Welcome to the University of Lincoln – a University located in the heart of England with a proud heritage and excellent academic credentials.

The University has an international reputation for academic excellence and research and we hope that you will contribute to this by joining our thriving community. All our programmes offer our students up to date and business relevant teaching and learning ensuring you have the best opportunities for your future career. Many of our programmes are rooted in industry and our courses have excellent links with major global employers who often contribute to the curriculum.

Professor Mary Stuart
Vice Chancellor

History of the University

Although the University of Lincoln is a new institution it has a longer history to its development..

The institution began life in Hull in 1861 when the Hull School of Art opened. Endsleigh Training College opened on Inglemire Avenue in 1905 and the Central College of Commerce was founded six years later, moving ultimately to Cottingham Road where the university had its corporate headquarters until 2001.

Further educational developments in the early part of the twentieth century included the opening of the School of Fishermen and Hull Training College. In 1935 the Hull School of Art was separated into three sections – one of which became the Hull School of Architecture.

In 1976 all higher education provision in the city not provided by the University of Hull was consolidated to form Hull College of Higher Education. At around the same time courses in fishing, food, manufacturing were developed in Grimsby, and in 1983 these were absorbed by the newly formed Humberside College of Higher Education.

Humberside College of Higher Education became an independent higher education corporation in 1989 and won polytechnic status a year later – the first to be created in the UK for over twenty years.

Two short years later Humberside Polytechnic became Humberside University.

1990s

For centuries the people of Lincoln, 50 miles to the south, had been calling for a university of their own. In the early 1990s a project company was set up to raise money for a brand new university in Lincoln. Over the next few years the city and county raised £32 million to pay for the first stages of the new University of Lincoln campus. Forging an academic partnership with Humberside University in Hull and Grimsby, the campus opened as part of the new University of Lincolnshire & Humberside.

Guest of honour at that glittering occasion on 11th October 1996 was HM the Queen, who officially opened the first new city-centre university campus to be built anywhere in the UK for 25 years.

21st Century

Since then spending on the Brayford Pool campus in Lincoln has risen to over £100 million. In 2001 the university relocated its headquarters from Hull to Lincoln, absorbed the Lincoln School of Art and Design and the Lincolnshire School of Agriculture from De Montfort University and changed its name to the University of Lincoln.

Development continued to cement the university’s reputation, according to the Sunday Times, as “one of the country’s most modern and attractive campuses”.

To reflect these changes, on 8th October 2001 the university was renamed the University of Lincoln.

Also in 2001 De Montfort University agreed to transfer all its Lincolnshire activities – the Lincoln School of Art and Design in uphill Lincoln and the Lincolnshire School of Agriculture in Riseholme, Caythorpe and Holbeach – to the University of Lincoln. The Caythorpe campus was closed in the summer of 2002 and all activities transferred to Riseholme Park. In Holbeach, meanwhile, a £2.8 million technology park has been developed in collaboration with Lincolnshire County Council.

The Brayford Pool campus now boasts an impressive library, Media and Computing building, science laboratory facility, sports and leisure centre and a dedicated building for the Lincoln School of Architecture.  A redeveloped, derelict train engine shed became a multi-million pound student centre and arts centre. This is now one of the largest live performance venues in the region.

The East Midlands Media and Computing Centre (EMMTEC) was completed, supported by the East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA) and Lincolnshire Enterprise. EMMTEC will provide an IT centre of excellence for media and computer-based learning, and research & design.

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Fee structure

Courses:

Architecture
Art & Design
Business
Computing and Technology
Conservation
Engineering
Health and Social Care
Humanities
Journalism
Law
Media Production
Performing Arts
Policy Studies
Psychology
Sciences – Biological
Sciences – Food
Sciences – Forensic & Biomedical
Sport
Theology
Tourism