List of UK universities by date of foundation
- List of UK universities by date of foundation
This is a list of Universities in the United Kingdom by their date of foundation.
Giving dates for the entries below is usually unambiguous since a University must receive a Royal Charter before it is able to award degrees itself. However, there are a few grey areas involving renaming, federations, confederations, splittings, large-scale movings etc. that require discussion and footnotes, More accurate dates would also come in handy and there are a lot of mottos missing.
=Ancient universities=
Medieval universities
Until the nineteenth century there were only two university establishments in England and four in Scotland.
Intermediate period
Only one university was founded in the period between 1910 and the end of the Second World War.
Intermediate era
Only three universities were founded between 1969 and 1992 and they were all the "odd-one-out" in some way. The Open University is the UK's only distance learning university, the University of Buckingham the only private university and the University of Ulster was formed from the merger of a plate glass university with a polytechnic.
Former universities
This table contains universities that were given a Royal Charter and awarded degrees but were dissolved either by merging, splitting or just closing down.
ee also
*List of oldest universities in continuous operation
*List of British universities
*British universities
*Third oldest university in England debate
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