University of Bradford
The University of Bradford is a public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A plate glass university, it received its royal charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain, but can trace its origins back to the establishment of the industrial West Yorkshire town's Mechanics Institute in 1832.
Former names | Bradford Institute of Technology |
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| Motto | Give invention light (from Shakespeare's Sonnet 38) |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1832 – Mechanics Institute 1882 – Bradford Technical College 1957 – Bradford Institute of Technology 1966 – gained university status by royal charter |
| Endowment | £1.02 million (2022) |
| Budget | £145.1 million (2021–22) |
| Chancellor | Anita Rani |
| Vice-Chancellor | Shirley Congdon |
Academic staff | 615 |
Administrative staff | 1,205 |
| Students | 9,770 (2019/20) |
| Undergraduates | 7,480 (2019/20) |
| Postgraduates | 2,290 (2019/20) |
| Location | , 53°47′30″N 1°45′44″W |
| Affiliations | EQUIS AMBA AACSB Universities UK |
| Website | www |
The student population includes 7,480 undergraduate and 2,290 postgraduate students. Mature students make up around a third of the undergraduate community. A total of 22% of students are foreign and come from over 110 countries. There were 14,406 applications to the university through UCAS in 2010, of which 3,421 were accepted.
It was the first British university to establish a Department of Peace Studies in 1973, which is currently the world's largest university centre for the study of peace and conflict.