Motto | Latin: Arvorum Cultus Pecorumque; (from Virgil's Georgics) "Caring for the Fields and the Beasts" | ||||||||
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Type | Public | ||||||||
Established | 2013 - University status 1845 – College | ||||||||
President | Charles III | ||||||||
Vice-Chancellor | Peter McCaffery | ||||||||
Students | 1,100 (2022/23)[1] | ||||||||
Undergraduates | 915 (2022/23)[1] | ||||||||
Postgraduates | 185 (2022/23)[1] | ||||||||
Location | , 51°32′35″N 1°59′42″W / 51.54306°N 1.99500°W | ||||||||
Campus | Rural | ||||||||
Chair of Governing Council | Dame Fiona Reynolds | ||||||||
Colours | |||||||||
Website | rau | ||||||||
National rankings | |
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Complete (2025)[2] | 119 |
Times / Sunday Times (2025)[3] | 131 |
The Royal Agricultural University (RAU), formerly the Royal Agricultural College, is a public university in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Established in 1845,[4] it was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world.[5] The university provides more than 30 land-based undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to students from over 45 countries through the School of Agriculture, the School of Business and Entrepreneurship, the School of Equine and the School of Real Estate and Land Management.