Ranked in the UK Top 10, Lancaster is a collegiate university with a world-class reputation for teaching and research.
Lancaster University campus occupies a beautiful 560-acre parkland site and is proud to be one of only a handful of UK universities to have a collegiate system.
In 1947 a public meeting in Lancaster endorsed a proposal that there might be a university college established in the city.
Although the idea lapsed for lack of government funding, in early 1961 it was revived by Lancashire County Council, and a Promotion Committee for a University in North-West Lancashire, chaired by Lord Derby, presented a proposal to the University Grants Committee for Lancaster to be chosen.