Universities
(asked on 17th October 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government which institutions have received university title since 2018; what their titles are; when each received university title; what they were called before they received university title; and where each is located.
According to the Office for Students (OfS) Register, nine providers have been granted the right to use ‘university’ in their title since 2018. The OfS Register is available here: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/the-register/the-ofs-register/#/.
Information regarding these providers’ legal names, their trading names, their contact addresses, and the year the use of the word ‘university’ was granted, has been extracted from the OfS Register and is included in the table below.
Information on the names of providers prior to them receiving their university title is not available on the OfS register, but is included in the table.
Provider’s legal name | Provider’s trading name(s) | Previous name | Provider’s contact address | Date use of 'university' granted |
St. George's Hospital Medical School | St. George's, University of London | St. George's Hospital Medical School | St. George's Hospital | 2022 |
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College | Royal Holloway, University of London | Royal Holloway and Bedford New College | Egham Hill | 2022 |
Arts University Plymouth | Arts University Plymouth | Plymouth College of Art | Tavistock Place | 2022 |
The London School of Economics and Political Science | Not applicable | The London School of Economics and Political Science | Houghton Street | 2022 |
Ravensbourne University London | Not applicable | Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication | 6 Penrose Way | 2018 |
BIMM University Limited | BIMM University | BIMM Institute | 2 Bartholomew’s | 2022 |
Hartpury University | Not applicable | Hartpury College | Hartpury House | 2019 |
Northeastern University – London | Northeastern University London | New College of the Humanities | Devon House | 2022 |
Regent's University London Limited | Regent's University London | Regent's College | Inner Circle | 2020 |