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.
"Bradford University" redirects here. Not to be confused with Bradford College (disambiguation).
Former names
Bradford Institute of Technology
Give invention light (from Shakespeare's Sonnet 38)
1832 – Mechanics Institute
1882 – Bradford Technical College
1957 – Bradford Institute of Technology
1966 – gained university status by royal charter
£1.02 million (2022)[1]
£145.1 million (2021–22)[1]
615[3]
1,205[3]
9,770 (2019/20)[4]
7,480 (2019/20)[4]
2,290 (2019/20)[4]
The student population includes 7,480 undergraduate and 2,290 postgraduate students.[3] 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.[5]
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.[6]
Campus[edit]
Facilities[edit]
In 2005, a project to become an 'Ecoversity' was initiated, along with an £84 million redevelopment of the campus.[16][17] The university aimed to reduce its environmental footprint by reducing waste and using sustainable materials. As part of this, Bradford became a Fairtrade University in December 2006.
As of 2008, several of the redevelopment projects have been completed. The Richmond Building has been partially re-clad with extra insulation and a new atrium; designed by local Saltaire-based architects Rance Booth & Smith; opened in December 2006, the roof of which uses ETFE – the same material used in the Eden Project.[18] The university's cancer therapeutics research centre was moved from a separate site on All Saint's Road onto the main campus, into a new building which also provides conference facilities; the buildings on the old site were demolished in February 2008.
Redevelopment of the sports facilities was completed in summer 2009,[19] and a new student village called "The Green" was constructed[20] which opened in September 2011. The Green has the highest ever BREEAM rating for any building.[21] Of the existing halls owned by the university, those on the Laisteridge Lane site were sold to Corporate Residential Management in 2005, and Shearbridge Green Halls were demolished in December 2006. Longside Lane halls and Kirkstone Halls were demolished during the first half of 2009.
The university has a "leading-edge 100-seat PC cluster" for teaching, learning and computer-based assessment, and there is an art gallery, theatre and music centre. The £84 million investment in the campus included a major refurbishment of the laboratories in the school of life sciences, creation of a new MBA suite and library at the school of management, refurbishment of the student union building, Student Central.
The university has won its campus the award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development' in The Times Higher Education Awards two years running.[22]
In 2021, university campus buildings underwent a £3.5 million facelift, working on improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions. Upgrades to the campus were performed on the Richmond Building and Horton Building.[23] Additionally, in 2022 the university was donated £2 million by former Intel CTO and Bradford alumni, Dr. Venkata "Murthy" Renduchintala, to develop the "Murthy-Renduchintala Centre for Space AI" and announced plans to launch a prototype PocketQube satellite by 2024.[24][25]
National rankings
109=
80
95
531=
501–600
Academic profile[edit]
Motto[edit]
The motto which appears on most current University of Bradford publications is Making Knowledge Work, which relates to the institution's focus on courses that lead to employment. The university announced in June 2007 it was to use this phrase as a trademark.[44]
However, the motto inscribed beneath the official coat of arms is Give Invention Light, which is taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet 38.[45][46] The university has also used the slogans Be Inspired and Confronting Inequality, Celebrating Diversity in recent promotional material.
