University of Buckingham

Not to be confused with Buckinghamshire New University.

University of Buckingham
MottoLatin: Alis Volans Propriis
Motto in English
Flying on Our Own Wings
TypePrivate
Established1973; as university college[1]
1983; as university[1]
ChancellorDame Mary Archer
Vice-ChancellorJames Tooley (suspended)
Administrative staff
97 academic, 103 support[2]
Students3,760 (2022/23)[3]
Undergraduates1,770 (2022/23)[3]
Postgraduates1,990 (2022/23)[3]
Location
Buckingham
,
England

51°59′45″N 0°59′31″W / 51.99583°N 0.99194°W / 51.99583; -0.99194
ColoursBlue and red
Websitebuckingham.ac.uk
The Church of St Rumbold in Buckingham now forms part of the University of Buckingham.

The University of Buckingham (UB) is a non-profit private university in Buckingham, England and the oldest of the country's six private universities.[a] It was founded as the University College at Buckingham (UCB) in 1973, admitting its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983.[1]

Buckingham was closely linked to Margaret Thatcher, who as Education Secretary oversaw the creation of the university college in 1973, and as Prime Minister was instrumental in elevating it to a university in 1983; thus creating the first private university in the UK since the establishment of the University Grants Committee in 1919. When she retired from politics in 1992, Margaret Thatcher became the university's second chancellor, a post she held until 1998.[8] Buckingham's finances for teaching operate entirely on student fees and endowments; it does not receive direct state funding (via the Office for Students or Research England) although its students can receive student loans from the Student Loans Company. It has formal charity status as a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the ends of research and education.[9][10][11]

  1. ^ a b c "History of the University". Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  2. ^ "University of Buckingham Annual Report 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Where do HE students study?". Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  4. ^ Adam's, Richard (25 March 2013). "Regent's College in London to become UK's second private university". The Guardian
  5. ^ Paton, Graeme (22 November 2012). "Britain's first profit-making university opened". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  6. ^ Sellgren, Katherine (8 August 2013). "For-profit college gains full university status". BBC News
  7. ^ Morgan, John (5 August 2015). "For-profit RDI granted university status". Times Higher Education
  8. ^ The University of Buckingham news, 8 April 2013: "University mourns death of Lady Thatcher" Archived 7 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine Linked 19 June 2015
  9. ^ Business school to be university college, Financial Times, 25 July 2010
  10. ^ "Register Home Page". Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  11. ^ Tooley, James. ed. Buckingham at 25: Freeing the Universities from State Control, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001. ISBN 0-255-36512-8.


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