The University of Lincoln is a public research university in Lincoln, England. It has origins back to 1861. It gained university status in 1992 and its present name and structure in 2001. The main campus is adjacent to Brayford Pool - a site of urban regeneration in the city since the 1990s. There are satellite campuses in Riseholme, Lincolnshire – home of the Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology – and an additional campus at Holbeach, housing the facilities of the National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM). Graduation ceremonies take place annually at the medieval Lincoln Cathedral. The University of Lincoln developed out of several educational institutions in Hull, including Hull School of Art (1861), Hull Technical Institute (1893), the Roman Catholic teacher-training Endsleigh College (1905), Hull Central College of Commerce (1930), and Kingston upon Hull College of Education (1913). These merged in 1976 into Hull College of Higher Education, with a change of name to Humberside College of Higher Education in 1983, when it absorbed several courses in fishing, food and manufacturing based in Grimsby. In 1992 it was one of many UK institutions to become full universities, as the University of Humberside. The University of Humberside developed a new campus to the south-west of Lincoln city centre, overlooking the Brayford Pool. It was renamed the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside in January 1996, entering its first 500 Lincoln students in September 1996.With another change of name to the University of Lincoln in October 2001, the university moved its main campus from Hull to Lincoln in 2002. Queen Elizabeth II opened the university's main Lincoln campus, the first new city-centre campus built in the UK for several decades. Over £150 million has been invested at Brayford Pool, transforming a city-centre brownfield site, revitalising the area and attracting investment from the retail, leisure and property sectors. Economists estimate that the university has created at least 3,000 new jobs in Lincoln and generates more than £250 million a year for the local economy – doubling previous local economic growth rates.On 28 October 2004, the National Centre for Food Manufacturing at Holbeach was reopened by John Hayes, Member of Parliament for South Holland and the Deepings, after redevelopment as a specialist food-science technology park. The consolidation involved the University of Lincoln acquiring the Leicester-based De Montfort University's schools in Lincolnshire: the Lincoln School of Art and Design in uphill Lincoln, and the Lincolnshire School of Agriculture's sites at Riseholme, Caythorpe and Holbeach. Caythorpe was later closed and its activities moved to Riseholme. Courses held in Grimsby were also moved to Lincoln about that time.Through the late 1990s, the university's sites in Hull were scaled down as the focus shifted towards Lincoln. In 2001 this process took a step further when it was decided to move the administrative headquarters and management to Lincoln and to sell the Cottingham Road campus in Hull, the former main campus, to its neighbour, the University of Hull. The site now houses the Hull York Medical School. Until 2012 the university maintained a smaller campus, the Derek Crothall Building, in Hull city centre. Another campus and student halls in Beverley Road, Hull, were also sold for redevelopment. In 2012 all further education provisions were transferred from Riseholme College to Bishop Burton College. Bishop Burton College is now responsible for Riseholme College to the north of the city. March 2021 saw the new Lincoln Medical School open in time for the 2021/2022 academic year. The building, on the Brayfood Pool campus, features lecture theatres, trainee observation theatres and a library dedicated to medical research, allied health care, pharmacy, chemistry and biology textbooks. It is run as a partnership with the University of Nottingham Medical School.Situated in the heart of a beautiful and historic city, we are placed among the top 20 universities in the UK for student satisfaction in both the Complete University Guide 2022 and the Guardian University Guide 2022. Employers are increasingly looking for individuals who can make a difference in today’s global workplace. With our expert staff, modern facilities, close links with business, and world-leading research we aim to provide the tools you need to achieve your career aspirations. Whether you are thinking about coming to study or undertake research with us, you can be confident that you are joining a university that places the quality of the student experience at the heart of everything it does.The School of Engineering became the first such school founded in the UK for over 20 years, opening in 2011 under lengthy collaboration with Siemens. The building, designed by London Architects Allies and Morrison, incorporates Siemens Industrial Turbo-machinery Lincoln as a co-located its product-training facility. The School of Mathematics and Physics opened on 1 September 2014 and was officially inaugurated on 1 September 2016 by Professor Efim Zelmanov. Since the beginning of the 2017/2018 academic year, it shares the new Sir Isaac Newton Building with the School of Computer Science and the School of Engineering. The College of Arts undertakes research and has a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees available. The college accommodates Siren Radio, a community radio station based there, which broadcasts to the city of Lincoln on 107.3 FM and online.The School of Film and Media has gained places in league tables for BA and MA Media Production degrees. Lincoln Sound Theatre was opened in 2010 by the visiting Professor Trevor Dann. Lincoln has the UK's largest centre for conservation and restoration study. Lincoln Conservation, the university's conservation and material analysis consultancy, works with clients including the Historic Royal Palaces and the Victoria and Albert Museum.The College of Social Science includes the School of Health and Social Care, which moved into the Sarah Swift Building in July 2017. It teaches a variety of professionally accredited courses in nursing and social work. The School of Psychology occupies the purpose-built Sarah Swift Building, also shared with the School of Health and Social Care. It has a range of dedicated facilities in these fields, including psychology laboratories and a mock hospital ward.The university was ranked 43rd in the UK by The Times, 42nd by Complete, and 17th by The Guardian in 2020 rankings, its highest to date. In 2017, it ranked 8th in Agriculture and Forestry and 2nd in Business and Economics in The Complete University Guide rankings. More than half its submitted research was rated as internationally excellent or world-leading in the UK's last nationwide assessment of university research standards, the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014). It was awarded gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF 2017). In 2020, the university was named Modern University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University 2021, as the highest-ranked multi-faculty modern university in the UK, climbing to 45th (out of 135), its highest ever position in the guide. In the same year it was named one of the world's greatest young universities in The Times Higher Education Young University Rankings, placed 14th in the UK for overall student satisfaction of the 129 mainstream universities in the National Student Survey 2020, and given a five-star rating in the QS Stars rating of global universities.
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