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Lancaster University is
+44 (0)1524 65201, +44 (0)1524 594910 .
Overview: All the colleges under the Lancaster University umbrella are present in the city of Lancaster in United Kingdoms (UK) in Europe.
Established In: Lancaster University was initially located in St. Leonard’s Gate in 1964, when it was established. Later, it was moved to a campus at Bailrigg. This move took place in 1968 and made the facility a purpose-built campus spread over 300 acres. According to the latest released Research Assessment Exercise, it holds the 16th rank in research institutions in the United Kingdom (UK). Now, holding the 11th highest research quality, Lancaster has grown considerably since its inception.
Established By: The Collegiate College was established by Royal Charter and thus Lancaster University was founded.
Specialty: The University is specifically recognized for the educational excellence in its perceived effort to provide research-based courses. The courses cover four broad subject groups. These subject groups are mainly, Health and Medicine, Arts and Social Sciences, Science and Technology and Management.
Study Centre: All its campuses under Lancaster University’s Collegiate System provide holistic environment for studying and learning and are growing study centres in the UK. Lanscaster University’s study centres include Bowland, Cartmel, County, Furness, Fylde, Graduate, Grizedale, Lonsdale and Pendle.
Hostel: Hostel facilities are provided by Lancaster University itself and are highly recommended for the first year students. Second year students have the provision to find their own residences and live in residential blocks and city centres on sharing basis near the campuses. For post graduates students, as the college is located on Alexandra Park next to the main university campus, the accommodation provided is on campus. The students are offered a variety of accommodations to choose from and preferences depend on a first-cum-first-serve basis. Since the length of a postgraduate course is generally 50 weeks, the lease is given for the same time frame with the facility being completely non-smoking and following a strict principle of self-catering. The accommodation areas provided are multi-cultural and students must be prepared to live with students from different nationalities. The hostels are quiet and peaceful areas designed to promote an environment conducive to educational pursuits. The postgraduate students are offered single sex accommodations and opposite sex guests are not permitted in single sex flats at any time.
As Lancaster University hosts a larger number of undergraduate students they have over 6500 rooms. These rooms are divided in eight undergraduate hosing colleges that they have on their main campus and half of them are generally filled with fresh applicants in specific. However, the colleges make no formal guarantees and as per when accommodation details are advertised to the students upon their acceptance into Lancaster University they are expected to apply for residential facilities.
Infrastructure: The Bailrigg facility houses the Alenxandra Square with Bowland Tower and the site is 5kms to the south of the main city centre. Bowland towers contain the housing chambers. The site was donated by the Lancaster City Council and the campus has its buildings atop a hill with the lower slopes being converted into scenic parklands. These landscaped slopes also make for the university playing fields as well as the Carter Lake duck pond. The three to four storey buildings are to one another. Individual colleges act as host for social centres and recreational facilities. To facilitate save commutes, vehicles and pedestrians have different roads. These fringe roads have a connecting underpass. It runs under the Alexandra Square from the east side to the west side.
The first building of Bailrigg to be completed in 1966 was Charles Cater building. The Alexandra Square main plaza contains the well-stocked expansive library of the college. The library is known as Ruskin library. It not only has works of John Ruskin, a celebrated poet, author and even an artist it literally holds archived materials of his. Parts of the archives are on public display. The largest holding related to John Ruskin, it is The Whitehouse Collection that contains mainly books, manuscripts and other material related to him.
Additionally Alexandra building houses Lancaster University house and a myriad mix of banks and shops for the needs of the students. Services such as the post office, travel agencies for bus tickets, health centres can be found here too. The campus is green and refreshing. There is ample of space for the students, a lot of material for their research and other needs, facilities and modern laboratories for practical applications and extra-curricular activities at the Lancaster University Sports Centre. Indoor, outdoor, both types of sports are taught. To promote social interaction the communal kitchens were envisaged and while the new suites have private bathrooms and kitchens with limited number of students, the communal kitchens are always bustling with activity. Live at LICA, a hub to promote cultural activities is part of the architectural design. With the Nuffield Theatre, it hosts professions of contemporary theatre in public openings. It has presented some of the best known and reputed companies for live art and dance as known in UK and in other nations. A large and adaptable professional studio it is a special place for those pursuing courses at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA).
Faculty: Since the college has four main branches namely, Health and Medicine, Arts and Social Sciences, Science and Technology and Management, the faculty is also separated into these four spheres. LUMS which is also recognized as Lancaster University Management School has triple accreditation. A world-class business and management school, its expertise is recognised everywhere and makes it one of UK’s top gun. The main reason for its meritious holdings and its consistent ranking in UK’s top five business and management schools is due to its reputed faculty. The faculty at LUMS has an assortment of experts across various strains, top guns of their own professions and competent professors with a prior understanding of the industry requirements. Across its five major ventures, undergraduate, MBA, masters, research, PhD and executive, it remains the only school of business in the realms of UK to rank highly and consistently.
With knowledge of core subjects in the fields of engineering and science, the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) at Lancaster University is well-recognized. Their aim is to train potential graduates with high employability levels and to impart to them a skill-set imperative for success on the job. Lancaster also maintains the record of furnishing UK’s largest department of Environment related studies.
In the same light, The Faculty of Health and Medicine (FHM) has an unprecedented reputation in imparting quality education. The training is so good, that the faculty has earned for Lancaster University the title of being ranked in the top three for biomedical research, mainly in cancer biology, microbiology, neurodegenerative disease and immunology in the United Kingdom (UK). Their excellence in research for covering broad areas of supportive and end of life care, mental health, ageing, infectious diseases and even public health is commendable. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is recognized in UK as leading experts in their respective fields. Providing their students with an elevating and inspiring experience, they aim to teach the students practically. They are a highly educated and renowned team of professional moguls, well-known scholars, expert educationalists and internationally recognised researchers with expertise in a range of disciplines.
Accreditation: Each of the colleges under Lancaster and the courses there in are accredited by separate agencies.
One of the handful collegiate systems in the UK universities scene, Lancaster University is a public enterprise. With nine colleges in total, Lancaster provides public funded education in eight colleges for undergraduate students and in one for those pursuing post graduate studies.
Lancaster University Address
The address of Lancaster University is Lancaster. LA1 4YW, UK.
Lancaster University Email Address
The email address of Lancaster University is
cro@lancaster.ac.uk.
Lancaster University Website
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www.lancs.ac.uk.
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