, Lancaster is a member of the N8 Group of research universities. Elizabeth II, Duke of Lancaster, is the visitor of the Chancellor Alan Milburn University. The current chancellor is Alan Milburn, since 2015. Vice-Chancellor Andy Schofield Visitor Elizabeth II, Duke of History Lancaster Academic staff 1,872 (2018/19) (full- After the Second World War higher education became an important time equivalent) concern of government as it tried to cope with the demands of an expanding population and the advent of a new technological age. Administrative 3,223 (2018/19) (full- staff Between 1958 and 1961 seven new plate glass universities were time equivalent) announced including Lancaster. The choice of Lancaster as the site Students 15,979 (2019/20) of the fourth new university was announced on 23 November 1961 in a written answer in the House of Commons. Undergraduates 11,419 (2019/20) Postgraduates 4,560 (2019/20) Location Bailrigg, , England 54°00′37″N 2°47′08″W Campus Bailrigg

Colours 'Quaker Grey' and Campus red

Bailrigg

The purpose-built campus occupies Bailrigg, a 360-acre (0.563 sq 2 Colleges mi; 1.457 km ) site donated by Lancaster City Council in Bowland 1963.The campus buildings are located on a hilltop, the lower Cartmel slopes of which are landscaped parkland which includes Lake

Carter duck pond and the university playing fields. Lake Carter is County named after Charles Carter, the first Vice Chancellor of the Furness university, and it was built in the early 1900s. The site is three miles Fylde (5 km) south of the city centre. Construction of the Bailrigg campus Graduate began in November 1965, with the first building completed a year Grizedale later. The first on-campus student residences opened in 1968. In contrast to some of the other campus universities, Bailrigg was Lonsdale designed to integrate social, residential and teaching areas. Another Pendle major feature of the design was that there would not be a large Affiliations N8 Group, ACU, central Students' Union building, but that the individual colleges AACSB, AMBA, would be the centre of social and recreational facilities. Vehicular NWUA, EUA,

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UK Website www.lancaster.ac.uk (http://www.lancaste

r.ac.uk/)

Reputation and rankings

In The Sunday Times 10-year (1998–2007) average ranking of British Rankings universities based on consistent league table performance, Lancaster National rankings was ranked joint 19th overall in the UK.As of recent years, the university has been placed within the top 10 by UK newspaper league tables and in the top 150 worldwide by the main global rankings (see information box for current rankings). It was also ranked the top Complete (2021) 8 university in the north-west of England for all ten years of recordings Guardian (2021) 1 by The Complete University Guide. 0 Times / Sunday Times 1 In 2014, its 50th year, Lancaster University was ranked 10th in the (2021) 0 THE 100 Under 50, a list of the world's best universities under 50 = years old. It also appeared in the lists of QS 50 under 50 in all the Global rankings years before 2014 when it was under 50 years old. ARWU (2020) 3 0 1 - 4 0 0 CWTS Leiden (2020) 8 Richard Cuthbertson, Management Science (1986) – 7 Research Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail QS (2021) 1 Management, Oxford University 3 5 Jon Moulton, Chemistry (1973, Furness) – Founder, Better THE (2021) 1 Capital 3 Mark Price, Classics & Archaeology (1982, Bowland) – 9 Managing Director of Waitrose = Bruce Sewell, Psychology (1979, Bowland) – Former British Government assessment Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Apple Teaching Excellence Framework G Dave Snowden, Philosophy (1975, County) – o Knowledge Management researcher and consultant l d Nahed Taher, Economics (2001, Graduate ) – CEO, Gulf One Investment

Notable people

Alumni

Business

W. Brian Arthur, Operational Research (1967) – Economist Antony Burgmans, Marketing (1971, Bowland) – Former Chairman of Unilever (until 2007)